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I am heart broken for Victor Souto. He is fundamentally a good young man. I hope to have a much longer post later today.

announcement came from Larry Williams

yes, there is an automatic bid Akron was 50 in RPI before yesterday’s games Zips are now 56 (Buffalo is 60 and W. Virginia is #14) UCLA is now 4-3-1 after they lost 4-0 to Washington (UCLA is #41 in RPI) San Diego State is now 5-1-3 after tieing Oregon State (4-3-2)…SDSU is 45 in RPI and OSU is 97 Cal Santa Barbara dropped to 4-5-1 as they tied UC Riverside 2-2 (UCSB us #92 in RPI) Coach Embick put together a strong schedule but the zip opponents are not providing much help in the RPI

Rough night on Wednesday for some future zip opponents Northern Illinois faced IUPUI last night….IUPUI was 0-7-0 before last night and they defeated the Huskies 2-0 (NIU is now 1-5-2) Ohio State faced SIU-Edwardsville (1-4-2)…..SIU-E won 3-2 (tOSU drops to 3-7-0) Michigan State (6-2-0) def. Bowling Green (6-3-1) 1-0 In the national game of the night…Butler (7-0-1) faced Indiana (5-0-4)….Hoosiers won 3-2 in OT

Wow, this board has been quite void of discussion before today. Today and last night, there has been some great discussion. I still have faith in this team. Stuart, Sam, and Jon Lewis will need some time to get acclimated to each other up front. The 3 of them will figure it out and start putting the ball in the back of the net. This team did not expect to face this kind of adversity. They will have to win on the road in the round of 32 all the way to the quarters if they make the NCAA's ....but I plan on doing some traveling to see the zips in those NCAA matches. To reply to zippypitt's observation....I would clearly say "no" that too many team members from around the world is not the problem. This team and its players benefit greatly from experiencing different cultures and learning from soccer wisdom from those countries. The USA kids will have better and more rounded lives going forward from playing with and learning from new Zealand players, Portugal players, Brazilian players, spanish players and australian players. Soccer is a universal game and I like that Akron has a mixture of quality young men from many different countries. The international players are a long way from home and they deserve our support.

Before last night’s game, the zips were #36 in RPI and VCU was 144 Zips dropped to #49 after the tie MAC opponent West Virginia is now #9 in RPI Western Michigan improved to 8-2-0 with a 2-1 win in 2 ot’s over Drake (WMU is 75 in RPI) Penn State dropped to 4-4-1 as they lost 1-0 to Temple (PSU is 76 in RPI) Georgetown improved to 3-6-0 with a 3-1 win over American (Hoyas are 39 in RPI) SMU is now 4-6-0 after defeating Oral Roberts 3-1 (ponies are 111 in rpi) Loyola-chicago was 7-0-0 and 4th in RPI before last night…Loyola lost 3-0 last night at Creighton (blue jays are now 6-1-2 and 16 in RPI)

the zips need to take care of business tonight the loss last week to 2-5 SMU dropped the zips from 15 to 23 in the coaches poll West Virginia at 17 in the coaches poll http://www.nscaa.com/web/Rankings/NCAA/DI_MEN.aspx

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-national-rankings/men the bad loss to SMU dropped the zips from 13 down to 18 in top drawer rankings West Virginia is #15 in top drawer rankings... in rpi, West Virginia is #12 and Akron is #39 Seattle dropped to 4-4 as they lost 2-1 last night to Washington San Diego state improved to 5-1-2 with a 1-0 overtime win over San diego

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2016/09/24/crew-sc--wil-trapp-sees-progress-in-recovery-from-concussion.html update on Wil Trapp's recovery from injury

Akron is down to #37 in this morning's RPI SMU dropped to 3-6-0 as Tulsa pounded them last night...3-0 VCU is now 2-5-1 as they tied St. Louis 1-1 Ken Lolla's Louisville team was on fire last night as they drilled Virginia 6-1 (virginia was 3-1-2 before the game) Cal Santa Barbara dropped to 4-5-0 as they lost 3-2 in OT to California Bowling Green improved to 6-2-1 as they shut out Ohio State 2-0(Suckeyes are now 3-6-0) West Virginia moved up to #10 in RPI and 6-1-1 overall as they defeated UNC-Greensboro 1-0 (UNC-G is now 4-2-2..unc-G had defeated coastal carolina in their last game)

