I know he's playing for Colorado, but he's on fire! I know it's only preseason, but he's been scoring goals left and right. Has anyone seen him play live or have any details about his height, weight, history, potential, etc.?
I heard he's ten feet tall, can run the 40 in 2.2 seconds and shits ingots of 24 carat gold out his backside.
Got drafted in this year's Superdraft at #48 out of Boston College, but he is originally from California somewhere. I have not seen him play but from reading some of the other Rapid posters who have, it seems he has been very efficient in the area and while Carrieri is getting beat up in the box he has managed to do well with the space he is given. He even hooked up with Grimandi one of his goals against Santos the other day so I would say he is fitting in well even with the new players.
https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38383 This thread has info plus photo. He's 6' 175 lb
He's listed at 6-0 175 lbs born 6-16-81 hailing from Newbury Park, CA and attended Boston College. I believe after the Santos game he has 12 preseeason goals. I don't care it's preseason, he is a scoring machine. He had both Rapids goals against the Mexican side. One thing I am worried about is that MLS now knows his name and he will be tightly marked once the season gets on. For a pic try this link: http://www.coloradorapids.com/images/uploads/CaseyBB.jpg
I haven't seen any mention of this story about Schmidt. Schmidt was the leading scorer for the Cape Cod Crusaders of the PDL two summers ago, and was one of the team leaders for BC entering his junior year. About half-way through his junior year at BC, he suffered a horrendous season-ending facial injury in a collision with an opposing keeper, breaking his eye socket, etc. The following spring/summer, he travelled to - I think China - Tibet, perhaps - somewhere in the far east. To study, sort of get away from soccer, recover physically and spiritually, etc. He returned toward the end of the last year's PDL season (late July), just in time for Cape Cod's cinderella run to the league championship, in which he scored the golden goal to clinch the title. The fact that he's continuing in this form and making a name for himself in MLS doens't particularly surprise me, after what he's been through the past couple of years. I'm very happy for the guy. It's a nice story, and I hope he's not a flash in the pan.
He needs to slow the scoring down for the rest of the preseason. He's on my MFLS team and my Sporting News team. I want to brag at the end of the season about how I picked him up on the cheap and rode his scoring to victory.
Is this cat related to Sigi in any way? So at 19 he was the leading scorer of his PDL team--sounds like the kid has some talent. Go talk to some insiders on the Rapids board for specifics on his ability....could be the next McBride for all we know.
Yeah, but they decided to spell their names differently to confuse everybody. For the record: Sigi's last name --- Schmid Casey's last name -Schmidt They are, however, both from Southern California. To expand on what Sue said: As a sophomore in 2000, he was the Big East Conference's Offensive Player of the Year. The came the injury as a junior. As a senior, he led BC to the Big East regular season AND tournament championships and then helped the Eagles get to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, where they fell to Creighton. And, like Sue said, he had the strong PDL seasons with Cape Cod. Based on that, I'm not sure why he slipped to the 5th round of the draft. I mean, were there really 47 players out there better than him? I think we're seeing that's not the case. And, it's not like scouting this guy should be an issue. The PDL final was on Fox Sports World and the Big East final is always televised so there should be plenty of tape out there for coaches to have seen him. Plus, he played at one of the better soccer conferences and went far in the NCAA's. Surely there were chances for MLS coaches to watch him play. Regardless, his falling in the draft just makes what he's doing this spring all the more impressive. And, even though there's a lot of competition at forward, I think he's got to suddenly be considered by Glenn Myernick for the U23 team. And, with Mooch still living in Colorado, he'll have plenty of chances to watch him play live so this time, scouting shouldn't be an issue!
Please have a link to back this going to Tibet angle up because I would absolutely love it if this were true. What a great story: goes to Tibet, studies with a llama, finds serenity and becomes spiritually centered, returns to US, tears up the MLS for my Rapids, does his pre game stretching in a lotus position wearing a saffron warm-up robe.. He and Pablo would be a ying and yang on the Rapids, propelling them to glory.
I read the story on www.capecodonline.com, which I'm pretty sure now charges a fee to read archived articles, but I'll go back and look it up to see if there is at least a link to the opening paragraph in case anybody wants to pay the $2.50 or whatever it is ....
I agree... this whole Tibet angle is hilarious. The llama's a big hitter, which makes me think he might be a defender. Anyway... any reason this thread is on this board?
It appears to no longer be there, even in their archive. It had been dated July 27 because I still have the original link to the article in a note I had sent - "Healing process: Teachings of Buddha help Crusaders' Schmidt recover from injury". I used to have the e-mail address of the guy who wrote the article. If I get a chance, I'll drop him a line.
That would be a great story, assuming, of course, that you mean llama instead of lama although that, too, would be a great story.
OK, OK, so I misspelled it. This is the problem with relying on spell check. However, I don't think there are any members of the camel family that usually scamper around the rocks and valleys of the Andes found in Tibet so unless Casey studied in the Peru or Chile, you know I meant the LAMA that is associated with Tibetan Bhudism. Llama's are cool, too. My two year old son got to ride on one at a kids event and it was a gentle, seemingly wise animal that could give some searcher serenity and peace in the right circumstances.
I don't want to ruin everyone's fun, but it was reported in Soccer America last fall, in a feature on Schmidt that he did a semester abroad in China. Now, after the semester ended, he may have gone to Tibet and what not but the semester abroad was definitely in China. Alls I wanna know is if he did meat the Lama if he said "Lama, how 'bout a little somethin' for 'da effort?"
That's right, I'd forgotten it was reported in SA. I was beginning to think I was crazy. But the Cape Cod Times had it first! At least until the story vanished from their webpage. Anyway, sorry about the Tibet confusion - I did say "I think China - perhaps Tibet". And according to the vanished CC Times article, he apparently did study Buddhism while in China. But apparently not with lamas. Or with llamas.
In response to Sandon's rhetorical question about how he lasted so long in the draft - I think he was tarred with the college power forward stigma. Frankly, I don't remember anyone - even the top minds on the college board - being a champion of his. People seem to have a reflexive fear of college scorers who use muscle to beat college defenders, believing that that strength will be ineffective in MLS. This seems to be a generally believable theory given the non-existant pro prospects of big-time NCAA scorers like Dennis Ludwig or Ryan Coiner. Apparently, Schmidt has other tools as well, although I will wait to see him keep it up in the regular season before I annoint him. If he does pan out well, it will certainly be a boost to the reputation of the PDL as a testing ground for future MLS pros.
I think it would be better for Schmidt to study from llamas than from lamas, since it would prepare him better for his future outings against the Mexican team, which like llamas, likes to spit a lot.
>I think it would be better for Schmidt to study from llamas than from lamas, since it would prepare him better for his future outings against the Mexican team, which like llamas, likes to spit a lot.<<< Nice one!