plowerman78

we got Creighton

MAC Tourney If Today (Post-01/30/11 games): First Round (Campus Sites): Tuesday, March 8, 2011 GM 1: 12. Toledo (1-6) @ 5. WMU(4-3)% – TBA GM 2: 11. CMU (2-5)! @ 6. Miami (4-3)% – TBA GM 3: 10. EMU (2-5)! @ 7. Ohio (3-4)#^ – TBA GM 4: 9. Akron (3-4)# @ 8. NIU (3-4)#^ – TBA Quarterfinals (Cleveland): Thursday, March 10, 2011 GM 5: 1. Can't (5-2)*$ – East Champ vs. Winner GM 4 – 12:00pm (STO) GM 6: 2. BSU (5-2)$ – West Champ vs. Winner GM 3 – 30 mins after end of GM 5 (approx 2:30pm) (STO) GM 7: 3. BGSU (5-2)*& vs. Winner GM 2 – 7:00pm (STO) GM 8: 4. Buffalo (5-2)*& vs. Winner GM 1 – 30 mins after end of GM 7 (approx 9:30pm) (STO) Semifinals (Cleveland): Friday, March 11, 2011 GM 9: Winner GM 5 vs. Winner GM 8 – 7pm (STO) GM 10: Winner GM 6 vs. Winner GM 7 – 30 mins after end of GM 7 (approx 9:30pm) (STO) Finals (Cleveland): Saturday, March 12, 2011 GM 11: Winner GM 9 vs. Winner GM 10 – 6:00pm (ESPN2) * Head-2-head, BGSU, Can't, Buffalo are 1-1. Can't has best winning % vs. highest ranked opponent -> #2 BSU. $ Can't beat BSU head-2-head. & BGSU beat Buffalo head-2-head. % WMU beat Miami head-2-head. # Head-2-head, Ohio is 1-0 NIU is 1-0, and Akron are 0-2. ^ Head-2-head, Ohio & NIU have not played. Ohio has best winning % vs. highest ranked opponent -> #2 BSU. ! EMU beat CMU head-2-head. MAC Tiebreaker Information: http://mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPS...p;ATCLID=741859 Tourney Front Page: http://mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_...CRIBER_CONTENT= Tourney Bracket: https://admin.xosn.com/downloads2/398514.pd...;DB_OEM_ID=9400 *Courtesy of mollautt from miamihawktalk*

im rooting for oregon in this one but i feel Auburn will win by 3 scores atleast

19-8 Zips, 5 3's early

Wow what a weekend. From waking up way way early Friday morning to catch a 6:30 am flight out of Columbus (saved 200 bucks), to driving into Santa Barbra during the sunset on the Pacific, to going down to Michigan, to the 70 plus minutes of scoreless soccer against Louisville, all, all was worth it coming away with the National Championship. Here are some of my thoughts on the weekend in the eyes of the President. -Michigan Game – to be honest with you, I kinda saw this coming. With all the talk about 7-1 this and 7-1 that, I figured it was fuel to the fire to Michigan. Also at the same time they were as hot as any team in the tournament so you throw both of them together yeah not shocking. But at the same time, going down 1-0 I never lost confidence in the Zips in that game. Perrys strike from 40 away was absolutely amazing, and in the 2nd half being there you could sense that it was only a matter of time until the Zips took the lead and they did just that with Kofi’s header. Kinda funny when Nano kicked that free kick, I said out load “wow that looks good” and bam right in the net off Kofi’s head it went. Nice win, very dominating with possession. -IN –N- OUT Burger – Yes I know shocker here I did try it. Honestly it was really good, BUT I’ll take Swensons any day of the week. When you’ve had the stuff the last 3 and a half years yeah it’s tough to beat. -Santa Barbra: What a beautiful place. Honestly you can see why the team was so happy to get out there from what is going on here in Ohio. From the sunset on the Pacific Ocean to the mountains in the distance, it is seriously a sight to see. -Harder Stadium: What a great venue to watch a game. They announced 9600 at the Championship game seemed like 11000. Pitch looked and felt great, everyone around in terms of the staff working was very knowledgeable and helpful with any questions you had. Did have 1 problem with Harder, and i was parking. Honestly if you weren’t important in the eyes of the College Cup Committee you weren’t parking close. And when I say not parking close I’m talking parking in the east deck to go to Polsky not close. Was the exercise something I needed prolly (I am a bigger guy as many of you know) but with a 15000 seat stadium you gotta think that they would have had a closer lot or lots to the general public. -Gaucho Locos: Heck of a time with you all this weekend. Thank you so much for cheering with us this weekend and also the great time on Saturday doing the loop with you all. By teaming up, it helped so much in creating an atmosphere that many were not expecting especially with 4 east coast teams in the College Cup. Definitely can say the best student section in the west and the best student sectio0n in the east combined to help make this a weekend not many will forget. Btw to the Locos all I have to say is “There were 10 Can't State Girls at a Bar” lol - Louisville Game: Talk about a great championship game. First off hats off to Louisville on a great game. You proved that you deserved to be in that title game. Now to the game itself, the difference was the way Akron came out in the second half. As I’ve talked about before on the ZTV Sports Report, this Akron team was so so hungry to get that national title and that’s exactly what you saw in the second half. Though he didn’t score Darlington controlled that second half, should he of scored on that breakaway, yes but I think he thought maybe Darren was going to take it. Regardless the runs he was making in combination to him controlling the ball when he had it made him unstoppable. Defensively Chad Barson, Chad Barson, oh Chad Barson how I love you today. Unreal play to save the National Title for us. Also Meves played a great game, the foot save right before the clearance off the line was something special. Now on the goal by Caldwell, again just like the Michigan game on Friday you knew it was only a matter of time before the ball went in the net for the Zips, and on one foot of Scott Caldwell we won ourselves our first National Title. -AK-ROWDIES: For the 30 or so at Santa Barbra hats off to you all on getting out there. Again I wish there was a way to get more of you out there but unfortunately the powers that be wouldn’t allow it. For those of you that watched it at Barley, Tap House or in your bedrooms at home, realize you were as much part of this as the 30 in Santa Barbra. Remember you were part of something special here, this first national title in school history. Now let’s get out to basketball lol. -Akron Community: This goes to every single Akron fan, ROWDIE, Alumni ect. BE PROUD TO WEAR AKRON ACROSS YOUR CHEST!!! People said that this could never happen, they said we were a school in too weak of a conference and couldn’t compete with the big boys. What are those people saying now? Nothing. Be proud of the U of A for what we did this past weekend. -Celebration: Obviously they will prolly get the key to the city and let’s not forget the fact they have to visit the White House now, but in my opinion January 8th needs to be the date to honor this team. Do it with the biggest basketball crowd and stick it to the Can't fans there as well. -Next Year: Alright here’s my opinion on who stays and who goes. Perry is good as gone, Zarek is probably gone. Darlington is probably gone as well. Kofi I feel will stay, he is big into academics and since his brother stayed 4 years at IU he will probably stay 4 years at Akron. Darren might go but in the long run will end up staying. Nanchoff is the big one here. I feel like he is this year’s Blair. Kind of has a good draft stock going into this year’s College Cup, then shows what he can do and scouts fall in love with it. Honestly the crosses he was presenting alone on his left foot may get him. Should be interesting to see what happens I say he leaves early. My final thoughts are this: Let’s all enjoy this as much as we can. This is something special that most of us have never seen. Realize this we are National Champs AND NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US!!! For myself this is kind of bittersweet, as some of you know I have stepped down as President of the ROWDIES due to an internship in the Spring Semester down in Florida. Am I still on cloud 9 because this is the way I go out, you best believe it. This is a season I will never forget from the Tulsa beat down, to the team honoring my late grandmother by wearing black armbands during the Buffalo game, to the shocking loss at CSU, followed up by a 4th straight MAC daddy. We saw them take out the evil empire in Indiana and then go into PK’s in a blizzard vs. Cal. We traveled 2000 miles to complete our mission and we did just that! Akron Mens Soccer 2010 National Champions!

