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No. 20 Rutgers Women's Soccer at No. 12 Northwestern in B1G Quarterfinals / Sunday

Looks like WSoccer will lose to complete the crappy weekend.

At least Women X-Country didn’t place last and Womens Swimming beat Purdue.

Any chance RU can win in the first round of the NCAAs?
 
Looks like WSoccer will lose to complete the crappy weekend.

At least Women X-Country didn’t place last and Womens Swimming beat Purdue.

Any chance RU can win in the first round of the NCAAs?
Win in the first round we may not even make the NCAA tournament
Terrible job to finish out the season and that is on the coaching staff
 
Final 2-1 Northwestern. McClelland should have stopped the 2nd Northwestern goal as well. Banks played a really good game. Daigle once again brought nothing & was awful.
 
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Looks like WSoccer will lose to complete the crappy weekend.

At least Women X-Country didn’t place last and Womens Swimming beat Purdue.

Any chance RU can win in the first round of the NCAAs?
Field Hockey beat #19 JMU to improve to 8-9 on the year so give credit when it’s due.
 
The teams inability to score at the end of the season is the reason for the poor results as compared to last year.
 
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We will not be top 25 after this loss and we were seeded 7 in our tournament so yeah we may not make the tournament
RPI is currently 22 and it is a 64 team tournament. Although I agree that play of this team has regressed over the season, it still seems likely they make the tournament.
 
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The teams inability to score at th end of the season is the reason for the poor results as compared to last year.
The inability of our keeper to make saves that should have been made cost us 3 wins in the last four games instead of 2 losses & a tie.
 
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RPI is currently 22 and it is a 64 team tournament. Although I agree that play of this team has regressed over the season, it still seems likely they make the tournament.
Couldn’t remember if it was 32 or 64 so we should be in
 
And the incoming class is not great. He got none of the top PDA players. He really didn’t get anyone teams top players.
 
Believe he did get teams top players.
No he didn’t. My daughter is an 05. I have watched every girl play. The PDA girls he got barely play in any of the big games. And he got some girls that wouldn’t make either of the top teams in the area.
 
And the incoming class is not great. He got none of the top PDA players. He really didn’t get anyone teams top players.
Why do you think he didn't land any top recruits this past class?
 
Why do you think he didn't land any top recruits this past class?
This class was really affected by covid. They had limited showcases, limited camps, showcases that coaches couldn’t watch in person, plus covid restrictions on camps they actually did happen. Add in transfer portal and I think a lot of coaches just kind of mailed this class in. Plus sometimes PDA’a
Top girls just don’t want to stay home
 
This class was really affected by covid. They had limited showcases, limited camps, showcases that coaches couldn’t watch in person, plus covid restrictions on camps they actually did happen. Add in transfer portal and I think a lot of coaches just kind of mailed this class in. Plus sometimes PDA’a
Top girls just don’t want to stay home
Not true we have gotten the top girls a number of times including Riley last year and we the other girl who was also considered to be the other top player in NJ along with Riley but she transferred out because she refused to get vaccinated I can’t remember her name
 
This class was really affected by covid. They had limited showcases, limited camps, showcases that coaches couldn’t watch in person, plus covid restrictions on camps they actually did happen. Add in transfer portal and I think a lot of coaches just kind of mailed this class in. Plus sometimes PDA’a
Top girls just don’t want to stay home
Not good if we missed out on the top players last class. We need to find some more scorers.
 
Not true we have gotten the top girls a number of times including Riley last year and we the other girl who was also considered to be the other top player in NJ along with Riley but she transferred out because she refused to get vaccinated I can’t remember her name
Where did I say they haven’t gotten top girls in the past?
 
Didn’t we just bring in 2 straight great classes? Sometimes it’s tough to get 3 straight due RU playing time concerns.
 
Not good if we missed out on the top players last class. We need to find some more scorers.

I realize she didn’t play this season, but Westfield finished #1 in the state last year and the player of the year is a RU commit. Her sidekick, Gabby Gil who suffered an injury this season is also an RU commit.

 
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I believe both girls from Westfield are the class of ‘23.
She’s not a starter on her PDA team. She’s a good player, both of them are good players. But they aren’t he best players on PDA and not the types of girls you need to win a national championship
 
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And the incoming class is not great. He got none of the top PDA players. He really didn’t get anyone teams
The inability of our keeper to make saves that should have been made cost us 3 wins in the last four games instead of 2 losses & a tie.
So it’s all on the keeper? Meg is one of the best out there with more shutouts than many other keepers in the conference as per RU posts. How about the defenders don’t get in her sight and allow her to do her job? How about the coach make adjustments and realize his go to girls have gone and play others who want it more? There are 10 other girls on the field to blame, not just the goalie.
 
