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Men's soccer 2018

Shame to see how far the Men's and Women's teams have fallen. This is the first year I've decided not to renew my Huskies All-Access subscription. MSOC, WSOC, and Field Hockey made it worth it. As much as I love the Field Hockey program, I just can't do it.
 
SoccerBob said:
Players saying no competition for spots, only Miller's recruits play. No real coaching, attacking strategy, defensive structure or coherent game plan. Squeaked by two weak opponents, humiliated by ND, outplayed by IU. Dartmouth could decide the season and Reid's fate.
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If true, not good...
 
UConn men's soccer really could use a win against Dartmouth tonight. With non conference opponents like URI, Akron, and Boston College coming up in the schedule, there are no easy games on the schedule in the near future.
 
Abdou Mbacke Thiam with the header to put UConn up 1-0 with about 11 minutes left in the 2nd half. Assist from Dayonn Harris.
 
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Dartmouth is a pretty good side so the win is good
Still the offense is really anemic
RR has to figure this out - like NOW
 
Don't know much about URI soccer; but, they beat a decent BU team on the road by a 2-0 score and a big home win against Penn St, 1-0 and based on the stats, URI controlled the game. In 5 games, they have not given-up a goal yet, which is impressive and could be an issue for UConn's anemic offense, while netting 12 goals. The team's roster looks split between US players from mostly the northeast (including CT) and northern Europe (Germany and the Nordics) with a lot of size (very few players under 5' 10").
 
Good win last night, but also exposed ongoing concerns. UConn conceded the center to a more physical and more skilled pair and was forced, or prefer, to attack from the wings. Once Dartmouth lost their big striker, their attack suffered and UConn was able to grow into the game. However, whipping balls in from the outside and long-distance shots are low percentage approaches to scoring. Given the difficult schedule ahead, scraping by similar or lower quality teams isn't a good omen. I can't help but think Reid has fallen behind in his soccer thinking and needs to go before UConn becomes a has-been.
 
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Bummer. Would have liked to seen more like hear them play Akron. Probably woulda lost, bit they’re a top tier team. Is Loyola Maryland any good when compared to Akron?
 
ct06111 said:
Bummer. Would have liked to seen more like hear them play Akron. Probably woulda lost, bit they’re a top tier team. Is Loyola Maryland any good when compared to Akron?
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No way Loyola Maryland compares to a perennial power like Akron, a team that is regularly in the top 25. Plus Akron made the NCAA final four last season. Still Loyola can't be all that bad as they have beaten Rutgers (3-0) and St. John's (1-0) this season. On the downside, they lost 1-0 to Villanova. Loyola Maryland has a 3-1 record, so I would expect this to be a competitive game for UConn.

Akron also rescheduled, they have a home game against Canisius on Saturday.
 
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Clutch win last night, and I hate to be a downer... but, let's look at where we're at:

4-2 record
4 wins against 4 weak opponents, 2 of those wins required penalty and/or free kicks, 1 required 2OT and a hat-trick, 1 (against Dartmouth) they were outplayed and lucky that their striker was injured
2 losses against ranked teams, albeit highly ranked teams. Both losses were significant in style and/or score.

RI and Akron cancellations may have been a blessing as both were likely losses, certainly Akron.

Players on the team continue to say Reid is out of touch with the modern game, not a strategist, has no real plan and primarily uses motivation as his coaching tool. His history is great, but how much more of a decline can UConn take? Nothing this year suggests any improvement and possibly a continuation of the decline.

Time for the school to vote in favor of competitiveness and let Reid go.
 

Reid with some really nice things to say about Thiam, who really seems like a great kid
 
SoccerBob said:
Clutch win last night, and I hate to be a downer... but, let's look at where we're at:

4-2 record
4 wins against 4 weak opponents, 2 of those wins required penalty and/or free kicks, 1 required 2OT and a hat-trick, 1 (against Dartmouth) they were outplayed and lucky that their striker was injured
2 losses against ranked teams, albeit highly ranked teams. Both losses were significant in style and/or score.

RI and Akron cancellations may have been a blessing as both were likely losses, certainly Akron.

Players on the team continue to say Reid is out of touch with the modern game, not a strategist, has no real plan and primarily uses motivation as his coaching tool. His history is great, but how much more of a decline can UConn take? Nothing this year suggests any improvement and possibly a continuation of the decline.

