(08-28-2023 08:49 PM)BubWV Wrote:  Statement win for The Herd tonight over Wright State 5-0!!

are you all the subject of all or nothing this year?

(08-28-2023 10:27 AM)JMU2004 Wrote:  JMU's game winner against UCLA. Pretty

https://twitter.com/JMUMSoccer/status/16...52996?s=20

a little less airborne, but it reminded me of robin van persie against spain in the 2014 world cup.

(08-29-2023 12:11 AM)Meatwad Wrote:  

(08-28-2023 08:49 PM)BubWV Wrote:  Statement win for The Herd tonight over Wright State 5-0!!

are you all the subject of all or nothing this year?

It definitely seems that way so far

This team really is special this year as it tells you a lot when your Coach isn't pleased with the shutout by any means and assumes we should've performed better....

(08-25-2023 02:02 AM)Meatwad Wrote:  

(08-24-2023 11:01 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  Great going Marshall and UCF!

Any UCF fans hanging around here?

i pop in once in a while to see what's going on with our conference mates.

I'm here too. Great start to the season so far!

It's still early and these numbers are still prone to fluctuate wildly in the next few weeks, but through Matchday 2, the SBC is #1 in Conference RPI :
http://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/...RPI%20Rank

And JMU wakes up this morning #1 in RPI thanks to their 2 impressive wins over Duquesne and UCLA:
https://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com...dings.html



CoachMaclid's SBC Matchday 2 Plays of the Week

SBC OFFENSIVE PLAY OF THE WEEK
JMU's Balint Kocso headers in a ball from outside the 18 for the game-winning goal vs UCLA.

SBC DEFENSIVE PLAY OF THE WEEK

UK's Max Miller places himself in support of his keeper to preserve the shutout. UK would find the game winner a few moments later.

Happy to see some UCF fans finding this thread as well. Do you all have pretty good attendance for your soccer matches?

I’m pretty sure we had over 1,400 for our season opener. It was the 8th largest crowd that week. Thought it would be more, but we also raised requirements to purchase season tickets this year.

(08-29-2023 05:53 AM)CoachMaclid Wrote:  It's still early and these numbers are still prone to fluctuate wildly in the next few weeks, but through Matchday 2, the SBC is #1 in Conference RPI :
http://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/...RPI%20Rank

And JMU wakes up this morning #1 in RPI thanks to their 2 impressive wins over Duquesne and UCLA:
https://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com...dings.html

But for now we can dream that is how they will finish. They project 4 bids from the Sun Belt into the tournament with Marshall first out.

With the addition of UCF this year, the SBC should be a 3 bid conference year in year out now.

Dukes now #17 on latest coaches poll!

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men...er-coaches

Kentucky goes from 3 to 2
Marshall goes from 11 to 5
UCF goes from NR to 13
JMU goes from NR to 17
WVU receiving votes (7)

(08-29-2023 11:49 AM)Dukes_Royals Wrote:  With the addition of UCF this year, the SBC should be a 3 bid conference year in year out now.

I think we should be a 4 or 5 bid conference year in year out. Remember, last season the SBC had just about had its worst case scenario possible - WVU had an awful OOC performance, we got some of the wrong results in the conference tournament, etc... The NCAA pretty much uses only RPI to seed the tournament, and we ended up with something like 4 of the first 8 out.

I think there's 7 teams in the league right now that thinks they are legitimately believe they are playing for an NCAA birth this year. We won't get that many, but I think we could push for 5 this year.

(08-29-2023 04:21 PM)space orange Wrote:  https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men...er-coaches

Kentucky goes from 3 to 2
Marshall goes from 11 to 5
UCF goes from NR to 13
JMU goes from NR to 17
WVU receiving votes (7)

Just wanted to point out this is the third consecutive season that Marshall and Kentucky have both appeared together in the Top 5 in the same weekly poll.

(08-29-2023 04:21 PM)space orange Wrote:  https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men...er-coaches

Kentucky goes from 3 to 2
Marshall goes from 11 to 5
UCF goes from NR to 13
JMU goes from NR to 17
WVU receiving votes (7)

Wait a sec.

