2018 Colorado Buffaloes

Discussion in 'Women's College' started by unkiemark, Feb 7, 2018.

  1. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thank You !! My notes sometimes fail me. Or my eyes do. I'd love to watch a replay of a game I've seen, I'd catch all sorts of things that I missed. In my next life, maybe I'll upgrade my cable to include the Pac-12 channel.

    How well did UCLA do warming up for the Buffs? 5-1 at Utah, shots 17-3, on goal 11-1. Scary.

    I think that Pac-12 women's soccer will pretty regularly settle into a group of three and a group of nine. The three are top-10 teams now, and I don't see why all three can't remain there year after year. The nine will be playing for fourth place (where we are now) and hoping that maybe three of the nine will make the playoffs.
     
  2. Glove Stinks

    Glove Stinks Member+

    Jan 20, 2014
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Don’t sell the buffs short. They aren’t far behind. I think the Stanford game was a fluke. They played USC even and I expect similar Sunday
     
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  3. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    "Did you invite her? I didn't invite her. Who invited her?"
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  4. Glove Stinks

    Glove Stinks Member+

    Jan 20, 2014
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    That’s funny. Leah Pruitt is the quintessential party crasher
     
  5. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    UCLA 2, Buffs 1

    I wish I could watch a replay, just so I can see if what I saw is really what I think I saw. Because what I think I saw is that the Buffs, slightly, were the better team overall. UCLA was better in the first half, but not hugely. The Buffs were way better in the second half. And not because UCLA was doing anything wrong, the Buffs were just awesome.

    UCLA defended REALLY well. We had a whole bunch of opportunities that they broke up, and when we did shoot, most of the shots were defended, and we missed a lot. 15 shots, 2 on goal. We held them to 14 shots, 5 on goal, and I don't think too many teams can do that. I'm going to post this now, and do the full report a little later.

    Before I do, some interesting scores elsewhere in the universe:

    Stanford 1, Washington State 1. As usual, Stanford shot like a machine gun. Shots 34-16, on goal 13-5.

    Southern California 0, Utah 0. Shots 21-10, on goal 11-5 USC.

    Oregon 1, Arizona 0, overtime. Arizona's RPI is high, so this won't affect playoff aspirations.
     
  6. unkiemark

    unkiemark Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Boulder
    Very tough loss today for the Buffs. For much of the match they were the team that looked better in terms of executing a plan, but they just couldn't find the back of the net more than once.

    For this match CU would use a 3-5-2 formation. This allowed them to put on a lot of high pressure while keeping three back to defend counter attacks. Good job by the team of executing the idea.
     
  7. unkiemark

    unkiemark Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Boulder
    Very tough loss today for the Buffs. For much of the match they were the team that looked better in terms of executing a plan, but they just couldn't find the back of the net more than once.

    For this match CU would use a 3-5-2 formation. This allowed them to put on a lot of high pressure while keeping three back to defend counter attacks. Good job by the team of executing the idea.
     
  8. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #283 derbarkasmann, Oct 28, 2018
    Last edited: Oct 28, 2018
    UCLA 2, Buffs 1 continued:

    Some changes to the starting lineup. Left to right, JJ in the net, Erin Greening, Kelsey Aaknes, Kayleigh Webb and Gabby Chapa defending, Sarah Kinzner at defensive midfielder, Emily Groark, Jesse Loren and Libby Geraghty at midfield, and Jorian Baucom and Taylor Kornieck at forward. But as unkiemark pointed out, there were only three defenders, not including Erin? She spent a whole lot of time running up the field with the ball. Why Gabby, who doesn't play much? Coach must have known that given her chance, she would shine, which she did. Why Jesse at center midfield? Because until she came here, that was her position and she played great there. Why Taylor up front instead of center midfield? So she could score our goal.

