Yeah Durocher had some transfers and it started with a UMass transfer in 1990 and then 1992 got another transfer from St.Francis in Chris Rose.  Saint of Old and I have talked about this. Durocher built up some very good pipelines for recruiting and transferring players. I know things have change but sometimes transfers can help both on the field and off

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Quote from: stlawus on May 02, 2025, 02:35:09 PMSLU's Henry Brown has transferred to Tufts for next season.

Wow.  Big pickup for Tufts and loss for the Saints.

Y would a Saint who has top scored (basically) his first seasons leave the team for a D3 program?
Not blaming the young man,  but imo things cannot be going right for this to happen.
Disrespecting history eventually impacts the present and future.

Tufts has a reputation of being a very good academic school throughout the nation and their soccer program is top notch. One of the best in the nation and plays in the best league in the nation, NESAC.  SLU use to play in the best league in the nation back in the early 90's.  Maybe he just wantedmore of a challenge both academically and athletically.  Can't blame him for that but he will be missed.

Brown leaving is going to hurt. Might be difficult to replace that production. Hope someone can step up. Having Ogango back will help the team, imo.

Quote from: stlawus on April 23, 2025, 08:00:50 PMSLU is bringing in a pretty big class as another player committed.  That brings the total incoming class so far to 8, and there are a few more players still being targeted. 

Updated commit list:

Zach Amato, GK, Brooks School MA.
Verus Kibanga, CAM/CM, Tanzania/UWC East Africa.
Henry Blaxter, F/CAM, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA.
Sam Bothwell, CAM/wing, Manchester Essex HS MA
Kenneth Mejia Lopez, LB/LW, Fox Lane HS NY.
Neel Mitra, M, Mamaroneck HS NY
Jack Greenwood, RB/LB, Harwood Union HS VT
Tomas Ronzoni, CAM/LW/RW, Churchill HS MD

I think they graduated 6-7 players and I wonder if other players are not coming back or just not playing any more. It's a big commitment to do any extra curricular activity in college.  As I told a parent who wanted me to talk to her son about playing college sports it the first thing that I will tell him is do you want to do it because you will miss out somethings.

If he does transfer he is going to be missed. I thought he was missed last year but best of luck to him if this does happen.

Quote from: PaulNewman on December 16, 2024, 10:54:54 PMWhat a night to be a Vermont Catamount....

UVM 2, Marshall 1 OT1

UVM...2024 D1 National Champions

Come from behind too. Scored in the 82 minute then in the first sudden death OT with breakaway goal by going around the goalie. The Marshall defender should have never left his feet but he was tired. No excuses for him but when you are fatigued sometimes you just don't make the best decision. The defender played a great game just made a little mistake. Hats off to both teams. Thought they both played their hearts out. Congrats to UVM for being the National Champs.

Congratulations to Amherst but those have to be the worse pks I have seen from both teams. Congrats to Emmore Kitten for the winning PK.

Quote from: maineman on December 05, 2024, 02:15:12 PMI wonder if the officials selected for the game are from out west?  If so, they may have no idea of the NESCAC style of play.  Would they apt to "let em play" or would they be assessing fouls and cards at an exponential rate compared to what is tolerated in the New England.

Then Amherst needs to adapt. Good teams do.

What is even more interesting is the the player of the year Henry Brown is not even on any of the list.

Just to add to the conversation SLU use to play Middlebury and Hamilton on a regular basis on their schedule. I think Hamilton was the same league as many of the Liberty League teams.  SLU also played Amherst and Williams many times in the NCAA torunament and those games went down to the wire or Pk's.  Some of them SLU dominated the game but was unlucky.  The NESAC has some great teams in it and best of luck to them in the final 4.

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Quote from: Hopkins92 on November 13, 2024, 10:15:13 AMYork?

This isn't really a tournament of the "first out" schools like the NIT might be in basketball.  You have to pay to be a member as a school and then decide to participate in this competition.  It's possible neither happened in this case. I just like the option of playing another game or two that might mean something, especially given how short the college season is already. 

If I remember correctly you have to apply before the ncaa tournament also since the field is announced just after. Our college would only pay for the trip if you had made your conference tournament finals that year. Nice to have games but still can be quite the expense.

I think you are right especially that the some colleges you have to pay for your own transportation, food, and lodging which is why they don't participate in it. It baffles my mind the amount of money that some of these colleges charge for tuition but can't put up a team that represents them in a positive way for a weekend. This happened at my school 30 years ago and it still going on today

Quote from: paclassic89 on November 24, 2024, 04:26:55 PMThis Amherst/UWEC game is shaping up to be a brutal watch

That is an understatement. It looks like helter skelter out there and I don't think both teams have strung 3 passes together. Would have loved to see UWEC 26 goal scorer play but he was injured. The PK I guess you can say was controversial as many players stopped except for NuNu who just took off with it. Don't think the ref or linesman was in position make a call but it happened so fast. Smart play by NuNu to keep playing though.

Simple Coach,

My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family for your loss.

That is no excuse to have back to back games for a loss. It is the same for the other team and use to be how it was every weekend for years. Some games were not even 24 hours between games. You have to do it in the NCAA tournament so you might as well get some experience in how it is.

Reddish played well. Very impresssed with hm today. With Baker, Gustuv, Reddish, and Ogong coming back, that will be a very good defense.