skip-zip Posted September 27, 2007 Report Posted September 27, 2007 Ok..someone correct me if I am wrong here.We've had a nationally-competitive soccer program for decades now, right? We even played in the national championship game back in 1987, and were the #1 ranked team in the country for several weeks back in 2005. I don't recall EVER seeing a game story about an Akron soccer game on the front page of the ABJ the following morning after a game.But today, after playing Ohio State, "Ohio's only major university" according to some, we end up on the front page of the sports section. I know we'll take whatever coverage we can get, but I just find it funny that we got our most high profile game coverage ever after playing Ohio State. Quote
GoZips88 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Posted September 27, 2007 Just coincidental, I'm sure ... slow sports night and it just happened to work out this time around. Ohio A&M manages to get one shot on goal and it happens to go in. Otherwise, Akron gets a 1-0 win. Bummer. Good match between two evenly-matched teams (at least from what I could tell). Quote
UAZipster0305 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Posted September 27, 2007 Most reports say that we dominated. Unfortunate that we didn't pull out the win, but that happens sometimes. We still own OHio A&M in the overall series over the years...I don't have the exact numbers, but it's something like 20 wins, 6 losses, and 3 ties in favor of UAWhat I don't like is that the article labels Ohio A&M as being #25 ranked and us not at all. This makes it sound like OHio A&M is the superior program when in actuality there are four different men's college soccer polls and we're ranked in 3 out of 4 and yet, that rag of a publication chooses to refer to the one we're not represented in. Quote
skip-zip Posted September 27, 2007 Author Report Posted September 27, 2007 How about that. They mention Ohio A&Ms Ranking, but no mention of anyone that has us ranked. Are we sure this is an Akron paper? They certainly could have done a little checking to see if their "hometown" team was ranked somewhere to give us a little plug in our "hometown" newspaper. Quote
UADavid Posted September 27, 2007 Report Posted September 27, 2007 If you read the article on gozips.com it was an 'own goal', the ball glanced off our guy. Their goal came while our #1 goaltender was off for medical treatment, stiches above the eye. Quote
Z.I.P. Posted September 28, 2007 Report Posted September 28, 2007 I was shocked to see on the box score that Caleb used just one sub (Zemanski) -- beside the GK injury -- the entire game! I have never seen a college game with just one sub. I know we have more depth than that. Any idea what's up?BTW -- I assume that Irizarry from OA&M is the brother of their former tight end, who moved back to YSU. (??)Two big road games coming up next. Greensboro an NCAA tournament caliber team will be a tough nut to crack. Then Wright State, which usually is easy to crack.Go Zipfutbol Quote
GoZips Posted September 28, 2007 Report Posted September 28, 2007 I, too, wondered about the lack of substitutions. There was a 15-20 minute period midway through the second half where the Zips were totally flat. A&M seemed tobe on the verge of punching in a goal several times in that time frame.Later the Zips got some zip and pretty much dominated the Aggies. Quote
OldZipper Posted September 28, 2007 Report Posted September 28, 2007 Injuries is the reason for lack of substitutions. Quote
Zipsrifle Posted September 29, 2007 Report Posted September 29, 2007 Seeing that we dominated the game, and OSU's goal was an "Own Goal", does that mean we go up in the standings and they go down? Is play one of those things that gets considered in a tie? Quote
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