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Georgetown had a good 1-0 win over a solid UNC- Greensboro team former Akron GK Seth Wilson made 5 saves for UNC-G Cleveland State 3 Chicago State 1 Michigan State 1 Villanova 0 Marquette 1 Yale 0

Akron led 15 to 8 in shots Akron led 8 to 3 in shots on goal Akron led 7 to 4 in corner kicks Akron appeared to have the majority of the time on the ball However, Akron was called for 19 fouls. Akron players were getting knocked down everywhere... WMU was only called for 9 fouls. https://wmubroncos.com/news/2024/8/30/mens-soccer-mens-soccer-ties-akron-1-1.aspx

Proud of the zips they got kicked in the teeth on Sunday night they fought and battled today Dyson Clapier was very active today......his best game this year. Prayers and good thoughts for Ashton Kamdem. His injury does not look good.

interesting adjustment to switch Dyson from left wing to right wing and move Stefan to left wing Having Dyson and Malik on same side....is a lot of speed nice assist by Malik.....on the goal..... young Canadian freshman Simon Guardiero....doing well in first start...

Simon Guardiero getting the start as Beto Ydrach will miss the next several matches due to playing for Puerto Rico national team

when WMU released their fall schedule, they bragged that they were 3-1-1 from 2019 to 2022 against the zips.

Huge statement win tonight for a Big East team Xavier (picked to finish behind Akron in Big East midwest preseason poll) started their season On August 22 with a 0-0 tie against Northern Kentucky. Xavier came back in 2nd game with a 4-1 win over Cal State Fullerton Tonight, Xavier hosted number 2 Marshall Xavier came away with a 2-0 win https://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/article/2024-08-29/xavier-mens-soccer-pulls-stunning-upset-against-no-2-marshall Notre Dame played its 2nd game of the year tonight at Indiana in Bloomington. I believe that IU was preseason number 7 in the national polls Notre Dame and Indiana played to a 2-2 tie tonight IU led 18-6 in shots ; 10-4 in shots on goal, and 9-4 in corners ND true freshman goalkeeper made 8 saves. Ohio State was very impressive tonight with a 4-0 win over SIU-E Monmouth defeated Temple 2-0 Wright State 4 Lindenwood 1 Depaul and St. Thomas (MN) played to 1-1 tie Creighton and Loyola of Chicago played to 1-1 tie. Connecticut 2 NJIT 1 Hofstra was ranked preseason 17. Tonight Hofstra defeated big east team Providence 2-0 Seton Hall 2 Albany 1 St. Johns 2 Manhattan 1 tomorrow night, 6 future zips opponents will be in action Cleveland State vs. Chicago State IU Indy vs. Bowling Green Butler vs. Oakland Georgetown plays UNC- Greensboro Villanova. vs. Michigan State Marquette will face Yale

zips news release ...says game will be on bronco all access https://gozips.com/news/2024/8/29/mens-soccer-akron-set-to-battle-no-5-western-michigan?fbclid=IwY2xjawE912JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQik-F_6q0aJtYbMW7ltwIAkO5dj_TzT2DUIPoHcaZz0uOks20CNkkrJog_aem_ZpIBSSWb4RMysxlRIMNyMA The University of Akron men's soccer team travels to Kalamazoo, Mich., to renew its rivalry with No. 5 Western Michigan on Friday (Aug. 30). The 5 p.m. match with the Broncos will be broadcast on Bronco All-Access.

game starts at 5 pm...as Western Michigan has no lights Does anyone know if the game will have a cost to view the video.,........when you click on video for the Akron game in their schedule...it directs you to bronco all access TV they have not posted a preview for the Akron game...I have posted the preview that they did for home opener against Vermont....that preview says that game was on ESPN + https://wmubroncos.com/news/2024/8/21/mens-soccer-mens-soccer-set-to-host-14-university-of-vermont-in-season-opener.aspx preview for Thursday Aug 22 game KALAMAZOO, Mich. – #12 Western Michigan University men's soccer team begins the 2024 campaign Thursday, August 22, at 5:30 PM against #14 University of Vermont at WMU Soccer Complex. Thursday's match will be available on ESPN+. Top Drawer Soccer was very impressed by Western Michigan as the Broncos defeated two teams ranked in pre season top 15 of coaches poll (I think New Hampshire was 9 in coaches poll and 17 in Top drawer soccer pre season poll. I did not realize that WMU lost their 2 best scorers and all 4 of their defensive backs. small cut and paste from Top Drawer soccer article linked below Team to Watch: Western Michigan As highlighted in the article from early spring, Western Michigan finds a way to keep exceeding expectations. The Broncos were supposed to take a step back this year or at the least start the season slow after graduating the country’s leading goal scorer, Charlie Sharp, No. 3 in the nation, Dylan Sing, along with the entire backline and seven starters from last year’s NCAA third round team. Instead, Western Michigan opened its 2024 campaign by defeating No. 14 Vermont at home, then traveling to No. 17 New Hampshire and leaving with a 1-0 win. Redshirt freshman center-back Christian Shannon earned POTW honors for his performance, while junior Connor Buckett came in as a substitute to score in both games. https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/article/?categoryId=21&articleId=53732&articleTitle=best-of-mens-college-soccer-week-one

