Liberty League

[stlawus]

SLU'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.

I've always been more optimistic than everyone else, but Saint might have a point.  SLU used to get transfers from programs like that.  Durocher's last team had a transfer from UR as an example.  It is a much different landscape now of course, but hard not to wonder.

[kevdog]

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

[stlawus]

You're of course right, I was just referring to transfers from high academic programs comparable to Tufts like Rochester, not just in general.  But yes, Durocher's last team had transfers from UR, Syracuse and American.