Quote from: VASoccerDad on August 21, 2026, 08:48:19 AMLet's hear from other schools?!?!

The Bears have added All-American Peter Cirbo from Lake Forest to one of the deepest teams since... have to think about that... Bears win a second consecutive league title.

 

Quote from: D3fanboy on August 21, 2026, 12:54:58 PMthere is some WR running around wearing #2 with dreads that has been pictured in summer drills with Maloney and the boys and running with the first team in the practices.  Have AI figure out who that dude is

Could it be Jaeson Anderson?  He was #22 last year and he switched from DB to WR this year according to today's version of the roster. 

Speaking of the WR room, I did a quick check and all three of the backup WR listed on the 2 deep from the last game are on the current roster.  Ashby, Caldwell, Preston Smith.

Defensively I was disappointed to not see Solis on the roster.  I thought he looked promising on the DL as a freshman.

there is some WR running around wearing #2 with dreads that has been pictured in summer drills with Maloney and the boys and running with the first team in the practices.  Have AI figure out who that dude is

NEWMAC 2026 Men's Soccer Preseason Poll

1. Wheaton
2. Babson
3. Coast Guard
4. WPI
5. Springfield
6. Emerson
7. Salve Regina
8. MIT
9. Clark

Quote from: deutschfan on August 21, 2026, 11:51:17 AMThat time of year again.  Saw Hobart posted its 2026 roster, all 39 of them including a bunch of internationals.  Once again LL teams will have to deal with the Hobart hordes.  Also checked out the Davidson box score from last night.  Tobolski, who could have rewritten the Vassar record books if he had stayed, didn't see the pitch.  I understand if you want to play professionally that D1 is the way to go.  It is such a crap shoot especially as a D3 transfer and if you look at the physical size of the Davidson players most of them dwarf Tobolski.  Yes, every hundred years or so a Messi comes around but in D1 size matters.  I hope he gets significant playing time but in retrospect the move may have been to Amherst or Tufts to try to get a ring ala Henry Brown.   

Tobolski is from Chapel Hill, North Carolina so it's not crazy that he chose Davidson if he wanted to be closer to home.  Lots of kids transfer for that reason and he didn't sacrifice academic quality to do it.

Trinity is a narrow favorite (two point) in the SAA preseason poll. 

1. Trinity - 54 (5)
2. Berry - 52 (3)
3. Centre - 38
T4. Maryville - 37
T4. Millsaps - 37
6. Southwestern 27
7. Rhodes - 20
8. Sewanee - 15

Tigers scrimmage TLU Schreiner at home tomorrow night (I think it's TLU, anyway) so I may try to head out to get a handle on whois starting at QB.  Apparently the gap between Hondo Franklin and Welker Horn narrowed in the spring. 

Quote from: jknezek on August 21, 2026, 09:15:29 AMExcited this year I get to go see both the W&L men's and women's soccer teams. The last few years I've gotten to see the men's team as they came south. Been great to take my sons and support the team. This year the women's team comes to Sewanee, so my coworker whose daughter plays for Sewanee and I are going to make the drive.

Back to Covenant for the men, Sewanee for the women. Two truly beautiful campuses and W&L soccer. If only the football team would renew its once 60 plus year tradition with Sewanee I'd be thrilled. I'd only be missing lax, and even that I got the women's team year before last in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.

All great places to watch.

May go to see W&L at Hop on Sunday Sept 6. We'll see. Should be a good gauge as how each team will do in 2026, but def. not definitive. Was thinking of going up to F&M the Friday before when they play, but my son graduated from F&M 4 yrs ago now and really don't want to take time from work to drive up there (from the Annapolis area). Just as easily watch it on free streaming. FYI, both F&M's and Hop's announcers are decent, imo. Not students tripping out or nutjob homies. Don't know if I will invest in the ODAC money grab yet.

Have been going to Stevenson (right outside of Bmore) the last couple of years as W&L lacrosse played 2 games there over a weekend and a fraternity brother's son played for W&L (another fraternity brother's son has been an ass't coach for the last 4 years. Also, I believe is the first alumni kid, who went to W&L and had both parents grad. from W&L Father 87 and mother 89). I was in a mostly Bmore/lacrosse fraternity and also the only soccer player, but that was in the 80's. Nothing special playing soccer at W&L then.

If W&L has homefield advantage in the ODAC soccer finals, I will be in Lex Vegas for a fraternity get together that weekend. So may get a second chance to see them.

As to Sewanee, The Univ of the South, my cousin went there and it is very beautiful (when she was there it was still called that in the 80's early 90's). Further, another fraternity brother's son played lacrosse there until last year. Another fraternity brother's kid (a girl this time) graduated from Sewanee. She got into W&L, and like us, they could not afford W&L. She recently got her PhD in a science field, can't remember when.

Another Fall, another time to get excited!

Freshman RB Sauveur Auguste (6'0" 225):  https://x.com/AugusteSauveur/

Using the super scientific method known as Google, here is an unofficial list of the previous destinations of the incoming transfers:

Colson Conrad - Trine
Asaad Robinson - Notre Dame College
Brayden Miller - Stetson
Pavel Henderson - Walsh/Hocking College
Titus Watkins - Wittenberg
Jace Radford - Brevard College
Carson Palisoc - Northeastern State (Oklahoma)
Hudson Grimsley - Salisbury

Rakiem Mills, Trey Woodley, OP Knox, Maverick Piotrowski, Jahaad Williams and TJ Griffin I could only find info about them committing to Mount; I take that to mean that no jersey number does not mean you're an incoming transfer by default. Is this a redshirt then, a recommitment to the team? Something else?

Also, I couldn't find anything on RB Tre Singleton, but there is a Tyrone Singleton from Willoughby who was listed as a running back for Ashland last year.

Now, please proceed to tell me what a terrible job I did, as is the en vogue thing to do on the internet these days.

That time of year again.  Saw Hobart posted its 2026 roster, all 39 of them including a bunch of internationals.  Once again LL teams will have to deal with the Hobart hordes.  Also checked out the Davidson box score from last night.  Tobolski, who could have rewritten the Vassar record books if he had stayed, didn't see the pitch.  I understand if you want to play professionally that D1 is the way to go.  It is such a crap shoot especially as a D3 transfer and if you look at the physical size of the Davidson players most of them dwarf Tobolski.  Yes, every hundred years or so a Messi comes around but in D1 size matters.  I hope he gets significant playing time but in retrospect the move may have been to Amherst or Tufts to try to get a ring ala Henry Brown.