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Message: [QUOTE="bill6319, post: 2851101, member: 9072"] 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. [URL="http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-uconn-soccer-0806-20150805-story.html"]UConn Men's Soccer Reloads After Disappointing 2014 Season[/URL] 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and condition just soccer -west was pivitol to uconns past sucess -attendance is down -no one wants to watch ray reids outdated boring soccer style -espically when you have so much talent to showcase -less focus on international -the college soccer game has changed, recuirt locally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 [/QUOTE]

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