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socalkdg said:
Just the opportunity to watch my daughter at "any" college playing soccer would be a dream come true. I can only hope that she still has a passion for soccer and that her passion drives her skills to a level that allows college soccer. If she does make it, it won't be due to anything that I've done, but her hard work and talent.
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Agreed!!! And will also add that I hope and pray my daughter and others that do want to play in college and beyond, stay healthy. Too many girls getting hurt lately. Hoping all your DD's stay healthy and strong this coming season. If you don't have a performance and injury prevention plan, get one started. Our girls only have one body. Take care of it!!
 
soccermanifesto said:
Am I crazy or has Romagnolo been there only 2 years? How can you make that statement when she hasn't even had a chance to fully stock her own team yet?

Starting and playing for the Fighting Irish is a big deal in 99% of circles. Only on a message board would it be diminished.

Who is this coach you are taking credit for or is this more trolling and homerism based on nonsense?
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Why would TR have to restock? She inherited a ND Randy Waldrum team stocked of YNT players and verbal committments prior to her arrival. Question is can she keep the stock coming and based on her player committments so far, NOT so much.
 
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NoGoal said:
Why would TR have to restock? She inherited a ND Randy Waldrum team stocked of YNT players and verbal committments prior to her arrival. Question is can she keep the stock coming and based on her player committments so far, NOT so much.
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Here's the most recent analysis I could find to take the homerism and boob message board opinions out of it. Mind you, if getting the most top recruits always = championships, Stanford and North Carolina should have a lot more than they do.

Top 10 2018 Recruiting class as of 2/22/16. (241 players verbally committed)

1. 9.02 Stanford
2. 8.97 Virginia
3. 8.93 UNC
4. 8.25 Penn State
5. 8.00 Florida State
6. 7.77 Notre Dame
7. 7.67 Washington
8. 7.10 Duke
9. 7.00 Boston College
10. 6.33 Michigan


By your logic, she should just take Randy's players regardless of the system she wants to run and "make it work." I have no idea if TR is a brilliant coach. Neither do you. But she should be given the chance to recruit her type of players and put her team together before people judge.

if there's a coach to be criticized right now, it's Anson Dorrance at UNC. What's his excuse?
 
soccermanifesto said:
Here's the most recent analysis I could find to take the homerism and boob message board opinions out of it. Mind you, if getting the most top recruits always = championships, Stanford and North Carolina should have a lot more than they do.

Top 10 2018 Recruiting class as of 2/22/16. (241 players verbally committed)

1. 9.02 Stanford
2. 8.97 Virginia
3. 8.93 UNC
4. 8.25 Penn State
5. 8.00 Florida State
6. 7.77 Notre Dame
7. 7.67 Washington
8. 7.10 Duke
9. 7.00 Boston College
10. 6.33 Michigan


By your logic, she should just take Randy's players regardless of the system she wants to run and "make it work." I have no idea if TR is a brilliant coach. Neither do you. But she should be given the chance to recruit her type of players and put her team together before people judge.

if there's a coach to be criticized right now, it's Anson Dorrance at UNC. What's his excuse?
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Your post is garbage as soon as I read "UNC should be winning more championships". They have won 22 NCAA Championships in Womens Soccer!

Waldrum's Notre Dame teams were always ranked in the top 10 and he won 3 NCAA Championships with his recruits. If TR inherited YNT players and my DD having played with and againsr YNT players....the YNT players can play any system that is presented to them.
 
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NoGoal said:
Your post is garbage as soon as I read "UNC should be winning more championships". They have won 22 NCAA Championships in Womens Soccer!

Waldrum's Notre Dame teams were always ranked in the top 10 and he won 3 NCAA Championships with his recruits. If TR inherited YNT players and my DD having played with and againsr YNT players....the YNT players can play any system that is presented to them.
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Ok mark it down. UNC will win at least one national championship in the next 3 years because they are LOADED. And have been for some time.

Yeah, YNT players can play in any system. They're like magical unicorns. Ok.

I'm not TR's agent. You win. She's a crappy recruiter and lousy coach and should win with other people's players. Way to brag about your daughter being on the YNT. I'm pretty sure I've seen her play... Multiple times. As to how that is, I'll let you guess.
 
soccermanifesto said:
Ok mark it down. UNC will win at least one national championship in the next 3 years because they are LOADED. And have been for some time.

Yeah, YNT players can play in any system. They're like magical unicorns. Ok.
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Obviously, you are parent with a DD under U15. Dorrance will be challenged to win more Championships than the past 2 decades, because women soccer talent is much deeper. If you look at who has won NCAA Championships, you will notice the pattern is towards YNT players in the US or internationally starting with last year's Penn St roster filled with YNT players.

http://www.ncaa.com/history/soccer-women/d1

And note Portland use to be able to recruit YNT players back in the early 2000's under Clive Charles.
 
