Official recruiting announcements - 2014

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  1. CCSoccerFan

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  3. Sandon Mibut

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    Feb 13, 2001
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  4. Sandon Mibut

    Sandon Mibut Member+

    Feb 13, 2001
    So this is weird, and might be a first. Temple hasn't put out a release actually announcing their recruits but they've now put out a release discussing a media report (if you can call CSN "media") that ranks and discusses their class.

    Why they could be bothered to put that release out but not an actual one on the recruits is a little baffling, but such is the mystery of college soccer coaches' apathy.

    That said, unorthodox and bare-minimum as it is, it is a recruiting announcement, so we count it.

    http://www.owlsports.com/news/2014/4/14/MSOC_0414145137.aspx
     
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  5. scoachd1

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    Jun 2, 2004
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    I enjoy the official ruling.
     
  6. Sandon Mibut

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  8. SoccerIsOurLife

    Feb 14, 2014
    Nat'l Team:
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  9. Sandon Mibut

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    Feb 13, 2001
    Markey is an interesting one.

    He's a CB with a YNT and MLS academy pedigree who redshirted at UNC last year. But with Boyd Okwuonu and Jonathan Campbell, 3 and 2-year starters, returning next fall, he probably saw playing time was sparse. Ironically. he initially committed to Syracuse but changed to UNC late in the process and with 'Cuse now in the ACC, he'd have to sit out a year if he transferred within the conference.

    I wonder if he regrets reneging on his commitment to Syracuse.

    On paper, it's a good group but OSU usually looks better on paper than they perform on the field. At some point soon that's going to need to change for Steve Simmons or he may be looking elsewhere as there are likely a lot of people affiliated with the Timbers who'd be interested in that job.
     
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  10. Hararea

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    Jan 21, 2005
    ... and Velazquez initially committed to Niagara (they announced him back in Feb).

    But even though the other three all have YNT backgrounds, I feel like Velasco may be the best get for them. Big, strong, skilled. If he'd stayed at Portland, he would probably have been in line for all-WCC recognition this fall.
     
  11. SoccerIsOurLife

    Feb 14, 2014
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Velasco transferred already and has been playing spring ball with them, which is always a plus.
     
  12. Hank T

    Hank T Member

    Oct 21, 2011
    Albuquerque
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    On 2/5/ 2014 the University of New Mexico announced 8 recruits, four with ties to MLS academies. Three hail from Albuquerque, three from Texas, one from AZ and one from California. Matthew Dorsey, Houston Dynamo Academy, is rated 53 in TopDrawerSoccer's Top 150, Patrick Khouri, FC Dallas Academy, is rated 66. On 3/17 the Lobos added a ninth, GK Jason Beaulieu, from the Montreal Impact Academy system.

    http://www.golobos.com/ViewArticle....19&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=26000&ATCLID=209394367

    Coach Fishbein makes it a priority to go after New Mexico talent. He's also had recent success going after under-the-radar players. So how will the Lobos fare in 2015? Fishbein says the Lobos will "reload not rebuild." And how have they fared this spring with four seniors (all drafted) gone? Spring play tells us little unless a team is really bad. The Lobos will be fine for 2015.

    Colorado Rapids Reserves 2 - New Mexico 0
    New Mexico 3 - Denver 0 (DU beat Creighton the week before 2-1)
    New Mexico 1 - Air Force 0
    New Mexico 6 - Fort Lewis College 1 (played 4/19/2014)
     
  13. Hararea

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  14. Sandon Mibut

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    Feb 13, 2001
    It's also a terribly amateurish press release with, apparently no actual writing by anyone from the UCR SID.

    Instead they appear to have cut and pasted part of the story on the kid.... and then cut and pasted another part of it so that the same paragraph appears in the "release" twice.

    That release does nothing to quell the appearance of a coach and SID not giving a shit.

    RSL's academy sends players every where. It's pretty impressive, really.
     
  15. collegesoccer

    collegesoccer Member+

    Apr 11, 2005
    Interesting model RSL has in that they can draw players from various areas where no MLS team is affiliated and have their rights. All done in the sunshine of Arizona. Interesting model, makes you think what if New York Red Bull set up shop in Florida some place?
     
  16. soccerall

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  18. nighttime

    nighttime New Member

    Dec 18, 2003
    Word on the street is that Masur has grown weary of Monmouth's position that this rash of transfers from St. John's to West Long Branch, NJ is coincidental and without interference. He's apparently having trouble reconciling that these guys are serendipitously falling into Monmouth's lap, somehow. Don't expect that transfer option to remain open to any more Red Storm players.
     
  19. Sandon Mibut

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    Feb 13, 2001
    He ought to be worrying about what he's doing that's causing his players to keep leaving his program for a small school in a one-bid conference.
     
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  20. Hararea

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  22. Hararea

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    Jan 21, 2005
    http://www.apacheathletics.com/article/1857.php

    This one is a reverse announcement, a Juco announcing who it's sending out. Thanks to the foreign player limit, Tyler JC is now sending a ton of US-raised players to high D1 schools.
     
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