2025 D3 Men's Soccer National Perspective

[SierraFD3soccer]

Hopkins steals one on the road in Gambier. 1-0 off of a weird indirect set piece inside Kenyon's 18. I wasn't really watching so I don't know what the call was, but the keeper was very annoyed with the AR.

Hopkins travels to Denison for a match-up against Denison. The D3 poll had Hop with an 18 percent chance to win. I get that losing to Sewanee 4-0 in TN looked bad, but I wonder what the numbers would be with this information available to the hive mind.

Yeah, they called it as a pass back to the keeper and keeper picked up the ball. It really was not intentional and should have not been called. Plus the placed the ball much further back in the box which imo made much easier to score.  Hey, 1-0 is 1-0

[BigSoccerFan]

7+ minute VAR review to see if Swarthmore was fouled in the box at Montclair.  Finally no foul given.  1-0 Montclair.

[WILD]

Some ugly soccer in Grantham tonight. Both the Falcons and Mudd-Scripps played an ugly brand of soccer that made for a pretty exciting 4-3 goal party. While both teams had stretches of brilliance with good buildup and some pretty convincing attacks, the overall defensive performances will lead to short seasons for both teams. Runners free in the box, poor shape, and a lot of players caught sleeping. I'm sure both teams will spend some time in film cleaning these problems up, but tonight was a rough night for those back lines.

On the upside, a passionate performance from Patrick Lee with two goals to show for it, John Laidlow is a force to be reckon with and a "man child" as the falcon announcers so ineloquently said, and Brad McCarty's magic may be running out in Grantham, or maybe it was just Brandts all along.

[Another Mom]

W&L played really well -- great possession and passing -- but struggled to finish. They outshot Covenant by a wide margin, and the score really should have been 3-0. But a momentary lapse late in the game allowed a Covenant goal. Frustrating!

My take: they are playing better than they were a year ago, so that's good. The first year who scored, Sami Seife, looks like he has a lot of potential.  But they have to figure out how to finish, or I'm not optimistic about the season.

[SierraFD3soccer]

I know and many aren't following the Covenant Scots much. Lots of good reasons.

I started a little last year after beating Hampden Sydney and W&L. They went on to a 12-3-3 season losing in their conf. championship. Since 2018 they have been consistently winning. Lost to W&L in the second round 2-1 in 2021. They also play on top of big hill and call their field Scotland Yard. Looks really nice. 

Maybe your next "Field of Dreams" episode, SimpleCoach!

[jknezek]

Per Covenant, the field is nice but it use to be nicer! The trees have grown too tall and block the view off Lookout Mountain plateau. It's still beautiful, but it used to be spectacular.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Almost an amazing comeback.
Franklin hasn't won a game since Sept 30 2023, having gone 0-21-6 since. On the road at Eureka they gave up a goal with under 14 minutes left to fall behind 4-0. Would have been easy to give up at that point but a minute later they converted a penalty, less than 4 minutes after that they scored again, and added a 3rd less than three minutes later. Sadly they couldn't find an equalizer in the final 6 minutes but that was a heck of an effort.
With heart like that we're going to finally get a win at some point this year. I can feel it.

[SierraFD3soccer]

Denison very impressive 3 goals in about 2 min.  4th goal way, way too easy. Going to be another long bus ride home.  Probably actually looking forward to classes on Monday.

[Another Mom]

W&L Mary Washington game is not behind a paywall. Less than 10 min in the score is 1-1.

[SierraFD3soccer]

W&L Mary Washington game is not behind a paywall. Less than 10 min in the score is 1-1.

Only one this season? Thanks! hahaha

[eaglesoccerdad]

W&L Mary Washington game is not behind a paywall. Less than 10 min in the score is 1-1.

for all of those that poo-poo the C2C, at least they haven't sold out to the FloSports overlords

[Gregory Sager]

W&L Mary Washington game is not behind a paywall. Less than 10 min in the score is 1-1.

for all of those that poo-poo the C2C, at least they haven't sold out to the FloSports overlords

I, for one, welcome our new FloSports overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted d3boards.com personality I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

[kansas hokie]

D3 mens soccer Massey ratings were cleaned up a bit today, some interesting ratings (Denison #1! Rowan #2!)....it's still way early for data points but fun to chat about who stands out.

https://masseyratings.com/csoc2025/ncaa-d3/ratings

[eaglesoccerdad]

When was the last time Messiah started 0-3? Never?

[SierraFD3soccer]

When was the last time Messiah started 0-3? Never?

Lot of firsts or maybe not have happened in a long, long time. Already a very interesting season!