Didn’t we just bring in 2 straight great classes? Sometimes it’s tough to get 3 straight due RU playing time concerns.
This years class was and is very weak as no one made any significant contribution and barely any freshman play so this class was weak; now of course we had a very strong returning team but we didn't do anything to replace Amirah and that really hurt
 
So it’s all on the keeper? Meg is one of the best out there with more shutouts than many other keepers in the conference as per RU posts. How about the defenders don’t get in her sight and allow her to do her job? How about the coach make adjustments and realize his go to girls have gone and play others who want it more? There are 10 other girls on the field to blame, not just the goalie.
I never once mentioned the keeper
 
So it’s all on the keeper? Meg is one of the best out there with more shutouts than many other keepers in the conference as per RU posts. How about the defenders don’t get in her sight and allow her to do her job? How about the coach make adjustments and realize his go to girls have gone and play others who want it more? There are 10 other girls on the field to blame, not just the goalie.
She got so many shutouts because of our D not allowing shots on goal. Check out the stats. She had a real good 2nd half of the season last year. Other than that throughout her career she never lived up to the hype.
Yes there were other shortcomings down the stretch, but an all world goalie needs to make the saves that she did not. Against Minny she gave a weak swipe to a ball coming across the crease & gave it right to the attacker resulting in a goal rather than clearing it out of there hard.
Against Michigan she once again got caught in no mans land on a long ball & got beat. She was not decisive. She should have had the second weak goal as well.
Against Northwestern she didn't move quickly enough on the first goal & misplayed the second one.
Your goalie needs to be able to win a game for you not help you to lose it, especially a goalie with the hype she has had.
I know this opinion is rough, but it is my take.
 
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She got so many shutouts because of our D not allowing shots on goal. Check out the stats. She had a real good 2nd half of the season last year. Other than that throughout her career she never lived up to the hype.
Yes there were other shortcomings down the stretch, but an all world goalie needs to make the saves that she did not. Against Minny she gave a weak swipe to a ball coming across the crease & gave it right to the attacker resulting in a goal rather than clearing it out of there hard.
Against Michigan she once again got caught in no mans land on a long ball & got beat. She was not decisive. She should have had the second weak goal as well.
Against Northwestern she didn't move quickly enough on the first goal & misplayed the second one.
Your goalie needs to be able to win a game for you not help you to lose it, especially a goalie with the hype she has had.
I know this opinion is rough, but it is my take.
Agreed and she let up a weak goal when we lost to Michigan last year
 
She got so many shutouts because of our D not allowing shots on goal. Check out the stats. She had a real good 2nd half of the season last year. Other than that throughout her career she never lived up to the hype.
Yes there were other shortcomings down the stretch, but an all world goalie needs to make the saves that she did not. Against Minny she gave a weak swipe to a ball coming across the crease & gave it right to the attacker resulting in a goal rather than clearing it out of there hard.
Against Michigan she once again got caught in no mans land on a long ball & got beat. She was not decisive. She should have had the second weak goal as well.
Against Northwestern she didn't move quickly enough on the first goal & misplayed the second one.
Your goalie needs to be able to win a game for you not help you to lose it, especially a goalie with the hype she has had.
I know this opinion is rough, but it is my take.
Rough is an understatement. It’s interesting how people can sit behind their keyboards commenting so harshly on all these players. Were you a keeper or even ever play soccer? Just curious
 
Rough is an understatement. It’s interesting how people can sit behind their keyboards commenting so harshly on all these players. Were you a keeper or even ever play soccer? Just curious
Yes I played soccer. And I've gone to almost every home game for the last 12 years. And as an 80 year old guy who played 3 sports in college & a dozen years of heavy semi pro baseball & coached & managed teams in two sports I think I know something about athletics & what I'm looking at.
How about you? Do you go to the women's soccer games?
And I happen to know Meg. And she is a really nice young lady. So I don't feel real good about the criticism. Maybe I shouldn't have posted it, but I did.
 
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Yes I played soccer. And I've gone to almost every home game for the last 12 years. And as an 80 year old guy who played 3 sports in college & a dozen years of heavy semi pro baseball & coached & managed teams in two sports I think I know something about athletics & what I'm looking at.
How about you? Do you go to the women's soccer games?
And I happen to know Meg. And she is a really nice young lady. So I don't feel real good about the criticism. Maybe I shouldn't have posted it, but I did.
I am with you Dad she has not played well and has been very fortunate to have a great defense in front of her all these years but she got exposed in the Big tournament last year and she has been average at best and yes both of those goals were on her in the last game and same thing in the previous games
 
I am with you Dad she has not played well and has been very fortunate to have a great defense in front of her all these years but she got exposed in the Big tournament last year and she has been average at best and yes both of those goals were on her in the last game and same thing in the previous games
Dentist as I said, a bit of hard post to make, but I appreciate the validation.
 
Dentist as I said, a bit of hard post to make, but I appreciate the validation.
I know we are fans and we know they are young student athletes doing their best and as fans we praise them when it is due and we sometimes criticize them but we all want the same thing and that is for Rutgers to win not only in women's soccer but in all sports; as an aside my daughter who I goes to all the games with me and DID play soccer also agrees 100% with you
 
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