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I go back and repeat my oft-repeated comment: It's a crap shoot. Cordelli or Meyer? You DO have to wait and see (though I voted Good Hire). But one way of looking at this is how the process does change each time we make ANOTHER FB coaching change. Hiring Lee Owens I think took a couple months of BS to get a HS coach. It was over a month to get Brookhart, during which time the media broke stories about which BCS coordinator Akron had been turned down by today (remember Browning at Minnesota). This hire was done very quickly and cleanly. That in itself Tommy Dub deserves credit for.I'll be on the horn today with the Manti Te'o and Roby Toma families at Punahou to urge their kids transfer to follow the guy who recruited them! And finally, while we're on the subject of Notre Dame... There's another school in that state that is on the verge of becoming the "Notre Dame of collegiate soccer", if they don't make the correct hire in the next week or two. And everyone should know that there is only ONE answer to who that hire is... Let's turn our attention to keeping the best college coach in America on our campus!

You should email Tom and notify him of him of the error in his ways. Here's a template from a few years ago. You write a letter like that, to keep a coach that's 17 - 95?!No thanks...I'll trust the AD on this call.Thank you Captain. I'm sure everyone loved this touche' comment: Are you an idiot? It was a women's basketball coach. Its not like he just fired JD because he had a friend who needed a job.Bring back Balki Bartokomous! Where'd he go anyway?

It's Ya-nellow. Ya know? And Elton Alexander is pronounced "Zack the Zip". Ya know? Have faith Zips fans. For all we know, there may BE enough talent on the team to win -- but I'm not that concerned with a boring "secondary" sport like American football when we're getting ready to play for a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! Do you think Ya Nellow will ever have a shot at that? Seriously

I would recommend Ianello consider trying to keep Fleming as a Zip. He's proven himself to be a fine coach. That fact notwithstanding his son's high prospects.

Down to a Mooney guy and an Ursuline guy. Although I am an Ursuline guy, I want the Mooney guy lol.Either way, YSU football is in better hands.Thanks!I recommend the Guinis look at Sunseri. He would fit in great in Y'Town.

I hope that those who are fast to jump to a conclusion will at least wait till after the press conference and introduction and give the guy a listen before you start piling on to his lack of executive leadership experience. I also had the interest in seeing that change from the previous HC. But I am VERY excited on hearing this name. I have heard that he had a bigger part in recruiting most of the Notre Dame Big Name prospects (take, e.g. Hawaii's Manti-Te'o, national #1 LB in 08) than Charlie Weis himself. I'm ready to open my arms to the guy, if he shows promise of bringing in serious prospects who are good people and students as well.

Don't look now, but Cleveland (Bedford??) just lost its one pro soccer team with the demise of Cleveland City (of Bedford).

Now the guy spends so much ink exposing Akron's defense to the fastest striker in college soccer, then ends up...picking Akron to win! I'll take PKs, though I don't think the #4 team in the event can take it that far. Akron 2-0

Amazingly -- I've found the most prolific Tar Heel poster in my own neighborhood. Let's see if he/she's willing to put a frosty Long Board porter on the outcome of the contest Friday. http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=78&f=3778&t=5255458 Yes, Virginia and Carolina. Akron has a soccer team!

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=192&f=1118Gee. The Wake fans seem pretty confident. UVa is a solid fave in the first game. BTW -- that MLS GA (Generation Adidas) list is good, but should include the name "Blair Gavin" as one of the top defensive mids in the NCAA. IOW, add him to the list of "could be gones" for the year 2010. I can only imagine how good the team could be if everyone stays (I'm talking players now...)

I'll be there for Friday and Sunday. Riding down with three others that I am pretty sure aren't ZipsNation afficianados. Staying at LaQuinta Inn Cary.I hope those who are going can share your travel experiences -- outside the tourney itself. I want some College Cup experts to learn from before I buy my tix to 2010's College Cup in beautiful Santa Barbara. I'd love to see the host school get a shot at stopping the defending champs. UCSB is noted for the top student rooting section in the NCAA. Do you hear what I'm sayin, Rowdies? http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/051409aaa.html

Anybody remember from last year -- does the Missouri Athletic Club name the Hermann Award winner before the Final Four? Looking at the contenders, the national scoring leader, Teal Bunbury is right up there among the favorites. Others are Bone and Schilawski of Wake, Akpan from Harvard, and a number of others, but making the College Cup is a first step toward winning it. I suspect if Bunbury doesn' win, that the guy from Soccer America will write that he did win it anyway.

Dad has been speculated on the coaching scoop board as under consideration by Mark Richt at Georgia. I'm not sure Will could fit in, unless as a walk-on. I don't think he seriously considered going away -- never took any recruiting visits. That tells me we could keep him.

I just LOVE the idea of the team from Tampa-St Pete heading to the passport office before their flight to The Great White North. That's one post-season that's sure to thrill boosters. And how about the Bruins from SoCal getting that big matchup with the Ex-Big East team in the nation's capitol. They'll be lucky if the family of their one player from the East Coast shows up. And good luck to the Quackers! And CJ says Go Zona!

We have restricted comment on that subject until after the College Cup. Then we can start bawling our eyes out.

Well...they were the No. 2, 3 and 5 seeds, so it's hardly a surprise. Only #4 tOSU failed to keep up among the top 5. And that also is no surprise.

great job marketing!!!!!!!!!!!! I was watching channel 5 news only to hear in the last 3 seconds, "oh yeah Akron is going to the final four in soccer good night everyone"Virginia now has a lower GAA than Akron! They have to be considered the favorites.

This is no different from what happens whenever any coach is released. Well, the S&C position is separate, and maybe he should have had someone ready to come in before he pushed him out the door, but I can't see that position as being a member of the football team anyway, since he works with the entire dept.

Halftime folks. 1-0 Zippers. Three late yellow cards -- one each to Barson and Gonsalves at 39 m., then one for Joe Camel at 43 m.I don't feel too bad about this one. Knock on wood.

http://www.gozips.com/newMediaPlayer/conso...amp;oemid=108001-0 Zips. Sorry, I guess I was on da wrong thread! But da score is da same ovah heah!GO ZIPS!!My memory isn't that great, but does Tulsa have a shot yet???

Virginia scares me. They have an offense. Hopefully either Wake or UCLA can knock them off for us. Tomorrow is going to be a GREAT game. I am so pumped.Since the game between UNC and the winner of UA-Tulsa is on the left half of the College Cup bracket, does that mean that is the early game??

http://www.gozips.com/newMediaPlayer/conso...amp;oemid=108001-0 Zips. Sorry, I guess I was on da wrong thread! But da score is da same ovah heah!GO ZIPS!!

GOALLLLLLLLlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll! Akron! Prince Kofi. Seventeenth minute! 1-0 Akron Zips

Here's what Top Drawer Soccer has to say (Hope you can see this without logging on as I did):http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soc...hives/nid-13988I didn't realize, Akron is undefeated in the quarterfinals of NCAA tournaments (1-0-1).

He and Bain will bring the pain in twenty-and-tain.