College Cup (Soccer Final Four)

[TU_BLA]

College soccer is going to be fascinating to watch over the next 18 months now that schools have the ability to give 28 full ships. How many schools (men and women) will give their full allotment. How much of a competitive advantage will the ones who give 28 have over the schools who give say 15?

I think most schools will give a full tuition scholarship, including TU. That's a write off to be honest. It's the housing and dining that's the $$$ maker for most schools (as well as a real cost to the school). But a $45k scholarship for tuition each year is nothing to sneeze at. I am hoping TU is working on adding to the gift that was supposed to cover tuition before this ruling came out. And 28 players is a good number. TU has been carrying 30-36 the last few years. TBH, 28 may be too many on the men's side..24 is probably a good number and allow schools to carry 4-5 add'l players as practice players that can be rostered if the team has a season-ending injury. I mean at best, 18 kids are playing in a given game given the new substitution rules. I think Tom's rotation was 16 position players plus the GK. He didn't go very deep and players who played a lot at the start of the year didn't play later on (not sure if that was injury related or not).

TU can compete and they have for quite some time, just a couple of bad years right now.

 

[lawpoke87]

I think most schools will give a full tuition scholarship, including TU. That's a write off to be honest. It's the housing and dining that's the $$$ maker for most schools (as well as a real cost to the school). But a $45k scholarship for tuition each year is nothing to sneeze at. I am hoping TU is working on adding to the gift that was supposed to cover tuition before this ruling came out. And 28 players is a good number. TU has been carrying 30-36 the last few years. TBH, 28 may be too many on the men's side..24 is probably a good number and allow schools to carry 4-5 add'l players as practice players that can be rostered if the team has a season-ending injury. I mean at best, 18 kids are playing in a given game given the new substitution rules. I think Tom's rotation was 16 position players plus the GK. He didn't go very deep and players who played a lot at the start of the year didn't play later on (not sure if that was injury related or not).

TU can compete and they have for quite some time, just a couple of bad years right now.

That would be a considerable upgrade from what a lot of these players are currently receiving. Hope you’re correct and TU gives 28 full tuition ships in both men’s and women’s soccer.

 

[TulsaRulzOSUdrools]

That would be a considerable upgrade from what a lot of these players are currently receiving. Hope you’re correct and TU gives 28 full tuition ships in both men’s and women’s soccer.

I see zero reasons they could not give out the 28 full-tuition scholarships. Room and board are different issues. We are fools if we are not offering full-tuition.

 

[TU_BLA]

Felt bad for the Marshall CB who misplayed the striker on his game winning run/goal. Needed to put a body on him much earlier and then panicked when he couldn’t get across the strikers body. Vermont has a lot of speed and athleticism up top. Anyone know how those players ended up playing at Vermont ?

Rewatched the clip several times and that CB played it like a do or die situation when all he had to do was stay goal side and stride for stride and take his chances that the keeper could stop a shot on the short side. Instead, he got impatient and panicked and went for a hero tackle 25 yds for goal. Hopefully your daughter, as a CB, has learned that sometimes patient defending and standing the attacker up until you either get help or they get impatient is way better than the hero challenge most of the time. I think it was the City and Liverpool match a couple weeks ago, Haaland got the ball in a 1v1 situation vs van Dijk, and van Dijk just ran in front of him and kept Haaland from having an open net look and Haaland got impatient and put a weak strike right at Kelleher. Brilliant example of a defender not having to do insane stuff to be effective.

 

[lawpoke87]

Rewatched the clip several times and that CB played it like a do or die situation when all he had to do was stay goal side and stride for stride and take his chances that the keeper could stop a shot on the short side. Instead, he got impatient and panicked and went for a hero tackle 25 yds for goal. Hopefully your daughter, as a CB, has learned that sometimes patient defending and standing the attacker up until you either get help or they get impatient is way better than the hero challenge most of the time. I think it was the City and Liverpool match a couple weeks ago, Haaland got the ball in a 1v1 situation vs van Dijk, and van Dijk just ran in front of him and kept Haaland from having an open net look and Haaland got impatient and put a weak strike right at Kelleher. Brilliant example of a defender not having to do insane stuff to be effective.

#1 rule as a CB is to delay. Delay ball and allow other defenders to support.

#2 rule when marking someone faster (as was the case with the game winning goal) is to body the striker at the beginning of their run. CB isn’t going to win a foot race against a faster opponent so you need to body them (cut them off) before the foot race begins.

#3 If the above fails stay goal side and cut down the angle for the goalie.

Above all…stay calm

My daughter’s team currently ranks 4th in all of ECNL in shutouts. They’ve allowed 1 goal (against Solar) in their last 8 games. They’re currently playing very well in the back. Needs to continue due to the hole they dug for themselves the first month of the season.

Crazy stat….FCD’s 2025 girls class has 18 D1 signees including 14 going to P4 schools.