Syracuse has 8 first place votes…..which is ALL of them..

Only 8 (!?!?) voters in this poll?

Damn. I’m happy to see JMU in it and all the sun belt love, but I have a hard time taking a poll for much when only 8 voters.

(08-29-2023 09:57 AM)herdfan129 Wrote:  Happy to see some UCF fans finding this thread as well. Do you all have pretty good attendance for your soccer matches?

I’m pretty sure we had over 1,400 for our season opener. It was the 8th largest crowd that week. Thought it would be more, but we also raised requirements to purchase season tickets this year.

College Soccer is a slight revenue producer for Marshall now, which is an encouraging sign of where we may head... Not even Kentucky charges for their Soccer matchups, it's free to attend.

What would really take college Soccer to the next level is a split Fall/Spring season. Interest would really pick up after Basketball...

(08-29-2023 06:42 PM)rileylives Wrote:  

(08-29-2023 09:57 AM)herdfan129 Wrote:  Happy to see some UCF fans finding this thread as well. Do you all have pretty good attendance for your soccer matches?

I’m pretty sure we had over 1,400 for our season opener. It was the 8th largest crowd that week. Thought it would be more, but we also raised requirements to purchase season tickets this year.

College Soccer is a slight revenue producer for Marshall now, which is an encouraging sign of where we may head... Not even Kentucky charges for their Soccer matchups, it's free to attend.

What would really take college Soccer to the next level is a split Fall/Spring season. Interest would really pick up after Basketball...

Oh wow. I didn’t know that. I was hoping we would one day become self-sufficient. I didn’t know we were actually a revenue producer. That’s amazing.

(08-29-2023 04:21 PM)space orange Wrote:  https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men...er-coaches

Kentucky goes from 3 to 2
Marshall goes from 11 to 5
UCF goes from NR to 13
JMU goes from NR to 17
WVU receiving votes (7)

Wow that’s awesome.

#2 Kentucky
#5 Marshall
#13 UCF
#17 JMU

WVU receiving votes.

Hopefully we can all continue winning OOC games.

Marshall takes down Xavier last night 3-0. And are now 3-0 on the season.

We have a MASSIVE showdown coming up this Tuesday night...

#5 Marshall @ #8 Pitt Tuesday September 5th at 6:00pm EST

Marshall beats Xavier 3-0, which makes this the third consecutive shutout this season.

In his Marshall debut, Pablo Simon made quite an impact. The junior tallied MU's second goal of the contest on an assist from Rai Pinto in the 12th minute, while assisting on Adam Aoumaich's first goal of the season with a cross at the 57:40 mark.

Coach Grassie also mentioned that Simon is the best player that he's ever seen/coached, which granted he's 24-years old and has played on several CF club teams, with the most recent being Orihuela CF (prior to him coming to play for Marshall).

As mentioned Pitt is going to be a great game to pay attention to and it's quite possible that Marshall could be going into that game as a #2 seed seeing how Cuse and Duke tied, and both UK and Pitt lost.

Three really huge Top 25 games for the conference tonight -

#5 Marshall at #8 Pitt - 2 Top 10 teams set to do battle in Pittsburgh.
#7 FIU at #13 UCF - The Knights are currently sitting #1 in RPI.
#2 Kentucky at #14 Louisville

Currently, the SBC is still the #1 RPI conference in the country, with 3 teams now in the RPI Top 7 (UCF is #1, JMU #4, Marshall #7). These three results tonight would go far in helping the SBC secure the top conference rating.

Other action tonight:
Wofford at Georgia State
Coastal at College of Charleston
WVU at American
UNCW at South Carolina
JMU at Gardner-Webb

ODU's record is 0-0-3 after playing to a 2-2 tie Monday at George Mason.

(09-05-2023 07:10 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  ODU's record is 0-0-3 after playing to a 2-2 tie Monday at George Mason.

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