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Salmon Stew!

On this Thanksgiving, I am thankful that the Akron Zips are still in the NCAA Tournament. (Zips Soccer is much more palatable dinner conversation that national politics.) That alone makes 2017 a successful soccer season. The A-Roo flag yet flies from my front porch during Thanksgiving! As many of you know, that is the indication of a good year in Zips Soccer. Cheers to all Akron Zips throughout the world! May everyone have a blessed holiday with family and friends!

Time for Salmon Stew (Corn on the side). ? (cough)

Contributions you have made to numerous soccer forums are respected and appreciated. I do not intend to be condescending or pedantic. I only wish to communicate. NCAA must become more like FIFA rather than less. If NCAA soccer wishes to remain relevant to the US Soccer Big Picture, they must adopt FIFA rules. Those rules include draws being scored for one point. In a tournament setting, one side must advance (obviously). The time honored, if odious, method to determine who advances is PKs. The advancing side gains only the one point for the draw, because match was not decided during play. RPI is an American departure from FIFA rules, but FIFA has similar mechanisms to seed tournaments. A neutral site draw is not worth as much as a neutral site win. Not in old fashioned FIFA scoring. Not in RPI. While the overall RPI changed during that same time, the relationship between Indiana and Wisconsin did NOT change after their match last week in BiG Final. In relation to each other, how these two sides were before the match remained unchanged after the match. Nothing was decided in that draw. RPI did not tilt one way or another. I seems to me that you are advocating weighting RPI differently, awarding a greater bonus to teams that advance via PKs. That is a worthy discussion. But bear in mind that the more you mess with the bonus' and penalties in RPI, the further from FIFA tournament scoring we get. I fervently believe that making NCAA soccer (almost) exactly like FIFA soccer is the only way collegiate soccer will increase its influence. No side should move up in ranking (or seeding) by advancing via PKs. Someone had to be BiG Tourney Champ. Had Wisconsin won the BiG Final, they would have been seeded higher. But that did not happen. It was a draw.

Indiana and Wisconsin drew. Wisconsin advanced on PKs. That is the age old nomenclature.

Oh God, yes. Beautiful. Right in front of me. I yelled as soon as he struck that ball. Perfect!

That is a politcal statement waiting to happen. This is a once in a lifetime PR opportunity. Want to keep the Crew? Post that picture on a billboard along one of the highways. You should at least post that on BigSoccer.com.

Post that everywhere.

This must become the campaign poster for keeping Crew in Columbus! Exquisite!

That is all wrong.

Badgers are happy for a sloppy field and cold temperatures . We may luck out and have neither. I also agree that Wisconsin and Stanford are teams who WANT to go to PKs. Did you see Wisconsin GK bury his PK vs. Indiana?

Well, somebody still got to kill off Stanford. Hopefully.

Careful. You are inviting Special Counsel investigation.

Coastal Carolina Chanticleers! Coached by former Zip enforcer/bad ass Shaun Docking.

Badgers are no bargain! I would almost rather play Irish again. Wisconsin are big and physical. http://www.uwbadgers.com/index.aspx?path=msoc #10 Chris Mueller is BiG10 Offensive POTY. He is the real deal, a future professional. http://www.uwbadgers.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5210&path=msoc

“What kind of doctor removes shoes from asses?”

Oh. It means a doctor?

I attended high school only 7 years. What is an Otolaryngologist?

Wait! He is leading?!? Boo! Hiss!

His punishment should be his assuming score keeping duties.

Let him in. Neither he nor anyone else will keep me from winning.??

Crowned?

It is your world. I am just here to win everything in it.

I wish CP all the success in the world, whether in MLS or USMNT. But I DO NOT want him back in the NCAA.

A sterling idea!