    Four minutes in, Libby's long crossing pass from near the end line was deflected to the goalkeeper. A minute later, UCLA took the first shot on goal of the day. Another minute later, Erin did her first of MANY long runs, this one all the way down the left side which resulted in a corner kick which went to Jorian who shot high. JJ took a free kick from midfield but it went right to the goalkeeper, didn't count as a shot on goal because we didn't have any in the first half. Another Erin run, UCLA got a quick counter-attack and fired a rocket but right at JJ. Jorian passed to Emily in the box, the GK was down, her shot was just wide. Then UCLA put a lot of pressure on us for a few minutes, a corner kick led to an open shot that went high. A free kick led to a scramble in front of the goal and at 19:51, they popped it in.

    One big difference so far in the game was that their passes were short and frequent, while a lot of ours were long and perfectly defended. A Bruin took what appeared to be a dive after minor contact, it drew the foul. Calls would get worse. Jorian was chasing the ball along the midfield stripe with a Bruin immediately behind her. The ball went out of bounds, Jorian tried to stop and was just out of bounds when she was slammed in the back into the scorers table. Yellow card, couldn't that have been a red? It took her a while to get up. A couple of minutes later, Jorian was issued a yellow card on what appeared from a distance to be a feeble foul. Calls would get worse. Gabby's long run down the right side led to a crossing pass that just missed connecting with Jorian. We substituted including Cheynee Kingsbury and suddenly the run of play kind of switched to us. Libby's long shot just missed. We had a run of seldom interrupted possession, and Erin was giving them fits. Throw-in, look out, Cheynee flipped it to the box and how did we not score? She launched another one at Taylor in the box and Taylor was called for what appeared to be a hogwash foul. There is a pattern here. By halftime there had been several highly questionable calls. By halftime, even with no shots on goal, the Buffs seemed to have a bit of momentum.

    Oh, my, did we when the second half started. A long Erin pass to an open Libby went a wee bit too far. We started to be off-sides what seemed to be often. Emily just missed a shot. All of a sudden, the Buffs were the aggressors. We started to win 50-50 balls. But eight minutes in, UCLA got a great counter-attack going and missed a very open shot from the top of the box. Then came a yellow card to Kayleigh on what appeared, to my untrained eye and from a distance, to be a feeble foul, if any. Erin took a long free kick that was saved. A long pass to a wide-open Emily was just a wee bit too long. Another Erin long run led to a pass to Taylor who hit the goalpost. Are we really playing this well? Taylor's free kick went just high. I AM VERY TIRED OF BUFFS BEING POUNDED AND THERE BEING NO CALLS. OK, I'm not a trained official, but I'm not blind either. Tatum Barton's open shot went high. The third quarter ended, and we had more or less owned it.

    Cheynee got a throw-in, everybody backed up. It went to Kelsey in the box who passed it to Taylor at the left corner of the net and FINALLY !!! Here we go. The ice is broken.

    NOTE: The recap on the website is very different from my notes, it says "Colorado's offensive push hit pay dirt in the 69th minute. Kelsey Aaknes sent a long ball down the sideline to a running Chaynee Kingsbury. The freshman played the ball from the corner to the back post, finding Kornieck in stride. Kornieck met the ball just off the goal line and tapped it in, evening the score at 1-1.

    It took UCLA about 20 seconds after kickoff to set up a massively scary attack and somehow we cleared it. Jorian took a very long run with the ball into the box, but it was well defended. Tatum had an open shot that went wide. And with 13 minutes left, a Bruin stole the ball at the top of the box, got wide open for a short shot and didn't miss. Thud.

    But the Buffs kept going. Jorian took a long run towards the box with a defender glued to her right side, defender grabbed her right arm, pulled it out from her side and held on throwing Jorian off her stride. HOW CAN THAT NOT BE CALLED !! Then the CU bench got a yellow card for informing the referee that yes, he does appear to be blind. With three minutes left, a Bruin went down and stayed down for a while and the referee did not stop the clock, despite the fact that many in the crowd of 1,600+ were loudly urging him to do so. When play resumed, a minute was put back on the clock but I did not see any request to do that to come from the referee. UCLA did a great job of keeping possession as the final few minutes wound down, except that right near the end, we had a late chance to tie the game in the 89th minute. Cheynee put the ball in with a long flip-throw, the ball bounced around the box and Kayleigh fired a shot that hit a player in front of the net.

