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Not yet. It is delayed, so we'll see.

I like this match up. As KD says, we aren't getting into the NCAA without winning the league. So, it is nice to have a road game in which we are favored to potentially contribute to a 20 win season. RPI is meaningless at this point and Valpo is a recognizable program. Go Zips!

I love Frenchy!

I hear something... Thanks, Sarge!Odd...it only works for me via Internet Explorer and not Firefox. (I loathe IE.)Great to hear the Zips up 17-14 at half though. What a score. Is this football?

2-1 with 15:31 left in the first half. This could end with a baseball score.

Anyone know if the internet 1350 connection is working? In Pittsburgh and wanting to listen. Gametracker just isn't the same.

Checkmate!

If we run the 3-3-5 again and are a sieve on defense and lose several close games, I will be ready to crucify JD regardless of a few offensive turnovers. Will be patient and supportive until then though.The scheme should fit the talent, not the other way around. Any real coach knows that.

Everything is moving in the right direction...http://www.collegesoccernews.com/index_files/Page8011.htmhttp://www.collegesoccernews.com/index_files/Page7825.htm

...and yet Bush wasn't taken? Surprising.

And I am sure it was uphill to and from the game as well.

I am absolutely appalled. What prestige and dignity do these awards and the tournament have if they are so biased?

Hope he wins the Herman Trophy on Friday!Good luck to you, Steve. Do UA proud!

Utah played a lights out game. I was loving it. I agree, Utah beat a top 5 team worse than Florida did and Florida is in the NC game.And Utah is undefeated. Florida has a loss.Agree with BigZip and johnnyzip that the Big East is not worthy of an automatic BCS game. Their basketball prowess is carrying the conference.

I gave up a few years ago. I could care less if people call it "Akron U." Hell...Dambrot does it every so often in post game interviews. Life is too short to get all riled up over "Akron U" vs. "The University of Akron." Your precious time on this earth should be spent hating K.e.n.t. State, and occasionally, Ohio State. And the 3-3-5..................and Peter King, the NCAA, Bubba Walther...........and Northwestern and NIT selection committees.

It's unbelievable how sick I get of seeing professional publications use "Akron University"! You never hear/see "Cincinnatti University" or "Toledo University"!From the local old timers, okay, I get it...No excuse for professional publications though.

really? Interesting. What is it that you would say makes UA's dept. better?(I always thought those rankings were BS anyways)UA actually cares about its students. Pitt does not care about its students, but rather research dollars and posturing in the rankings. What a joke. As UA increases its research profile, I hope it maintains the student emphasis. I would be ashamed if it ever became like Pitt.

BS Chemical Engineering '03MS Biomedical Engineering '05 both from UAPhD Biomedical Engineering '10 from Carnegie MellonI did all my PhD coursework at Pitt and can say that UA's engineering is far better in preparing quality engineers although Pitt supposedly has a top 15 program (not in my opinion).

OSU and NW are in the same conference. OSU was pissed that they had to play here, and wait an extra day because of the weather (almost identical scenario to the WVU game a few years ago). OSU lobbied the Big Ten to do whatever they could to punish us for having the insolence to beat them at a high school field. Big Ten whispers into somebody's ear at the NCAA, who then changes the game site prematurely while conveniently taking off a few days for Thanksgiving. Sound far-fetched? Some people have the idea that this is what happened. I don't think that was it at all.I say this was an inside job by a guy with a grudge or an OSU fan that just happens to work in UA athletics. We were sold out on the trip to OSU at the end of the season. Somebody warned them that we were bringing busloads of fans, because that somebody severely dislikes either the fact that we have better fan support or dislikes somebody who is in charge of creating fan support. Well, we won despite that. Then it happens again - UA plays OSU, this time at home, and we make them look bad on the field and in the stands. This somebody is even angrier, and decides to screw over Akron, so he makes a call. Then the NCAA is more than happy to move the game to Chicago under the pretense of "player safety".Whoever it was that works at UA and decided that our field would be unplayable four days in advance, without consulting Mack Rhoades or Caleb Porter who were both conveniently located off campus at SVSM at the time, needs to be fired.I fully endorse this theory. What a sham and what a shame!While I'm saddened by the outcome, at least the rest of the team, Coach Porter, and the program will live to fight another day. The ones I truly feel for are the seniors who have to end stellar careers on such a low and unjust note. Here's to good luck with the MLS for Bush and Tutich!

Considering we lost, the article just sounds like sour grapes. Had it been written before the game and rallied more support then I'd give the some credit. Well written, but too little too late.What I want to know is how Mack and Dr. Proenza are going to guarantee the fans, alumni, and especially the team and Coach Porter that this will never happen again. I'd hate to see Coach Porter become the next Ken Lolla.

skip-zip, I understand the context of your post, but disagree with how optimistically you compare our program. UA football success should be relative to current MAC champions and rising programs (UB). Not the falling ones (BGSU and Miami). You must be a Browns fan too.Nothing personal.

Unfortunately, that program is UB.

If there is any question as to why we need out of the MAC, it has been fully established now...the only team not to go to a bowl game a couple years ago, the NIT snub, and then the #9 seed a couple years ago, but this was atrocious! The irony of today's weather kills me. Given these biases and especially the latter, I no longer expect Steve to win the Herman Trophy even though he's earned it.NU executed as they had to...got their goal and then sat back and just played D.What I take from today's outcome:1) We'll be lucky to keep Coach Porter given our inferior treatment from the NCAA. I wouldn't blame him for leaving like Lolla did.2) The soccer facility upgrade needs to happen this off-season.3) We need out of the MAC. I just can't say that enough.

Is said video stream free though? As much as I want to watch the game, I don't think I'll be giving my money to Northwestern.

Weren't three of those wins in the last three years of LO against I-AA teams (Howard, Cal Poly and Liberty)? I'm sure that if that was the case and we filled those I-AA spots with I-A teams, the record would look more like 25-34. I fail to see how that is better than 27-32. Don't forget the wins against BCS teams and the MAC Championship either.I'm not being overly defensive of JD because if he got fired tomorrow I would not lose a minute of sleep over it, but this team is better now than it was under the LO era. After 9 years at Akron, LO could only muster 5 wins against I-A teams his last year.Lee inherited a disaster of a program and had the worst facilities and administrative support in the nation to deal with. JD inherited a team with 4 future NFL players, coming off a winning record, one of the top graduation rates in the NCAA, and one of the top brand new practice facilities in the nation. STARTING OFF with that, he can barely muster 5 wins in his fifth season, in what has become the worst division in college football (the 2003 MAC had 3 ranked teams throughout the year and was knocking off ranked teams left and right). The comparison doesn't look too hot for your man JD.You are dodging the point. JD would have a better record vs. LO if LO didn't play three cream puffs. It's OK to say your comparison isn't quite honest if you look closely.So JD is two or three games better than LO over the course of five years. Big deal!!! The results are still not good enough as I have described in several other posts. The facilities and administrative support differences are also notable.