"Taylor Feinberg from Tufts. Rock solid and the kind of guy you build a back line around. The kid is going into his 5th year and is a brick wall but also grabs goals when they seem to matter. He will be the focal point of a tufts defensive looking to keep up the form they've had the last few years."

This is from the first message I ever wrote on the boards. What a player that guy is !!!!!! Injuries kept him off the field for some time this season but the 5th year captain scores the winner today..


JUMBOS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP

Quote from: SKUD on November 10, 2025, 09:12:30 AMMust have missed that in your pontificating.

I had to google that word as my SAT English score was not on par with that of the NESCAC standard. However, I too would think it's annoying to hear about someone constantly praising the success of a team I am not a fan of.

Numbskull. That is a good one I can't even lie. Definitely has me laughing.

If you read my earlier posts you will  see I clearly state that Tufts essentially choked the last two years so while your jab at me is quite funny, it doesn't really do much.

What are any of you trying to get at? I didn't realize "dominated the game" gets you a trophy.. Like seriously, do you think it make you feel any better as a player/fan going home after losing a final saying but...but... we dominated? Tufts were #1 in the NESCAC regular season, #1 in the National Rankings, and won not 1 or 2 BUT 3 win or go home games. That is championship team. When I see the takes from SimpleCoach, LibbyMoore, NescacInNovember, and more specifically NewEnglander, I just assume that none of you have every played for or supported a winning team. You do what it takes to win! Ultimately that is all that matters.

Utmost respect to Conn College's #7. He is a heck of a player and can probably dictate the game against pretty much every team in the league. Unfortunately he didn't do enough today though.

I am sure the boys over in Medford are real sad right now that they got "dominated" today and conceded 2 goals yesterday. It is real unfortunate that these factors leave them with a depressing 4 games and 4 wins against Midd and Conn this season. They must be really lucky to have made it this far with a 14-1-3 record as well and I am sure they are mortified going into the tournament given all of this.

Do you now hear how ridiculous you sound? @SimpleCoach @LibbyMoore @NescacInNovember

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All season long I have said it's Tufts vs everybody. Other teams see the Jumbos and they congregate, try to imitate, hate, but ultimately find their fate.

I see a team of winners, coached by a staff of winners, supported by a fan base of winners. Like soccerlover said, the NESCAC is full of small liberal arts schools (apart from Conn) and today they spent their Sunday watching Tufts lift yet another trophy... coaches will be studying the Jumbos, as they have in the past, wondering what they can pick up from the most successful program in recent history... but you just can't copy greatness. Learn to appreciate it.

Josh Shapiro built a dynasty and Dezotell has since took over the reigns. 2 NESCAC championships since the start of his tenure and it's hard to imagine he won't follow in Shapiros footsteps. His first year having a team of players only recruited by himself and look at the result... put some respect on that man's name.

I'm taking Tufts moneyline till the day I die and if you want outsized returns compared to your 401k or the S&P, I suggest you do the same.

Haram University has captured the conference trophy in the best league in D3 and best believe they are ready for the national stage.

My prediction was correct, to an extent. Didn't expect middlebury to come out and score 2 but that's just the way the game goes sometimes.

Credit to #5 for an incredible header, however, it is completely discredited as he talked endless smack (hand to the ear when he scored) only to have 3 goals dropped on his head and go home a loser.

Also, all my points about Middlebury being a bunch of Tik Tok soccer players were proven today. No signs of any weight room activity, just whining, kicking ankles to get 5 yellow cards and endless trash talk.. and what do you have it? It was all just to lose.

Colin Dugan #10 - WHAT A NIGHTMARE. Toting a fake gun as your name is called during the walkout while your socks are at the same height as your shorts is probably the funniest thing I have seen in a while. NESCAC Fan must be in shambles right now. Then, to make things worse for the young "gangster" from Avon Old Farms ($80k a year), waved bye to the Tufts players and fans as they went up 2-0. Enjoy the bus ride home young man and maybe think about your choices.

I can't say the game plan from Tufts was the correct one but it is easy for me to judge as a fan. They didn't press middlebury and let them play into the game. When they went down 2-0, they started to take the game to Midd, and to no surprise scored 3 goals in very quick time.

