2020 Women's D1 Soccer Talk!!!! EXTENDED TO SPRING '21!!!!

dk_b said:
Cal has been practicing as a team since training resumed early this month and I’m pretty sure that Stanford has as well.
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Hey bro, if Srs play this season from Pac 12, can they play next season? No Big West season and is allowing all Srs another season next year? Thanks bro
 
crush said:
Hey bro, if Srs play this season from Pac 12, can they play next season? No Big West season and is allowing all Srs another season next year? Thanks bro
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Under the NCAA rules, this is season is a freebie. When the new frosh arrive, there will be 2x the number with 4 years of eligibility. I am not sure how this is managed with respect to a team’s specific scholarship allotment (it would seem that they’d need to increase the # for a bit) or the extent to which this is the player’s choice (In the P5, where awards are guaranteed 4-year awards, do they become 5-year awards? If so, it seems that it could be financially impactful and it is why I thought the NCAA would change the NLI date for this year’s seniors (I was wrong) and why I thought that schools may re-structure verbal offers for 2021s (I assume I was wrong about that but people don’t generally talk about their own kid’s award so I can only guess)
 
dk_b said:
Under the NCAA rules, this is season is a freebie. When the new frosh arrive, there will be 2x the number with 4 years of eligibility. I am not sure how this is managed with respect to a team’s specific scholarship allotment (it would seem that they’d need to increase the # for a bit) or the extent to which this is the player’s choice (In the P5, where awards are guaranteed 4-year awards, do they become 5-year awards? If so, it seems that it could be financially impactful and it is why I thought the NCAA would change the NLI date for this year’s seniors (I was wrong) and why I thought that schools may re-structure verbal offers for 2021s (I assume I was wrong about that but people don’t generally talk about their own kid’s award so I can only guess)
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Its a log jam, that's for sure. Basically, 2021 and 2022s have it very tough. Old days, the schools took in 8-11 recruits bro? Now days, maybe 4 or 5? Oh boy, I was wrong about waiting. I take that all back today. I'm eating some crow with humble pie. I know when to admit I was wrong and I was wrong. I should have let my dd email and talk it up three years ago. I had know idea it would be this hard for my dd to actually play in a game, let alone get recruited. Peace!!!
 
Soccer43 said:
I don't see any live streaming options on the actual schedules yet so I hope those get set up.
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Stanford indicates that 11 games will be viewable (includes links on several but not all)

Cal shows a couple

USC shows 11 (no links as yet)

UCLA does not indicate any so far

UW has 8, all with links.

I stopped there. I’m guessing the Pac-12 will try to show nearly all the games one way or another.
 
I highly doubt more scholarships will be added. Every player will have an extra year of eligibility and it will be left up to the coach to determine who he wants to give money to. It’s a good problem for the coach but very bad for 2021, 2022 players that are elite recruits.
 
eastbaysoccer said:
I highly doubt more scholarships will be added. Every player will have an extra year of eligibility and it will be left up to the coach to determine who he wants to give money to. It’s a good problem for the coach but very bad for 2021, 2022 players that are elite recruits.
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It depends on how the rules are written. If they must honor awards for existing players, there is a ratchet effect if players take an extra year. Since the 2021 NLIs have been signed, the impact will be felt by 2022s, 23s and even 24s (depending on the current frosh). If the NCAA does not add scholarships (make it 17 or 18, for example), something has to give (and I agree with you - my comment earlier was more rhetorical as I don’t really think they will allow more than 14). And even if they did add scholarships, it does not mean that all schools will have fully funded scholarships (doesn’t UCSB only fund 12 awards rather than 14?).

One step at a time. I’m just glad that it looks like there will be a season.
 
dk_b said:
It depends on how the rules are written. If they must honor awards for existing players, there is a ratchet effect if players take an extra year. Since the 2021 NLIs have been signed, the impact will be felt by 2022s, 23s and even 24s (depending on the current frosh). If the NCAA does not add scholarships (make it 17 or 18, for example), something has to give (and I agree with you - my comment earlier was more rhetorical as I don’t really think they will allow more than 14). And even if they did add scholarships, it does not mean that all schools will have fully funded scholarships (doesn’t UCSB only fund 12 awards rather than 14?).

One step at a time. I’m just glad that it looks like there will be a season.
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Oh boy, the news keeps getting worse as the day goes by for the 2022s. I'm sure High School Soccer will be cancelled next week as well. I'm happy you guys will have some sort of season. The U17 kids are locked out and cant travel out of state. The parents paid the big bucks for exposure and now are SOL!!!! They just got blocked to play in Houston because? WTF is up with that bro? Utter BS is what I call it but whatever.

P.S. BTW and FWIW, WTF=What The Fudge. BS= Bull Snot
 
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eastbaysoccer said:
Stanford loses a generational player in Macario who will be on the USWNT soon. They also lose Smith, who was pretty good offensively.
There's no one on the current roster that can duplicate what Macario did. Stanford doesn't have that one player that can bail them out if the team is not at its peak. It will be an adjustment losing a player on that caliber. So for that sole reason I don not see them repeating as champs.
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I don’t doubt that the gap is closer, but is UCLA better now than they were before? They did lose good amount of key players also. When was the last time UCLA beat Stanford? 2014? That’s well before Macario got there. UCLA will be solid no doubt, but I think Stanford is still better collectively and they are better coached in my opinion. It should be a great matchup regardless!
 
Soccer43 said:
A lot of hand-wringing hoping that nothing happens to screw up the situation before start of Freshman year. These days coaching staff can change at the last minute to a coach you didn't sign up for and new coaches coming in can change scholarship offers and promises.
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Once you accept offers from school, academic and athletic scholarships, and you have been admitted, hopefully players do early acceptance, it doesn't matter if coach leaves. The school honors all awards.
 
eastbaysoccer said:
For the WCC:
The same suspects as favorites

look for UOP and Loyola to surprise this year.

Look for USF and SMC to have a down year with significant transfers and heavy graduating losses.

prediction.

1) BYU/Pepperdine/Santa Clara
2) Portland/ Gonzaga
3) UOP/San Diego/Loyola
4) USF/SMC
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All of these teams can out perform 80% of all the other D1 schools in the country!
 
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