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The writing is on the wall for NEOUCOM to move and become affiliated with UA. Together with the Biomedical Corridor and the new BioInnovation Institute, the necessary components are aligning for an academic medical center in Akron. Given Summa's sponsorship of the stadium project and their feature on the Campaign for UA's website (with no mention of AGMC or Children's), I would suspect Summa to be the primary hospital entity and AGMC was upset about it.Nonetheless, this is a big coup for Cleveland. I wish AGMC, Summa, Children's, Aultman, and Mercy would align under a University of Akron Medical Center in the future, but I'm guessing it wouldn't happen because there would be no local competition. However, such a unified group would compete with UPMC, the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the OSU Medical Center.Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy are the only major programs that UA is missing in having all major academic offerings. I would love to see it happen and know it's best for the region and research.

http://www.gozips.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_...;ATCLID=3620609Quite impressive. I think as long as there isn't a major faulter in the NCAA Tournament, Steve will also win the Herman Trophy. Regardless of how the season ends, I'd love to see Steve back for another two seasons and to have him earn his degree.Why isn't Bush named for one of the goalie positions? Should be first team in my book, but a total snub! ...come on!Don't let the avatar fool you...huge UA soccer fan!

No doubt, trimmy10. After all, my mother, sister, two brothers and various other relatives are still there and I visit them often :DI DO find the football facility comparison to be an interesting one though. Talk about totally different philosophies. Pitt HAS an aging, on-campus facility and decides to tear it down (granted, for a beautiful basketball facility) and move to a shared, off-campus venue, while UA HAS an aging off-campus facility that it decides to abandon for an new on-campus facility. FWIW, I have a lot more faith in the UA model over time.What I find ironic though is that the City of Pittsburgh needed a new arena (and has since gotten one) while the university builds one across the street from the medical school in Oakland with no parking and hospital traffic. Meanwhile, the new biomedical research buildings are put on the South Side two miles from main campus and a major inconvenience for the students and faculty. This is the joke that Pitt is. At Pitt, the student is an afterthought to research dollars and alumni pledges.

I can only imagine what our men's soccer team would do to Pitt. The woman's team already beat Pitt this season.On a neutral court/field, Pitt is probably still better than us in basketball and football, but not by nearly as much as their fans/alumni think.I've seen both campuses and facilities and can objectively state that Akron's are FAR FAR better.GO ZIPS!!!The City of Pittsburgh is actually a very nice place in general though.

After reading the message boards it seems the fans characterize everything Pitt is about: elitism. Exactly why I hated it when I went to school there.They are so cocky about pounding us and having nothing but negativity regarding Zeke. I hope and think our fans/alumni are more classy this. We might not win, but we'll give a strong effort.Let me remind the Pitt fans that the Panthers have not played to their potential in the NCAA Tournament the past few years and their football program is currently not much better than ours.

I'll be happy if we play away at MSU because that means we've made it to the quarter-finals and gotten past likely opponents OSU and ND (again). Also, one game away from the Final Four.

If only toilet and cereal bowls counted, Can't would have something to build a program on.

Any one else think this is a to UA? I sure do!http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/34726604.html

Creighton will likely be ranked #2 in the nation when the NSCAA poll comes out (tomorrow?). yes -- Akron got screwed, but Holy Crap, the Big11/East/ACCk chew) will never have to earn respect from hte selection committee. Which by the way, probably is dominated by members of those conferences. I didn't look at where teams like SMU, UCLA, UCSB, Cal-Berkeley are in the pecking order, but the only team to defeat the Zips this year, New Mexico was on the bubble, and missed out making the field, despite winning eight of their last ten games. I have to look again, but if we win the first two, where might we have to go to make the Cup/final-four? Is it @ Maryland? That might be a fine little grudge match. FEAR THE ROO!!! (I don't have to worry about Waddell stealing that motto again, since he already did it once.) Missouri State was in its conference's final and had they won, would be in the field as well. Cleveland State was in its conference final. Along with UNM, these are teams on the bubble (if you will) and we were only 1-1-1 against them. Perhaps in the Committee's eyes, this is what warrants the #5 seed as opposed to the 4?...but MSU...come one!The Final Four is at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, TX.

