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What is up with the pep band in this second match? Is that allowed?

WHAT A FREE KICK! SKYE! 3-0!

GOAL! 2-0!

AKRON 1-0! BEAUTIFUL GOAL!

Terrific College Cup Analysis/Breakdown "So the College Cup lineup is set and to say it will be a Midwestern affair would be a huge understatement. With three Big Ten teams and a fourth from Northeast Ohio, this year's College Cup should be in Columbus or Indy or Detroit. The Big Ten joins the ACC (08, 09, 13) in having three College Cup teams in the same year. All four of this year's College Cup participants are former national champions. That also happened in 91 (Virginia, Santa Clara, Saint Louis, Indiana), 97 (UCLA, Virginia, Indiana, Saint Louis), 99 (Indiana, Santa Clara, UCLA, Connecticut), 03 (Indiana, St. John's, Santa Clara, Maryland), 08 (Maryland, North Carolina, St. John's, Wake Forest) and last year (Stanford, Indiana, Akron, North Carolina). How much college soccer royalty is here? Akron, which won it all in 2010 and has now been to the Cup three of the last four years, is the least successful, historically, among these programs. Indiana has now been to the College Cup/Final Four 20! times (that's a record) and won it all eight. Maryland is making its 14th College Cup trip and has won three national titles. Michigan State is in the Final Four for seventh time and won a pair of championships. This is Akron's sixth trip to the Cup and they've won one NCAA crown. Michigan State is making its first Final Four appearance in 50! years. To be polite, that's a record. The second longest gap in College Cup appearances belonged to Maryland, which went 29 years - 1969 to 1998 - between appearances. Next was Akron, which went 23 years (86 to 2009). Of course, in 1968, Maryland and Michigan State both made the final and when the game ended in a draw they were named co-NCAA champions. In terms of the individual coaches, Michigan State's Damon Rensing is making his first College Cup appearance - as a player, assistant or head coach, all of which were at MSU. IU's Todd Yeagley made it to the Final Four as a player (but didn't win a national title), assistant coach and head coach. This is his third Cup as HC and he's won one national title in charge. Jared Embick made the Cup twice as an Akron assistant and was the No. 2 on their national title team and how now guided the Zips to three Cup appearances (the most for one coach in program history). For Maryland's Sasho Cirovski, the College Cup is nothing new. He's now been this far nine times and won two national titles. Only Indiana's Jerry Yeagley (16 Final Fours) and Bob Guelker (11 - 7 at Saint Louis, 4 at SIU-Edwardsville) have been to the Final Four more. So, some very interesting story lines and a lot of college soccer history represented at this year's College Cup."

Two former Zips - Bryce Jones, Javonn Letuli - on the San Antonio Commanders roster in the Alliance of American Football league. Logan Woodside is the QB. Only two Zips in the league.

Ok, but they kept Brian-Scalabrine-wannabe Nick Evans? Ridiculous.

Game day. Let's Go Zips! Beat MSUcks!

I wonder if they're bringing in Hoban's coach.

Yeah! Forget our in-conference rival beating them by 17 and wanting this victory to show the MAC we're contenders - let's stick it to KD! DILLY DILLY!

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mocnation/chattanooga-mocs-football-f66/ Even the Suckeyes didn't make the sexy hire. They went a young, up-and-coming coach with a great football mind (apparently).

He's 37 years old, had unprecedented success at John Carroll, and I trust Larry Williams. If you read the UTC board beyond page 3, it sounds like there have been some events occur out of Arth's control - including his starting QB being suspended in 2017 from a situation with the previous coaching staff (if I read that correctly). There is a trend in football right now to hire the young coach with a great football mind. If LW determines Arth fits that mold, I trust him. Is it splashy or sexy? Nope. Bowden was sexy/splashy, and the program has plateaued if not regressed. Arth isn't my first choice, but again, to say you're done with the program if they hire him is absurd.

Good fight. Bad loss. Figure out a way to shoot better away from the JAR, and you're most likely undefeated right now. Onto Marshall.

6-5 this season with a loss to South Carolina (put up 3x more pts against the Gamecocks than Division I Akron did). This is an improvement from the 3-8 campaign in his first season as HC last year. That's a SOLID turn around, and this season included a victory over #17 Samford (doesn't like much to us, but probably a good win for them). This, following a 40-8 resume at John Carroll. Does wake George Thomas up? No, but nobody aside from hiring Urban Meyer would do that. However, being done with a program if they hire a guy with a 49-21 career HC record is quite ridiculous. Not to mention the guy probably has better connections to recruit NEO than he does Chattanooga, TN. My top choice would be an offensive mind from one of these top offensive programs as previously mentioned in one of my posts, with preference #2 being Getsy. However, if we're suggesting Mount Union's coach, Arth isn't TOO far off from him.

Facebook has a profile pic filer with the College Cup logo on the left, the Z logo on the right, and "I Support the Zips!" in the middle. It just popped up on my feed, so I don't know how to manually get to that option.

True - forgot about them (at least I tried to). Side note: Glad he's our coach.

Your 400 (exaggeration) posts about this elite program is 399 posts more than what the MAC Twitter account has made about the Zips soccer accomplishments. In fact, that might even be wrong because I believe the one mention on their Twitter was a retweet. Never apologize for the amount of posts, especially from a position of enthusiasm about a program that is one of the best in the country for the past decade+.

When was the last time a MAC squad beat a 4 seed in the NCAA Tourney, or was ranked #17 in the country? I, too, think they'll lose 1 or 2 in MAC play, but this isn't your typical MAC squad.

So based on this and the early results, this system rewards the tough schedules. Ball State is 5-3 with 3 P5 losses and 5 lesser Mid Major victories. Can't is 7-1 with a victory over Vandy and a loss to a lesser Mid Major, yet there's a 21 spot difference in favor of Ball State. Based on that, Akron should climb assuming they beat IPFW and Marshall, then lose to Nevada (who by the way was #5 last I checked in the polls), correct?

I'm interested to see if we've gotten better or if they've gotten worse. They have some can of whoop butt losses.

I don't have an issue with the rule. This is definitely a penalty. I was merely pointing out that, on a WR that's 6'+, the helmet hits the chest and not the helmet. It was a pretty textbook tackle had it been on a bigger receiver.

If only Switzer were a normal WR's height - this wouldn't be helmet to helmet.

Exactly. I don't understand the notion that we need to hire someone as quickly as possible to save a recruiting class. The foundation of talent on this team is 10x better than what Bowden had when he was hired. The floor going forward should be 4-8, and that gives the new coach time to learn the University and put together an excellent recruiting pitch. Besides, football is a system-dominated sport. The right coach will win with lesser talent if his system is superior. Bowden had more talent than half the teams we played and lost to this season; his offense (ran by Milwee) blew.

FIFY.

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