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Jake Fenlason looking good.

Louisville learned the hard way - "Beware the Ides of March" ...

http://www.espnfc.com/video/the-boot-room/203/video/3081863/porter-wants-to-regain-champion-identity

Congrats to Wil Trapp! Crew SC signs captain Wil Trapp to multi-year extension ...“We are thrilled to announce that Wil has committed to remain in Columbus with a new multi-year contract extension. He is one of the leaders of our club, a model professional and an important part of our community,” said Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter. "He was raised in Gahanna, he is a product of the Crew SC Academy, he played at the University of Akron, he represented our country at the international level and now he is the captain of Columbus Crew SC. Wil has illuminated a path for any young players in Ohio who are hungry for success in this sport.”... ... Prior to being signed by Crew SC, Trapp made 45 appearances (all starts) for the University of Akron over the course of two seasons (2011, 2012). He twice earned All-Mid-American Conference First Team honors (2011, 2012) and was the MAC Newcomer of the Year in 2011. ...

So you assume from this source that the only reason KD is not interested in USF is the ravaged roster, per some ESPN source as told through a 3rd party. You don't think any of the following might weigh into his decision... Akron native University of Akron alumnus UA Contract through 2022 (23)... I forget, but basically until retirement age Great salary v cost of living Good bonus structure Family & friends in Akron Recently bought a new house (within past year or two, I believe) Keith's LeBron connection (LeBron in Akron area, LeBron's connections now with UA, ...) Established relationships with UA Athletics Dept personnel, UA alum, donors, season ticket holders, fans .... Loads of respect and support etc. Yeah, there's a list of things that might be better elsewhere, but same as anyone would do when weighing current job v new job...what are the pros and cons and would I really be happy elsewhere? I can't answer for Keith, but I don't think a "ravaged roster" was the only reason he may have removed himself from consideration for the USF job.

Akron has been to the dance in 1986, 2009, 2011, 2013. This is the first NCAA Tournament appearance for Northwestern. http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2017-03-12/northwestern-joins-march-madness-party-heres-what-you-need

As frustrated as I am with only winning 3 MACC games in 9 visits, I appreciate the comments below from Coach Dambrot last night. I appreciate his candidly accepting that it is his job to win. I hope and trust that he will continually evaluate what he and his staff are doing and can do better to increase their chances of being successful. (https://sportscripts.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/game-11-akron.pdf) I also appreciate that he cares about the "kids"; I've talked with him enough to know he does. It's good to hear (read) him reiterate. I, unfortunately haven't made the time to get to know our basketball players, but I do appreciate them and that they chose to come and play for Akron; I wish them every success on and off the court. I hope that they will find a way to get past this disappointment and compete in the NIT even though it's not what any of us wanted. Always strive to do your best, whatever life hands you. Giving up is a poor choice. ...So if it was misconstrued, but I just wish sometimes that people would just under stand that I am a good person and that I care about kids. I really don't care what anybody else thinks, but I care about kids. ... ...That's a really good question. All I can say is, look, we've been good enough to get in the championship game year after year, and sometimes the ball hasn't bounced very well for us. I know the first time they banked in a 40 footer on us with a clock malfunction, I think we lost one overtime game to Ohio, we lose at the buzzer last year to Buffalo. The league is so close that like the year we pounded Ohio, right? I don't think we were that much better than Ohio, it was just a weird game, right? They got really good players and we just played well and they didn't. So I mean it's disappointing. You get there, that's the hard part about sports, right? When you're good, then you set yourself up for disappointments. If you're no good, there are no disappointments because you're never in the championship game, right? I think the hard part about athletics is unless you're careful, the lows, the lows last a lot longer than the highs. Even for me, like I have to fight that constantly. Think about the young people. We just lost two tough championship games in a row, and ultimately when we don't win the championship game, that's on me. Like my job's to win championship games, period. It's not on our players, it's on me. So luck, not luck, make your own luck. Obviously we just didn't play well enough tonight. But it's disappointing, yeah, and I probably won't talk to my wife for about three days, which is unfair to her, but I just won't feel like talking to anybody. Maybe I'll talk to my dog, because I don't know. Like I'm sick for my guys, I just feel bad for them, and that's the disappointing thing because of our league. I love our league. It's a great league, but it's so hard because it comes down to one game every year. Unfortunately, we've been in that one game a lot. It's the way it goes.

