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Hilarious! I wish I had the scarf to wear at the Michigan State - Hawaii game in 2004. Might have warded off the killer refs!

Obama high, i'm guessing everyone gets the same grades regardless of effort and your lunches are paid for as well.I have no idea where this thread's going, but if this is an effort at humor, hows about "and every player on the basketball team plays five minutes and is met with cheers of "Bom-mer, Bom-mer" when he enters the game". That was supposedly the scene at Punahou gym back circa 1979.

Anybody have any idea about this at all?I hadn't heard about Alex Kellogg transferring to OU -- that's news. Has his brother committed yet? I thought he was headed to Provo too.

As much as I would hate for Geno to get a guy who can make a difference, and as much as I'd like my local school (one of my alma maters) to have that difference maker...well, I'll believe this story when I see it in the flesh. Sheesh. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbc...1#pluckcomments

What? She swore she'd love me forever.I'm... I'm speechless. I'm sorry, but it was just one wild and crazy night in Malawi. And she thinks she'll get her love child from THAT?Anonymous

Just to let you all know in the Kingdom of the Kangaroo:It is a go! The scarf is on its way. We'll have to wait to find out the design, but it looks to be a soccer-specific scarf. And we can thank Coach Porter, who pushed it.

Think back, folks. When Jeff Boals was introduced as assistant coach, did any of you know anything about him? He was a young guy with little experience at that level. He has developed, under the tutelage of Keith Dambrot, into a coach who is being considered as top assistant at the next step up, a high-major non-BCS type program. If he was able to grow into the position that well, I have to believe KD will find another fine young coach who can do the same. It might be considered a feather-in-the-cap to coach Keith to see another assistant move up in the profession. The next stop for JB would be a HC job at a spot in the high-mid-major area, like Shaka received. Or he might wait a few years and be in line to take over at XU. Given past experience they do change coaches a lot -- especially compared to Akron! BUT, on the other hand, if coach Boals could be kept under wraps at the JAR, that would be a small coup. It appears that X is interested at least in large part because of the immediate relationship Jeff has established with specific recruits Xavier needs in order to keep their spot in the pecking order. If we can keep him, it could be a sign that we have a better chance at the Paynes and Weatherspoon than is suspected by many. It might be Akron who moves UP in the pecking order.We need you Jeff. Now if we can just reward you for your work...

It's interesting that Colorado is trying to poach players from NE Ohio. I think they also offered the RB from Garfield HS? Is there a coaching connection?

Good timing Cap'n. Last year the announcement came out in early-mid April. I know cause that's when I made my reservations. I know of one road tournament we play in early Sept -- at Tulsa. We play SMU and the home team in our two games. Haven't heard about other OOC games, but wouldn't it be nice to play Wake again? Or Carolina? Or Mary Land? And personally, I'm hoping for a game on Fox Soccer Channel College Friday.

Man! Would that ever throw the fear of the Roo into the Who's-theres. A mad visiting Rowdie crowd at a PRACTICE GAME! Hoowie. I can imagine there being a recruit or two present -- if we haven't signed or gotten verbals from all of them yet.

I tuned in to this game with about a minute and a half remaining in regulation. I guess I jinxed 'em. 2 goals in 42 seconds. 59 seconds and 17 seconds to play. I think this just showed how good BU was -- they refused to lose.Bowling Green won the NCAA title in hockey back about 1985 or 86, I think it was. Not sure if the MAC has any other team titles, but I feel one coming on at the men's soccer cup.

I've been looking into the topic of football club scarves, and here's what I came up with. It looks like this company has a near monopoly over the field -- but they seem to do a great job, marketing-wise at least. For those who didn't see the pictures of opening day of the Seattle Sounders' season/franchise at Qwest Field, check out the fan scene, #8 in the gallery (and #7 -- did EMU drop men's soccer?). The Sounders gave away a team scarf to every season ticket holder (about 22 thousand I think). Wouldn't this be a FAN-tastic way to inaugurate Infocision Stadium in September? I will be sending this to the AD, but you might want to add your encouragement. Pittsburgh has its Terrible Towels. Why can't Akron have their Roo-Scarves? I'll once again give up my residuals, as I did when I failed to trademark my "Fear the Roo" line, in exchange for just one scarf. Take this and run with it, Akron. Wouldn't it look great over the bar where they sell the RooBeer? Go Zips! Future Sign of Zips Football (or Soccer if You Will)

