ZachTheZip

Gameday. This is the last chance for the team to redeem themselves.

This article is on GoZips.comAn important quote: The whole article has tons of information about this whole debacle, though. A great read.

They had better be working on the field starting tomorrow so that if (when) we beat Northwestern, we can hold the game at home.

I'm amazed that the ABJ was even aware of this event, let alone interested in sending a journalist complete with photographer and video crew.Great publicity. Too bad a troll hijacked the comments.

Why in the world would we go ahead of them? Most of these bowl games are in the South, and Sun Belt teams would bring more fans. Plus, if you honestly think the name "Akron" carries more prestige on a national scale than "Louisiana-Monroe", you're kidding yourself.This might be hard to believe, but in the South, the MAC is looked upon as being a far better conference than the Sun Belt. To someone living in the south, it would be a no-brainer to pick a MAC team over a team from the SBC.

Already set in motion on a bus trip. Leaving at 6am on Sunday with a 1 hour lunch stop.I heard that's the plan, but nothing will be conclusive until Friday at about noon.

read the top of page 8http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/champ_handb...er_handbook.pdfNote: For preliminary-round sites, a team seeded in the top 16 will automaticallybe selected as a site, unless the institution did not submit a bid to host or its field isunplayable. If a game involves two seeded teams, the higher seed will host, unless theinstitution did not submit a bid to host or its field is unplayable.I saw the field and talked to one of the guys standing at the gate last night, It looked a mess. It sucked up a lot of water. The people trying to prepare the field were sinking 2 inches or so into the turf trying to clear the snow. and no Zipsbandman, you can't "play it in anything" I've been playing myself for a long time (I'm 38), and if you sink 2 inches in the field and the ball can't roll, then you can't play. this ain't that sport with the pointy ball that really can be played in anything.....It's a shame, but the rulebook does state that the higher seed does not host if it's field is unplayable.It does say that. It doesn't say that the game should be moved to the lower seed's home field, however. A neutral site would be fine according their rulebook. This was simply an excuse for the NCAA to try and ensure that only the "big name" teams advance to the title match.

Can anybody find anything on Northwestern's message boards?

Rasor talked to Coach Porter. We're going to Chicago.

I'm sure they're hoping it's official.

I will be there. I can't miss this game just because it happened to be moved 330 miles away from where it should have been held.

Screw the NCAA. I wanna win it all just to screw them over like they have done to us over the years. I hope the team is using this as a motivation.

I am sure there will be some kind of student bus trip planned by tonight, if not already.They can't keep us away. I have a feeling that this move is partially motivated by the NCAA wanting to remove the ROWDIES from the soccer equation. OSU's coach friggin HATES us, and you all know that their school and conference (which this move directly benefits) has plenty of pull within the NCAA.I guarantee you that the fan behavior rules in the NCAA handbook will change next year as a result of what we have done with noise makers and signs in the regular season.

Can you make one showing the NCAA screwing Zippy? We can bring it out every freaking year when the inevitable happens.

The NCAA bracket has this being played in EVANSTOWN! Not just Chicago, but Northwestern's home field! Bullsh!t

The f*ck? CHICAGO??? I HATE the NCAA!

What a game to be at. I'll leave it at that.The next game will be played on SUNDAY at a site that is to be determined (apparently Lee Jackson is unrepairable at this point)

There are 63 teams currently bowl-eligible, and 68 bowl spots. 19 teams are fighting to become eligible (either 5-6 or 6-5 with two 1-AA victories). Lots of teams in the hunt are underdogs in their final game. 5 borderline teams are in the Sunbelt, and we would likely go ahead of them.

Well, we weren't allowed to stand anywhere that wasn't in the stands. They roped off the south endzone. In the 2nd overtime, we pulled our trump card: actually leaving the stadium to go stand behind the north goal in the parking lot. Glad it worked.

There is.From a message I got on Facebook from Willy, they are supposedly plowing the sidewalk behind the southern endzone for the ROWDIES to stand at and heckle the goalie.Good to hear. I hope they can plow around both endzones. We've never had the chance to stand behind a goalie for both halves before.

When he was in the game, it changed how the game was played. He was able to create an inside-out offense, which is something they haven't been able to do this year because JWood graduated. He's the tough guy under the hoop that this team needs, especially since the guards aren't shooting well.

Bah. There had better be a way to stand behind the goalies. That's what gives us most of out home field advantage.

With our speed and style of play, it should help us. You never know though, i guess a weird bounce that we are not used to could skip by into our goal today because of it as well.I would think that if it helped us it would be installed at the Jack. The ball rolls much farther on turf, so you'll see a lot more balls going out of bounds.

You act like we had a choice. This was part of the Legends Classic "tournament", along with the game at Pitt. What a ripoff this thing was. They give us one team we have no chance against, and another team that has no business playing in a D-1 tournament, and to top it all off we are barred from actually winning the thing.

Uh oh...nbs95's boy is in...here we go...I hear he scored 8 pts...he had 8 pts and 4 rebounds. A little too excited when he dunked the ball, though, and I'm sure he'll hear about that. He also had a good 5 minute interview with French, and a lot of KD's interview was also focused on him.