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About a month ago, Chad Welker talks with Mitch Budler…

Following the 1-0 Zips win v IU on 9/7/2012, back in the lobby of the Zips hotel, after I congratulated him and team, Caleb Porter smiled and told me that there was nothing better than beating your friends. 😃

Thanks for the history. Notable is that Caleb Porter never lost only once to his Alma Mater. [CP never lost to IU with Jared Embick on his staff.] EDIT - CORRECTION, my brain was off by a year when I posted my original, now edited, statement above. As I recall, 2006 was CP's 1st year as Zips Head Coach. Zips lost to IU that year, but never thereafter during CP's tenure. Still a great accomplishment once he started making his mark on Zips Men's Soccer. (sorry for my original misstatement above.)

Perfectly placed!

Andrew Samuels, Princeton GK, certainly lived up to his hype. Wow.

@72Roo @Hilltopper what you say may be true, but part of an AD's job is not only connecting with Deep pocket and other wealthier donors but also with his employees, the general alumni / fan base and student athletes. He did little of that. Only once when he and I talked near the end of his time at UA did he ever give credit to his staff for any of the good work "he" had done. "Some say he was all about himself. I can see that, but if he was making athletics better I feel some leaders are like that." Leaders are NOT like that. Leaders empower, enable, and give credit to their team whom they entrust to do the job. Leaders inspire their team. Charles is NOT a leader.

WOW...THANKS @TennZip. Brought tears to my eyes to watch that. Fantastic team who deserved better than to have a home NCAA Tournament game taken away from them. 2008 could easily have been the first Zips' appearance in the College Cup since 1986.

Yeah, Zips Men's Soccer was nothing until Chuckles came to Akron. 😴 Ofc, he told me. 💤

Adding insult to injury, Chuckles replaced the fence coverings in our soccer stadium, and not one of the logos has a star for our national championship. Add to it the small print of all of our NCAA Tournament appearances to squeeze them all into a small section. Sucks to not properly advertise our successes to visitors and viewers.

Thanks for all these updates everyone. I hope the Zips get into the tournament. The Big East regular season champs, especially Beto and Emil, deserve the opportunity to continue to showcase their talents.

Congratulations to our Zips on a good season. Hopefully, we will get an at large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Looking at the box score, it seems the team with the deeper bench and fresher legs prevailed. Lots of talent sitting on our bench who could have possibly helped but not to be (throughout this season). I still find what I see as an over tendency to go backward frustrating. I understand the need to send the ball back to reset and try to open up the defense, but it seems in some games that is done more often than putting the ball in the box. A shot not taken is guaranteed not to score. We’ve seen a number of goals scored this season on some unexpected rebounds yet at times our guys seem to be looking for the perfect shot rather than taking a not so perfect opportunity.

Guaranteed would be difficult to predict, but chances are good with our Zips ranked #29 and the Hoyas #8 in RPI. Have to play well, which I'm confident in our team. Intangibles, such as referee who over or under controls the game, concern me. Playing in Georgetown's backyard is also a concern, but I would suggest our Zips look at 2018 ... MAC Tournament in Morgantown and NCAA Tournament matches at Syracuse, at Wake Forest and at Stanford. Tough places to play, but those Zips were on a roll, not to be denied and got it done.

My point wasn't that more injuries occur during OT, but that the NCAA soccer season is so compressed, our team sometimes plays 3 games in the span of a week. That's a lot of wear and tear with little time for recovery which leads to nagging injuries. Some of our players are nursing injuries and playing through them now. OT does not guarantee additional wins.

Providence defeated UConn 2-0.

during the Georgetown versus Creighton game this afternoon, the announcers mentioned the Zips and said Clapier, Jaaskelainen and Henry are as dangerous as they get.

Every one of our goals tonight were incredible. So much fun to relive them watching the replays. WOW x 3!!!

Great game overall and win tonight. Nice to see so many fans in attendance for our well-deserving team. Best wishes v Georgetown Thursday. Wish I could be there; work travel keeps getting in the way this season.

The Zips need to clean that up. Playing around with the ball in front of our own goal against a better team could cost the game.