    We did not lose because of the horrendous officiating. We lost because UCLA took better advantage of their opportunities than we did, and their defense was outstanding. I am usually very reluctant to criticize someone who is doing something I am totally incapable of doing, and refereeing a soccer game is way high on that list. But it was bad today.

    There is still a gap between the Buffs and the three top teams in the Pac-12, but in these four days, we shrank that gap a bit.
     
  9. unkiemark

    unkiemark Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Boulder
    Agreed. And there were times earlier in the season when the Buffs won because they took better advantage of their opportunities.

    I thought today we saw a very well planned - the coaching staff - and executed game plan that cut down on UCLA's possession and forced many errant passes. After the first five to ten minutes of the match the Buffs settled in and in the second half they were often playing their style, not being dictated to by the Bruins.

    It's a cruel game at times, and this was one of those times.

    I'm not as convinced as another poster on this tread that the gap between CU and USC and UCLA is large. There is a stylistic difference in that CU is comfortable not having a ton of possession.

    Really was proud of the way the Buffs played today. They were confident and poised.
     
  10. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The RPI is out

    1. Stanford
    5. Southern California
    13. UCLA
    27. Arizona
    35. Washington State
    39. Colorado (lost two close games to teams we are supposed to lose to,
    down it goes)
    40. Arizona State
    48. Oregon (won a game, after eight straight losses)
    82. Utah
    98. Denver (getting better!!)
    100. Washington
    162. California (who would have thought)
    196. Oregon State

    The recap on the website is correct. What I said was hallucinatory. No ... blame my eyes or notes, leave my brain out of this.
     
  11. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Rankings, question

    So I went to NCAA.com, Women's Soccer, Rankings, United Soccer Coaches. Wake Forest is #1, Stanford is #6 with a record of 9-2-4, St. Mary's dropped from 4 to 5 after a 1-1 tie at San Diego, so their record is 15-0-1, USD got their only shot on goal in the 85th minute and it went in ... wait, what universe is this? Men's soccer. But the United Soccer Coaches have a website.

    1. Stanford
    2. Southern California
    6. UCLA
    21. Colorado (lose two close games to #2 and 6, drop from 20 to 21)
    29. Washington State
    34. Colorado College (Hi, neighbor. Too bad about your RPI of 106. Win the Mountain West tournament so we can host you in the first round.)
    41. Arizona

    Question: The past couple of years we had a contributor called buffpios, he followed both CU and Denver (the Pioneers). Does anybody know where he went? We haven't heard from him for a while and I really miss his observations.

    As probably all of you know, the air in Boulder doesn't have as much air in it as it does in Los Angeles. The Buffs are acclimated, probably because they live here. I wonder if that affected UCLA in the second half. Many years ago when Sydney Leroux was a senior, UCLA came to Boulder ranked #10 and we were ranked number nothing. Friday afternoon we had lost to Purdue 3-1, and UCLA won at Nebraska Friday night in what was a difficult, physical game, so they didn't get to altitude until Saturday, and as the game approached the end of regulation, it began to appear that UCLA might be running out of gas. Freshman Alex Dohm shut down Leroux, freshman Annie Brunner had by far the best game of her then short career, and after the first overtime, coach Hempen told freshman substitute defender Lizzy Herzl to go up front and "make something happen". UCLA players were standing or walking way more than usual, and with two minutes left in the second overtime, Lizzy put a shot from outside the box into the upper left corner of the net. Everybody froze, kind of stunned at what happened. By the time Lizzy turned towards the bench, the stampede of screaming Buffaloes was almost upon her.

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    This year, UCLA's previous game was a day earlier, not as difficult, and if they flew to Salt Lake City on Wednesday, they had three more days at altitude than the 2010 team did. Full acclimation takes about two weeks but it begins very quickly. Most teams seem to do fine here on the second game of the weekend, especially if they rotate players in the second half which UCLA did, and I didn't see them fading at the end. Just wondering.

    Almost 80 degrees at kickoff. Attendance was just shy of 1,700, some Halloween activities for kids and quite a few students, and the crowd was REALLY into the game. I hope we can somewhat approach that Friday afternoon.
     
  12. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The end is near !!

