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This is not even a contest. Zips need to put these guys down. Now.

I suppose I will put this here. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/waking-me-up-september-has-ended.2127853/

With that victory, Akron rises to #23 RPI.

Most complete Zips' performance so far this season. The lapses in concentration were far fewer and shorter in duration. Much improved. Shook will be voted to multiple teams of the week. Zips are starting to acquire a goal lust. The more shots the more better! Keep up the good work, boys!

Until Zips equalized in the 82nd minute, it certainly looked like Red Storm were going win the match and keep all three points. This was especially the case directly after Zips failed to convert the PK.

Shameful. Embarrassing.

Zips need to shoot at least 12 times in the 2nd half. Rain is coming down in sheets. Artificial turf. Up a man. Down a goal. LET IT RIP!!!! Shoot from distance. GKs make errors in this weather.

A shorthanded goal. Unbelievable.

There is no other sport. My grumpy ways have been here for multiple decades and will be here for a long time yet. You want to be a cheerleader? Get some Pom poms. Rubbish is failing to beat an inferior opponent who offered no serious threat, on your home pitch. Zips need to be more clinical in dispatching weaker opponents. 12 SOG is good, but only if one scores. There was opportunity to shoot even more, and Zips should have shelled the ND goal relentlessly. We squandered too many chances and we were sloppy. Not. Good. Enough. Go Zips!

Rubbish. Zips allowed an inferior side, who looked like that did not even want to be here, lull us into a scoreless draw. We shot quite a bit; we could have and should have shot 50% more. It was there for the taking. This was the worst ND Irish side I can remember. Irish had nothing. Hope this match does not haunt us.

I would be remiss in failing to applaud our coaching staff for making two critical in-game adjustments. Alejandro Varela entered the match at HT, playing HMF. Our offense immediately opened up and stayed open for the rest of the match. He is adept at efficiently distributing the ball from defense to offense, mostly on the floor. And keeping possession. And playing a very receivable ball. Somewhat counter-intuitively, Nano is only average at 1v1 defending, but his defensive positioning is good enough. HMF is not all about defending. He reminds me of Wil Trapp, which is high praise in my book. This match was Nano's best (so far) for Zips. Sometime in the last half hour Zips changed formation to a 3-man back line. Joel Sangwa reentered the match at RCB, I guess one would call it. 3-2-4-1 ?? 3-2-3-2 ?? I'm asking. This gave us an extra body in the offense. It also limited our opportunities for monkey-spanking along the back line. We play the ball laterally across the back too much for my taste. The 3-man back line serves to save us from ourselves. This begs the question: Should we play a 3-man back line from the starting whistle? If 3 of our best 11 players are CBs, then maybe so. Daragh Reilly is making it a legitimate question.

What?!?! That sounds crazy. I had no idea.

@Reslife4Life I tried to give you a thumbs down, but ZNo instead put up a heart. For some reason it will not allow me to change it. I write this opinion with the full realization that many will disagree. NCAA should adopt all FIFA rules and regulations that are not directly against NCAA charter. Play the real game. One of those rules is the draw, which was wisely adopted last year (?) by NCAA. In a compressed schedule, playing every 4 days, students need not play an extra half hour. More importantly, a draw, or splitting of the points, is a venerable and integral facet of the sport that never should have been tampered with in the first place. There are things in this world that are not improved by Americanization. Add up the points at the end of the season. 3 for victory; 1 for draw. In so many ways Futbol is different from other sports. The drama of the draw is accentuated by the sport's inherently low scoring. Who among us did not jump to our feet when Daragh Reilly scored? And did the Zips deserve to win? Meh... probably not so much. For whatever it is worth, I think Zips would have won in sudden death OT. We had momentum at the end.

This was a wild and woolly affair! Whew! Welcome to the Big East, Zips! Where even the average teams can whip your ass. Zips barely deserved to split the points, but something must be said for hanging tough and fighting back. From my vantage in my home office (basement), both PK awards were bogus. No? Our defense was awful in the first half. This is starting to look like a trend, a bad one. We must become more disciplined in the back. We will take the point. Onward and upward!

Poll Rankings (yawn). Per usual, RPI will really gain significance in October. RPI Update: Men's Soccer: RPI Rank (rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com)

The last home Zips MSOC match I missed was in 2006. That streak will be broken tonight, sadly so. This FloFC had better be excellent considering it costs $30/month. Let's see if the Friars dare to high press us. I suspect they will not.

Emma King is a bona fide scorer. (Searching for video…)

Far from perfect, but a quality win over a quality opponent, and we kept the clean sheet. Well done! From coaches on down the line!

Joey!!!

This may well be the first real test of the campaign.

This was a good home win. But for the last 15 minutes, it was an excellent victory. Our defensive composure really crumbled toward the end. Budler saved the 3 points.

Should be back Monday.

Barely.

I will say it. This squad could use a Victor Souto. Ben Zemanski was the nuts/bolts player in 2009 (one of my favs).

Mitch Budler gets the nod over Seth Wilson, but the gap between the two is not great. In fact, the gap is probably narrowing. Wilson deserves kudos for his performance versus Vermont. Budler looked rusty last night versus Southern Indiana. Zips fans should be comfortable with either GK.