CALzip88

Only a moron give a ball to a players that are under pressure who ar eloping the ball right a left. It was clear as day that the defense was not ready to play with that pressure. If your passing blame it would go to a defense and mid that could not string passes together all night. Better give a 50/50 ball past mid then to lose it with sloppy play in the D... Yes it doesn't look pretty but the our D was not ready for the high pressure the Hoosiers put on us.

You have to go back to last September against Notre Dame, where the Zips lost 3-1, to see the last time the Zips gave up 20+ shots... That was also playing down a man for 60 mins because of an early red card. That just put into perspective the type of game this was. Indiana had a number of quality chances. Fenlason made a few bigs save! And the Zips put away one more chance then the Hoosiers. That was the difference in tonight's game good goalkeeping and finishing chances early. It looked like a much different Zips team then is normal. Maybe it was the offensive pressure but we just had no rythum. But we got the win and that is what counts.

To all you fact crazy fanatics out there. Here is an interesting one for you and one that might be some cannon fodder for you ROWDIES at the game tomorrow... Starting GK Jake Fenlason and UI new starting GK Colin Webb were high school teammate. Rancho Bernardo High School It looks like Webb was second best behind Fenlason in HS... as well as college, because sources say, Webb tried contacting and visited Akron before he found out Fenlason was coming. Obviously Webb isn't a Zip and Fenlason is. I wonder if it made a difference that Webb did not want to be playing second fiddle behind Fenlason after he did it in high school.

Piña isn't hurt... Fenlason just must have beat Piña out of the starting position. It's not unheard of.

I wounder if the topic needs to be brought up. Maybe with the lack of a bonafide goal scorer... And a defense that needs time to improve... is there a better option then Pina at GK? I understand that none of the GK on the roster have much experience but what if there is a better shot stopper on the bench? I mean trimmy10 said it best "one chance, one goal, one loss." Pina might be great with his feet but if he is 2nd best with his hands... we might need the hands more then a distributor at the moment. If we only give up 2 shots on goal each game and one goes in and we are taking 20 shots a game and only scoring once, it makes you wonder. What if we give up a little with distribution and gain a GK with better shot stopping skills. This might allow the team to relax and get few wins and build confidence. The biggest take away from this weekend was we aren't going to blow teams out of the water with goals this year. We can possess like the old Akron but we can't score. And, in soccer the long the game goes tied the more the other team thinks they have a shot.