    Of the regular season. Picked fifth, we can finish as high as fourth or as low as sixth. Utah is only one point behind us in the standings. They lost at Oregon and we defeated Oregon here. They split at the Arizonas for three points, while we only got two for two ties there, and they tied USC. They are having a better season than expected. I think their goalkeeper is very good.

    The end is also near for me at CU soccer games. One playoff game I hope, but future games will be a 260 mile drive which I will do every year for a long weekend when both soccer and volleyball are at home. And when we play at Utah, I'll already be halfway there.

    Seven seniors ... Scout Watson, Erin Greening, Sarah Kinzner, Megan Massey, Isobel Dalton, Jorian Baucom and Nancy Best. We will need another freshman class like this one, including a goalkeeper to back up JJ for a year and then take over. We had our goalkeeper of the future, but she had to not play soccer for medical reasons.

    Windy today, mostly sunny, temperature about 60 at kickoff. I know we won't have a crowd like we did for UCLA, but I hope we can come halfway close including some students.
     
  13. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #288 derbarkasmann, Nov 2, 2018
    Last edited: Nov 2, 2018
    That was not supposed to happen !!

    Utah 1, Buffs 0

    We've all seen games like this, one team dominates, the other one wins. I would guess that the run of play was 80/20 Buffs. Or more. Utah took advantage of their opportunity. We missed a lot of them. Shots 19-12, on goal 10-5, does not reflect how much we had the ball. We had five corner kicks in what seemed like the first 15 minutes of the game, only one thereafter.

    Emily Groark was awesome. She's been awesome all year, she was doubly awesome today. I hope she watches a replay of the game. In the second half, she had a breakaway going, lots of grass and no Utes in front of her and was pulling away from her defender and got brought down from behind. Play on. I always thought that was not permissible. Maybe the hand ball by USC wasn't called because the referee didn't see it, but he saw this one.

    Six minutes in, after six minutes of total control by the Buffs, Emily's pass found Tatum Barton in the box and I don't know how we didn't score but we didn't. Emily was already giving Utah fits which she did all afternoon. Jorian Baucom had an open close shot that went right to the goalkeeper, I think that one is in the highlights. Ten minutes in a Ute with the ball was headed into the box, JJ Tompkins came out and went down to block the shot and did but didn't corral the ball, and with JJ on the ground another Ute got to it about a tenth of a second before Erin Greening, and that was the scoring. Taylor Kornieck took a hard shot and Jorian was Right There to tap in a rebound or bobble except there wasn't one. Emily's wide open shot went high. Jorian's close shot was blocked over the net which led to two more corner kicks. Erin's long free kick was headed to the GK. Buffs plural got into the box with the ball and it bounced around before being cleared. Taylor shot at the GK. The GK beat Jorian to the ball by a couple tenths of a second. A long pass to an open Libby Geraghty in the box just missed connecting. ALL Buffs, until the last five minutes or so of the half when Utah had most of the possession, put one shot into the side of the net and shot twice at JJ.

    The second half opened with a Libby free kick that very barely missed. Erin's long free kick to Taylor was headed high. Jorian got the ball at the penalty spot but was swarmed by defenders. But our passing faltered and for a while we were giving up the ball a lot. Gabby Chapa made a brilliant run shedding defenders but her crossing pass was snatched by the GK. Jorian had an open shot in the box that hit the side of the net. Then came the no-call on Emily's breakaway. Up until then I thought the game had been very well officiated, Utah plays like we do, hard but rather cleanly. After that, a few questionable calls or no-calls did not go our way. The GK made a diving save on Erin's shot. I am mentioning Erin a lot because she was all over everywhere. Our one second-half corner kick led to a header that went high. Taylor shed three defenders one at a time and her shot just missed. Brief excitement, Jorian was called offsides on her goal which she was. With a bit over a minute left, Libby's hard shot was saved and Utah played keep away until it was over.

    Utah finishes conference play in fourth place, probably. Arizona is leading Arizona State, if that holds, we will be tied for fifth with Arizona. If ASU ties, we will be tied for fifth with them. If ASU wins, we finish sixth. ASU has one more game on Sunday with Stanford, a makeup for a game that was flooded out in Tempe.

