It appears Cumpstone is leaving Colby after only one year.

Trinity seems to be taking the Amherst approach this year by committing more fouls, yellow cards and general unsportsmanlike  actions...

Amherst 6 yellow cards....to 1 for Conn...

So an Amherst player pulls down a Conn attacker....hmmm...

Quote from: Mr.Right on October 16, 2022, 12:52:23 PM

Quote from: Viking on October 14, 2022, 01:38:17 PM
It's hard for those outside NESCAC to grasp the depth of feeling -- that heady mix of respect, irritation, anger, and, in some cases, humiliation-inflected "little-brotherness" -- that many folks associated with other NESCAC schools have toward the Amherst men's soccer program. The chief source of all that, of course, is Amherst's perennial success. But I'm glad that people brought up the word "bludgeoned," because there are other sources of people's feelings about Amherst men's soccer, and one of primary ones is pretty neatly captured in data. Have you ever looked at the conference's historic data set on fouls per game? In all but one year since NESCAC men's soccer achieved its current 11-team form in 2011, Amherst has finished first in NESCAC in fouls committed per game, sometimes by a breathtakingly wide margin (the exception was 2018, when Amherst finished just behind Middlebury in fouls per game). Let that sink in. The players turned over completely in those 12 years. The officials changed. Even the NCAA's rules and officiating "points of emphasis" changed. Even the average size of Amherst's roster changed, despite stereotypes to the contrary. But that one symptom remained constant. I've never seen any program-specific long-term historical trend like it at any level of the sport. There are generations of opposing players, coaches, parents, fans, and other observers who have witnessed (or felt) that disparity and emerged with permanently altered feelings about the experience and the factors that might have led to it. It's easy to see why former players find themselves using words like "bludgeoned," hyperbolic or not.

This is really well done.  Made me stop what I was doing and think about this.

Mr. Right:

As always thank you for your very extensive write ups that are gold and much appreciated...

Thanks for clearing up that scheduling confusion.

"They add Haverford and ECONN."

Mr. Right love you input on this board, its incredibly substantive and thought.

One item to correct. Wesleyan will play Eastern University the day after Haverford not ECONN. As per the Eastern University website.http://www.goeasterneagles.com/schedule.aspx?path=msoc

Cheers

All,

I'm new to the site and very excited it exists. Mr. Right your prior analysis has been a godsend for us fans thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Looking forward to the next season this coming fall.

Cheers.