Incredible finish from Ethan Jett as well as goal from Henry Perkins that Jett himself set up. Then, to see the center back Ben Brown score the winner.. absolute scenes. That brick ball will be an All American next year, if not this year.

Conn College have come out hot as expected and are playing some beautiful soccer. I expect the game tomorrow vs Tufts to be an incredible one but the JUMBOS WILL COME OUT ON TOP!

@NescacFan HARAM BALL ALWAYS WINS

Are Middlebury.... Just Tottenham hotspur?

I am predicting Tufts and Conn College to advance to Sunday's final. The Cardinals have reached the championship game twice in team history and tomorrow will not be the third. Yes, they did beat Amherst but Reuben Burk's lads are far more positioned for a game like this. Unfortunately, the moment will be too big for Wesleyan and they will crumble. Middlebury is coming off a big quarter-final win but the Jumbos are hot  and I think they will elephant stomp the Panthers.

Quote from: northman on November 06, 2025, 03:29:48 PMThe NESCAC coaches recommended Madden and fellow First Team All American Clivio to Portland Hearts of Pine - the new USL team based in Maine. The two of them were on trial at the club back in January. What a pairing that would have been!

I realize this is straying from the core NESCAC thread, but as a season ticket holder to the Portland Hearts of Pine...I can tell you this has been an absolute phenomenon during their first season.  Every game has been sold out and they have the highest average attendance in a league that extends from Spokane to SoCal to Chattanooga and little old Portland, Maine.  Each game is like a feel good party with food trucks, beverages for people of all ages, and an amazingly friendly and communal vibe.
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Completely valid point to bring up. The atmosphere, investment from the club owners, and overall the involvement from the community -- all the way from local businesses to the fans has been incredible. I wonder if we will see a pipeline of the top performing NESCAC players to the USL in coming years.

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Quote from: Hotskull on November 04, 2025, 08:09:35 PM

Quote from: Futbolguy on November 04, 2025, 01:26:53 PMAnd CSO, it should be noted that Tufts scored the game winner against a very weak Bates team with, wait for it, a PK!    Not sustainable against a stout Midd defense (who is second in league in goals against, so not sure the basis of Hotskulls comments about a defense full of cones).  Midd has given up 9 goals, Tufts 7.  Should be a great matchup on Saturday. 

Middlebury themselves posted a video on instagram this week of their goalkeeper absolutely saving their behinds!! I have never seen a "top" team with a defense that exposed. It looked horrible. Certainly this is not the legacy Luke madden left behind. I'd be very upset if I were him!

Just came here to say that Madden really seems like a great guy. I didn't know him from Middlebury, but he played for our local USL2 team last summer and helped coach on my son's USL2 U23's team over the summer- Charlottesville Blues FC.

The NESCAC coaches recommended Madden and fellow First Team All American Clivio to Portland Hearts of Pine - the new USL team based in Maine. The two of them were on trial at the club back in January. What a pairing that would have been!

Quote from: nescac fan246 on November 04, 2025, 04:22:28 PM

Quote from: Hotskull on November 04, 2025, 10:25:18 AMThis Tufts team is on a revenge tour. The last two years, they've been hyped up, carrying a top ranking all season, only to crumble when it really mattered. That will not happen this year. This team is full of certified DAWGS.

They've got one of the strongest and deepest backlines we've seen in recent years (.455 GA average / 8 clean sheets — shoutout Antic in goal), paired with an attack that finds the back of the net when it matters most. In previous years, Tufts often needed a set piece or an unsung hero to grind out a winner... Not this team. Yanez is 4/4 from the spot in the last six games (CR7-level clutch), and the front three (Perkins, Canfin, Brown) have combined for 33 points, while Jett, Shultz, Fallone, Denby, and others have put in lights-out performances.

DeZotell seems to have finally found the right balance with this roster — major credit to him and his staff. In a year where Amherst look like your local church-league team and Middlebury's backline resembles a bunch of cones standing in the way of opposing attackers, Tufts is playing like the juggernaut we've always known them to be.

