SUNYAC 2016

[Golden_Fan]

SUNYAC teams start playing tomorrow with the first game being Elmira at Cortland. The question this year is if any one can slow down Oneonta, they graduated a ton but tend to reload year after year. If no one can stop them they will win their 5th SUNYAC Championship in 6 years.

The other games this weekend are:

Friday
Medialle College vs. SUNY Potsdam      
Brockport   vs. St. Lawrence
Buffalo State vs. Rochester         
SUNY Poly   vs. Oswego
Salve Regina University  vs. Plattsburgh
Norwich University vs. New Paltz

Saturday
Brockport   vs.   Clarkson      
SUNY Poly   vs.   New Paltz   
Salve Regina University vs. SUNY Potsdam   
Buffalo State vs.   Nazareth      
U.S. Merchant Marine   vs. Fredonia
Medaille College   vs. Plattsburgh
Norwich vs. Oswego
Cortland vs. Skidmore

Sunday
Washington and Lee vs. Oneonta   
Bethany College   vs. Fredonia

[Golden_Fan]

Season Previews for a few of the teams:

Brockport
http://gobrockport.com/news/2016/8/31/season-preview-brockport-mens-soccer.aspx

Fredonia
http://www.fredoniabluedevils.com/news/2016/8/31/mens-soccer-msoc-preview.aspx

New Paltz
http://www.nphawks.com/news/2016/8/31/2016-mens-soccer-season-preview.aspx

Oneonta
http://www.oneontaathletics.com/news/2016/8/3/mens-soccer-begins-season-ranked-no-3.aspx

Potsdam
http://potsdambears.com/news/2016/8/31/2016msopreview083116.aspx

Interesting info that Buff State went over to england for their preseaon http://www.buffalostateathletics.com/news/2016/8/2/mens-soccer-buffalo-states-soccer-teams-to-open-2016-campaigns-in-england.aspx

[Golden_Fan]

SLU up 2-0 at the half vs Brockport. Overall SLU is the much stronger side, very technical, and just out playing brockport. Brockport had a few chances one hitting the cross bar from a free kick on the 18. Other than that they look disorganized which is probably due to them being a young team and the way SLU can move the ball around.

Also, the video quality is excellent.

[Mr.Right]

SLU and RPI have top 5 video quality in the country. IMO

[Golden_Fan]

Opening day of the SUNYAC has finally arrived. The biggest game of this weekend is easily Cortland vs Oneonta this afternoon. This game could and probably will effect who has a shot at the regular season title.

Fri. 23   
Brockport at Fredonia       3:00 PM   
Cortland at Oneonta       3:00 PM   
Geneseo at Buffalo State       3:00 PM   
Oswego at New Paltz       3:00 PM   

Sat. 24   
Plattsburgh at Potsdam       1:00 PM   
Geneseo at Fredonia       1:00 PM   
Cortland at New Paltz       1:00 PM   
Oswego at Oneonta       1:00 PM   
Brockport at Buffalo State       4:00 PM

[Mr.Right]

Golden Fan.....I will be watching the Cortland v Oneonta game today. I have not seen Cortland yet this season. Any prediction?

[Golden_Fan]

Golden Fan.....I will be watching the Cortland v Oneonta game today. I have not seen Cortland yet this season. Any prediction?

I haven't seen either play but my guess would be 2-1 oneonta. I am going to try and watch that game side by side with the brockport one

[Mr.Right]

Golden Fan.....I will be watching the Cortland v Oneonta game today. I have not seen Cortland yet this season. Any prediction?

I haven't seen either play but my guess would be 2-1 oneonta. I am going to try and watch that game side by side with the brockport one

What is up with Brockport this season? They seem to be struggling. Do they have injuries? To many dependable seniors graduate? bad luck? What gives...

[Golden_Fan]

Golden Fan.....I will be watching the Cortland v Oneonta game today. I have not seen Cortland yet this season. Any prediction?

I haven't seen either play but my guess would be 2-1 oneonta. I am going to try and watch that game side by side with the brockport one

What is up with Brockport this season? They seem to be struggling. Do they have injuries? To many dependable seniors graduate? bad luck? What gives...

They lose their starting keeper of the past 4 years, 2 starting defenders, their top midfielder, top goal scorer,  and two impact players coming off the bench, their associate head coach of about 13 years, and had 9 freshman and one transfer come in. Their first couple of games they just seemed disorganized and play like a young team.

[Mr.Right]

Oneonta v Cortland 0-0 about 30 minutes in. A good feisty rivalry game with both teams playing pretty well and each with a couple of chances. I see 2 NCAA tournament teams here with maybe 1 of them getting to the Sweet 16 but not sure I see a Final 4 team here as of yet.

[Mr.Right]

I forgot how dominant Oneonta was last year. In 9 conference games they went 8-1-0 but amazingly only let up 2GA in 9 games with 7 shutouts. That is really impressive.

[Golden_Fan]

1-1 at half time for brockport and fredonia. Both teams look like a mess and can't string 5 passes together.

[Mr.Right]

Oneonta has come out of half-time FLYING...They go up 1-0 on Cortland with a nice goal after receiving nice service from the flank #18 snaps a header into the corner of the goal. Cortland caught napping defensively as the defender did not really challenge him. Oneonta really moving the ball on a string with some nice beautiful crisp passing all over the field.

[Mr.Right]

Oneonta up 2-0 now and are in complete control of this game. I am disappointed in Cortland's effort and defending. They are playing waaaay to casual for my taste and do not look the least bit interested in this game. Oneonta is the better team and I might have to re-assess as if Oneonta plays like this they can get back to the NCAA Final 4. 2nd Half Oneonta has been impressive.

[Golden_Fan]

Brockport is looking terrible, going to be a long season for them. Oneonta up 3-0 now and flying. I'm hoping i can catch some of the plattsburgh game tomorrow to see if they could keep up with oneonta.