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With the 3 friendlies that are scheduled in Puerto Rico, San Jose, and Kansas City, I sure hope that Jurgen gives Perry at least one start...a true opportunity to show his skills. Perry made the move to Europe to get the opportunity, and he certainly deserves more of a look than he's received thus far. (I admit, my not so unbiased opinion)

Really???!!! I thought the Z logo was unique. How does the trademark work with that? Who was first?

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#3 out of >200 is more than "good" my friend. (Glass half full here) Note that Barth stated everyone's aspirations..."national championship next year!"

Sorry...My bad. I responded to you without looking at the date/day of the week. You could be right about the adjustment. That may be one of the reasons that the schedule hasn't been released. It was so nice in 2015 not having the midweek American Football games that I didn't consider they were back for 2016.

Kudos to Jared for another great home schedule and for helping GCU get their program going by scheduling them. I believe that we are returning UCLA's 2015 favor with a visit to Westwood. Can't wait to see who else is on the away schedule besides Michigan St, Penn St, Ohio St., BGSU, and NIU.

I doubt it. We've had American Football and Association Football on the same day in the past at home. They've usually staggered the times so we could attend both.

I think we'll play Penn St as usual, but it was home in 2015. So, it will be at Happy Valley in 2016.

The Zips were impressive today. Very nice win to closeout a fun Spring Exhibition season. Great talking with Eric Stevenson, too.

Good to see Kofi Sarkodie start and go full time in the Quakes tie with Philly today. http://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2016-04-30-philadelphia-union-vs-san-jose-earthquakes/boxscore

@GoZips I would point out to you that you need to clean up your act as well. Listening to you berate our Mens Soccer players and head coach last Fall during one of the MAC Tournament games until another fan confronted you was totally ridiculous. He did so in a very calm and professional manner and your response to him was continued negativity. I was happy when you chose to watch that match from elsewhere in the stadium. You didn't come across as a Zips fan on that occasion among others that I've witnessed. I'm not going to take the time to go back and review your posts and responses to which you are taking offense, but I add to the recommendation that likely cleaning up your experience on ZN.o begins with you. Feel free to call me out if you'd like on past negativity. I'm far from guiltless; others have called me out in the past for being so negative in some of these threads. I've tried hard not to be so in recent months. Sometimes it is very difficult when you shake your head at the direction that UA athletic department staff chooses to go. In those cases, I just try hard not to post anything.

When I read that article, it reaffirmed my amazement at how some could be so concerned about Jared taking over Zips Men's Soccer from Caleb. My concern is, if/when Jared moves up, who will replace him. I was not a fan of Tom Wistrcill, but I have to give him credit for listening to Caleb, players and others close to the program when he made the decision.

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/tds-qa-with-akron-coach-jared-embick_aid39134

Stuart is still out, but I don't know details of his injury. Niko DeVera was out Robby Dambrot out Adi Dakwar out Adam Najem is still visiting On a side note, I heard that Ohio State was beaten by the Crew Reserves 6-1, or some such score. I couldn't confirm, though, since I couldn't find results on their website. After looking further, I found that Notre Dame tied the Crew, 1-1. http://www.und.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/040116aaa.html

That's exactly why I went looking. The 5 hours didn't make sense to me if the games were at the same location. Why is it so difficult for Sean Palchick (Assoc Director for Communications for Zips Mens Soccer) to provide this information? Why did I have to go looking for it?

Looks like the Spring matches on May 1st are not both in Cincinnati. The match vs the Dayton Dynamo is at Wright State University according to the Dayton Dynamo website.

That would be returning for 2016 season (not 2017).

Saad Abdul-Salam started for Sporting KC. They are currently in the 2nd half on FS1. 1-1 with FC Dallas in the 64th.

My understanding s that Andrew will go to grad school at Ohio State.

Thanks for the heads up, but let's not forget Teal Bunbury for the NE Revs as well.

Video link appears to be broken http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-soccer-articles/zips-impress-in-7-1-win-over-michigan_aid17694 As statements go, Akron made a loud one Tuesday night. A 7-1 win over Big 10 opponent Michigan just happened to on a day when the Zips’ program was hosting Rob on the Road, as head coach Caleb Porter showed me all around the school, soccer facilities and gave us unprecedented access to the team’s activities before, during and after the match. We’ve got tons of video to show for it, but you just have to take your hat off to Porter for his work in building such a top-rate program and for selling it so well. He has recruited very well over the past few years and this is why the Zips are once again doing so well – their players are that good. {mosvideo:300}Tuesday they were in rare form, holding the ball for long stretches and attacking in numbers early and often. Right back Kofi Sarkodie had a monster game, scoring a hat trick that began with a 10th minute strike. Darren Mattocks, Anthony Ampaipitakwong, Darlington Nagbe and Thomas Schmitt added a single tally each. Michigan had two players sent off in the final 20 minutes, after the score was already 4-1. Akron improves to 12-0-1 while Michigan, which got a goal from Soony Saad on a 1st half free kick, falls to 8-4-3. So check out the video taken today. We’ve got a look at the Akron facilities, some insight from the crazies known as AK Rowdies, a little flavor from the match including a vicious red card, and some post-match comments. Tomorrow I’ll be heading east. Check the web site again to find out how far. Here's a video from that match: