Quote from: paclassic89 on Yesterday at 10:07:47 PMMessiah lost 2-0 to Scranton. At home

Let me fix that for you... Scranton won at Messiah, 2-0. 

Pool Closed. 37 Participants.
               
Oglethorpe    11%   
W&L    70%   
Draw    19%

OWU    35%   
Calvin    30%   
Draw    35%

RU-C    60%   
Haverford    19%   
Draw    21%

Dickinson    49%   
CNU    32%   
Draw    19%

Transylvania    57%   
Heidelberg    19%   
Draw    24%

Chicago    19%   
St. Olaf    57%   
Draw    24%

F&M    16%   
Rowan    47%   
Draw    35%

Cortland    62%   
SLU    24%   
Draw    14%

NYU    19%   
Vassar    65%   
Draw    16%

Blackburn    14%   
Buena Vista    43%   
Draw    43%

35 participants. Pool closing in a few hours.

Almost 30 participants, with another day left to enter.

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Simplecoach and I discuss the weekly pool, including the now popular Beaver vs Beaver matchup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiqqX-sspKQ

And so it begins. Week 1 Pool closes Thursday night.

• 5 points for each game outcome
• 10 points for each correct score
• after dropping your lowest weekly score, season winner is participant with most points
• this season's prize is once again nothing :-)
• Pod with Simplecoach forthcoming

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Great call out, but alas the timing is just not right. But with that said, I'm excited to announce the first pool of the season will officially be released Monday! "So grab your jock...if you need one; It's go-time". 

Not D3, and I didn't want to start a new thread....

When Dave Brandt took over a hapless Bucknell program in 2022 (9 straight years without a winning record) I said to give him 3-4 years of recruiting the players he wants and he'd turn Bucknell into the best team in the Patriot.

Year 1 (not his players) - 4-10-3
Year 2 (likely not many of his players) - 3-12-2
Year 3 (starting to get his players) - 2-10-4
Year 4 (likely most of his players) - 7-7-6 (Patriot League Tournament Champions)
Year 5 (likely all his players) - Preseason #2 in Conference with 4 first place votes.

What I wouldn't give to see him move up the coaching ladder. The guy just wins while playing great soccer.
 

Quote from: Kuiper on August 16, 2025, 01:57:45 PMIn addition to the two transfers and 1 walk-on junior (who I think may have been on the Occidental IM champs last year)

IM? Intramural? If so, that's some serious research!

pretty quick for "260"
https://fan.hudl.com/usa/tx/humble/organization/2849/humble-high-school/team/89836/boys-varsity-soccer

Hey now, I had Mt Union in the pool one week   In all seriousness, I leaned heavily toward top 30 match-ups or games that could impact important league standings. But I can certainly look to add games like Rivier @ Dean on 9/20.

It's back!

Thought I'd through this out here early in case anyone wants to chime in with comments or suggestions for the new season.

Given all the conferences moving to Flo, it's going to be a challenge to catch many of the games; but that won't stop me from putting together weekly matchups that I'll pretend to know something about when in reality I will know nothing about :-)

Cheers all!

It just popped up in my feed today, so it's not gone.

I recall reading somewhere that it's ~$20k per year to the school. While that will certainly help many D3 schools with limited budgets, unless it ends up hurting their donations/endowments, I doubt they'll think twice about it.

Quote from: Kuiper on July 12, 2025, 07:04:40 PMStevenson is one of those programs where the team seemed like it could compete with anyone on their day, but those "on" days weren't consistent enough.  They finished 3-10-6, but only lost to Dickinson 1-0 (ranked #6 when they played) and Mary Washington 1-0 (ranked #1 when they played).  This year, they drop Allegheny, Salisbury, Neumann, Shenandoah, Kings, and Mary Washington and add Moravian, Roanoke, Goucher, Gallaudet, and Delaware Valley.

Bit of a reach. Stevenson was not very good. MWU outshot them 33-4 (10-0 on corner kicks). In fact, Stevenson was outshot in 15 of 19 games, and only 1 of their 3 wins was against a team above .500 (Kings was 3-2-2 at the time and finished 7-6-4).

Shame too, because the Stevenson field is like a putting green - absolutely top class.