actually ill be back on, on wednesday at 5:00 to talk ohsaa finals and prolly talk a littte about saturday

and this is why I am in charge of the radio side ha ha dont forget to check out the ZTV Sports Report on the website as well

athletic department, they showed it yesterday at the selection show

In all honesty please do check out the ztv sports report and do comment with your thoughts. just dont rip me a new one ha ha

ha ha noooooo, just students left when we went down 28-0, 35-0 before half. I will be honest and say this was the first football game in my 4 years here at the u of a that i have left early, and it was with 4 minutes left until half after wmu made it 35-0. Folks this is beyond rough now

I watched the Seattle game, and as a sounders fan i must say it was one of the best games i have seen him EVER play. Interesting note, after the game Sigi Schmid said about Steveo "I wish he was American, he could def play for the national team." high praise from one of the most respected coaches in the buisness

i will be there

Got a good feeling about this one. Players have been talking about how they are looking forward to MAC season to start, well here you go. I like the Zips in this one Zips 27 Huskies 14

Dr. Z that wasnt a ZTV camera, it was actually the guys from mlssoccer.com. they tapped the game, had a report about it. Not sure where its at on their website but its there somewhere. they got 3 videos about the game, 1 with the game report, 1 with osu at practice and 1 with former buckeye and zip players with their thoughts before the game.

coachi was doing his usual postgame thing on the flip phone. The audio u heard was from the flip. ZTV was there filiming the game just happened to catch coachi at that point and did the interview then. the camera they used was to the left of the video

yep the buses are full for the ROWDIES, we have been advising everyone to car pool down bc tickets down there ARE FREE!!! I know what the website says but we called down there acouple days ago and tickets for mens soccer are free. The ROWDIES buses leave at 4 from the JAR on Wednesday so if we want to make a giant caravan of cars traveling to Cbus that would be awesome. Or if you want to go down and tailgate thats fine too. ha whatever you choose is fine lol

Ur not the only one buddy ur not the only one. hopefully the new ROOwards plan helps that, as student attendance has been up already this year.

If you take part in the march you should be fine. At Northridge we had 1850 so im figuring about the same

got a hurt heel, hes ok just making him wear it during the week during practice. He will be ready to go Friday

yeah really exposed us, when we had two shots cleared off the line, one go off the post, and at one point 4 straight corner kicks. Game could of easily of been 4-0. And yeah our defense was really uncomfortable when his guys would trip over the ball and we would get a yellow card. Porter even says its a high risk approach offense that is vulnerable to the counter attack. And to be honest I can only think of one game (New Mexico 2 years back) when the counter attack burned us for a goal. What a joke

4300 i think, close to 2000 students

brings a whole new meaning to byob.....bring your own books lol

yeah they changed around their policy this year in cbus

there you go lilroodude

http://www.ncaa.com/allaccess/ sort the sport to soccer and the Stanford vs. Akron highlights are on page 2. The fist pump happens around the 1 minute mark