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It's also why the NBA, MLB and NHL playoffs play a best of 5 or 7 game series. To eliminate the chance of luck beating a better team.
2016-17 D1 Women's soccer thread!!!
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It's also why the NBA, MLB and NHL playoffs play a best of 5 or 7 game series. To eliminate the chance of luck beating a better team.
Well, like I said, you gotta be able to fit things in.
I agree with you, but we also need to be realistic within school, and the length of the season.
They alternate home games every year, and that seems to be the best solution unless you want to eliminate non conference play.
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I would be an advocate for eliminating non-conference play for conference home and away games. Then a true champion would be crowned.
I dont agree.
I would agree if only the champion made tournament play, but as it is, the non conference games add so much in terms of preparing, and defining a team.
That, and post season play is still a part of the top tier teams, even without a conference title, and the ultimate prize is within that field of play.
Who cares if you win the conference title, but lose to the third place team in the tournament?
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It's how UEFA selects who plays in the Champions League. Qualifications are awarded based on a teams standings and the league they play in.
Maybe you should take this up with the NCAA.
Im just an idiot parent on a soccer site.
SpeedK1llz
GOLD
Agree Bern. Pepperdine needs to go after this title outright. They've shared the title with BYU before and in my opinion it's BS that they don't use other variables to break the tie. Pepp needs to go into this match do or die. A shared title weakens the value. They need to do the same thing with Pacific.
Last year, San Francisco took their foot off the gas and gave the title back to BYU and also lost a tourney bid. Pepp should obviously make the tourney regardless but it's nice to go in with momentum and a title.
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San Fran should have got a playoff berth. I'm still bitter about that.[/QUOTE]
Damn that RPI...
There also a whole lot of $$$$$$$$$$ involved in the "professional" sports....
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Not in pro womens soccer and lots of $$$$$$$$$ in college football and basketball.
True..
Which is why our dd's need to get an education/degree from their college experience.
Seven game playoffs are at best icing on the cake.
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The altitude didn't affect USC beating Colorado 3-0 today.
Some thoughts and observations on this years season and women's college soccer in general:
1) USC is the best team in the country by a wide margin. I haven't seen all the teams play, but I've seen enough (Stanford, UCLA, N.C., Penn State, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Cal, Florida).
2) USC has the best offensive attack in the country by a wide margin. They are the only team that actually has a plan of attack in the final third. Not only do they have a plan, they have the patience, IQ, chemistry, and creativity to execute it better than any other team.
3) Not sure if their offensive attack is coaching, player chemistry, individual player IQ, or individual creativity, but if it is coaching, McApine should be the USWNT head coach, or at a minimum, the U-17 USWNT head coach.
4) Anthony, Johnson, and Pruitt are easily the best trio of strikers in the nation on one team. Their ability to play with their backs against the goal gives USC many more offensive options as compared to other teams.
5) USC's midfielder #6 will be a nice replacement after Andrews graduates.
6)It's amazing to me how many teams (including many ranked teams) have absolutely NO plan in the final third. The coaches should be embarrassed that their teams are still playing kickball at this level.
7) UCLA misses Jenkins and will not make it to the quarters without her.
8) South Carolina is a joke at #3. They have a nice striker and that's it. If they ever meet the other USC, I predict a 5-0 win for the Trojans.
9) I saw North Carolina play a couple of times this year (my first time really seeing them, once against USC) and what I observed is that the Anson Dorrance philosophy of soccer is to out-athlete you (subbing in 5 or 6 players at a time as if to say I am just going to exhaust your team with run after run). Am I right? I saw a post on another forum basically confirming my suspicions. I basically saw a kickball team out there. If I am right, why is this guy so celebrated? Just because he figured out how to get results this way before everybody else? Absolute joke!!
