I don't even want to think about my top 11 I've played with or against in nescac. It will exclude any player who loves the long ball. Aka any Amherst/ starting to be midd player. If Conrad/glazer played in Spain everyone would laugh at them, where as a forward who plays with a team who plays with the ball on the ground would get more respect. They deserve respect because they signed up to play nescac soccer and only Conrad found a way. Wirz from Amherst who spencer noon freaked out about not getting all nescac about, does not deserve it. If he got it, that's basically saying the best nescac can offer is a center back that panicks and punts the ball. Wirz was perfect for nescac. Nothing else. My best center back pairing would be raicjack and Brewster by far. I refuse to debate outside backs, all so similar. Athletic and can run. Center mids are more interesting. I want to say Rory from Wesleyan because he was a huge typical nescac player, but he could play. He could connect passes well and had vision, but Christman from williams did that and was a hard tackler. It's hard to pick the best center mids because they are all different. I'd say the ones that could play were the best. Instead of head the ball or lay it off for another long ball.also the lower teams would have had center mids that had potential, I just didn't see it because their teams would get rocked. So I can't really say.

My main thing, Amherst killed d3 soccer. They decided that finding skilled players wasn't a thing so they butchered the game by bringing in the sucre twins. One of them got drafted and everyone I know would have paid 100$ to watch him train not only with a pro team but even a pdl team. Such a joke, but also such an achievement. What coaching. To transform soccer into a form of wwe wrestling takes skill. Everyone hates Amherst for killing the game of soccer and adding a sense of fairness to it. Their announcing of the lineup was like a basketball team and then they jump against eachother was one thing, but they get the results. If God is a soccer ball. Amherst is a knife. They don't play soccer they found a loophole that everyone is catching onto. Middlebury got Conrad. If Amherst got Conrad, even messiah would bow down. Huge religious rift right there, but still. The smaller fields are better for long ball teams. That's why williams is so good at home (120x80) field.

I hope Colby, tufts, new williams, bates(yes bates, they will suck, but they try and play atleast) decide and counter amhersts trend of putting 6'4+ guys on the field to disrupt things. I respect Grady and knoth for being a center forward and short. More for knoth for having a more fluid career, but we'll see what happens in the end. We've all seen guys don well then fail.

So my best eleven would have more Colby kids. They play.
Bowdoin doesn't have a style, they just adapted.
All interesting for the nescac.

Hi, couple year out nescac player here. Finally bored enough at work to participate. You guys are interesting to read. Your knowledge is based off of stats, some watching games and lapaz. There are some things that go on in the team that you guys don't know. You guys would post some incredibly incorrect things about my team in the pat when I played. Lapaz was way off a lot of the times. I heard he's from williamstown. One of the williams players said he sees him a lot.

Some interesting younger insight on what you guys have talked about recently.

Greenwood-legit.
Conn-joke. Once they get a field that isn't 105 yards they can talk.
Amherst- everyone hates them. Not for being good, but for their style. No one likes them
Williams- very hard to break down,
Tufts- better every year, interesting to see what happens
Trinity- admissions will always be the same there letting in idiots
Middlebury- glazer and Conrad score against week teams, Conrad will grow and crush big teams next year

Forwards- an interesting stat to look at that no one has is amount of games scored in. Grady scored 10 goals, but only one game where he scored more than one goal and it was two. So nine games score in. 0 assists, but he was also playing with a weak williams offense
Conrad- racked them up at times, then disappeared. Not that technical. But as far as a tough nescac center forward goes he is elite. Savonen is a lesser version of Conrad. Hopponot stopped scoring. Washed up.
Player of the year- nico pl. no contest
Colby could pull a tufts and grow in the future.
Defenders- most are all similar. It's who is stronger and can kick the ball further essentially. The first team/second team drama was useless because there was no drop. They were equal for center backs.

Tidbits that people are unaware of
Grady was a nut job. If Russo wasn't older and had more patience he could have crafted him into a real star. I was coaching at a camp as a college player counceler and the coaches all agreed he was a gamble worth taking, but still a gamble. Only know that from the camp and playing against him. If rashid was healthy, and he took whatever meds he took this season williams would have been far better.
Serpone- blindly recruits a lot of players surprisingly. Does not have to discipline players as much.
Santos- didn't really fit in to the tufts system as they grew and was frustrated with the long ball
Bates- Pebo knoth had a lot of options other than bates. Knoth is one of the best players in the league...he just plays for bates.dont know why he chose bates though.
Conn- I always hear conn players in summer league complaining about the coach.
Wesleyan- has off the field discipline problems that are scrapped under the table except for the hazing scandal.
Andrew miesel- made Colby even worse when he was there. Every one of his teammates hated him. But he was skilled.
Bowdoin- went from the final four to a non conference tourney team mainly from the atmosphere Fran brought from what I heard. He lost respect from his players.