Time for the school to vote in favor of competitiveness and let Reid go.
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Few things:
Dartmouth and Loyola both have decent-to-good teams, neither win should be brushed off. Notre Dame and Indiana are going to make a lot of teams look bad this year. UConn has won every game they were supposed to up to this point, no need to jump off the cliff just yet.
 
SoccerBob said:
Clutch win last night, and I hate to be a downer... but, let's look at where we're at:

4-2 record
4 wins against 4 weak opponents, 2 of those wins required penalty and/or free kicks, 1 required 2OT and a hat-trick, 1 (against Dartmouth) they were outplayed and lucky that their striker was injured
2 losses against ranked teams, albeit highly ranked teams. Both losses were significant in style and/or score.

RI and Akron cancellations may have been a blessing as both were likely losses, certainly Akron.

Players on the team continue to say Reid is out of touch with the modern game, not a strategist, has no real plan and primarily uses motivation as his coaching tool. His history is great, but how much more of a decline can UConn take? Nothing this year suggests any improvement and possibly a continuation of the decline.

Time for the school to vote in favor of competitiveness and let Reid go.
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really doubt the dolt AD David Benedict will do anything about RR
Ray has been struggling lately and conference realignment has really hurt recruiting
I see Ray staying on until the new stadium is baptized and they name the press box after him and he coaches the 1st year and retires
UConn mens soccer has a great history but the AAC will make it hard to get a top notch quality coach that the program deserves
Of course things could turn around with some nice wins and good showings in the NCAA tourney but to be honest, I don't see it right now
Ray is a really good guy and coach - the ACC, the Ivies and B10 is a thorn in UConn's side
I have jokingly said that UConn would be better off being an independent in mens soccer but there is no such animal
 
SoccerBob said:
Clutch win last night, and I hate to be a downer... but, let's look at where we're at:

4-2 record
4 wins against 4 weak opponents, 2 of those wins required penalty and/or free kicks, 1 required 2OT and a hat-trick, 1 (against Dartmouth) they were outplayed and lucky that their striker was injured
2 losses against ranked teams, albeit highly ranked teams. Both losses were significant in style and/or score.

RI and Akron cancellations may have been a blessing as both were likely losses, certainly Akron.

Players on the team continue to say Reid is out of touch with the modern game, not a strategist, has no real plan and primarily uses motivation as his coaching tool. His history is great, but how much more of a decline can UConn take? Nothing this year suggests any improvement and possibly a continuation of the decline.

Time for the school to vote in favor of competitiveness and let Reid go.
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For someone who hates to be a downer, good job. The test of the 2018 team will be making the NCAA's. Everybody is a bit alarmed at missing two straight years---especially due to late season fizzles. Dartmouth has won 4 straight Ivy titles, Loyola Md retured every scoring point from Patriot League reg season champions. Wins on paper, barely, but they are not weak opponents. Akron was not a certain loss--- they are 2-3-1. Good job by both UConn and Loyola to quickly schedule a competitive game....Akron brought in Canisius for a 10-0 win. The coaches, working with limited schollies, are not complacent. Newcomers Metzler (germany), and Lapert (france) appear to be studs right away. I think there's real evidence of improvement, if not national title potential. Since when is it a bad sign, when your senior striker is "required" to get a hat trick?
SoccerBob said:
Clutch win last night, and I hate to be a downer... but, let's look at where we're at:

4-2 record
4 wins against 4 weak opponents, 2 of those wins required penalty and/or free kicks, 1 required 2OT and a hat-trick, 1 (against Dartmouth) they were outplayed and lucky that their striker was injured
2 losses against ranked teams, albeit highly ranked teams. Both losses were significant in style and/or score.

RI and Akron cancellations may have been a blessing as both were likely losses, certainly Akron.

Players on the team continue to say Reid is out of touch with the modern game, not a strategist, has no real plan and primarily uses motivation as his coaching tool. His history is great, but how much more of a decline can UConn take? Nothing this year suggests any improvement and possibly a continuation of the decline.

Time for the school to vote in favor of competitiveness and let Reid go.
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One other thing to remember. For the last several seasons, UConn men's soccer has consistently had early season losses or ties to non conference teams that they simply should have beaten. Last season the loss to Iona and the tie to North Florida were perfect examples of this, and there are other results similar to this over the course of several previous seasons. On the plus side for this year, a bad result to a less than stellar non conference team has not happened this season, at least not yet. As for their next game, Boston College is shaping up as a team this year that the Huskies really need to beat.
 