Premier conference in all things sports. "Right now, the Big Ten is the joke of college football and OSU is the punchline." - Kirk Herbstreit during OSWho's piss poor performance against USC.If we play them again in real futbol, let's make sure OSWho is also the punchline of Big Ten soccer being a joke. I'm thinking a 5-0 beat down similar to what WVU experienced in 2005 at the hand of the Zips.

So many thoughts:1) I loathe the fact that in our first game we are guaranteed to play a team we've already beaten this year (albeit both of them on the road and now we have the home game).2) I really wouldn't want to play Louisville.3) This is by far the most difficult regional bracket with OSU, Northwestern, MSU, ND, Louisville, UNC, and Dayton.4) I'd love to see UNC defeat MSU giving us a home game against UNC in the quarterfinals during the first week of December. Don't think those Tar Heels would play well in cold weather.5) We are 4-0-1 against teams in the Tournament (wins against Oakland, OSU, Michigan, and ND; tied IU)6) Earning the 5 seed isn't really an injustice. The injustice is that MSU was awarded the 4 spot ahead of us.7) IMO, Creighton was equally worthy of the 4 seed and they really got screwed.8) Loyola (Md.) should have been a top 8 seed.9) All in all, not a bad bracket especially if we win because there will potentially be three home games against very big name schools/programs. 10) Let's hope the team has a better performance than last year's 1-0 loss at home to USF.11) Go Zips! and this is a better time and place than ever to remind everyone that

Zips win 3-0 in the shootout. Three PK saves for Bush!...incredible.Too bad it only counts as an official tie. Better than a loss though I suppose. At least we advance.

UC probably only looks forward because they won the game and are in the midst of capturing their league's championship. I'm sure they could care less about looking back on us and wondering how they didn't score more. They won the game and that's the point. Likewise, as competitive as we were with UC, BGSU, and UB, we lost those games and are yet to beat a truly respectable opponent.

The argument against our bowling (assuming we beat Ohio and Temple) will be that we haven't beaten a quality opponent all season and that is unfortunately true. UC, BGSU, and UB were all W's that we gave away.

So where ARE you now?

Zips football, basketball, and soccer fan and alum x 2 from Pittsburgh, PA.

We are in on the Big 10 beating party. The men's soccer is 2-0-2 against the Big Ten this year and just beat OSWho last night. It's about time the football team gets in on the action though.

We got scored on three times? ...Another quality win though!

It should be a good game. We're looking forward to welcoming you Zip fans to Richmond. Unfortunately the game is scheduled during Winter Break so I'm betting the atmosphere will not be as big as it usually is. VCU is also a very young team but we still have Eric Maynor who is our leader as the lone senior on the squad and preseason POY for our conference. By all accounts we should have Maynor and four sophomores starting, so we are just as inexperienced as the Zips in some ways. That said, it's really not that easy to win in the Siegel Center. I think we've won 84% of our games there since we opened the place several years ago. It certainly looks like you guys brought in some good talent this year though and I'm sure Coach Dambrot will bring a well-coached team into Richmond. We hope you guys will enjoy your stay in Richmond (although I hope without a win!) This is what it's all about right here...good competition and classy sportsmanship. I welcome this kind of opposition fan on the board any day. Why can't some of our rivals' fans have this attitude?

All this good news and I'm still a little disappointed the result wasn't a shutout. What can I say, as a national power, we should have high standards. Great win and let's keep it rolling!

That website is impressive!

Excellent!

Let's beat them down in soccer and be done with the OSWho debate for another year.

As good as our program is, I'm fearful of the irony in playing Louisville in the Tournament.

Hartwick and Penn State are traditionally strong programs. Both have won National Championships, but are having down years. Those games should be two more wins and two more shut outs.OSU is not currently ranked, but is a tough game. I hate to say it, but let's not forget that OSU was in the National Championship game last year. That game scares me. I think in the past decade we are 0-3 playing at OSU.