Louisiana Soccer 2015

[CajunEXPRESS]

Ok. I was led to believe this was a pretty solid club. Way too many points allowed.

[ulXrunner]

Ok. I was led to believe this was a pretty solid club. Way too many points allowed.

Article says score was 2-0. Two seems descent on the college level.

[ulforlife]

The UL soccer team seems to fit the Farmer Sun Belt model well: very comfortable where it is.

[CajunEXPRESS]

😰😰😰. 11/18 shots. I rarely read articles on soccer. Still losing to SLU isn't bad?

[ZoomZoom]

Louisiana isn't a soccer hotbed, not even an air mattress. Every few blue moon the state produces a national team caliber player, male or female.

We can always do like Akron and go all in for one of the soccer programs and maybe get a NC like they did. But it forced Akron to give up baseball.

Not justifying the results, soccer is a very expensive sport if you're going to recruit and compete, and doesn't have a great rate of return. Refineryville (our unfortunate Louisiana benchmark) has 8 international players from multiple continents. They are usually competitive/good but they don't sniff the NCAA college cup in the fall. I'd like to see our program do better, but I know our conference champ usually is first round fodder. Our league doesn't have the money.

That and title IX is why UL won't field a men's team other than a club team. The kids that play give up their weekends where they could be tailgating or whatever. As with any sport, it's the love of the game.

[Redgineer]

Louisiana isn't a soccer hotbed, not even an air mattress. Every few blue moon the state produces a national team caliber player, male or female.

We can always do like Akron and go all in for one of the soccer programs and maybe get a NC like they did. But it forced Akron to give up baseball.

Not justifying the results, soccer is a very expensive sport if you're going to recruit and compete, and doesn't have a great rate of return. Refineryville (our unfortunate Louisiana benchmark) has 8 international players from multiple continents. They are usually competitive/good but they don't sniff the NCAA college cup in the fall. I'd like to see our program do better, but I know our conference champ usually is first round fodder. Our league doesn't have the money.

That and title IX is why UL won't field a men's team other than a club team. The kids that play give up their weekends where they could be tailgating or whatever. As with any sport, it's the love of the game.

What's title 9?

[Redgineer]

😰😰😰. 11/18 shots. I rarely read articles on soccer. Still losing to SLU isn't bad?

It's an exhibition game. Gotta work out some kinks evidently.

[ZoomZoom]

What's title 9?

Women's equality in sports

[ulforlife]

Louisiana isn't a soccer hotbed, not even an air mattress. Every few blue moon the state produces a national team caliber player, male or female.

We can always do like Akron and go all in for one of the soccer programs and maybe get a NC like they did. But it forced Akron to give up baseball.

Not justifying the results, soccer is a very expensive sport if you're going to recruit and compete, and doesn't have a great rate of return. Refineryville (our unfortunate Louisiana benchmark) has 8 international players from multiple continents. They are usually competitive/good but they don't sniff the NCAA college cup in the fall. I'd like to see our program do better, but I know our conference champ usually is first round fodder. Our league doesn't have the money.

That and title IX is why UL won't field a men's team other than a club team. The kids that play give up their weekends where they could be tailgating or whatever. As with any sport, it's the love of the game.

Great summary. I for one would love to see UL soccer compete for a conference championship. I think Scott does well in trying to attract talent from around the country to play here, I've known (and played with) a number of girls on the team over the years and they are good players. I am not convinced though that we shouldn't always be beating Southeastern and Nichols.

[MetryCajun]

The UL soccer team seems to fit the Farmer Sun Belt model well: very comfortable where it is.

This post seems to fit the ragin pagin model well: complaining about a setback and blaming the AD.

[cajun4life]

This post seems to fit the ragin pagin model well: complaining about a setback and blaming the AD.

Scott is the soccer coach.

[MetryCajun]

Scott is the soccer coach.

I know. Reread the post.