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Really?!? Can’t help but just laugh at that. Man oh man.

Just can’t finish. Man these guys take a lot of 3rd down sacks. If they don’t take the sack there, the penalty results in a 1st down. But…on the board.

Capitalize!!!!

This offense 😂😂😂

Looked like they held Lavea. Whatever. This team is incredibly aggravating.

Ballgame

They can’t handle any adversity. Any loss of yardage or no gain and they just stop in their tracks. Absolutely no excuse for not scoring points on that drive.

Nice kick after the snap, but I can’t believe he didn’t send out Jackson. Perez’ range is no secret.

How on earth does a WR like Adams drop that? Totally killed the drive. Fragile offense.

Darrien Effin Lewis!

Everything on offense just looks so finicky and fragile. Makes no sense.

Golden must never return another punt.

McCoy had no idea he was right at the QBs feet

14-10 Iowa at half Notre Dame dominated CMU in 2H

EMU is gonna hold on. Those guys know how to win ball games.

UMass gonna UMass. Eagles score quickly to make it 19-17 with 1:20 to go.

EMU now in the danger zone against UMass. MinuteMen take a 17-13 lead with 2:42 to go.

Strong 1st half for the Chips. Down 21-14 at Notre Dame.

GO ZIPS!!! Believe!!

Ohio in good position to take down Iowa State Kent rolling Buffalo behind but fighting with Liberty

https://x.com/ZipsWSOC/status/1702482149356470741?s=20

Game preview from A Sea of Blue: https://www.aseaofblue.com/2023/9/14/23873013/kentucky-football-vs-akron-time-tv-channel-online-stream-predictions-radio Kentucky and Akron have both been slow to get the running game going and both teams have been penalized quite a bit so far this season. With that said, if Akron can get the passing game cooking early, we may be in this thing. The Wildcats have allowed 70% of passes to be completed so far, with Ball State and EKU putting up an average of 221 yards through the air. Obviously, UK has the talent advantage at most positions, but I still feel good about where Akron is as far as talent goes. That's the only thing that has helped me talk myself away from the ledge after that near disaster last week. I don't think there's anyone in the program or around the program that doesn't think/know that this team is so much better than they've shown so far. Last year, the St. Francis game was quite a bit like the Morgan State game. Then at Michigan State, the offense really started to open up before the injury and turnovers. But, I was hoping that most issues and rigidness would have been ironed out after Temple and boy was I wrong. Crazier things have happened. Go Zips!

My point is that is the standard that the PLAYERS hold themselves to. So getting bent out of shape whens some fans feel the same way is, well, ridiculous. And that team won an NCAA tournament game, which at the time was a bare minimum expectation.

The men's program benefitted so much from having someone like Caleb Porter as the head coach. His personality was entirely unmatched by anyone else in the entire country. He was a one-man fundraiser, promoter, and CEO. To a fault, almost. The U had to do almost nothing to sell or promote the program because he took it upon himself to do that and build the Akron brand. The fact that Jared simply doesn't have that kind of personality is no fault of his own. Administration has been riding the wave he created for nearly 15 years now, entirely to a fault. Now, could they promote the program better? Absolutely. They leave a lot to be desired with marketing in general, as I have said of the last few admins at this point. So many things factor into attendance. Even men's basketball, who is arguably in the midst of its most successful 5-year run in its history, gets bad crowds for a lot of its biggest games. Ultimately, for me, I was raised an Akron soccer fan who knew I could look forward to a handful of things when I would go to games. I knew they would not lose at home, I knew the Rowdies would be loud and proud and make the opposing team's life a living hell, and I could always look forward to 3-4 home NCAA games that would all have an unmatched intensity. Well, again to no fault of the current state of the program, all of the founding Rowdies are long gone and nobody ever cared like they did, Akron soccer is no longer marketed the same way it once was, NCAA rules have leveled the playing field and/or made it tougher on programs like Akron. If you had told me 13 years ago that this team would drop a home NCAA tournament game in the first round, with red cards galore, I would have called you insane. At the same time, if you had told me that general success on a national level has been fairly steady throughout that time-frame, save for 2019, I would have been pretty pumped. So, is the administration giving them all the support they should? Maybe not. But, if you spoke to MSoc alumni from 2008-2018 about the "standard" being the same as it once was, I'm not sure we'd hear a universal yes. Adam Najem said before his senior season that it was College Cup or bust, after all. Akron soccer fans are indeed spoiled by some awesome success that spans across decades. Spoiled to a point where they won't show up unless it's the Elite Eight. But that's also what happens when you have a sport like college soccer that isn't a huge draw many places in the country, especially Akron, Ohio. Akron soccer has a lot of great die-hard fans, but most people I know are only going to tune in when they know a National Title is on the line. You can call them bad fans if you want, but that's their standard for Akron soccer and you don't have to like it.

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