TU having a home and home series with OSU for 8 consecutive years gives Tulsa chances to get wins with national recognition. The key is getting home games against big programs. That said, you've got to take advantage of the opportunities.

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aTUfan said:

world-inflation has happened before, without us

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It's not like there wasn't a new, unusual, and external cause, that affected us and the world, as far as inflation was concerned, this time. It happened that way because of a monumental event in world history, and due to mismanagement by both parties. The past inflationary problems before it became a global economy were for Hungary and Germany following WWII, because they were on the losing side, and that affected their economy after the war. Then there was the past inflationary problems of Venezuela and Argentina due to political instability and mismanagement by dictators and the like.

There has never been a serious problem with world inflation that did not affect the US. Even after WWII we had a brief problem with inflation at a pretty darn serious 18% during 1946. Then we entered a boom period that destroyed inflationary problems with great speed. Quit throwing out false gobbled gook, because you think it's true, when you have nothing to back it up.

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aTUfan said:

some people always do well, but the majority aren't
Her solution to fix Biden-Harris-Dem inflation, is to Take more from some and Give it to others.

NOT up to the gov to make sure I have enough money, it IS up to the gov that I have an opportunity to earn

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Point of order: Year over year food price inflation in January 2021 when Trump left office was already at 6.2%. Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_02102021.pdf

Not saying that Biden handled it perfectly, but let's not pretend there was no brewing storm and that suddenly, by sheer force of fiscal incompetence, Biden managed to send it soaring all by his lonesome across the entire planet. Inflation happened worldwide, and it was already starting by January 2021.

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South Alabama is not a bad program. Ask OSU, after they came into Stillwater last year and won by 4 TD’s, while almost doubling the offensive yardage.

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I watched a majority of this match last night. It's TU's first win over a ranked team in 14 years. This could be a special season.

chito_and_leon said:

I don't know much about soccer but I read an article that said that the most important differentiator of great vs not great goalies is their ability to set up their team to score, not their ability to stop goals. I recall it argued there are limited shots on goal and the majority of variability on whether a shot goes in is beyond the control of the goalie regardless of skill, so great goalies only make a difference of a few goals a year from stopping skill. But effectively setting up the offense produces much more increase in goals, so even a middling stopping goalie who sets up the offense well produces a net goal benefit for their team relative to a great stopping goalie who doesn't set up the offense well. Thoughts? I have no ability to evaluate the argument but generally think more scoring in soccer would be better so I liked the thought.

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I think goalies being able to set up an offense is more of a factor in the men’s game than the women’s at the college level and below….at least from my observations. BLA is the resident goalie expert so I will defer to him. However, my observations from girls soccer is that goalies will primarily distribute the ball to the CBs and OBs with an occasionally pass to the 6 mixed in. Teams then rely on those back 5 find the space and play into the midfield. My daughter’s team practices switching the field in the back at almost every practice in order to open up space. If you have a goalie who’s good with her feet you can use her in those switches as well.

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lawpoke87 said:

Thanks for the response. My daughter’s team spends at minimum 2-3 hours per week practicing playing it out of the back and through the midfield. We probably play it back to the keeper no less than 5-8 times a game. Sometimes a lot more if the opponent is playing direct soccer. Just found it odd a D1 college team wasn’t doing this.

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I don't know much about soccer but I read an article that said that the most important differentiator of great vs not great goalies is their ability to set up their team to score, not their ability to stop goals. I recall it argued there are limited shots on goal and the majority of variability on whether a shot goes in is beyond the control of the goalie regardless of skill, so great goalies only make a difference of a few goals a year from stopping skill. But effectively setting up the offense produces much more increase in goals, so even a middling stopping goalie who sets up the offense well produces a net goal benefit for their team relative to a great stopping goalie who doesn't set up the offense well. Thoughts? I have no ability to evaluate the argument but generally think more scoring in soccer would be better so I liked the thought.

I am one of those who thought we should have not gone with GJ Kinne. I still believe I was correct. It's not that he isnt a good coach. It's that there was no way of knowing how good of a coach he would be. He is just too green. To take that big of a risk on a hire just wasnt smart. You would be putting a green coach into a complete rebuild mode at a school that has higher academic standards. I think Wilson was the right choice to change things around. Do I think he will take us to the top? I have no clue but we needed someone who has been through turnarounds before. Could get the ship at least righted. Could have GJ Kinne done that??? Maybe...but that is the point. He has no prior opportunites to show that he can and that is a hard person to stake your school's program on. After Texas St he might be worth that chance now. I still say he needs a couple more years.

goldenhurricane2 said:

Yeah there’s really no reason to run the score up that much - I agree

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To be fair, we scored more points in the 4th quarter against them than South Alabama put up.

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lawpoke87 said:

Thanks for the response. My daughter’s team spends at minimum 2-3 hours per week practicing playing it out of the back and through the midfield. We probably play it back to the keeper no less than 5-8 times a game. Sometimes a lot more if the opponent is playing direct soccer. Just found it odd a D1 college team wasn’t doing this.

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When my son played for Donovan Ricketts (U12, TSC), they would spend 30-40 minutes every practice just passing and Donovan always preached "firm passes! I need firm passes!". Then they'd spend another 45 minutes playing out of the back. They'd spend time doing it with no pressure on them so the backline, 6, and the GK got used to moving off the ball into proper spaces to be an outlet while they tried to find a crack through the front line who could just move side to side. Then he'd release the forwards to press. I'm pretty sure the boys were bored out of their minds doing the same simple things over and over at practice but I will tell you that by the end of the year, that team could play out of the back without thinking about it. People asked me how it was having an MLS keeper for a coach for my young GK and honestly, Donovan NEVER worked with him on GK technique in team practices...the only thing he worked with him on from a GK'ing perspective was "What do you see?" in terms of seeing how the defense was set up and how to break it down and I'm 100% convinced that is why my son is able to see and read the field like he's a coach.

Donovan often doubted his ability to teach and relate to young kids as a coach because, as he put it, I've never done it before and I've never done it from that young an age, he'd been around upper level national and pro clubs the majority of his life. What I learned was, teach kids the same concepts you would teach adults. They're young and sponges and absorb everything. And lo and behold, if you teach the right things and develop players, the winning takes care of itself.

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We might suck.

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In all fairness , we could have easily put up 89 if we kept up the pace , scoring 87 is classless