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"National title potential"... please. Won't win conference. Won't be in the tournament. Will struggle for 500. I'm all for school spirit and supporting the team, but that's serious head-in-the-sand stuff. Metzler and Lapert are good tacklers that add to defense , but lose the ball too often - which for the team is the primary problem in attack - leading to long shots and crosses. Which in reality is a coaching problem. I'm with the team, but when there are roadblocks in the team's path to success, the best course of action is to remove the roadblocks.
 
Don't expect things to change
As a lifelong UConn men's soccer fan I've experienced plenty of heartbreaks and frustration in the past. Surprisingly I'm more frustrated with this program over the last 4 years more than any missed penalty kick. What is frustrating is knowing things aren't going to change for some time. After previously donating 100,00 in 2017 RR gave 250,000 to the new stadium, unrelated of course after not making the tournament that year. Until the new stadium is built UC0nn will be lucky to make the tournament. The environment within UConn soccer program has zero chance of being successful. Reid gives zero soccer tactic advice, instead, his coaching strategy fear motivation. Ask any soccer recuirter in the nation and they will tell you UConn has endless talent (this year i think much less then usual) The man behind the soccer tatics Coach Miller has been a huge disapointment. Hired due to his reputation as one the best recuirters in the nation.He treats his favorites like royalty and babies, meanwhile treats every other player like worthless trash. Sources around the program tell me the transfers of Niko Petridis and Austin Dasavilla were directly due to how coach miller treated them. UConns environment is so bad that in 2015 the freshman class was 12 players. UConn Men's Soccer Reloads After Disappointing 2014 Season

From those players there are two left:
-Abdou and Nkosi Burgess

the year before that 11 freshman
-3 stayed there whole career

That is no recipe to winning, but until RR cant going thing aren'trnt changing.
Coach Rieds control over this program has turned toxic and its suffered in every way
-1 tournament appearance in 4 years
-strength coach Chris West (who worked with the 2011 bball team) played much lower role
-coach west worked with the soccer team for 15+ years and players loved him
-Reid refused to listen to his idvice on recovery/safty of plaayers
-As team struggled there was less focus on stregnth and condition just soccer
-west was pivitol to uconns past sucess
-attendance is down
-no one wants to watch ray reids outdated boring soccer style
-espically when you have so much talent to showcase
-less focus on international
-the college soccer game has changed, recuirt locally
-unless you pay attention to youth soccer you are probably unaware how much the talent pool in america soccer has grown ESPICALLY in the north east
-college soccer teams who are winning today are filled with players from the US development academy
-wake forest who is ranked #1 right now has a roster of 26 players
-19 of them came from the US development academy... oh and one of there senior starters used to play for oakwood (CT acadamy team)
-UConn could be a recuirting power house
-new coach
-new stadium
-attencence
-best acadmies are in the northeast nyc,philly,dc area is loaded
 
bill6319 said:
Don't expect things to change
As a lifelong UConn men's soccer fan I've experienced plenty of heartbreaks and frustration in the past. Surprisingly I'm more frustrated with this program over the last 4 years more than any missed penalty kick. What is frustrating is knowing things aren't going to change for some time. After previously donating 100,00 in 2017 RR gave 250,000 to the new stadium, unrelated of course after not making the tournament that year. Until the new stadium is built UC0nn will be lucky to make the tournament. The environment within UConn soccer program has zero chance of being successful. Reid gives zero soccer tactic advice, instead, his coaching strategy fear motivation. Ask any soccer recuirter in the nation and they will tell you UConn has endless talent (this year i think much less then usual) The man behind the soccer tatics Coach Miller has been a huge disapointment. Hired due to his reputation as one the best recuirters in the nation.He treats his favorites like royalty and babies, meanwhile treats every other player like worthless trash. Sources around the program tell me the transfers of Niko Petridis and Austin Dasavilla were directly due to how coach miller treated them. UConns environment is so bad that in 2015 the freshman class was 12 players. UConn Men's Soccer Reloads After Disappointing 2014 Season

