Liberty League

[stlawus]

Not really sure where Quinn Phillips is getting a 5th year of eligibility from for Hobart as he's currently listed on the roster. Can only get a medical redshirt if you played in a 3rd or fewer games in the injured season and he played 41% of games that year. Seems like some compliance funny business going on there. 

Who even knows this year.  And I'm close to getting to the point where it's "who even cares" if we continue to see the same nonsense from SLU. I want to follow the league as thoroughly as I always have but it's much more difficult to have interest when the powers that be for SLU soccer don't show interest. Results are one thing, the product is another.  SLU had a good spring and the coach finally ditched some of his ridiculous bias against the transfer portal after getting beat over the head by Cortland for so long, but we shall see.

Teams haven't been repeating the last several seasons because it's exceedingly more difficult playing with a target on your back as well as the home and away scheduling flips season to season. Hobart will probably be picked first especially with Vassar losing all that they did. Hobart will hope to avoid a repeat cycle of 2023 to 2024. Won the league in 2023 off the back of lots of wonder goals which regressed in the NCAA tournament and then underperformed in 2024.  Hobart also had a lot of wonder goals in the 2nd half of 2025 which again regressed in the first round.  They maintain most of their offense from last season, but now have the target on their back but will be better positioned than most of the league to start.

Skidmore had a nice season last year, but one has to wonder how much teams will adjust to them now that they won't catch anyone by surprise.  It's hard to imagine RPI continuing to be as poor as they have, but then again I've said similar things about SLU and nothing has changed yet.

[kevdog]

Hobart/Skidmore
Vassar
Union
SLU/RPI/Clarkson
Ithaca
RIT
Bard

Hobart has several key players coming back and will be tough.Skidmore had a really good season and on paper their recruiting class looks good. Union had another good recruiting class on paper. Let's see if these classes can relate to the field. RPI and Clarkson you never know. The other teams I just don't know. As far as SLU is concerned, I don't have really high hopes. Their recruiting classes on paper doesn't wow you like before but hopefully they do better on the field.  Their coach finally accepted a transfer but will see how that turns out. His denial of transfers before were just plain stupid as there are different reasons why players want to do it. To all the teams I wish them a healthy and good season that will be entertaining.

[Ejay]

Re: Medical Waiver, although my son never took them, he qualified 2x so I know a bit about them. The NCAA actually uses 21 games as the denominator, so the fact Quinn only played 7 his Jr year would allow him to retain eligibility for 1 additional year.

Hardship Waiver Rule

Standard Denominator