Travis

If we get Utah State, that is a super tough game. Excited for the quality of opponent, that is for sure.

Tech came out on Monday much earlier saying that SL was never on their top list. This was one we never had to sweat.

I am sad to see him go. He seems like a really great guy.

Fouts will always equal urinal trough. always.

Good bye urinal troughs.

I am thrilled with this season. I don't forget how bad we were. I love the direction our program is headed.

Tech has already came out saying SL is not on their list.

It’s funny seeing how many people get on to the DRC about this potential or not so potential story. I don’t blame Brett for writing what he did. It is his job to. Part of his job is to get people talking about the things he writes... which clearly it worked 7 page thread later.

I am sorry... but I will not sit idly by when our own fans liken us to the likes of Louisiana Baptist University. How dare you sir! https://www.lbu.edu/

Great news!!!

Those punts were big time. He did a great job with field position.

I thought you were about to propose we eat babies.

I am so glad the coaches went through this thread at halftime and came across my earlier post and listened to it. First, I want to thank the coaches for being open minded enough to take an outsiders opinion. Second, I want to say you’re welcome to the coaches, players, and fans. Though my contributions did give us the W tonight. I still think we need to give some of the credit share to the players and coaches too.

I thought we learned this from last week

Run the effing ball!

Wasn't that when Duffy finally was healthy?

I am quite certain success is closer to 68.4% recruiting and 31.1% coaching. and .5% sexy

I generally find out who down votes me through the tracking of IP addresses and what not. And then I kill them.

This is a fun discussion and I loved hearing your thoughts. I would first add that I don’t see us ripping the girls I see this as an attack on tactics. I feel it was made quite clear that we see our team as the best it has ever been. Any complaint regarding the girls has been in regards to strategy and that I simply don’t believe we are being put in the best position to win. I don’t think anyone is knocking on the success Hedlund has had here. But I do think he needs to tweak his style to take us to the next level. I would still say it was most definitely style that got us beat the other night instead of draw. A good possession team will beat a good long ball team most every time. And that certainly was the case again. I can’t speak to Arkansas or Baylor and frankly don’t really care about them. The only times I have seen them play is when they played us in the past and I never thought they played long ball like we do. Regarding their success, I do not know who they played and how the other team plays strategically when they played them. That all matters. Playing tough and physical has little to do with long ball (or as you like to call it- direct) or possession as I have seen both possession teams and long ball style teams to be physical and others weak. Generally, for long ball, speed matters most and a whole lot of luck with the ball bouncing their way. If they played a solid possession team, the chances are they would lose. That is how it goes at most every level of football. That is how it has gone everytime we have played in the tournament. There was nothing I saw from the aTm game that showed me they were just better athletes (except for maybe our starting forward and another mid or two was simply tiny compared to their backline). I stand by what I said. We have played better draws and ended up with the same result with lesser teams like Texas Tech and SMU in the past. We will always play good teams in the tournament, so draw doesn’t/shouldn’t matter so much to me with a team like we had this year. It isnt draw. It is style. We have to change our tactics to increase our chances of winning. If I had the time, I would actually break down game video to prove why we didn’t increase our scoring opportunities due to how we moved the ball and it had nothing to do with the other team being better athletes. There were so many things we could have done differently that would have really opened things up.

Is this a trend with SL teams? That we kinda just fizzle out at the end?

Aggies dominated because of style. Not talent. They utilized their midfield and possession the way they should. They created a bunch of scoring opportunities. Our keeper played lights out that allowed us to stay in the game. Well, that and the fact that one Aggie made a real dumb bone headed play by not being greedy enough to take the shot that is right in front of you.

This was not a talent difference. Simply watch the game. It was completely a tactic and strategy difference. It doesn’t matter who we play in the tournament, they will all be good. We have had lucky draws before against the likes of Tech and SMU and Hedlund still never delivered. Again, philosophy results have always struck its ugly head because this style will never win tourney games when you are up against a strong possession team that uses the midefilwd as it is intended. I said this about 10 years ago and I continue to be correct. I was really hoping to be wrong this year because our team is far more athletic than years past. A good midfield is like solid offensive and defensive lines... if they do well, the teams likely do well. Our philosophy doesn’t use them as we should. Just a bunch of Hail Mary’s. But what do I know? I have only played competitively most of my life while also coaching (and officiating) for about 8 years.

Sad? Sad that we are a solid mid major program that in all the years of Hedlund making us a great program, not only have we never won a tourney game, but a Hedlund team hasn’t even ever scored a single goal in a tourney game. Sounds like you don’t really understand soccer to understand what we are complaining about. We are bitching about the style in which we play. Which has been my point for years. I know soccer well enough to understand why we are what we are. It is like I am a prophet! Again, we are a top 25 team with what should be top 25 talent. I am sure there is no way the girls are happy just because they made it to OT with aTm. They expected better. And our program is better than just to be grateful we played them into extra innings. Also, we were incredibly lucky to make it to OT.

He has coached this way with intention. I was great friends with the soccer players during my undergrad from 2000-2004 and we would discuss tactics. They even agreed with me that possession and my style of play would be far superior than the long ball that Hedlund plays. But you gotta play the way the coach wants. I am honestly not sure Hedlund is capable of coaching a different style. But it is what it is.

If we are going to play this long ball.. our forward has to be better than what I saw tonight. We got nothing from our forwards. 😞