Feel free to post anything and everything throughout the season in this thread. It seems every thread is attributed to a single team for discussion, but there's no regular season thread for all NCAA talk as the season unfolds. As of right now, UCLA is looking dominant against Maryland, up 2-0 after the first 30 minutes.
What a WILD GAME between Texas A&M and Dayton. Highlights are shown below. By far the worst visual quality of all the SEC Digital Network + matches tonight. But still, a crazy game. http://www.secsports.com/video/11395971/texas-am-edges-dayton-goal
Gotta love Vanderbilt's new beige/gray striped kits: http://www.secsports.com/video/11395874/vanderbilt-edges-mercer
Not surprising given UCLA returns 10 starters and Maryland graduated their leading scorer and the second leading scorer transferred and returns only 5 or 6 starters. More concerning is the fact many of their attacking players are chronically injured Anthony, Galanti, Prior-Brown. When it rains it pours. Hopefully it will be a more level playing field on Sunday.
Texas A&M atmosphere earlier today: http://www.secsports.com/video/11404626/aggies-hand-stephen-f-austin-1-0-loss
The golden goal from this match was really cool: http://www.secsports.com/article/11446711/jainudeen-golden-goal-gets-msu-ot-win
31 total fouls today in the BYU vs. Baylor match. Go figure. Any match that includes Baylor is bound to be a "Foul-a-rama".
Well, I'd normally agree, but Baylor is 7th of 9 BIG 12 teams in fouls thru 9/2/2014. 2 games at home and 2 games in Utah, so not sure about whether they are getting homer ref calls or non-calls.
Over the past few years, they have been the closest thing possible to a dirty soccer team (for a college team). Not saying they were dirty, but the closest thing to it out of all the universities.
For what its worth...in the first four games of the season Baylor has commited 32 fouls to its opponents 43. Not saying Baylor isn't a physical team, but their reputation gets overblown.
Baylor deserves it's foul reputation, but seems to have tamed it a little this year so far. As you can see here: http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10410&ATCLID=1515197 Baylor led the Big 12 for fouls in 2012 and was 2nd last year. I think 2012 set their reputation. They had 296 fouls vs the next most at 218. In addition, they had 20 yellows. The next most that year was 14. 20 yellows is inexcusable, as is the 296 fouls. I know there are other teams that foul more, but I think it's inexcusable.
Baylor committed 17 fouls against BYU. That is too many in one 90 minute collegiate game (it did not go to overtime).
I have not seen Baylor yet this season, but they have been very dirty the past few seasons. Embarrassingly so at times. Teams are on to them now so their opponents are probably a bit better about avoiding fouls and foul situations.
Where is the database of schedules, RPI, etc. that used to be at nc-soccer.com. I saw it linked somewhere but forgot to bookmark it. Thanks.
The guy that ran it shut it down, but was nice enough to share the stats software with Chris Henderson (from allwhitekit.com) so he set it up at a new site.
I miss soccerinfo this year. Hopefully the new sites appreciate the role of the archives the way soccerinfo and nc-soccer always did! Soccerinfo had archives for over ten years running, and included all six divisions!
I know it's a couple months away but can anyone please tell me the game start times for the Women's College Cup in Boca Raton, FL on Friday Dec 5th this year, 2014? I'm looking at flights and don't want to miss the start time for the first game but I don't want to get up at 3:00 am to catch a plane out of Chicago either. Or where I can find this information?
Not sure it is available yet. The NCAA site has this. Espn is no better. But the NCAA women's college cup site does have a link that says " contact us" https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/fau/EN/buy/details/2014CCUP