When should George leave? Dude been coach forever now. Proly longer than Bruce was and Bruce absolutely took over and dominated college soccer. I know it was a very different time then but dude still won
There is a large portion of the fan base that believes his tactics are archaic and he needs to step down. Its been geting louder over the last few years.
I think the biggest issue with college soccer is it doesnt follow Fifa rules.
The clock ticks down and ia the official time. Referee stops the clock for all cards, goals and injuries.
Random substitution rules where if you are subbed out in the first half you cant come back in until the second half. Makes the game flow really weird. It allows coaches to send out rabbits to exhaust themselves… then recover and do it again in the second half.
Second rule makes no sense… they need to go to 5 subs like the rest of the world. Games can be manipulated in ways international and professional games cannot.
Also limitations on the season. Literally they dont practice or play on their college teams until like August. In soccer you gotta be training and playing all the time it seems to me
Shows you how little i pay attention. Never knew NC2A soccer was different. That’s a totally different ruleset and strategy. Almost like they say the NC2A college basketball rule book and said “these guys get it f$$k the traditional game”
Unlike football and basketball, college soccer has never been a system where most of the best players in the world will play at least for a year or two until going onto the top pro league. At least during the 80s and 90s, though, UVA soccer was sending a few players to the top European leagues, but not anymore. Lacrosse mimics the football and basketball role; though overall youth participation and the pro league is nothing like those sports. Despite UVA wining numerous national titles, I find college tennis to be the oddest arrangement, and a sport that is completely overshadowed by the professional scene. While most here will probably pick lacrosse or baseball, for me, the most entertaining non-revenue UVA sport recently has been the women’s swim team. In addition to dominating the NCAAs, my family, including our daughter who’s a former NCAA swim/dive athlete, really enjoyed watching the UVA women dominate (5 gold, 5 silver, and one bronze) at the Olympics this summer. Once every four years, swimming is watched by the entire world (and then ignored), and they referenced the University of Virginia dozens of times during the primetime broadcast.
He could be any position… but he’d be the dude that only passed sideways and back… its what folks thought England did throughout the last Euros under Gareth Southgate.
This is how a team full of Rohde’s would play soccer…