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I thought that was only for the Can't state game? Akron is only radio broadcast to my knowledge. Hope I'm wrong.

Does UA have any tickets left for Saturday? Is it sold out? Just wondering if taking the 45-55 min trip to Akron for a ticket will be productive or a waste of time.

Lost 1-0 to Miami(OH) in the MAC Semifinals. Good building blocks put down this season. I expect big things from this young squad next season.

Congrats to the Lady Zips on taking down the #1 seed, Ball State, in PK's today. They will play #5 seed, Miami(OH), at Western Michigan on Friday, November 6th in the MAC Semifinals. The other semifinal is #2 Western Michigan hosting #3 Buffalo. In fact, of the 4 quarterfinal matchups, only the Western Michigan-Toledo one didn't go to PK's. Akron won 4-3, Miami won 4-3, and Buffalo won 3-1(WMU won in regulation, 3-0).

You guys are not mentioning the most obvious reason for the offensive struggles: PLAY ONE QUARTERBACK. All it does is kill the flow of your offense when you play a two quarterback system. I mentioned this last year with Pohl and Woodson, and TB is doing it again with Pohl and Chapman this time. Your o-line needs reps in practice blocking for the quarterback. When you basically have a two quarterback system, the o-line needs twice as many reps in practice to understand how to block each quarterback and that may not even be enough. Same with the wide receivers on how each quarterback throws the ball and where they normally throw it at(in front, outside shoulder/inside shoulder, etc). I feel that someone with the experience of Terry Bowden should understand that running a two quarterback system just will not work. The starting quarterback will be looking over his shoulder knowing that if he doesn't play well, he most likely will be coming out. That doesn't include the play call, picking up the blitz, adjusting the pass protection, calling hot route/audible(if TB and AJ allow it) which should be some of the things he's worried about while on the field. That school down I-71 has basically a "free pass" to try a two quarterback system without people complaining. However, he went with one quarterback. That way the team gets all the first team reps with just one QB, not two where it can get confusing for the o-line about who they're exactly blocking and where they like to be in the pocket along with many, many, other positive things with committing to just one quarterback. YSU scored 37 points on this "best defense we'll see all season" in Week 1. There is no excuse for only scoring 7 points, no matter the weather conditions. You have to be prepared for it. I wasn't expecting 37 points against Pitt, but I expected anywhere between 20 to 28 points. I've come to the conclusion that I expect too much from this staff that KNOWS we can't fire them anytime soon, so they feel safe and are taking their time messing with situations that don't really need to be messed with right now.

A lot to work on, but I still like the solid start to the season for the Lady Zips. You'll have some bumps in the road when playing a different style with new coaching staff teaching "incumbent" student-athletes is never an easy task. I think this team will fight for the MAC East title and should make the MAC tournament. However, I won't go as far as expecting them to win the MAC title(until next year).

Lady Zips lost to Cornell, 2-0. Three non-conference games to go, with the next one a week from today at home vs Pittsburgh @ 1:00pm.

Lady Zips down 0-1 at the half. Cornell looks solid. Best team on our schedule so far. Having a hard time getting any combinations without disrupting pressure from them. It's a battle of unbeaten teams, and hopefully we can get a goal in the 2nd half to tie this up at 1-1.

Match stats don't even look as close as the score indicated. Lady Zips scored in the 25th minute to take a 1-0 lead into halftime. St. Bonaventure scored in the 83rd minute to tie it up at 1-1. Lady Zips then scored in the 90th minute(less than 20 seconds left) to win 2-1 AT St. Bonaventure. They play a neutral site game vs Cornell on Sunday. Lady Zips now improve to 3-0-1.

Lady Zips improve to 2-0-1 with 4-2 win over Cleveland State. Next up is @ St. Bonaventure on Friday, and Cornell (@ St. Bonaventure) on Sunday. St. Bonaventure is 1-1-2 on season(W vs Buffalo, L @ Binghamton, T @ Canisus & T vs Oakland). Cornell is 1-0-1 on season(W vs Loyola, T vs Siena). I expect the Lady Zips to come out of this weekend with either two ties, two wins, or one tie and one win. Any loss will be disappointing this weekend. Katie George, who didn't score a single goal in her 3 previous seasons with the Lady Zips, she has had her second match(out of three) this season with two goals(4 for the season and her career now). Coach Herlihy thought she would be more suited for midfield than defender, and it's already showing results.

Akron tied Niagara 0-0 on the road. Not a bad result for the first road game with a VERY young, but talented squad. "We were up against a strong physical team and are pleased with the effort shown by the players. We couldn't have asked anymore of them," said head coach Noreen Herlihy. "Defensively we were solid and we will continue to work hard to improve each week in all facets of the game. We still have plenty of work to do but it was a decent result on the road and we can take a lot of positives from tonight." ==================================================================== Next game is Tuesday at HOME vs Cleveland State. Kick-off set for 7:00pm.

7pm @ Niagara tonight. Will be a much tougher test for the Lady Zips. Some notes from the gozips.com article: - Katie George, a senior, has played 54 games and never scored a goal as a defender. New coach Noreen Herlihy moved her to midfield and she scores two goals in the season opener. - Freshman Rachel Baughman(the one I mentioned in the offseason) assisted on two goals in her collegiate opener. - 4th all-time meeting between the Zips and the Purple Eagles(first since 2005). Niagara is 3-0-0 against the Lady Zips. - Niagara won 9 of 11 games at home last season. - Purple Eagles lost 1-0 to Michigan State to open the season. Spartans had 11 shots compared to Purple Eagles' 3 shots. - Herlihy on Niagara: "We are looking to go up there and maybe shake things up a bit. They are a quality team but we aren't going to fear anybody this year. We are going to go up to Niagara with confidence and with the mindset of getting a result on the road."