    I don't know how this will affect the playoffs but I'm 99.9999% sure that if we get in, we won't be hosting.

    Highlights:

    https://pac-12.com/videos/recap-uta...ds-knock-no-21-colorado-regular-season-finale
     
  14. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    From other parts of the universe,

    UCLA 3, USC 2, 2 O/T. USC scored in the 87th minute to take a 2-1 lead. UCLA tied it up 6 seconds later. Not a typo ... six. The shot was described as a "bomb". My guess is that a Bruin saw the GK a bit out and just fired one, nestled in an upper corner.

    Washington State 3, Washington 1. Cougars were down a player when they got the third goal.

    Arizona 1, Arizona State 0. Ties us for fifth with Arizona. ASU could leap into a fourth place tie with Utah with a win over Stanford, knocking us and Arizona down to sixth. Probably won't. Tie Stanford and they join in the fifth place tie.

    Oregon 2, Oregon State 0.

    Stanford 2, California 0.

    Denver plays Nebraska-Omaha in Brookings, South Dakota Saturday for the Summit League tournament and automatic playoff bid.

    In the Mountain West tournament, New Mexico knocked Colorado College out in the first round and Wyoming in the second, plays San Jose State there for the championship.
     
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  15. ytrs

    ytrs Member+

    Jan 24, 2018
  16. unkiemark

    unkiemark Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Boulder
    Well, it seems that CU's scoring mojo is gone. They have not been scoring a lot in the last four matches. Earlier in the season this was not an issue. Now it seems to be . They just can't find the back of the net.

    At the same time, they are giving up some goals that are preventable.

    Now, I felt CU outplayed Utah for the bulk of the match. They created more chances, etc., but they just couldn't score. Most of their shots were right at the keeper and/or weak.
     
  17. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Denver blew through the Summit League tournament, 4-0 over Nebraska-Omaha in the final. Now we'll know on Monday. Can a lower RPI team host over a higher one? Last time we played Denver in the playoffs at their field we won. It was three weeks after my heart surgery, I was not supposed to be there. Or jump up and down and yell and scream and hug everybody in sight. Paid for that the next day. Olivia Pappalardo was there the day after her ACL surgery. I'm moving away and I want one more game.

    Re Utah ... credit to their defense. They had to defend a lot and all they've done to finish out the regular season is shut out USC and the Buffs.
     
  18. 6peternorth9

    6peternorth9 Member

    Nov 15, 2012
    Club:
    Southampton FC
    Colorado might get in thanks to Denver. NCAA is all about saving money and they might just give Denver to Colorado.
     
  19. derbarkasmann

    derbarkasmann Member

    1.FC Koeln (Cologne, Germany)
    United States
    Oct 27, 2008
    Grand Junction, Colorado
    Club:
    FC Köln
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Saving money is good !!
     
  20. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you're saying that the NCAA might give Colorado an at large selection to save money by having them play Denver, you don't know what you're talking about, you're simply making things up, and you're wrong.

    If Colorado gets a selection, which I think will happen, Colorado will have done it on its own merit.
     
  21. sokarcrazy

    sokarcrazy Member

    Dec 19, 2005
    Who does Colorado need to win or lose today to help its cause. Minnesota, others?

    Who gets the nod firsts, Colorado or Arizona state?
     
  22. 6peternorth9

    6peternorth9 Member

    Nov 15, 2012
    Club:
    Southampton FC
    Speaking with one of former ncaa selection committee members, it sounded to me like cost containment is/was one of their main responsibilities but who knows. You obviously know more than I do
     
  23. sokarcrazy

    sokarcrazy Member

    Dec 19, 2005
    It for sure is when they determine matchups but I don’t believe it’s a factor in selecting the field
     
  24. Tom81

    Tom81 Member+

    Jan 25, 2008
    Sorry to crash your thread, but that caption had me rolling on the floor in laughter!
     
  25. Norfolk

    Norfolk Member

    Mar 22, 2001
    Don’t forget, Northern Colorado are playing for the Big Sky Championship today. Buffs could play them too.
     

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