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There is a college soccer talk board on big soccer.com. There are many people on that board that know 200 times more about soccer than I do. There is one man...who is an ACC and Virginia fan...that has incredible knowledge about college soccer. The man is not a fan of the Stanford rough style soccer. His comments about Coach Embick are spot on. This man's comments this morning are below in bold On behalf of all of us who don't like PKs at the College Cup, thank you! Also, congratulations. There was a time this season when the NCAA Tournament seemed in doubt so this is really impressive. And hats off to Jared Embick, who has now taken Akron to the College Cup three times in four seasons. That's a very impressive accomplishment and one Caleb Porter, Ken Lolla and Steve Parker never did. I don't think Akron fans revere Embick yet the way they do some of their former coaches. Perhaps that should change.

https://gostanford.com/news/2018/11/30/mens-soccer-someone-else-this-year.aspx "They're a fantastic team and you can't afford to give them a head start," Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer Jeremy Gunn said of Akron. "They settled into the game better than we did, they got the early goal and were going to be more confident the rest of the game. They deserve to be going to the final four and we congratulate them for it. We fought back, we gave it everything we had and then they scored a great goal to end it." "You can't argue for a more exciting game," Gunn said. "It had everything you needed. We just fell short to a very good team on the night. I thought our boys fought incredibly and when we got to 2-2 we looked good. Absolute credit to Akron, though. They settled the game down again and the goal they scored was fantastic."

Marcel Zajac's header assist to Colin...was beautiful

Jake will be cheering the guys on in Santa Barbara

first goal also beautiful

2nd goal...beautiful work by Marcel and Ezana

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-soccer-articles/boys-da-winter-showcase:-goals-galore_aid45566 this is a premium top drawer soccer article...so most of you won't be able to access it... A 2019 zip recruit did get mentioned in the article M Will Jackson, Internationals SC – The Akron recruit showed well ahead of a big game for the Zips, scoring three times on the way to a 5-2 victory against Albion SC.

A stalwart from the 2015 final four team ...also wished the zips well

https://www.sfchronicle.com/collegesports/article/Tanner-Beason-anchors-defense-as-Stanford-pursues-13432739.php nice to see a major paper like the san francisco paper giving coverage to college soccer Stanford has been the 8 or 9 seed...each of the past several years.... they figure it out during the season....(just like the zips do)...and are brutally tough on defense when it comes to tournament time

article from this morning's Beacon https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181129/college-soccer-defending-champion-stanford-again-stands-in-way-for-ua

good to see the Canton paper giving some coverage to father and son. Colin has improved so much during the season. Thanks for finding this good article.

Travis Clark is once again doing his predictions He is predicting that there will be 3 big ten teams in the college cup there will definitely be one unseeded team (the winner of James Madison vs. Michigan State).... I am hoping that there are 2 https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/mens-division-i-quarterfinal-preview_aid45559

zips twitter....doing a good job....in explaining...that you can't pay just to watch this one game on pac 12

I love the celebration photo in the e-mail advertising photo They are doing a good job promoting this event... I have been critical of the athletic dept over the years for lack of promotion...but I will give them a well done on this one... living 650 miles away from Akron, I will not be at the watch party....but I hope that there are lots of NEO fans....that are there cheering the hard working guys there are 30 some soccer zips...I think only 22 guys travel...so I would that the guys redshirting this year will be at the watch party Go zips...Thank You Larry Williams and the athletic department for making this happen

amazing scoreless streak...BUT !!! check out the last person to score a run of play goal against them !!! can you say 1-0 Zip win....with Abdi scoring the Zip goal ? I am predicting it and it will happen !!! https://gostanford.com/news/2018/11/28/mens-soccer-quarterfinal-at-cagan.aspx The Cardinal owns an active NCAA-record postseason shutout streak of 14 consecutive matches and 1,414:20 of match time. It last surrendered an NCAA tournament goal in the quarterfinals at Wake Forest on Dec. 5, 2015, an Ian Harkes penalty in the 70th minute. Stanford hasn't conceded a goal during the run of play in the tournament in the last 1,512:37, since Ohio State's Abdi Mohamed headed one home at 61:41 in a third-round match on Nov. 29, 2015.

Marla Ridenour article in the Beacon about Abdi and the 3 freshman https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181128/university-of-akron-mens-soccer-zips-get-right-answer-to-crucial-back-line-question-as-senior-transfer-bonds-with-three-freshmen

more details from the zips web site https://gozips.com/news/2018/11/27/mens-soccer-akron-to-host-watch-party-for-zips-showdown-at-stanford.aspx

Stanford's star player this year is from Winston Salem (Wake Forest Univ. country)... hopefully, Mr. Egbo or Mr. Zajac.....can score a goal against this elite center back https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/11/27/stanfords-beason-named-semifinalist-for-hermann-trophy

Article by Elton Alexander of the Cleveland Plain Dealer https://www.cleveland.com/sports/2018/11/akron-mens-soccer-once-again-must-get-by-stanford-to-advance-in-ncaa-tournament.html#incart_river_index

another article from Beacon https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181127/college-soccer-zips-getting-big-contributions-at-both-ends-of-pitch

this watch party