Goal keeper from Hinckley, OH attends St. Ignatius

Are you making up facts now about Grassie? You claim that he signed a 10 year extension You claim that he is making $500K a year I have seen multiple articles that say it was a 7 year contract extension. Most importantly , it has him at $400K a year https://www.coalvalleynews.com/sports/marshall-sports-beals-contract-extended-grassie-signs-new-seven-year-deal/article_6e13a1b3-0ff8-583b-8b85-8189c3e9c21b.html

Monday Aug 26 VCU continues strong start to season with a 3-1 win over Old Dominion Number 3 West Virginia 4 St. Francis 0 Providence and Boston College played to 1-1 tie

To my knowledge, the summer 2015 trip was completely funded by donors making donations for $3,000 per player. I believe that no athletic department funds were used. I think they are only allowed to take 1 international trip every 4 years (could be 3 years...but I believe it is 4.) To my knowledge, none of the Akron soccer donors have been asked in the past 5 years to fund an international excursion.

last night and in other games, Attila Schmidt was sitting on the sidelines with Michael and Ger and Jared Does Akron not pay Attila Schmidt? Link below says 4th season with Akron soccer https://akronsocceracademy.com/staff

Embick went to 3 final fours from 2015 to 2018......with Leo Chappel as the lead assistant for 95% of those games. TJ Kolba was also on that staff. Ger was the GK coach during that great run of success. This current staff with Embick, head assistant Ger and Michael Nanchoff.....has not won an NCAA tournament game in the last 5 years. The Akron soccer community (fans, players, coaches and former players) expect that Akron should be in the mix every year to be one of the teams in the NCAA sweet 16. The head coach and each of the assistants should be very much on the hot seat if they have not won any NCAA games in the past 5 years. Last night was horrible soccer. The coaches and all of the players have to share responsibility for the absolute stinkfest that occurred on the field. I have been an unabashedly huge Ashton Kamdem fan and felt strongly that Ashton should have started at left back in both 22 and 2023. I praised Malik for his play after the ND game. That being said, both outside backs - Malik and Ashton ...both played very poorly in the first half. Their completed up the field pass % had to be terrible. Credit to the coaching staff for bringing Joshua Hardin in the final part of the first half. After not playing much last year, Joshua has been a pleasant surprise. The coaches can not compete in the middle of the field for 50/50 balls. Ohio State won almost all of the individual battles last night. Western Michigan has always been a strong, physical team. They will play the exact same style against the Zips that the Buckeyes used. The Ohio State game will hopefully serve as a gut check for this team and adjustments will be made so the team can make it to the NCAA tournament. I will give you 2 examples of Zips teams...that looked like absolute dog crap....early in the season....and then went on ...to win at least one NCAA tournament game. In 2015, the zips opened the regular season with 2 road games...Friday night at VCU and Sunday afternoon at Old Dominion. Neither of those teams finished the year in the top 25. That was the first time that I ever travelled to see the zips on the road. On Friday night, the zips scored a golden goal in OT to beat a fairly average VCU team. On Sunday afternoon, Old Dominion led the zips at one point ...4-0 before the zips scored a meaningless mop up goal to make it a 4-1 final Old Dominion used long vertical passes to take advantage of the fairly slow 2015 zips center backs. Old Dominion had a super quick 5'4 or 5'5 forward and he consistently beat the zips center backs to the vertical passes. That little forward had 2 or 3 goals in that game. I walked out of that game....thoroughly depressed...and thought that the zips were in for a long, long year. After the game , the veteran players (Najem, Souto, Ruhaak, Fenlason, Radjen, etal)...called a players only meeting and said "we are better than this...and this is unacceptable", The coaching staff obviously made changes to deal with long, vertical balls and they made changes during the season to utilize the speed of Richmond Laryea. The following weekend, the zips went on the road again and got wins at two top 10 teams...Georgetown and Maryland. That 2015 team went to the college cup and lost on PK's to the eventual champ...Stanford. In 2016, the zips opened the season with 2 games at home. The following weekend, the zips went out to the west coast to play San Diego State on a Friday night and then play a top 5 or top 10 team in UCLA. I travelled out to the left coast to see those 2 games. San Diego State was not ranked. The zips were very highly ranked. The zips did not play well against San Diego State and lost in regulation. Victor Souto got a red card late in that game and never played in another game for Akron. On Monday at UCLA, future MLS draftee Abu Danladi made all of the zips look very slow and UCLA put a 6-1 beatdown on the zips. I think it was 5-0 before Adam Najem scored for the zips. I walked away from that game ...thinking that UCLA was a maserati and that Akron was a pinto. I did not think that "pinto" team could make the NCAA (and I was assuming that Souto would only miss the 1 game). That 2016 Akron team ended up winning a round of 64 game in Akron before losing to a seeded Indiana team in the round of 32. It is early in the season.....The zips did not have any offense in the first 2 exhibitions. The team did not play well or compete well against Ohio State. I am rooting for this 2024 team......to build a "recovery" story similar to what was done in 2015 and 2016.

