Pitt 2018 (R, etc)

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  1. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Randy Waldrum is in charge, with son Ben (formerly with FC Dallas) as one of the AC's. I lived in the area from 00-09, so it's a former home team (though I never went to a match because their former venue was inaccessible to paratransit).

    They won one of their exhibitions, against Fairleigh Dickinson, 2-1 on PKs. At Ohio State as I type this. Regular season starts vs. Ohio on the 17trh.

    https://pittsburghpanthers.com/schedule.aspx?path=wsoc
     
  2. Angry Leprechaun

    Feb 22, 2015
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    Randy gave Notre Dame two national championships in 2004 and 2010. Will be interesting to see what he can build at Pitt. Great coach, and his name carries weight, but will it be enough recruiting against the other name brands out there? His gigs since leaving Notre Dame have been kind of bizarre. Seems like he may have finally figured out what he's really good at-- is coaching women's soccer at the college level.

    His shadow looms large at South Bend to this day.
     
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  3. mpr2477

    mpr2477 Member

    Jun 30, 2016
    Club:
    Vancouver MLS
    WHO WON!!? Ohio st or Pitt?

    I gotta say, teams are doing a really horrible job of coverage in their exhibition games! It’s greatly disappointing. Hell, PSU (one of THE premiere programs in the nation) posts nothing after two very big games! (BC and Gtown). It isn’t right they post nothing, not even on their twitter account! Seems like the big 10 and northeastern teams are terrible and secretive about exhibition results...whereas kudos to the southern teams, sec teams and Duke for actually caring and posting video.
     
  4. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    OSU beat Pitt 2-0, scoring both times in the last 15'.
     
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  5. soccersubjectively

    soccersubjectively BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 17, 2012
    Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Do you know who was in goal, perchance?
     
  6. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If Pitt finishes with a record better than 3 wins -- 13 losses -- and 2 ties, my numbers say it will suggest Waldrum may be starting to turn the program around.

    Sorry if that's bad news, but it's better to be realistic and enjoy it when the team surpasses realistic expectations.
     
  7. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Not sure with the Ohio State match (I'm on an unfamiliar compute and can't find that nugget). Amaia Pena (Portugalete, Spain) kept for the win against FDU.
     
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  8. soccersubjectively

    soccersubjectively BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 17, 2012
    Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ty. Pitt brought in a highly touted freshman (Penaranda) and I'm curious what their plan with him is.
     
  9. penguin13

    penguin13 New Member

    United States
    Aug 16, 2018
    As much as Randy Waldrum would probably love to play Johan Penaranda in goal this season. . .I don't think the NCAA is going to allow it so its pretty safe to say he didn't play in the women's game.
     
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  10. Soccerhunter

    Soccerhunter Member+

    Sep 12, 2009
    Congrats to Pitt for two wins to start the season and for the moment to be the number 2 team in the country according to the Adjusted RPI !! o_O (I'll let CP explain that little statistic....)
     
  11. soccersubjectively

    soccersubjectively BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 17, 2012
    Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Lol wrong thread. My mistake :rolleyes:
     
  12. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  13. outsiderview

    outsiderview Member

    Oct 1, 2013
    Charlotte
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Not to be overly negative, but Pitt are poor. These first four games look like that of one scheduled by Miller when he thought he had a year left and wanted some results. I have watched 2 of the 3 games so far, and currently watching the fourth.

    They beat Ohio University and were outshot - sub .500 in 2017 in the MAC
    They went to overtime with Morehead State - they won 3 games last season
    They tied and played an even match against Kent State - a good MAC team
    Currently tied with JU 1-1 - sub .500 team in 2017 in the ASUN

    I hope Randy can sell recruits on his name alone, because I do not see them winning a game in the ACC being that they do not play Syracuse this year. On top of that, after today the non-conference games won't leave much left on the table as fas as wins.
     
  14. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  15. OGSoccerCoach

    OGSoccerCoach Member

    May 11, 2017
    JU replaced the programs winningest coach in late April with a coach with very little meaningful or relevant college experience who happens to have a brother on the JU board of trustees. Picked to finish last in the ASun by a wide margin and they probably won’t win more than 3 games this season. Not a quality win for Pitt...
     
  16. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Figured not, and what a weird program to schedule unless you're breaking from a string of high-quality opponents.
     
  17. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My simulation predicted Pitt wins over Ohio, Morehead, and Jacksonville, which they got. It predicted a loss to Kent State, whereas they got a tie.

    The simulation can be pretty crude, since it is based only on a combo of teams' RPI trends over the last 8 years and their RPIs over the last 2 years, but it's as good an RPI-only-based forecasting system as I can come up with. What I think it may be quite good for (emphasis on may) is tracking whether a new coach has a program changing directions.

    If one wants to rely on the Law of Small Numbers (which is a law only in the human mind and not in real life) -- "Any data sample is reliable no matter how small" -- it looks like Waldrum may have turned the ship a little since his results have been a little better so far than the simulation says they "should have" been.
     
  18. Enzo the Prince

    Sep 9, 2007
    Club:
    CA River Plate
    Yeah it's too small, especially since all 3 wins are by 1 goal and one was in OT. I wish him the best, but they're going to lose a lot (all?) of their conference games.
     
  19. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, the simulation had them at 3-13-2, but now it looks like they'll end up 3-12-3. That would be a very, very slight directional change.

    But, there are lots of games yet to play. Let's see how they end up.
     
  20. penguin13

    penguin13 New Member

    United States
    Aug 16, 2018
    I think they are turning the ship in the right direction. If nothing else, at least people are paying attention to a program that no one normally paid any attention to. May take a few years until the results come for them
     
  21. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  22. devad

    devad Member

    Nov 18, 2012
    Will they be better than the disaster that was CGM? Probably. The recruits he is getting are nowhere near ACC level quality. There is a general wait and see approach with many people believing he is well past his ND glory days. He massively under-achieved and his insistence in bringing his son along shows where his priorities are. 4-0 to TCU is a sign of things to come. TCU is solid but they aren't FSU, UVA, UNC and co. Once they get to KU they may win 1 game. He is a name.
     
  23. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  24. Sockers1

    Sockers1 Member

    Nov 7, 2016
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
  25. Wildcatter

    Wildcatter Member

    Sep 9, 2018

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