If they go into the weekend with the mentality that they end other teams' seasons, not that they are the team to beat, there will be another NESCAC trophy in the cabinet. My advice to the young lads up in Medford: do not play with the timid mindset of "only two more guaranteed games." In fact, F$#K THAT.* Play like you want to flex the strength you have over these inferior, minuscule, delicate, and outright afraid NESCAC schools. Gents, it is Tufts vs. everybody, and there can only be one at the top.

I'll be flying up to Boston this weekend to watch the destruction.

To the rest of you NESCAC fans: You may read this and think I'm too confident — maybe even delusional. But if that's how you feel, I actually sympathize with you... because you're the one who's delusional for not seeing the greatness, hard work, grit, and — as stated before — a squad of DAWGS right in front of your eyes.

– Hotskull

This is one of the funniest posts I've seen on the boards. Tufts has had great regular seasons for the past two years and it's amounted to nothing for them. A first place team on a "revenge tour" playing a subpar Bates team in the first round usually doesn't end in a dicey 1-0 win from a penalty, which seems to be Tufts' favorite way to score this year. It looks more like Dezotell has found the right balance of whining from the bench and bribes for the refs than a good roster this year.

Tufts has already shown that they're not a playoff team again this year, so you can say they're "DAWGS" going into this weekend as much as you want, but that's not gonna change what they all know- this Middlebury team has been edging greatness for years and this is the year it will all come to fruition.

Until Dezotell gains the confidence to create a real soccer team that doesn't play straight up haram ball, I will never give him credit for being a good coach. My left big toe could coach a team to play on the counter and lump in long throws. Dezotell is an old school NESCAC coach, who's stuck in the past and can't see that the game is changing around him. We've already seen Tufts' Brexit counterpart in Amherst lose this postseason. Inverting Wingbacks and Xg are here to stay and if teams can't adapt, they'll be left in the dust of innovators like Middlebury.

-NESCAC Fan 🫡


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Quote from: nescac fan246 on November 04, 2025, 04:22:28 PM

Quote from: Hotskull on November 04, 2025, 10:25:18 AMThis Tufts team is on a revenge tour. The last two years, they've been hyped up, carrying a top ranking all season, only to crumble when it really mattered. That will not happen this year. This team is full of certified DAWGS.

They've got one of the strongest and deepest backlines we've seen in recent years (.455 GA average / 8 clean sheets — shoutout Antic in goal), paired with an attack that finds the back of the net when it matters most. In previous years, Tufts often needed a set piece or an unsung hero to grind out a winner... Not this team. Yanez is 4/4 from the spot in the last six games (CR7-level clutch), and the front three (Perkins, Canfin, Brown) have combined for 33 points, while Jett, Shultz, Fallone, Denby, and others have put in lights-out performances.

DeZotell seems to have finally found the right balance with this roster — major credit to him and his staff. In a year where Amherst look like your local church-league team and Middlebury's backline resembles a bunch of cones standing in the way of opposing attackers, Tufts is playing like the juggernaut we've always known them to be.

If they go into the weekend with the mentality that they end other teams' seasons, not that they are the team to beat, there will be another NESCAC trophy in the cabinet. My advice to the young lads up in Medford: do not play with the timid mindset of "only two more guaranteed games." In fact, F$#K THAT.* Play like you want to flex the strength you have over these inferior, minuscule, delicate, and outright afraid NESCAC schools. Gents, it is Tufts vs. everybody, and there can only be one at the top.

I'll be flying up to Boston this weekend to watch the destruction.

To the rest of you NESCAC fans: You may read this and think I'm too confident — maybe even delusional. But if that's how you feel, I actually sympathize with you... because you're the one who's delusional for not seeing the greatness, hard work, grit, and — as stated before — a squad of DAWGS right in front of your eyes.

– Hotskull

This is one of the funniest posts I've seen on the boards. Tufts has had great regular seasons for the past two years and it's amounted to nothing for them. A first place team on a "revenge tour" playing a subpar Bates team in the first round usually doesn't end in a dicey 1-0 win from a penalty, which seems to be Tufts' favorite way to score this year. It looks more like Dezotell has found the right balance of whining from the bench and bribes for the refs than a good roster this year.

Tufts has already shown that they're not a playoff team again this year, so you can say they're "DAWGS" going into this weekend as much as you want, but that's not gonna change what they all know- this Middlebury team has been edging greatness for years and this is the year it will all come to fruition.

