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We have a coach that has won a National Championship, Coach of the Year and the son of the winning coach in CFB history. Wins will certainly help but he is going to get good players.....mark my words. He is an extremely charismatic, well connected, persuasive guy. And lets not forget our defensive coordinator, Chuck Amato, he is pretty credible himself. My hope these two guys alone, just by being who they are will make our team BELIEVE they are better. I don't think anyone had confidence in iCoach and they were just going through the motions.

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See if this works. This will definately be a poster.......

Check out this goal by Mattocks in extra time....(Nanchoff congratulating), fast forward to around the 6:30 mark. Air Mattocks

I was thinking the same thing. He sure does not hold on to the ball long before making a decision and getting rid of it. Wow!

First of all, I do not think they will change anything. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world so.......if it aint broke, don't break it. Personally I do not like penalty kicks deciding a match because there is too much luck involved. The hardest thing to do in ALL of sports is for a goalie to stop a penalty kick. The only way to stop one is to GUESS properly and even if you guess properly, a well struck/placed PK is unstoppable. I think the best alternative would be to do something similar to hockey. A "shootout" where you have a one on one breakaway against the goalie and a limited amount of time to get the shot off. There is a lot more strategy involved in it and it is exciting.

I am suprised.......My thought is a sellout for sure. Exciting new coach, Coach Tressell promoting and a good team coming in.

Dude, get a grip. We have Terry Bowden as head coach, Caleb Porter (best soccer coach in U.S.), Keith Dambrot (fantastic coach with ties to Lebron) and now we have Jim Tressel (at $200K) working for us. What are you bitching about? This hire is 100% genius. We need publicity and excitement to support the new facilities and get the community excited. Tressel is class and so was Joe Paterno (RIP). I cannot believe anyone would bitch about this hire. If we dont move to a better conference all of these facilities will rot.

Hopefully this is our diamond in the rough. Does seem weird that he was not highly recruited. Has stats, size, winner. I like what I see.....WELCOME Dan!

Ok Folks, I have not posted in a while but I have to say I am excited about our future. I have always said hiring and keeping quality coaches are the key. So much bitching about TW but holy shit look at the staff of coaches he has now. He has done this by paying for performance and keeping highly desirable coaches (Porter and Dambrot). Look at last years Capital One Standings. Now we have Terry Bowden for our Football coach. STFU all of you. Support the teams and pay to sit in the seats so we can pay the people.....maybe move in to a bigger conference. Men's Cup Standings 1 - Auburn (60pts) 1 - Eastern Washington (60pts) 3 - Akron (40pts) 4 - Delaware (36pts) 4 - TCU (36pts) 6 - Oregon (35pts) 7 - Stanford (32pts) 8 - Villanova (30pts) 9 - Appalachian State (24pts) 9 - Louisville (24pts

Weak staff "think small attitude in the Faust days? - Faust had an all-star staff.

If he wants the job, we will hire him........penalties or no penalties. You want to talk about toxic.....how toxic is our football program right now. We need to make this happen, it is a dream come true that can right the ship. He is a good man, well respected who paid the price for not disclosing kids trading jerseys and rings for tattoos. Sorry, but I think there are alot worse things you could be accused of (see Penn State). Is he the only coach for us...........ABSOLUTELY.........this is a rare opportunity. Money - I don't think I am overstating this but he could potentially help us sell out Infocision for the entire year (especially with a good start to the season). That (along with being a terrible football team) is what is and will prevent us from ever being considered to go to a better conference. With the conferences realigning, we have got to make a move NOW or it is back to 1AA (or whatever it is called). If that happens, you just wasted a shit load of money on a new state of the art stadium. If we go to a bigger conference, we will get more money by being in the conference and attendance will be boosted even more because the quality of the teams will improve. Recruiting - I can assure you there are young men out there in the state of Ohio that have grown up dreaming to play for Jim Tressel. He is our best chance to get some decent recruits in quickly. We need to start winning. I won't post his records but they are impressive......showing turnarounds and national championships. Lowlights from the last 2 years 2011 11/25/2011 Kalamazoo, Mich. Western Michigan 68, Akron 19 11/19/2011 Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo 51, Akron 10 11/12/2011 Akron, Ohio Can't State 35, Akron 3 11/03/2011 Oxford, Ohio Miami (Ohio) 35, Akron 3 09/17/2011 Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati 59, Akron 14 09/10/2011 Akron, Ohio Temple 41, Akron 3 09/03/2011 Columbus, Ohio Ohio State 42, Akron 0 2010 10/30/10 Philadelphia, Pa. Temple 30, Akron 0 10/23/10 Akron, Ohio Western Michigan 56, Akron 10 10/16/10 Athens, Ohio Ohio 38, Akron 10 10/09/10 Can't, Ohio Can't State 28, Akron 17 10/02/10 Akron, Ohio Northern Illinois 50, Akron 14 Wins in last 2 years (WOW, impressive) 09/24/2011 Akron, Ohio Akron 36, VMI 13 11/26/10 Akron, Ohio Akron 22, Buffalo 14

I posted this in March 2008 about Coach Dambrot.............

Big East or whatever. If we had a line up of Dambrot, Porter and Tresell and our facilities.......the skies are the limit. I have said this years ago.......get goood coaches, pay them and keep them.

Cmon folks, - Tressell means FILLED STADIUM, alumni excitement, better recruits, stability....CUT THE CHECK - just hiring him would get us so much pubilicity (like Faust). What is he going to do.......aspire to be the head coach at OSU? This is perfect. With our BBall rocking, national defending national champs in soccer,we would be a lock for the Big East.

We look bad at the start.

so is this game nationally televised? what time EST?

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With a brand new state of the art stadium, this is what we get. This is beyond embarrassing.

He is kicking off a block.......hopefully he can kick of the ground.

The NCAA because it means we have won the MAC Championship.

Do we have room??? From Top Drawer Soccer............. Despite finishing in a tie for second (behind AkronTop Drawer Soccer) in our chat audience poll asking who had the best incoming class, North Carolina has garnered the most Top 100 players with six. Jordan McCrary, Darvin Ebanks, Miguel Lopez, Ryan Dodson, Jon Ray and Cooper Vandermaas will all be donning the Carolina blue. http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/players-to-...igning-Day-news

Can we get any of UNC's recruits? They have some good ones.

Most of the players we lost were underclassmen (Kitchen a true freshman) so how much experience did we lose? It's the system and coach baby. Time to reload!! I said this years ago on a string about MAC football and the "cradle of coaches" tag.......A great coach and system will attract players and result in consistent WINS.

Since we have had two NFL'ers since I have followed the team, I don't buy it for an second. Derr & Alcorn. Both recruited to kick in the Rubber Bowl too. We actually had a string of great kickers in the 80s - Graham, Heckman, Klaus, Dombrowski...and they kicked in the Rubber Bowl.