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I think the Paulus rental is somewhat bizarre and I'd love to see Penn State hammer them. Makes us look a little better and gives us more hope that we can take them out again this year. Penn State 41-7.

I'm glad that uakronkid is gone as well. That new Zach the Zip guy seems pretty good, though. I can't believe how much he has posted being on here just a short time.A little over 16 hours to go!BTW that's a very cool new avatar, MDZip! It's so ominous. It would be fun to put the alternating C D' "Jaws" music to go with it :thumb:Hmmmmm woudn't it be cool if you could get your avatar up on the big Info scoreboard and have the band play the "Jaws" thing? We could save it for times when we're in the Red Zone.Have to admit I found the basis for it on another page but I had to tear it apart and redo it in order to make it work as an avatar on this site. Don't know who gets the original credit for it but I thought it was pretty cool. Not much is truly original on the net anymore. As a side note, a woman I work with is a Morgan State alum. I better have bragging rights after I get back. 15 hours until game time, hitting the road in three! Go Zips!Are we playing at 2am? Thought it was 2pm. Dang, I'm getting so excited I'm way ahead of myself. Maybe I'll just chalk it up to an "any one, any place, any time" theme.

I'm glad that uakronkid is gone as well. That new Zach the Zip guy seems pretty good, though. I can't believe how much he has posted being on here just a short time.A little over 16 hours to go!BTW that's a very cool new avatar, MDZip! It's so ominous. It would be fun to put the alternating C D' "Jaws" music to go with it :thumb:Hmmmmm woudn't it be cool if you could get your avatar up on the big Info scoreboard and have the band play the "Jaws" thing? We could save it for times when we're in the Red Zone.Have to admit I found the basis for it on another page but I had to tear it apart and redo it in order to make it work as an avatar on this site. Don't know who gets the original credit for it but I thought it was pretty cool. Not much is truly original on the net anymore. As a side note, a woman I work with is a Morgan State alum. I better have bragging rights after I get back. 15 hours until game time, hitting the road in three! Go Zips!

I'm glad that uakronkid is gone as well. That new Zach the Zip guy seems pretty good, though. I can't believe how much he has posted being on here just a short time.A little over 16 hours to go!

36 hours and counting. I remember being excited when it was only around 36 days.

I'll take a win - then my gameday experience will be excellent no matter what.

Here are a few others, in order:1. The Kickoff2. Post game team handshake (no known punches thrown)3. Some actual protection for Jacq4. One of the few times we had Penn State backed up against their own goal line

Norman Shuford started at RB against Penn St, Allen played but it appears he played a little less still recovering from the injury. Devoe Torrence did not play. Here's hoping your fantasy team has an awesome week this week (at least from Alex Allen).

His name will go down in Zips football lore forever with Frenchy's "... Andre Jones is in the open field ..."

The NCSAA poll, Top Drawer Soccer, Soccer Times and Soccer America (not publicly accessible) all have the Zips at #1 now. The only major publication that has it wrong is College Soccer News (we are #3 there).

Nope, not decals, all 100% hand painted!Looks great - how did you get the exact color matches?

It appears that Alex Allen is not 100% healthy yet. When he is, he is our best option at RB so his production should increase (hopefully starting this week).

GP1, I agree that facilities alone do not bring an athlete (especially to a program with a history of losing), however poor facilities almost certainly keep them away. We've had the worst facilities in the MAC up to the last few years and yet still managed to be a middle of the pack MAC team. Your point with Wake is a good one, they don't have the firepower to keep up year after year in the ACC, but occasionally can rise to the top. All we're looking for is a team that can compete in the MAC now and we ought to be able to do that. The facilities help some for sure, but without them we were dead in the water. We do seem to be getting better and earlier commits and now we should. There is a ton of talent in NEO and kids who are not up to BCS standards may elect to stay near home as long as the playing field is at least percieved as fairly even. If we can actually start fielding some winners, then the whole equation starts to change. But at least we're now competing with the other programs at our level. Work on where you are, but always look ahead.

Maybe Mr. Kennedy is so disappointed that he didn't that he is starting a subliminal campaign to have the vote recounted. :)And I certainly hope the team could care less about the ranking but it is fun for us fans.