Until Dezotell gains the confidence to create a real soccer team that doesn't play straight up haram ball, I will never give him credit for being a good coach. My left big toe could coach a team to play on the counter and lump in long throws. Dezotell is an old school NESCAC coach, who's stuck in the past and can't see that the game is changing around him. We've already seen Tufts' Brexit counterpart in Amherst lose this postseason. Inverting Wingbacks and Xg are here to stay and if teams can't adapt, they'll be left in the dust of innovators like Middlebury.

-NESCAC Fan 🫡

Your first paragraph quite literally is just reiterating what I said.

Second, you sound like either a Conn or Midd fan. Certainly you are not an Amherst fan as if you are calling Tufts' style of play "haram ball" then Amherst must play a style of soccer that would be considered a war crime.

However, young lad, this is college soccer. Results win trophies, not a bunch of 130 pound 5'6 kids with their socks pulled above their knees playing tiki taka. Looks real good on instagram, I'm sure, but how does it actually pan out on the field? You kind of certain a whole bunch of nothing, other than agreeing with my first statements about tufts being a let down the last 2 years, but congrats on saying "this is one of the funniest posts" as I'm sure you thought that would validate your argument.

Quote from: Futbolguy on November 04, 2025, 01:26:53 PMAnd CSO, it should be noted that Tufts scored the game winner against a very weak Bates team with, wait for it, a PK!    Not sustainable against a stout Midd defense (who is second in league in goals against, so not sure the basis of Hotskulls comments about a defense full of cones).  Midd has given up 9 goals, Tufts 7.  Should be a great matchup on Saturday. 

Middlebury themselves posted a video on instagram this week of their goalkeeper absolutely saving their behinds!! I have never seen a "top" team with a defense that exposed. It looked horrible. Certainly this is not the legacy Luke madden left behind. I'd be very upset if I were him!

This Tufts team is on a revenge tour. The last two years, they've been hyped up, carrying a top ranking all season, only to crumble when it really mattered. That will not happen this year. This team is full of certified DAWGS.

They've got one of the strongest and deepest backlines we've seen in recent years (.455 GA average / 8 clean sheets — shoutout Antic in goal), paired with an attack that finds the back of the net when it matters most. In previous years, Tufts often needed a set piece or an unsung hero to grind out a winner... Not this team. Yanez is 4/4 from the spot in the last six games (CR7-level clutch), and the front three (Perkins, Canfin, Brown) have combined for 33 points, while Jett, Shultz, Fallone, Denby, and others have put in lights-out performances.

DeZotell seems to have finally found the right balance with this roster — major credit to him and his staff. In a year where Amherst look like your local church-league team and Middlebury's backline resembles a bunch of cones standing in the way of opposing attackers, Tufts is playing like the juggernaut we've always known them to be.

If they go into the weekend with the mentality that they end other teams' seasons, not that they are the team to beat, there will be another NESCAC trophy in the cabinet. My advice to the young lads up in Medford: do not play with the timid mindset of "only two more guaranteed games." In fact, F$#K THAT.* Play like you want to flex the strength you have over these inferior, minuscule, delicate, and outright afraid NESCAC schools. Gents, it is Tufts vs. everybody, and there can only be one at the top.

I'll be flying up to Boston this weekend to watch the destruction.

To the rest of you NESCAC fans: You may read this and think I'm too confident — maybe even delusional. But if that's how you feel, I actually sympathize with you... because you're the one who's delusional for not seeing the greatness, hard work, grit, and — as stated before — a squad of DAWGS right in front of your eyes.

– Hotskull

MISSING, I REPEAT MISSING: Mohammed Nuhu. Description: 5'7 167 pound forward on the Amherst Men's Soccer team. Last seen: in the pocket of every player on Bello Field.

WANTED: Justin Serpone. Last seen: harassing a young man on the Tufts Mens Soccer Team during a.. throw-in... Also last seen: doing everything other than coaching his team to at least a subpar performance

You just can't make this stuff up                   

ALSO, WHERE IS ENMORE CAT AND ENMORE KITTEN?

Predictions for the NESCAC classico tonight as Amherst travel to Tufts?