Women's Soccer

[PhilaPhans]

You act like it was an awful penalty kick. It wasn’t struck bad by any means, and her not scoring had nothing to do with not having an attempt this year.

Casey had an attempt this year and missed. Was it bad to have her go?

I'm not blaming the kid, I'm blaming coach, period. IMHO - OPINION - it's a bad call to have a kid take her FIRST PK, in the NCAA's, as the deciding kick no-less.

..we're still allowed to have opinions around here, right?

Not when they are wrong!



Of course I’m kidding. You’re allowed your opinion. There are just too many hypotheticals to blame the coach in this one in my opinion. There aren’t that many PKs to go by in a year from play. These girls practice them almost daily, though, and then you add in fatigue, who’s on the field, who’s hurt, etc

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Not when they are wrong!



Of course I’m kidding. You’re allowed your opinion. There are just too many hypotheticals to blame the coach in this one in my opinion. There aren’t that many PKs to go by in a year from play. These girls practice them almost daily, though, and then you add in fatigue, who’s on the field, who’s hurt, etc

lol I'm just having some fun...I don't know...have Colby take it there, no? I think she hadn't gone yet right? Ughhh....frustrating!

 

[Scarlet4ever]

lol I'm just having some fun...I don't know...have Colby take it there, no? I think she hadn't gone yet right? Ughhh....frustrating!

I didn't have a problem with the choices to kick PKs. The 4th girl hadn't attempted a PK either and she buried it. The 5th was a good strike. When you sit in a shell for 110 minutes, its kind of a crap shoot in PKs, and then you are going against a team that has had the soccer ball on their foot for a lot of time vs a team that just kicks the ball out of bounds. Odds are against you, even with a good goalkeeper like Murphy.

 

[Ironhead23]

Rutgers hung in there with poise against a more offensively dynamic and overall more polished team. They withstood some great attacks and managed to mount some close to threatening moments themselves.

Taking the game to Pks in a not totally cynical park the bus type game was an accomplishment in my mind. A little more crispness in play (consistently connecting passes) that I imagine will develop by next season, and a higher level of fitness should help the team move up into the top tier and hopefully advance deeper next year. We will see, but regardless—awesome work. Thanks for the great season!

 

[RUinSeattle]

Coming into this game we only shot PKs once this year, against PSU in the big 10 tournament. So all season 6 RU players shot 1 PK each and 2 of them missed. The only reason that there weren't more new players taking a PK is that Casey is one who missed and she was clutch in the last PKs RU has taken...2 years ago in the final 8 against #1 Virginia (we won).

 

[RUJMM78]

The way Rutgers plays with very little offensive scoring leaves no margin for error.Shoot outs to decide a winner is a hard way to lose but its the reality of soccer to end games.The team should be congratulated for another successful season.To get to the next level recruits with offensive skills clearly are needed.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

What is our post-season record in PK’s under O’Neil?