It was reported in GoZips that the Zips have risen to spot #2 in the Soccer America National Rankings (sse the end of the article). Not according to an article in Soccer America where they say the Zips are #1 (I can't see the poll itself). Akron finds some answersby Paul KennedyMEN'S NEWS ... Heading into the 2009 season, Akron had several question marks. Who would replace Hermann Trophy winner Steve Zakuani, who left after his sophomore season and signed with MLS's Seattle Sounders FC? And who would replace four-year starter Evan Bush in goal?After the opening weekend of play, it looked like the Zips have found a replacement for Bush but finding a goalscorer to replace Zakuani will be a bit harder.Freshman goalkeeper David Meves earned a pair of shutouts as Akron beat SMU and Tulsa by 1-0 scores to sweep the to the Radisson Tulsa Airport Classic and move into the top spot in the Soccer America Men's Top 25.For the time being, Akron will get its goals by committee. The Zips hit the post twice against SMU and needed a penalty kick from Blair Gavin to win on Friday. Another midfielder, Anthony Ampaipitakwong, had the goal against Tulsa.* It was not a great week for the three ACC teams ranked in the Preseason Top 25. North Carolina had to settle for a 1-1 tie with Northern Illinois and fell to No. 2 behind Akron in this week's rankings. Defending national champion Maryland lost to UCLA, 2-0, in its opener, while 2007 champion Wake Forest managed only four goals (one an own goal) in three games and went 2-0-1. But before you write off the ACC ...-- Virginia put a horrible preseason behind it and beat Portland, 3-0, and Washington, 2-1, at the Portland Nike Invitational. Sophomore Tony Tchani, back after missing the last part of the 2008 season with a knee injury, set the tone with two goals in the first 15 minutes in the opener against Portland.-- Duke and N.C. State both won two games at the Duke/Nike Classic to move to 3-0-0. Denver, the defending MPSF champion, arrived in Durham with a No. 25 ranking, but N.C. State blew the Pioneers away, 4-0, and Duke won, 2-0, two days later.I think it is possible that we could pick up another #1 in the NSCAA poll tomorrow. I am a little disappointed Indiana lost, it will take a little lustre off the game on the 18th.This is OUR year!

That's one of those "wish I had thought of that" moments. Outstanding. And psu1, yep, it was by the hospital. So while it might have been a mile and a half from the stadium at least it was a mere $20 to park.

Hey Z.I.P., I support both programs (financially and by attendance when possible). I agree with one statement above, we clearly don't and can't compete on the level of Penn State (I can name about 20 programs that truly can), however that doesn't mean I do not have hope for the future. When I started school (which was 29 years ago) we were a D-II program. We moved up to D-1AA while I was there and then D-1A in the early nineties. Quite frankly, we made a hell of a lot of progress in the last 30 years. It might take 30 more or it might never happen to get to something like that level but I think its smart of the University to at least position itself that way. I'd take being truly competitive in the MAC every year right now, but that doesn't mean I don't want to look ahead. If Proenza had taken that stance we'd still be Hilltop High. I have been to many, many college campuses and Akron stacks up with a lot of them. We had some pretty good football teams n the 70's but I can't imagine anyone thinking we should go play Penn State at the time. Not the case now - now we're upset because we didn't give a good enough showing (against the freaking #8 team in the country - and they deserve it). In 30 years since being a D-II program, that's actually not bad progress. So give me "Dollar General" football for now but that doesn't means I don't want to plan for moving up sometime. I voted with my wallet. Facilities do make a difference too, we hung around in the middle of the pack with the worst facilities in the league, the new ones will pay off soon.And yeah, you may be paying too much attention to soccer. Penn State's QB was All Big-Ten last year and he played a terrific game. Far from a first year QB.

I like the white background better.

I agree - I don't know if the mods can grab it and upload it but we have a real need for this now. Go Zips!

Yep, as disapponted as I was in the first half effort, at least the Zips made some second half adjustments so it didn't get any uglier (and Penn State still did have a big chunk of their starters in), I have to give the Penn State fans credit. All of the ones around us were classy and even helpful at times. First time I've ever visited the Penn State campus and I was pretty impressed. We even stayed well after the game (even met the new wrestling coach, Cael Sanderson - one of the best wrestlers of all time - wish Akron would bring their program back) and by the time we left it was quite dark out. This was a minor problem since we had parked in one of those cow pastures a long way away from the field but it was quite fun flying up and down those hills at night in a friends's Chevy Suburban looking for our car. Yee-haaaa! Anyway, great experience and we had a lot of fun. I would prefer we schedule Penn State in their rare down years from here on out.

Villanova is a pretty good FCS team but if Temple was a serious contender, no way do they lose to them. I'd say it could be a battle between OU, BUGS and us. Interested to see how the rest of the teams fare this weekend. I think Western knocks off Big Blue at the Big House.

That would be outstanding. I was at the Ball State game last year (a pretty big game then) and while the weather wasn't good there were barely that many people there total.

The MAC is up in three of four tonight (Can't State 18 Coastal Carolina; Temple 24 Villanova 14 and Bowling Green over Troy 24-14 - that one is a least a little impressive). The only current MAC team losing is Ball State down 10-3 at North Texas. Hope they enjoyed last year - looks like it's going to be a long year for them - why couldn't we have drawn them THIS year?

That one was pretty easy .. from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Right on their websitehttp://www.coastal.edu/about/chanticleer.html

#1 - Allen off right tackle for two yards.#2 - Jacquemain sacked#3 - Screen play to Bruce, short of first down#4 - Puntbut in the second series we will gain at least one first down.