B1G 2017

I have a personal interest in Michigan this year...Club teammate of my DD just had a stellar opening week to her year. Michigan looks to be exceptionally better in the early side of the season. Also connected to PennState and Purdue...love to follow the kids you have gotten to know over the years....good luck to all

 

[Long Beach State-Northwestern] live stream not working for me
48'40" 1-0 Jessica Vincent to Kaitlin Fregulia
82'02" 2-0 Tori Bolden to Katie Pingel

FT 2-0.

 

Good observation about sample size. As odd as it seems, after next weekend's games, the sample size will start to give a decent, though definitely not perfect, picture of what lies ahead (i.e., better than pre-season prognostications).

 

Sorry I'm so late to the party. Rutgers man here. Our team has compiled a gaudy record with lots of home games against some middlin' teams so far, but this weekend will be the real test. Away games against Northwestern and Illinois should really tell us what we're made of. We'll see....

 

Barn burner going on between Michigan and Minnesota (watching Gametracker). Minnesota was leading 2-1 with 6 seconds left and Michigan scored. Heading to OT. Shots are Michigan 7, Minn. 32. I thought the 32 was a mistake, but is not. Should be a fun OT!

 

Ohio State beat Penn State 1-0 yesterday.
It was the 3rd shutout in a row for Devon Kerr, who has 7 shutouts on the year.
Kerr has only given up 6 goals in 12 matches, and has a 0.5 goals against average.
Her save % is .860 (86% shots on goal saved).

All they had to do was develop her consistently, and not just platoon her.
She's a Top 3 goalkeeper in the history of the Big Ten (excluding Penn State & Rutgers).

 

Boilermaker fan here, Really impressed with how they've played this year so far especially given expectations at the start of the year. I have really only seen Purdue play and they look pretty good. I know they've got a much tougher schedule coming up. Anyone have any thoughts on the boilers, in first place through 5 games?

 

My weekly simulation's current projection of end-of-regular season standings:

Rutgers 28
OhioState 27
Purdue 25
NorthwesternU 23
PennState 23
WisconsinU 21
MinnesotaU 19
MichiganU 15
MarylandU 11
IndianaU 8
NebraskaU 7
IowaU 4
IllinoisU 3
MichiganState 3

 

Purdue was absolutely robbed tonight against Nebraska, after a HORRIBLE offsides call in overtime Nebraska came back to score the game winner. I have no Idea what the official was thinking when they raised that flag

🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢 for @PurdueSoccer and @NebraskaSoccer. What a Wild Finish!! pic.twitter.com/ysV8hXKgc5

— B1G+ (@BigTenPlus) October 13, 2017

 

Wow---though the TV angle isn't good, it does look like a terrible call.

 

The girl who finished was at the penalty spot when the ball was played Yikes If that result pushes Purdue out of the tournament that would be a full blown tragedy

 

At the instant of the fk, everybody's onside.
At the instant of the header, Purdue #3(?) is in an offside position, right up against Nebraska's GK, possibly screening her, and surely impeding her from rushing toward the ball. (The goalscorer is still 8m off, waaaay behind the ball.)

As it happened, the ball bounced completely over #3 (and the GK), so neither of them could play it. But if the AR deemed that #3 was distracting or impeding the GK, that's a callable infraction.

It happened to MNT vs. Italy in WC'2006
It looked for a moment like the U.S. stunned Italy with a 65th minute goal by second-half substitution DaMarcus Beasley, but McBride was flagged for screening the goalkeeper while in an offside position.

 

I agree with Gilmoy. I looked at the video, and the Purdue player next to the keeper was involved in and affected the play. I feel for Purdue, though, it was a brutal ending.

 

I, too, looked at the video many times. If I were a Purdue fan I would probably make the claim that, although offsides, #3 did not impact the play directly or impede the goalie. The goalie was in a place to stop the first shot. That shot was flubbed and it took a bounce over her head (she made an unimpeded attempt to stop that 'shot' and missed it). #3 did kind of stick her arm out when both she and the goalie turned once it bounced over their heads, but the header was never going to be stopped by the keeper - which may support Purdue's case.

That being said, The AR called offsides (correctly). The head ref was right there, he consulted with the AR and the call to disallow was made so they must have seen things in a way that favored to home team. I am not one to question the judgement of the refs in this particular incident.

The refs did, however, blow a hand ball in the box in the Rutgers / PSU game. Clear handball by the PSU defender that was ignored. I don't have a video to load, but it was as obvious as obvious can be. Both Rutgers and PSU are good squads and should represent the B1G well come tourney time. The freshman forward from Rutgers is good (#17 A.A.) but has to gain the awareness to pass when the direct attack on goal isn't there or when she has 3 defenders on her and has a minimal chance to finish. #6 (A.F.) is also a freshman and is already has a good feel for the game and will get better in the years to come - very good distributor. Both are PDA kids (O'Neill feeder system / pipeline).

Penn State is solid all around, as usual.

Watched a bit of the NW - Minnesota game as well. Northwestern just plays a solid, fundamental game. Not a lot of flash, but rarely out of a game.

 

I watched some of the Northwestern vs Minnesota match as well. The Minnesota defending on those two NW goals was horrendous. The one at the 44' mark, in particular, was really bad. There was a total breakdown in communication. I'm not sure what error was the bigger lapse - the central defender not clearing the ball and allowing the attacker to get around her or the keeper not coming off of her line to, at the very least, take away the angle of the attacker or, at best, corral the ball. Just awful.

NW's keeper, Lauren Clem, is very solid and came up with some good saves. NW is really dangerous on set pieces.

Here are the goals:

 

I agree, she's a good defender. I, however, didn't post that she is "terrible." This is what I stated about the defending:

Would you not agree that that is an accurate statement? If not, you watched something different than I did or your Gopher colored lenses allowed you to see the play diffently.

I don't like artificial turf for soccer - period. I'm not sure that Northwestern's turf is "trampoline turf" but any turf is bad. Soccer is meant to be played on grass.

As a Northwestern graduate, I'll call the school what I want to call it. I've interchangeably used NU or NW. I know that NU is "more" correct but I don't need a Gopher to tell me that. Thank you for your concern, though.