2016-17 D1 Women's soccer thread!!!

Bernie Sanders said:
I said the same thing.
She asked the bartender.
I didnt even see her come in. All of a sudden, the bottle was on the bar in front of me.
I dont think it was MAP, but I literally didnt have time to ask, as she high tailed it right out the door.
I'll take USC this weekend if anyone wants to take the bet.
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Even more interesting... but how did she know that you'd be at that bar on that day at that time?
 
Justafan said:
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.
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The Pac12 has won 2 of the last 5 College Cups or 3 of the last 9. Not bad for the last 9 years, considering UNC practically won all of them prior to that.
 
Bernie Sanders said:
MaP honored the wager, and had the "King's Ransom" delivered.
It was like an old episode of "Get Smart".

Anyone want to wager on the game of the week?
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So I take it she did not stay and chat???? MAP went Control Agent 86 on you???
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Bernie Sanders said:
I said the same thing.
She asked the bartender.
I didnt even see her come in. All of a sudden, the bottle was on the bar in front of me.
I dont think it was MAP, but I literally didnt have time to ask, as she high tailed it right out the door.
I'll take USC this weekend if anyone wants to take the bet.
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I didn't expect you to be there but I had to rush off to watch another game. Sorry that I didn't share a drink with you.
 
SpeedK1llz said:
Wow! I was only able to watch the first half but based upon what I saw, they were holding their own against UCLA. They defended well and had more quality looks at the goal than UCLA.

I am not going to say that I called it because I truly thought UCLA would win this one but I did bring up the question of altitude affecting UCLA.

The other things that stood out to me were the long flip throw ins. Those are real game changers because they are almost better than a corner kick. Also, for all the complaining about Colorado playing "boot ball", for the most part, what I saw was mostly possession soccer played through the middle and then out to their wide forwards. This game could have easily been 2-0 or even 3-0 if Colordo converted the 1v1 chances they had. Credit to UCLA's keeper for defending those chances extremely well.

Now what about USC? Can the Buffs pull another upset at home?
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i watched the same game and clearly saw something different. I heard that UCLA connected more passes in the first half than Colorado did all game. The difference for any who care, was a formation change in the second half that was completely unneeded. Colorado was playing for a tie and got lucky on a shot. Nothing more. If you want to talk about keepers making saves look at how many Colorado's keeper made. She ran out of magic a dropped a turd against the Trojans. Her fundamentals suck (partially why she didn't win the starting job into several games into the season). I give credit to Colorado's coach. He knows that he has a kickball team and he played to that strength.
 
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