Women's Soccer up to 3:03 Volleyball up to 5:12 Football for rest of video. - Figured to post it here since the first segment is Lady Zips soccer and gives fans more of an idea on the style this team will be playing this season.

Lady Zips up 1-0 at halftime in their season opener. They look very solid right now. Controlled possession for majority of the first half, and are playing an aggressive attacking style. I'd be shocked if they finish this match with only one goal. Starters - 2 freshmen, 2 sophomores, 4 juniors, 3 seniors Annabelle Hegeman JUNIOR Rachel Eck SOPHOMORE Rachel Baughman FRESHMAN Katie George SENIOR Madison Kaser JUNIOR Jenna Anderson SENIOR Abby Gindlesberger JUNIOR Holly Ohradzansky SENIOR Shea O'Brien FRESHMAN Sydney Schipani SOPHOMORE Sarah Sivic JUNIOR Subs that played in first half - 2 freshmen, 1 junior, 1 senior Becca Gordon FRESHMAN Hannah Werth SENIOR Rachel Schirripa FRESHMAN Karin Norman JUNIOR

The UA president will announce soon that he will cut the basketball program, cut ties with MAC, and hire more of his administration buddies. In all fairness, for any of those(especially 4-5?!?!?!?!?) to transfer in a season that our depth is going to be our strength(until injuries happen) would be a dumb move. I never put much stock in that comment.

So we can pay $50,000 to put the name on the back of t-shirts for Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but not to keep any of the 215 faculty or the baseball program? Yeah, definitely makes some sense. The only question I have now is out of the people who wanted this guy as president over Tressel, how many of them still have a job at Akron? I'll take slack for saying this, but Youngstown State will surpass us in the near future. I have a relative that works at YSU and some of the stuff she is saying there is what I thought would happen here if Tressel was president. Ironically, Tressel's name is hardly brought up in same sentence with athletics at YSU even though that's what the concern was about the academic-type at Akron. Now I just wonder how many of them are left at UA with all these cuts.

Exactly what I was going to say. As a coach at the high school level, the JV level players are just as important, if not more important, during the practices when you go over scouting reports, repetition, and just fine-tuning your varsity team for their game(s), it would be extremely beneficial for your JV level players to be as close to your opponent as they can get in practice. So the more talented your bench and walk-ons are in your program, the better your program will be ready for game speed with what your opponent will throw at you.

I know it's not Barber, but Allie Plybon, sister of Lady Zips basketball athlete Hannah Plybon, reached 11'6. Ties her school record. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153225444283582&set=vb.229531723581&type=2&theater

Rooman, not sure but part of that low attendance for Toledo may have been because two of their high school girls basketball teams were in Columbus late last week/weekend for the state semifinals/championship. Both Toledo Rogers and Toledo Notre Dame Academy made it to the state championship game and lost. Apparently they haven't had a girls basketball state champion in some time over there, and since they had two teams, I heard a lot of people traveled down there(I saw a lot of them when I went down there). If someone wants to block me for this, that's fine. But how come my high school alma mater can put more people in the seats than the Lady Zips? This wasn't even the best team in my high school's girls basketball program history. Maybe top 5, but not even top 2. Lady Zips just had the two best seasons in their program history BACK TO BACK. I'm not going to suffocate everyone with relentless videos, but look at these two videos. Why can't the normal Akron fans get into a game like these people? Why do the students have to start or do everything? By the way, #14 is going to be playing basketball at Youngstown State next season.

I will be a couple miles from this game, but I will be at the Jerome Schottenstein Center for the OHSAA Girls Basketball State Tournament. My high school alma mater made it to the Final Four in Division II(game is 3pm on Friday), and I know a couple of the coaches in that program. Traffic is going to be rough those few days. I'll be hoping for a Buffalo upset. Buffalo 72 WVU 68

I figured to start this since this may be the last game of Sina King's career, If not and they win it, we will be playing either Missouri or Northern Iowa. We beat Northern Iowa 82-73 back in November on that Tuesday morning(Education Day). Here's the bracket. Mid-American Conference has the most schools out of any conference in the WNIT(6). http://www.womensnit.com/bracket.html Here's hoping for an Akron-Youngstown State WNIT Championship

Exactly, Balsy. I was worried about this one. I wish them the best of luck. Whoever wins the Ball State-Eastern Michigan game will be the team I'm rooting for in the MAC Championship game. I've lost teammates close to me during a season before, and it's something that you either pack it in or you rise and dedicate the season to your lost teammate(s). Obviously, Eastern Michigan has been playing incredible in the past month or so. I hope they make it to the NCAA tourney and do some damage. Brady Sallee does an amazing job wherever he goes, and he runs the Ball State program the right way. As for the Lady Zips, I think they will go to the WNIT. The MAC usually gets anywhere from 2-5 teams in the WNIT. This is a tough loss, but with a young team and the mission and purpose that Eastern Michigan was playing with, this result didn't really shock me. Hopefully this will be a teaching moment for them, and they work even harder in the offseason. Just hoping Coach Kest is still here. With Mack taking the AD job at Missouri, I'm now a little worried about her leaving for that program.

I finally took my first loss in my predictions, and it was a big one. Buffalo beats Western Michigan 63-60. Lady Zips will be starting in about 10-15 minutes. Game should be on 1350 AM for those that can't make it up before the men's game tonight.

2nd round is in the books. Here's the matchups for tomorrow: #5 Western Michigan vs #4 Buffalo, Noon ET #6 Eastern Michigan vs #3 Akron, 2:30 ET Hope the men's win tonight, and people show up earlier tomorrow to support the women's team if possible. By the way, my predictions are now 6-0