Georgetown dropped to 2-6-0 as they lost 2-0 today to Xavier Buffalo dropped to 8-2-0 as they lost 3-0 to Binghamton (4-2-3) really bad loss today for Western Michigan...Detroit was 0-4-3 before today and they defeated Western Michigan 2-1 (WMU dropped to 7-2-0) bowling Green leads Ohio State 1-0 after 51 minutes

Sunday night....at 7 eastern time... New England at Columbus will be on fox sports 1 I am looking forward to see Scott Caldwell, Teal Bunbury and Wil Trapp speaking of Teal.....his sister, Kylie, is getting a ton of publicity. Kylie is the star of the new show on Fox - "pitch" about the first female pitcher in the majors

akron down to #29 in this morning's RPI UCLA continues to be unpredictable....Cal Poly was 1-4-1 before defeating UCLA 1-0 last night Before last night, Indiana was 5-0-3 and Rutgers was 0-6-0...they played to 0-0 tie Maryland def. Michigan State 2-0 defending national champ Stanford dropped to #63 in RPI as they lost 2-1 to San Francisco (3-5-0)

zips are still not getting a lot of rpi help from their opponents Cal irvine was 1-6 but they defeated Oregon State last night 1-0 Grand Canyon dropped to 3-5 as they lost 3-1 to Portland San Diego State dropped to 4-1-2 as they lost 2-0 at home to the University of the Pacific penn State defeated wisconsin 2-1 today in double OT in the night's big matchup, #1 Syracuse (8-0-0) faced Notre Dame (#2 in top drawer)...notre Dame scored at 89:42 to win 2-1 big ten co-favorite Maryland is tied 0-0 at halftime with Michigan State the other big ten co-favorite is tied 0-0 at 41 minutes with rutgers (rutgers is 0-6-0)

5 things...about Mr. Kitchen http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2016/09/21/21/23/160921-mnt-five-things-to-know-about-perry-kitchen

Western Michigan improved to 7-1-0 with a 1-0 win at Michigan (0-5-3)…WMU is 36 in RPI Ohio State (148 in RPI) improved to 3-5 with a 4-1 win over Valparaiso (2-2-2) Buffalo (80 in RPI) is now 8-1-0 after a 2-1 win over St. Bonaventure (1-6-1) Cal Santa Barbara (51 in RPI) dropped to 4-4-0 as they lost 4-3 to Loyola Marymount (5-4-0) Denver(7-0-2) played to 0-0 tie with Creighton (4-1-2) Northern Illinois (144 in RPI) is now 1-3-2 after a 2-1 win over Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2-4-1)

the captain of hearts.....They have found out what so many zips fans have known for years... Perry Kitchen is a leader....and a winner http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/story/american-perry-kitchen-named-captain-of-hearts-092116

West Virginia is now ranked higher than Akron in the RPI Akron moved from 20 to 19 in the rpi as a result of games on Tuesday night West Virginia is now #13 after defeating American 3-0 (American was 3-1-3 before last night’s game) Previously undefeated charlotte lost 2-0 to N. Carolina Wilmington (UNCW is 5-1-0 and is #5 in RPI, Charlotte is #27) VCU improved to 2-5-0 with a 5-1 battering of Old Dominion (ODU was 3-2-1 before last night’s game)…VCU is now 106 in rpi and ODU is #83 Louisville (#2 in RPI) def. St. Louis 1-0 (St. Louis is now 1-3-2 but is #28 in rpi) Bowling Green is now 5-2-1 after tieing Dayton 1-1 Butler is now 6-0-1 and #8 in RPI after defeating Evansville 3-1 Clemson 5 Gardner Webb 0 Wake forest 2 FIU 0 Indiana improved to 5-0-3 with a 2-0 win over IUPUI (now 0-6-0) North Carolina 4 Bill and Mary 1 Is Shawn Dockery still at coastal Carolina? Coastal dropped to 1-4-1 after losing 1-0 to UNC-Greensboro

I am rooting for UCSB to host again. Great facility. Beautiful area.

http://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/search/label/RPI Rank #7 in the RPI before the game #20 after the game

this loss really hurts.... especially after Niko's pass was just a tad too high for Ezana

goal - goncalo 3-2 zips win this one

I think that the announcers are not right 8 or 9 is correct

definitely skye...that earned the pk go zips

Goal - adam beautiful curling shot