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zips are #29 in RPI (as of Saturday morning) opponents on zips schedule Niagara 167 Vermont 2 Michigan 111 SIU 190 LIU 126 FIU 39 Providence 42 Notre Dame 77 St. John's 85 Seton Hall 82 N. KY 205 DePaul 83 Clev State 125 Xavier 57 Creighton 41 Marquette 50 Marquette is 5-0-0...their SOS is 197 Butler 187

Friday night results Big East Team DePaul battled Bowling Green to a 0-0 tie Georgetown was supposed to play at Maryland tonight....game was suspended and then cancelled due to inclement weather they will try to find a make up date Creighton defeated Michigan 3-1 (Creighton's first win of the year...Blue Jays are now 1-2-2) attendance of 4,092 for the Blue Jays Marquette beat UT-Rio Grande Valley 3-1 Yale 2 UConn 1 St. John's 2 St. Peter's 1 a few upsets so far tonight in top25 New Hampshire upset #11 Fla International 2-1 (zips host FIU on Monday night) Penn 3 number 14 Penn State 0 South Florida 1 number 15 Indiana 0 number 2 Marshall avoided the upset bug tonight with a 2-1 win over High Point #4 Syracuse and #7 Louisville battled to a 2-2 draw

OMG.......Mitch Budler had to make some very good saves at 2:17 and 0:59....to preserve the Zips 2-1 win Mitch Budler had to make much more difficult saves tonight....than the LIU GK that game was way too close for comfort...... LIU really came alive and challenged the zips greatly in the 2nd half..... Tremendous credit to Stefan Dobrijevic....for a very unselfish pass....to set up Josef Paulus for the zips 2nd goal...... Thank you, Mitch Budler......for your great punch outs and punch aways tonight....

Get well soon, Dyson Clapier....you are missed

zips #42 in RPI (as of Wednesday morning) https://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/search/label/RPI Rank

Stanford and Marshall deserve to be number 1 and 2 in the news coaches poll Akron was #9 in last week's poll.... they are #5 in this week's coaches poll 🤔 https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/

Credit to Josef Paulus for being a leader....and trying to inspire some of his teammates that did not want to be on the field last night. On the broadcast, Chad Welker raved about the great attendance. Attendance was 1,198. I am sad to see how much expectations have been lowered for men's soccer. I don't know how many of the 1,198 fans were first time attendees. After last night's lethargic, disinterested performance by the zips, I suspect that most of the first time attendees will not come back to see another Zips men's soccer game. Please get healthy, very soon....Dyson Clapier. You were greatly missed last night.

I am really beginning to worry about the zips RPI the Big East teams are not having a good year. Georgetown and Fordham played to a 3-3 tie Penn State 2 St. John's 0 Butler and Western Michigan played to a 0-0 tie Michigan State and Villanova played to a 1-1 tie DePaul and Northwestern played to a 1-1 tie Marquette did beat Harvard 1-0 UConn defeated Siena 3-1 Providence won the battle of Rhode Island by beating Rhode Island 2-1 Xavier at home defeated Cleveland State 1-0 Seton Hall lost 1-0 to Indiana. Creighton is losing 2-1 right now to Denver at half time In results involving.....zips opponents... Bowling Green did something that Akron could not do....Bowling Green defeated Michigan 2-1 Akron's next Opponent....LIU defeated VMI 4-0 Niagara tonight....lost 6-1 to Stonehill..... Vermont beat Colgate 2-0 if you want to look at some comparison scores this season last Friday night...Wisconsin Green Bay defeated Southern Indiana University 7-0 tonight, the Zips defeated Southern Indiana 1-0 tonight, Wisconsin Green Bay played perennial ACC last place team Boston College Wisconsin Green Bay and Boston College played to a 0-0 tie tonight

Nice to see Mitch Budler....healthy no Dyson Clapier in lineup

Top drawer soccer has Vermont at #10 and Akron at #16 Hello ???? anyone home at Top Drawer soccer ?????