10) Why isn't the Pac-12 as dominant, or even more for that matter, as the ACC? CalSouth absolutely dominates at the youth level (YNC's, ODP championships, National team players, etc.) and yet struggles to have more than three teams ranked in the top 25. I don't get that. And that's that Cal-North, Az, Nv, Ut., & Co. have plenty of good players that feed into the Pac-12. Is it bias in the ranking system? I tend to think not so much as the ACC definitely has substantially more national championships than the Pac-12. If you take a look at college softball as a comparison, California (and more specifically Southern CA softball) absolutely dominates the college scene. Even in the years WITHOUT a California team in the college world series (8 final teams), there are more than double the California girls on those 8 teams than any other state. A couple of years ago the final was Oklahoma against Tennessee and there were more girls from California than from either OK or TN in that game. Bottom line, you can't win in softball without California girls.
1) USC is the best team in the country by a wide margin. I haven't seen all the teams play, but I've seen enough (Stanford, UCLA, N.C., Penn State, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Cal, Florida).
2) USC has the best offensive attack in the country by a wide margin. They are the only team that actually has a plan of attack in the final third. Not only do they have a plan, they have the patience, IQ, chemistry, and creativity to execute it better than any other team.
3) Not sure if their offensive attack is coaching, player chemistry, individual player IQ, or individual creativity, but if it is coaching, McApine should be the USWNT head coach, or at a minimum, the U-17 USWNT head coach.
4) Anthony, Johnson, and Pruitt are easily the best trio of strikers in the nation on one team. Their ability to play with their backs against the goal gives USC many more offensive options as compared to other teams.
5) USC's midfielder #6 will be a nice replacement after Andrews graduates.
6)It's amazing to me how many teams (including many ranked teams) have absolutely NO plan in the final third. The coaches should be embarrassed that their teams are still playing kickball at this level.
7) UCLA misses Jenkins and will not make it to the quarters without her.
8) South Carolina is a joke at #3. They have a nice striker and that's it. If they ever meet the other USC, I predict a 5-0 win for the Trojans.
9) I saw North Carolina play a couple of times this year (my first time really seeing them, once against USC) and what I observed is that the Anson Dorrance philosophy of soccer is to out-athlete you (subbing in 5 or 6 players at a time as if to say I am just going to exhaust your team with run after run). Am I right? I saw a post on another forum basically confirming my suspicions. I basically saw a kickball team out there. If I am right, why is this guy so celebrated? Just because he figured out how to get results this way before everybody else? Absolute joke!!
10) Why isn't the Pac-12 as dominant, or even more for that matter, as the ACC? CalSouth absolutely dominates at the youth level (YNC's, ODP championships, National team players, etc.) and yet struggles to have more than three teams ranked in the top 25. I don't get that. And that's that Cal-North, Az, Nv, Ut., & Co. have plenty of good players that feed into the Pac-12. Is it bias in the ranking system? I tend to think not so much as the ACC definitely has substantially more national championships than the Pac-12. If you take a look at college softball as a comparison, California (and more specifically Southern CA softball) absolutely dominates the college scene. Even in the years WITHOUT a California team in the college world series (8 final teams), there are more than double the California girls on those 8 teams than any other state. A couple of years ago the final was Oklahoma against Tennessee and there were more girls from California than from either OK or TN in that game. Bottom line, you can't win in softball without California girls.
Sheriff Joe
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Anyone heard from MAP?
I might send the police to her house for a welfare check.
I might send the police to her house for a welfare check.
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Better send the police to check on Pepperdine posters. They seem to be MIA after losing to LMU. Go Lions!
Sheriff Joe
DA
Are you a MAP fan?
No police needed.
Long drive home.
LMU came out and scored in the first minute of the game. They were fired up and took it to Pepperdine for most of the first half.
Pepperdine came out hot in the second half, and gave it right back, but CP in goal for the Lions was up to the challenge, and made a couple really crucial saves to secure the win.
Congrats LMU.
They really came to play.
I agree.
They are the best team Ive seen this year.
I missed the game..
Were you there?
Did you watch it on line?
What happened?
Please fill us in.