F&M has allowed 14 goals over 13 games which is decent for any season, but is 4-7-3 and they have only scored 9 goals. 5 1-0 and two 2-0 loses.

Definitely see that. Like many D3 teams, goals are golden! Got to have them.

Hop is definitely looking strong. Only can win what is front of them. Hop may win it all, making the CC a one team NCAA qualifier.

Bottom 3 F&M, WC and McDaniel all mathematically eliminated. Only real fight for 6th place.

You could say that F&M fell apart which is true. However, over 13 games, they only allowed 14 goals. Their problem is that they only scored 9 goals. Every game it has been pretty much the same. Decent in 2/3rds of the field and just falling apart in the last third.

Quote from: Kuiper on Yesterday at 12:49:27 AMMississippi University for Women's Men's soccer team finally breaks out of the Yet to Win club!

FINAL:  MUW 5 - Tougaloo 3

Tougaloo was 0-9 coming into the game and has only won 2 games in the last 3 years.  It's also an NAIA team, but a win is a win!

Did not watch, but never heard of Tougaloo College. An HBCU and very interesting. Has over 2500 students with very few sports while being not crazy expensive and 50/50 men/women ratio. Don't know what its financial health is (says tuition is around $12k), but might be something for other schools to study.

Not D3 but NAIA. Looked at roster which lists 21 players of which 4 are goalkeepers. So only 17 field players. They def. do a bit of traveling with games in TX, TN and AL.

Quote from: Hopkins92 on October 20, 2026, 05:11:38 PMYeah, what SKUD said.

We haven't had a "state of D3 school economics" discussion in a while. All the reporting I've seen is painting a very bleak picture: demographics and the overall cost of a 4-year education are making it extremely difficult for these small schools to stay afloat.

Yup, super, super bleak.  All the chickens are coming home to roost right now and not enough colleges to figure out things to survive, imo. Don't know what motivated St. Francis (Pa) to ever go D1 with only about 2500 students (apparently only 40% male). Obv. a huge mistake. However, according to the interwebs it went D1 in 1981 when ob. things were different to say the least.

Also did not want to bring up the football team.

St. Francis (PA) was until this year D1 to include its soccer team. They were a middle to lower tier D1 soccer team. They went from a .500 D1 team to 0-11 in D3. It is deep in farm country sometimes called Pennsyltucky.

Looking at the 2026 roster which now has only 14 (1 gk) with one or 2 seniors and the rest freshmen. Goals scored 5 while giving up 62. The gk has 84 saves. Corners 11 for SF and 118 for the opponents. 

2025 they had 28 or so players with plenty of guys from overseas. Also SF did not hire a head coach till late March this year who has some Mount Union connections (SC?)

More than just dropping from D1. Rather not even having a program in 2025. 

Quote from: jknezek on October 15, 2026, 09:58:38 AMI think W&L got caught looking forward instead of playing the game in front of them. Bad stretch.

Better now than ODACs

No idea as to Rowan, but, when playing Randy Mac, W&L lost a player (two year starter who is a senior and played most of all the minutes) against Batten due to a red card on Saturday when they fought back to a 3-3 tie. That might have impacted their play against Randy Mac.

Also, I am thinking that injuries may be impacting teams this time of year.

Brutal. No gimmes this time of year in conference or out.

Rough couple of days for W&L. With a tie against Batten and falling short against Randy Mac mens. R-M went up 2-0 and won 2-1 knocking W&L down to 3rd place tied with R-M. Spunky Bridgewater is in 2nd with Lynchburg in 1st.

Guess what - this Saturday W&L plays Lynchburg who they lost to 1-0. Yes, first games doesn't mean much, but this one will. W&L then plays Bridgewater in its next game. If W&L gets results in the next two games, they will def. be back.

Big goose egg for the Conf. Conf tonight. Muhls fought hard against Messiah but lost 2-1. CNU beat Dickinson 1-0 in the 88+ min. Close but no cigars,

However Swat beat Stevens 4-1 and the Fords beat Manhattanville 3-1.

Very interesting that the Fords have the best record (10-3-1) in the Cent. Conf. by a bit but are currently in 7th place with a 2-3 record and currently out of the conf. playoffs.

Very, very mediocre year for the Cent. Conf. imo. Should be a crazy finish with each having 4 conf. games left.

Watch the video. 8 also named the asst coach and now is HC of Redlands in CA. So different guy.

During my kids recruitment, my son and I had at least one discussion with Serpone. Came off as a good guy, no red flags during our discussions. Son broke his finger in the first 10 min at the Amherst ID camp in VA. So that was pretty much that. No hard feelings plus we probably couldn't have afforded Amherst anyway.

Quote from: blue_jays on October 13, 2026, 03:16:46 PMAmherst admin obviously does not care, or this would have been nipped in the bud years ago. I'm sure it's the usual "us against the world" mentality where "everyone hates Amherst" and they circle the wagons. People have been justifiably grousing on these boards about this for years and years.

As to Amherst caring or not, I'm going with they don't. Check out this video from Amherst v. Middlebury in 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9YX_NSIFE

Notice also the Asst. Coach, Alex Ortega, now HC at Redlands. Among the disturbing behavior, a coach appears to be joining in the taunting, see :49 of the video where it appears that he is waving to the Middlebury crowd and not making any effort to correct the behavior of his players.

I sent this in an email to Amherst's pres. and he responded with -

Thank you for your note.  I am indeed aware of this deeply troubling behavior, and you are absolutely correct that it does not represent the standard of conduct that we expect of Amherst athletes.  I assure you that we will take appropriate action, and I hope that we will be able to earn back your respect for Amherst soccer.

So that was 2023. I'm guessing that Amherst admin either doesn't care or just doesn't want to know.

IMO, Amherst could play maybe even better with the talent they have. They just chose that way.

I personally do not have a problem. At the very least, they won't have 2 games a week with a compressed schedule. Fewer injuries maybe. Could be that they only play on weekends which will let them be in class more often. The airplane leagues miss a whole lot of classes.

Quote from: Kuiper on October 08, 2026, 12:35:39 PMIf you look at the Centennial Composite Schedule, it almost feels like a deliberate move on the part of the conference for schools to schedule strong opponents this coming Tuesday/Wednesday.  It's probably just a coincidence that every conference member is playing a team higher than them on the NPI rankings, but it's pretty clear the schedule was structured to allow for this late-season non-conference game and schools may have decided they would be better prepared to play a stronger non-conference team later rather than earlier.  If every Centennial team won their mid-week game and got an NPI boost, that might help push another team into an at-large spot.

Tues 10/13

Haverford @ Manhattanville
Salisbury @ Ursinus
Gettysburg @ Carnegie Mellon
Stevens @ Swarthmore

Wed 10/14

Dickinson v. Christopher Newport
Messiah @ Muhlenberg

Very true! IMO, the Muhls don't have a shot against Messiah, but the other 5 have a chance.