Women's Soccer 2016

gingi wrote:
If they play like this at Penn State the game will be called on runs in the first half... I am trying to convert my wife to BYU sports by showing her our better teams. She left in disgust after the first half.

The score at the half: 0-0.



BYU lost 0-1. Oh the horror.

The soccer team and its young athletes will improve. Until then there's Glendale. See you there. In white.

I couldn't watch the Washington State team, but many who did say the team played much better. The thing is, that was on the road and WSU is supposed to be better than Nebraska. BYU didn't play well on Monday for some reason.



I do find it curious that some of the experienced players are getting less playing time in favor of some of the new freshmen. The younger players must have more raw talent, but I wonder what Coach Rockwood does now. Does she go back to more experience against Penn State? I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what the right answer is.



Nebraska seemed to have us scouted out very well and we didn't respond well. PSU is a completely different team, highly ranked, and probably more likely to just do their thing rather than try to replicate what a team like Nebraska did. I don't think they're likely to play the drop everyone back into defense and bring the goalie up high like an extra defender like NU did. This may actually help BYU just play their normal game. On the other hand, it's on the road and PSU is way more talented than Nebraska.

Kind of disappointing that the BYU at Penn State game is not on the Big Ten Network. It should be. PSU is the defending national champions and both teams are nationally ranked. Instead they go with no live sports that night. But then I'm not that surprised having watched that channel a few times. The quality isn't that great. Kind of annoying that they get a huge paycheck from the cable providers but don't take advantage of the chance to highlight sports other than football and basketball. BYU really helps the entire athletic dept. with how they use BYUTV.

I love that we can tell our recruits that you will be on tv and your family can see your games. That has to be a big draw for many of the kids. Plus it should help schedule good games. Nebraska got their game on nationwide TV.

scott715 wrote:
Nebraska got their game on nationwide TV.

Right. When they played at home against BYU last year the BTN was nowhere to be found. They must love the money, but the cable/satellite providers are being taken for a major ride, and perhaps the bubble bursts in the next few years. The basketball coverage is good, but for anything else other than September football when everyone in the league plays directional MAC schools, the coverage on that channel seems to be very lacking. Weird. Even the P12 network shows as much live sports as they can. They just have sloppy distribution.

https://twitter.com/byusoccer_w/status/769328321444192256



Penn St is defending champ and ranked #5.

huge win for the cougs!

TheDean wrote:
the soccer team isn't very good this year

:sulk:

Their offense is not the same as last year yet. Only hatch has scored a goal this year.

scott715 wrote:
Their offense is not the same as last year yet. Only hatch has scored a goal this year.

Other players put the ball in the right position for Hatch to take advantage. The offense was very sharp in that game across the board. The midfield play was unbelievably good against PSU to get the ball to Hatch. They weren't great against Nebraska, and Michelle Vasconselos being out that game had a lot to do with that. The entire team didn't play well though. It looks like they shook it off and showed up big time for Friday. PSU is much better than Nebraska.

A higher percentage of BYU's shots this year (42%) are shots on goal compared to last year (36%). Breakdown by game:



WSU: 40%

Nebraska: 38%

Penn State: 54%

Next game is Friday night at South Field vs Tennessee. The game will be shown on BYUtv.

SpiffCoug wrote:
Next game is Friday night at South Field vs Tennessee. The game will be shown on BYUtv.

If BYU stays in sync they will win this game by 3 goals.

Last year the offense put a lot of pressure on early in the game. In the WSU game they didn't score until late, Nebraska we were shut out. I did not see the PSU game since they did not televise it. What losers!

scott715 wrote:
Last year the offense put a lot of pressure on early in the game. In the WSU game they didn't score until late, Nebraska we were shut out. I did not see the PSU game since they did not televise it. What losers!

There was a stream on the PSU website but the video quality wasn't that great.

I tried to find some highlights and couldn't.