Zip_ME87

With the Zips' first Big East Conference game Friday, I thought I'd post what I understand about the 2023 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament https://www.bigeast.com/sports/2023/7/26/2023-24_Championship_Page.aspx My understanding from what I've read is that 8 of the 12 teams make the 2023 tournament. Is that 4 from each division or the top 8 regardless of division? The first round games are played at campus sites [Saturday, Nov 4] The semifinal and final are played at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds Maryland [Thursday Nov 9th and Sunday Nov 12th, respectively]

Nice to see some other players off the bench. Definitely needed fresh legs with the pace of this game.

I honestly don't know how the United Soccer Coaches have the Zips at #5 after barely drawing Michigan and barely beating USI and LIU. USI continues to lose big to others having lost 0-4 to Evansville.

#11 FIU (2-1-2) visits #5 Akron (4-0-1) Rankings are United Soccer Coaches poll through games of Sep 4, 2023 FIU's schedule thus far in 2023 W 2-1 at Oregon St W 4-0 v VCU D 0-0 v Central Arkansas D 2-2 v UCF L 1-2 v #24 New Hampshire

Even without Messi (CONMEBOL WC Qualifying with Argentina), Benja Cremaschi (USMNT friendlies), and others during this "International break", Miami is still fun to watch these days...DeAndre Yedlin with a sweet assist...

Happy to get the W's in these last 2 game. LIU is a better team than USI, and our Zips showed much improved performance in this match v that on the past Monday. We still need better. Less arrogance and more confidence, composure, concentration, and complete game mentality. Great seeing Josh Hallenberger back in action. I hope he is good for more minutes. I also hope Dyson will be available v FIU. IMO, more substitutions are going to be needed than we've seen recently when playing games every 3 to 4 days.

Jared has done well since becoming head coach...3 College Cup appearances...including one title game appearance, but something has been off since the 2018 season. There seem to be more top notch players that choose not to go the college route these days, but every D1 school has to deal with that...shouldn't be an excuse. I like our players and believe we have plenty of depth. I sometimes question if we're lacking a hard nose player like a Perry Kitchen, Darren Mattocks, Richie Laryea, or Ezana Khasay, but I'm not sure we had one in 2009.

What was that awful display we watched last night? Lots of players on the bench who probably actually wanted to play but for some reason didn’t get the opportunity. Alen Kapic looked great for the few minutes he had but was subbed out…why? smh

Yes, I can answer. As you say that I misunderstood you, buflobo did not say the Men's program shouldn't be emulated. He said "...the coaching staff of MSOC hardly should be held up as a shining example for WSOC to emulate." The current coaching staff has not maintained the standard. 2019 is a season we would all like to erase from the record book. Forget the COVID season(s)...doesn't count due to being out of anyone's control. 2021 and 2022 fell short...losing at home to Santa Clara and Pitt, and I'm not sorry to state that. The bar has been set high...maintaining it is difficult, yes. But, that is the expectation.

Wow. Talk about someone who should re-read their post and the post upon which they are commenting before hitting submit. Are you seriously laying the entire history of Zips Womens Soccer on Jen Simonetti, a coach who was hired 2 weeks before the start of the 2022 season, as you seem to be in your last several posts. No coach can be expected to right that kind of history in a season for which she had no time to prepare, one recruiting class of her own, and a few games into this season. As far as Zips Men's Soccer ... indisputably great record through the 2018 Season. However, buflobo is not out of line with his comments concerning recent Men's Soccer lackluster seasons.

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Nice to see this from the Big East twitter account...

Celebration on the left above following this ridiculous sequence / goal ...

I'd love to see replay of the well-deserved team celebration for Gyuwon's goal! Great seeing the immediate reaction of our players in the video above.

Go figure...WMU with 18 fouls and 4 yellow cards...https://uvmathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/stats/2023/western-michigan/boxscore/5522 Glad to no longer be in the same conference as those hacks. Looking forward to this match v the Catamounts who made it to the Round of 8 last year before losing 1-2 to eventual Champion Syracuse...https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/soccer-men/d1/2022

Shite show by these refs on 11/20/2022 ... https://gozips.com/sports/mens-soccer/stats/2022/pittsburgh/boxscore/8735 OFFICIALS Referee: Nicholas Balcer Asst. Referee: Michael Nickerson Asst. Referee: Jacob Little Alt. Official: Carter Brochu

... Senior (huh?) Jason Shokalook ... Jr, that should be

DeAndre's pk at ~1:17 - 1:21

Congratulations to InterMiami CF on winning the first Leagues Cup. Great to see DeAndre Yedlin make his pk (9th of 10 for InterMiami) ... only pk he's ever taken? ... and GK Drake Callender making the 10th/"winning" pk as well as saving the pk from Nashville's GK.