Great to see Jonathan Lewis in the 18 today for NYCFC...

"great support system" = ??? great fans? great academic advisors? ??? I remember a winning coach at Akron who used to apologize to the fans for missteps. I didn't really feel that he always needed to do that, but thinking about it, it was comforting to hear the term "fans" as opposed to support system, etc., leaving no doubt that the coach/players empathize with us as well as we with them.

Akron was the #6 seed in the 2011 MAC Tourney, won it (v #1 Kent), and went to the dance.

and NIT or NCAA Tournament game seating.

http://www.starsandstripesfc.com/usmnt-americans-abroad/2017/3/9/14846054/usmnt-winter-progress-report-deandre-yedlin ...5. Okay, pretend you're Professor Newcastle and give us a grade for DeAndre so far this season. A- ...

RIP Fred. Very sad news.

5-1 Timbers. I love seeing all these former Zips celebrate....Coaches Caleb Porter, Pablo Moreira, Cameron Knowles, and Darlington Nagbe & Darren Mattocks who were on the field. #ZipsinMLS

Interesting that Lawrence Olum, who scored the first goal of the 2017 MLS Season for Caleb Porter's Portland Timbers, played collegiate ball for then Head Coach Jared Embick, at Missouri Baptist University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Olum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Embick Thanks @fknbuflobo

MLS 2017 Season kicks off tonight with one of my favorite teams on FS1.... Portland Timbers vs. Minnesota United FC | MLS Week 1 - March 3, 2017 ... Go Timbers. #PTFC

I don't think you're full of crap Hip Zip, but you can have much of what you've described (in your 2nd paragraph) and a program that can win games in the NCAA Tourney at the same time. Similar to you, I have been in contact with many past and present Zips Mens soccer players and even some of their families through the years and also the head coach who is now in the pros. I'm not supporting a change in Mens Basketball coaching, which by the way is moot anyhow. I like KD. He's one of us (an Akron alum), a good coach, and a good man. I wish much that he could find a way to at least win 1 game in the NCAA D1 Mens BBall Tourney. I know he'd like to do that for us as much as we want it. As far as his going anywhere anytime soon...that would have to be because he wants to make the move. He's got a contract through 2023. No way UA can afford to make a change. Discussing this seems pointless to me.

DeAndre Yedlin's team, Newcastle United came back from a 1-0 deficit to defeat Brighton 2-1 and take back the lead of the EFL Championship.

For anyone who may have read the post that I put up about Chad Barson not being retained by Chicago Fire, including the link to the CSN Chicago article...at this time, it is not true. Decision has not yet been made is my understanding. Appears the writer may have made an assumption.

Parchman: Here's how the USA beat Mexico for the first time in 31 years Former Zip Jonathan Lewis came on in the 80th minute to help seal the win for the US U20's. He's also been instrumental in helping his team get to this point. Hopefully, the US U20's can draw or defeat El Salvador on Friday (3/3), or Mexico loses to El Salvador on Wednesday (3/1).

MLS 2017 Season starts this weekend. Matches on television with former Zips involved include: Friday, 3/3/17, Portland Timbers v Minnesota United, 9:30 pm ET, FS1 Saturday, 3/4/17, Columbus Crew v Chicago Fire, 2:00 pm ET, Spectrum Sports (was TWC Sports) Sunday, 3/5/17, Orlando v NYCFC, 5 pm ET, ESPN

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And talking about Zips Mens Soccer in any publication is a great recruiting tool. Crains Cleveland provided another outlet that UA seems to have let go by. It seems that the soccer world has been applauding our student-athletes turned pro and our program, but that the UA Athletic Dept, except Zips Mens Soccer, could not care less.