I agree with Fknbuflobo. His response is not talking about the last 10 years. All zips fans should be very happy with the great results from 2015 to 2018. In those 4 years, the zips went to 3 final fours and reached the final in 2018. The coaching staff for those 4 years was Coach Embick, Leo Chappell, TJ Kolba and Ger Coppenger. Leo Chappell departed the zips team late in the 2018 season and TJ Kolba left after the 2018 season to go to Michigan State. The results in the last 4 years (with Michael Nanchoff joining Jared and Ger) have come no where close to the results achieved by the coaching staff from 2015-2018. Yes, you can say that zips mens soccer fans have become spoiled. The zips team of 2021...lost their last 3 games to Northern Illinois, Western Michigan and Santa Clara. Zips fans expect better than to lose to Santa Clara in the NCAA tournament. Recruiting classes have still been ranked in the top 10 or top 15. Yet, the on field results have not been what zips fan have expected. The 2021 and 2022 teams both gave up a lot of goals on corner kicks and both teams scored almost no goals on corner kicks. I am writing this response after watching the zips get dominated in the first half on a Friday night by a Michigan team that is picked to finish dead last in the Big Ten. Yes, I would agree that Fknbuflobo's post is controversial. Everyone who knows anything about zips soccer history.....loves and worships the entire Nanchoff family. However, the facts clearly show that Michael Nanchoff has been part of the zips coaching staff for 4 years and that Ger Coppenger has been the lead assistant for 4 years and the zips have won 0 tournament games. One year, the zips did not even make the 4 team MAC tournament. With the talent on this team, the mens coaching staff needs to focus on their own team. I have never seen a women's soccer match in person. All I will say.....is that Noreen Herlihy left her successor a pile of manure. Larry Williams and Charles Guthrie should never have allowed Herlihy to be the zips coach and still live in the Pittsburgh area. I know that the poor Akron U financial picture had an impact on Guthrie not firing Herlihy outright after the 2021 season...because the zips could not to afford to pay Herlihy for the 2022 season (when Larry W. had dumbly given her a multi year extension). However, an excellent Athletic director would have found the funds to fire Herlihy after the 2021 season. If your response had said, I want women's soccer to emulate the zips coaching staff from 2015-2018, I would be more comfortable with your reply. This current coaching staff does not have time to help the women. This coaching staff needs to focus on this year's team. None of us want to see Will Jackson leave Akron U. as a starter for 5 years and to have never won an NCAA tournament game. Jared, Ger and Michael need to focus on the men's team.

Started their season with 3-1 loss to IUPUI then lost 2-0 to Mercer Yesterday, the screaming eagles lost 7-0 to Wisconsin Green Bay.

Georgetown lost last weekend to Stanford. Georgetown bounced back tonight with a 4-1 win over #8 Pitt Seton Hall from the Big East beat the Ohio State University tonight 1-0 Marquette continued their fast start with a 6-0 win over Detroit Mercy. Marshall continues to look like a title contender as they put a 3-0 beatdown on Big East team Xavier. scores added on Saturday morning Grand Canyon 2 Creighton 1 LIU 2 Connecticut 0 Hofstra 4 Providence 2 St. Jon's 1 Monmouth 0 In non big east top team action #1 Syracuse and #20 Penn State played to 1-1 tie Wisconsin Badgers with the upset of the night....1-0 win over number 2 Kentucky #7 FIU and Central Arkansas played to 0-0 tie

Zips coaches again made some effective changes at half time. Even before the red card at 29, Gyuwon Chong was touching the ball more. Chong earned a foul at top of the box at 29....which led to Michigan player getting 2nd yellow At the start of the 2nd half, Malik Henry moved to right back and Johnny Fitzgerald came in at right winger Sammy did not start the game....He had strong 2nd half in the middle of the field. Zips were not dangerous at all on corner kicks Late in the game, the zips offense was totally right side dominant due to having a good offensive player at right back (Malik Henry) Dyson again was having to come way too far up the field to get the ball Even though shots showed 4-4 in first half, Michigan pressed and they totally dominated. Akron had huge advantage in 2nd half.

Michigan was picked to finish last in the Big Ten https://bigten.org/news/2023/8/21/general-maryland-tabbed-as-mens-soccer-preseason-favorite.aspx

Michigan red card at 29 ...2 yellows Shooky just stripped the GK at 21 goal Shooky

horrible tentative long pass......into the middle of the field.....by Will Jackson.....led to the penalty in the box Michigan right winger is much quicker than Will Jackson. Will Jackson got a yellow early in the game as he had to grab guy to prevent breakaway Michigan announcers felt that Will Jackson should have been called for a 2nd yellow in the box about 25 minutes into the game Michigan totally dominated first half.... Most of Akron possession is on Seth Wilson side of the field... Wan Kuzri Wan Kamal is only midfielder....touching the ball Gyuwon Chong and Josef Paulus have barely touched the ball.... Akron having to resort to long ball attempts to get ball over midfield

Michigan has dominated the first 28 minutes zips struggling to get ball over midfield

our SID can't even spell Kamdem correctly

Game will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus..... Michigan comes into the game with a 1-0-1 record. In their first game,. they tied Loyola Marymount 1-1 Loyola Marymount must be a pretty good team. In their 2nd game, LMU upset #15 Virginia 3-1. Loyola Marymount Ryan Kingsford (yes, the former zip) led the lions with 2 goals In the Michigan vs. LMU game, LMU led 11-9 in shots and 5-3 in shots on goals. Both teams had 5 corner kicks. In their 2nd game, Michigan defeated Cal Baptist 2-0. Cal Baptist lost their first game 3-0 to West Virginia.

Akron was 22 in the coaches pre season poll. Vermont was 12 in the pre season poll. Their drop to number 22 seems kind of harsh. There are not 21 college soccer teams that are better than Vermont. That is one very good college soccer team. September 11 Zip opponent Florida International was number 21 in the preseason poll. FIU jumped up to 7 after a 2-1 win over Oregon State and a 4-0 win over VCU.

last night press conference....it's cookies...ha ha !!