From those players there are two left:
-Abdou and Nkosi Burgess

the year before that 11 freshman
-3 stayed there whole career

That is no recipe to winning, but until RR cant going thing aren'trnt changing.
Coach Rieds control over this program has turned toxic and its suffered in every way
-1 tournament appearance in 4 years
-strength coach Chris West (who worked with the 2011 bball team) played much lower role
-coach west worked with the soccer team for 15+ years and players loved him
-Reid refused to listen to his idvice on recovery/safty of plaayers
-As team struggled there was less focus on stregnth and condition just soccer
-west was pivitol to uconns past sucess
-attendance is down
-no one wants to watch ray reids outdated boring soccer style
-espically when you have so much talent to showcase
-less focus on international
-the college soccer game has changed, recuirt locally
-unless you pay attention to youth soccer you are probably unaware how much the talent pool in america soccer has grown ESPICALLY in the north east
-college soccer teams who are winning today are filled with players from the US development academy
-wake forest who is ranked #1 right now has a roster of 26 players
-19 of them came from the US development academy... oh and one of there senior starters used to play for oakwood (CT acadamy team)
-UConn could be a recuirting power house
-new coach
-new stadium
-attencence
-best acadmies are in the northeast nyc,philly,dc area is loaded
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You friends with SoccerBob?
 
bill6319 said:
Don't expect things to change
As a lifelong UConn men's soccer fan I've experienced plenty of heartbreaks and frustration in the past. Surprisingly I'm more frustrated with this program over the last 4 years more than any missed penalty kick. What is frustrating is knowing things aren't going to change for some time. After previously donating 100,00 in 2017 RR gave 250,000 to the new stadium, unrelated of course after not making the tournament that year. Until the new stadium is built UC0nn will be lucky to make the tournament. The environment within UConn soccer program has zero chance of being successful. Reid gives zero soccer tactic advice, instead, his coaching strategy fear motivation. Ask any soccer recuirter in the nation and they will tell you UConn has endless talent (this year i think much less then usual) The man behind the soccer tatics Coach Miller has been a huge disapointment. Hired due to his reputation as one the best recuirters in the nation.He treats his favorites like royalty and babies, meanwhile treats every other player like worthless trash. Sources around the program tell me the transfers of Niko Petridis and Austin Dasavilla were directly due to how coach miller treated them. UConns environment is so bad that in 2015 the freshman class was 12 players. UConn Men's Soccer Reloads After Disappointing 2014 Season

From those players there are two left:
-Abdou and Nkosi Burgess

the year before that 11 freshman
-3 stayed there whole career

That is no recipe to winning, but until RR cant going thing aren'trnt changing.
Coach Rieds control over this program has turned toxic and its suffered in every way
-1 tournament appearance in 4 years
-strength coach Chris West (who worked with the 2011 bball team) played much lower role
-coach west worked with the soccer team for 15+ years and players loved him
-Reid refused to listen to his idvice on recovery/safty of plaayers
-As team struggled there was less focus on stregnth and condition just soccer
-west was pivitol to uconns past sucess
-attendance is down
-no one wants to watch ray reids outdated boring soccer style
-espically when you have so much talent to showcase
-less focus on international
-the college soccer game has changed, recuirt locally
-unless you pay attention to youth soccer you are probably unaware how much the talent pool in america soccer has grown ESPICALLY in the north east
-college soccer teams who are winning today are filled with players from the US development academy
-wake forest who is ranked #1 right now has a roster of 26 players
-19 of them came from the US development academy... oh and one of there senior starters used to play for oakwood (CT acadamy team)
-UConn could be a recuirting power house
-new coach
-new stadium
-attencence
-best acadmies are in the northeast nyc,philly,dc area is loaded
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any idea where austin dasilva transfered to?
 
mj1717 said:
You friends with SoccerBob?
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Spent 2 fall seasons 2015 and 2016 working with the team, built relationships with all the players. I was around the team every day, at practice, plane trips, and also off the field. The guys were all open cool guys, the entire team was very close. Off the field they all went out together, always was a great time to be around. Captains Kwame Kwame Awuah and Jake Jake Nerwinski made it that every player felt equal. That changed on the field due to RR's incompetence to coach u8 soccer anymore. I saw things I wish I never saw. Its similar to the saying "never meet your heros" well the UConn soccer program was that for me as a child. I dreamed of working with the team but had to leave because I couldn't watch my friends be constantly abused over and over again. The environment was extremely depressing, the mind games RR played on the players were so twisted, selfish, and messed up a lot of players. Forget winning games, lets take a look into the mental health of the mens soccer team. I know when I was there I couldn't get over how every player on the team is either depressed bc things aren't going well or anxious because things are going well but know one mistake could be it. I saw it take a mental toll on a lot of the players. It was the last thing I expected and still bothers me today. They were not a weak group, they worked hard, that wasn't the problem. It was how RR's threats started crossing the line. I can't imagine going to class after my coach told me if I don't play better next game is going back to Sweeden. Or the local CT kid who just got screamed at if he "doesn't change his attitude hell be playing for Hartford and be known as the hometown bust by spring"
 
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