https://www.beaconjournal.com/videos/sports/college/soccer/2024/08/25/ncaa-mens-soccer-ohio-state-buckeyes-beat-akron-zips-end-home-winning-streak/74947757007/

the zips have to travel to Kalamazoo on the 30th....to face pre season number 12 Western Michigan On Thursday, WMU defeated number 14 Vermont tonight, Western Michigan got a top 10 scalp with a 1-0 win over New Hampshire Cleveland State moved to 1-0-1 with a 1-0 win over St. Bonaventure (Cleveland State tied Ohio State 1-1 on Aug. 22) Temple 3 Villanova 2 (both are on Akron's schedule) number 16 Georgetown 2 Maryland 0 Butler was unimpressive and played to 1-1 tie with Western Illinois Northwestern 2 DePaul 1 Creighton 5 Drake 3 Marquette 6 Marist 1 St. John's and Stony Brook played to 1-1 tie IU-Indy 1 Houston Christian 0 Xavier 4 Cal State Fullerton 1 a few opponents have games on Monday night Aug 26 St. Francis will play number 3 West Virginia VCU will face in state rival Old Dominion big east team Providence (not on schedule) will face Boston Colege

I am so happy to see Ashton Kamdem in the starting lineup He is going to have a great year at left back

great start to the season.... Coach Simonetti was handed a pile of smelly stuff in her first year. She is a hard worker.......and I am happy that the players and coaches are seeing some good results. go, Lady Zips

Wright State led Bowling Green 2-0 at halftime Unfortunately, BG came back to beat Wright State 3-2 neither team on our schedule....but an interesting result St. Louis upset #7 Indiana 2-0 St. Louis had the number 2 rated recruiting class......St. Louis is a program on the rise

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/article/?categoryId=21&articleId=53699&articleTitle=mens-college-takeaways-from-opening-day Akron Resurgence Akron has been a sleeping giant of sorts in recent years. The four-time national finalists have qualified for the NCAA tournament just twice since reaching the College Cup final in 2018. There was renewed excitement this season brought on by the combination of talented returners with several eye-catching transfers. A 1-1 tie with No. 2 Notre Dame away from home adds to the hope that the Zips are back to claim their position among the elite.

best results that help the zips VCU upset #15 Wake Forest 2-1 #12 WEstern Michigan had strong 3-1 win over #14 Vermont result that does not help Pitt 2 #16 Georgetown 0 other scores Ohio State and Cleveland State 1-1 Villanova and St. Peters 2-2 St. Francis 3 St. Bonaventure 0 Temple 1 Army 1 Marquette 2 Drexel 0 Butler 2 Southern Indiana 1 Creighton and Fla. Atlantic 0-0 Seton Hall 1 FIU 0 Providence 2 Quinnipac 0 Xavier and N. Kentucky 0-0 Rhode Island 2 St. Johns 0 U Conn 6 Stone Hill 0 IU Indy 2 UIW 0 DePaul leads UIC 4-1 at 74 Wright State opens their season tomorrow night against Bowling Green

Lots of positives from the first night Emil is good at hold up play....very nice pass to WKWK for the goal Beto had good night at left back.... Matt Dreas is vastly improved...he had good night Josh Hardin and James Buebendorf.....both looked really good at outside back in limited minutes Malik really battled on defense...and had a near assist that forced the keeper to bat away a header from Dice I look forward to Ashton Kamdem returning from sitting out due to red card in last year big east tourney. I really think that Ashton can be a difference maker at left back. zips looked much better in the 2nd half. in my humble opinion, the zips got homered on calls in the road game at ND bring on the Buckeyes...Ohio State and Cleveland State played to a 1-1 tie tonight