Dwain hates to leave any coach hatin' on him. So he verbally commits to every school that offers. And, while most of America's CBB coaches wouldn't touch this guy with the proverbial ten foot pole (can you imagine Keith having more than a "Good day, how ya' doin'?" conversation with this kid?), there are some who are so desperate to become competitive they will snuggle up with a porcupine, if he can make a basket from outside the 3-point circle. I can vouch for you about how desperate Hawaii's coaches are. They didn't have a single jump shooter on the team last year, and might have averaged three made treys per game. A guy like Williams (if he were to show up for games, rather than continuing his world tour), could add two or three wins for the Bows -- from 12 to 15 wins in 09-10. Would he make K-ent a 20-win team again? Maybe, but that program is struggling, nonetheless.And WinZip, we might be willing to trade weather in say, August or Sept, when its 90 degrees and humidity over here. It's still Winter here now -- only in the 70s. Brrrrr! One thing that's true around the globe:

We definitely need to institute these at the new soccer stadium -- just like they have at Old Trafford! (That's ManU, folks)that would be sweet, I was watching the Seattle Sounders play on ESPN and saw they had ribbon boards all the way around the sidelines, It looks really cool but in my opinion it might be too much money to spend...I was actually joking. There are only a minority of Major League Soccer stadia which have the electronic boards installed, where the backward folks still have the advertising humps, like in American football. Home Depot was first. Not sure if even all the soccer-specific stadiums in MLS have them yet. But -- go to Europe and virtually every joint, including all the English Premier League and I think even the Championship (UK second division) clubs sport them, all the way down to the Athletic Bilbaos (La Liga Espanol) of the world. I bet the increase in ad revenue would pay for them in short time. Your eyes are like totally drawn to them -- it even tends to distract for the game on the pitch.

And, ranked just one spot behind Morgan State. Morgan Who? Oh, I know we play them in Sept., but how are they ranked ahead of the in ANY sport? As I said, http://www.collegeinsider.com/mmpoll/?DB_OEM_ID=10800

I read the second sentence in the article (above) multiple times, and I STILL can't make heads or tails of it's grammar and logic. But I can tell you, the Big Time Tournament in Vegas is about twice as big in # of ballers.And maybe someone can call an NCAA attorney for the definitions of "contact" and "booster". Is no one wearing an Akron Zips T-shirt allowed to tell a player he'd enjoy watching him wear blue and beige?

Mahalo, Josh. I forgot UNM played @Akron. Did they give away the scarves, or sell them? I remember calling to ask for a T-shirt from that tournament (the last Westfield Cup), and they told me they (Team Shop) weren't selling any. Guess I should have said "scarf" instead.And yes! It is a long-held football tradition. I saw a website (advertised in MLS Mag) that sells college soccer items including scarves, but mostly ACC/BigEast/UCLA types, not Zips. We're not in the Big Time. YET!

They are playing with a few of them who are already enrolled and on campus like David Meves.Char Barson and Kofi Sarkodie: two-thirds of the USA U-17 backfield! The Massachussetts Kid (Scott Calldwell) in midfield is going to be (excuse me -- is) an incredible addition. Love ya Zips. #1 in 09!

I found these shots on the "Photo Gallery" at the Gozips.com soccer site. Look at what's hanging around the necks of a couple of the Rowdies in these pix. Yes -- Akron Zips football/soccer scarves!!! I have never seen this, and I WANT ONE!!!! Where do I go? These photos were supposedly taken at last year's game versus New Mexico in Albuquerque, and I was there. But, I never saw these folks -- where were they??http://uaim.dyndns.info/photo_galleries/_A...ource/nmu03.htmhttp://uaim.dyndns.info/photo_galleries/_A...ource/nmu04.htm

I have to disagree with the comments about Gary Waters being a good fit at Chavier, er, uh Xavier. I say this having seen Gary in his first year in K-ent, and seeing the amazing job he did with a program with a tradition that never reached mediocrity before him. I also saw what happened to this fine man in Rutgers, and fear that he would be caught in another case of over-expectations, and under-patience. Hopefully Waters can use this to drill a very large raise out of CSU. Frankly, I'd love to see him back in the MAC in the future.

THANK YOU!

I can't help being concerned though. He's had what -- three major injuries since entering HS at CVCA? Is he the Zidrunas Ilgauskas of soccer? Hope not, but only time will tell. Amazing part is how he could rise to being #1 HS prospect (fell to #8 only after the latest injury) despite it. At Akron, he's just another cog in the machine. Hopefully it's becoming a high tech machine, that competes with the world's best.

I saw Marcus back in December. He's a smooth, well polished all-around player as you would expect. But he doesn't have any of his dad's hops, or speed for a D-I guard (his game is almost between a 2 and a 3 position-wise, but he's not even 6-3). He should excel at UCF however. I was led to believe he would join his brother at Illinois. Wonder what happened.

I just LOVED reading this one. Catch the comment after. http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/kent_st...awaii/#commentsEdit: Woops; Almost forgot...

Same deal here. Just what are they hiding?Any Morgan State fans out there want to clear this up?I was just wondering, does their band have a drum line? Will they bring it, ala Howard to keep the Info-fans (my prediction, <20k) entertained at the half of this blow-out?