NoGoal said:
Obviously, you are parent with a DD under U15. Dorrance will be challenged to win more Championships than the past 2 decades, because women soccer talent is much deeper. If you look at who has won NCAA Championships, you will notice the pattern is towards YNT players in the US or internationally.
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He has more than a boatload of YNT players (his 2017 class is insane) and will have more than a half dozen YNT players riding the bench. Is he still rotating fresh players in with that fast break high pressure attack? No one's expecting that or figured it out yet
 
soccermanifesto said:
Ok mark it down. UNC will win at least one national championship in the next 3 years because they are LOADED. And have been for some time.

Yeah, YNT players can play in any system. They're like magical unicorns. Ok.

I'm not TR's agent. You win. She's a crappy recruiter and lousy coach and should win with other people's players. Way to brag about your daughter being on the YNT. I'm pretty sure I've seen her play... Multiple times. As to how that is, I'll let you guess.
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soccermanifesto said:
He has more than a boatload of YNT players (his 2017 class is insane) and will have more than a half dozen YNT players riding the bench. Is he still rotating fresh players in with that fast break high pressure attack? No one's expecting that or figured it out yet
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Doesn't matter, Anson is already 65 and I heard the last class he will graduate out at UNC will be his verbal commits of 2017. They graduate college in 2021.
 
soccermanifesto said:
Ok mark it down. UNC will win at least one national championship in the next 3 years because they are LOADED. And have been for some time.

Yeah, YNT players can play in any system. They're like magical unicorns. Ok.

I'm not TR's agent. You win. She's a crappy recruiter and lousy coach and should win with other people's players. Way to brag about your daughter being on the YNT. I'm pretty sure I've seen her play... Multiple times. As to how that is, I'll let you guess.
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My DD is not a YNT player, but she has had teammates on her club team and ODP teams who have advanced onto the U20/U17 YNT as starters and they are talented as hell.
 
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NoGoal said:
Doesn't matter Anson will be retiring by 2020.
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Don't get me wrong, I take nothing away from Anson. Legendary coach. But I see so many YNT players commit to UNC when they literally will be riding the bench. If you get a championship it's worth it, I guess. But you'd think stocked as he is, he would be more dominant in recent years. Mind you, yes, I have a recency bias in that I only started watching UNC the past couple of years.

But maybe I'm throwing dirt on him too soon. Maybe he will pull one more out. He should based on talent. No excuses really.
 
soccermanifesto said:
Here's the most recent analysis I could find to take the homerism and boob message board opinions out of it. Mind you, if getting the most top recruits always = championships, Stanford and North Carolina should have a lot more than they do.

Top 10 2018 Recruiting class as of 2/22/16. (241 players verbally committed)

1. 9.02 Stanford
2. 8.97 Virginia
3. 8.93 UNC
4. 8.25 Penn State
5. 8.00 Florida State
6. 7.77 Notre Dame
7. 7.67 Washington
8. 7.10 Duke
9. 7.00 Boston College
10. 6.33 Michigan


By your logic, she should just take Randy's players regardless of the system she wants to run and "make it work." I have no idea if TR is a brilliant coach. Neither do you. But she should be given the chance to recruit her type of players and put her team together before people judge.

if there's a coach to be criticized right now, it's Anson Dorrance at UNC. What's his excuse?
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At least give credit to the guy that came up with those "unofficial" recruiting class rankings. You got those from a forum.
 
soccermanifesto said:
Don't get me wrong, I take nothing away from Anson. Legendary coach. But I see so many YNT players commit to UNC when they literally will be riding the bench. If you get a championship it's worth it, I guess. But you'd think stocked as he is, he would be more dominant in recent years. Mind you, yes, I have a recency bias in that I only started watching UNC the past couple of years.

But maybe I'm throwing dirt on him too soon. Maybe he will pull one more out. He should based on talent. No excuses really.
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Not many of the UNC YNT players ride the bench. His high pressure and always attacking style of play combined with college sub rules, affords him to use his entire squad during a game. If you haven't seen it yet, it looks like an actual hockey line change when he subs his players in.
 
espola said:
Yes -- google is your friend.

Does he give anywhere his method of coming up with numbers accurate to three places?
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He did and his player points ranking goes something like this:
10 YNT starting players
9 YNT sub and YNT international
8 YNT camp
7 ODP regional team
6 ODP state team
5 ODP pool
So forth and so on....he posted for the most part, he gets is info from the Google committment spreadsheet. The problem is the Google spreadsheet isn't always accurate. For example, my DD played on 2 ODP interregional teams (Thanksgiving Tournaments) and both are not listed. There are 3 other players who also played on her ODP regional team that are not showing on the spreadsheet too.
 
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NoGoal said:
He did and his player points ranking goes something like this:
10 YNT starting players
9 YNT sub and YNT international
8 YNT camp
7 ODP regional team
6 ODP state team
5 ODP pool
So forth and so on....he posted he gets is info from the Google committment spreadsheet for the most part. The Google spreadsheet isn't always accurate, my DD played on 2 ODP interregional teams (Thanksgiving Tournaments) and both are not listed. She also has 3 other committed teammates that were on the same team and also not listed.
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So the number are just arbitrary, although they appear to be more or less in the right order.

What is his divisor? 11? Total number of recruits? Total number on roster?
 
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