2014 D3 Season: National Perspective

[KICKIN95]

how in the heck did that not get called???  This is definitely one of the worst blown calls I have seen in 32 years of playing, coaching, and officiating.

[Cheesehead Henry]

Holy Moly. Keeper dodged a bullet there....

[Ryan Harmanis]

Yea that's a PK, straight red, all wrapped up with a bow. Wow.

The only bigger-impact missed call I've seen in D3 in the past few years was the foul that allowed 2010 Messiah to survive the national championship game against Lynchburg. In both cases, tough for the kids on the receiving end to take.

[blooter442]

WOW 

This comes to mind. Pretty much a carbon copy of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJF7s_9UOgw

[casualfan]

Yea that's a PK, straight red, all wrapped up with a bow. Wow.

The only bigger-impact missed call I've seen in D3 in the past few years was the foul that allowed 2010 Messiah to survive the national championship game against Lynchburg. In both cases, tough for the kids on the receiving end to take.

I have no connection to neither Messiah nor Lynchbury, but that call still makes me sick. Heartbreaking for Lynchburg.

[Gregory Sager]

This is a breakdown of endowments, but it includes all divisions and universities http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2013NCSEPublicTablesRespondentsbySizeofEndowmentRevisedJan232014.pdf

The link you really want is this one:
http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2013NCSEEndowmentMarket%20ValuesRevisedFeb142014.pdf

6> MIT $11 billion
16> Emory $5.8 billion
17> Wash U $5.7 billion
25> Johns Hopkins $3.0 billion
26> Williams $2.0 billion
38> Amherst $1.8 billion
39> Pomona $1.8 billion
44> Univ of Rochester $1.7 billion
46> Case Western $1.7 billion

and plenty more at the top end, plenty at the bottom, too.  FWIW Trinity (TX) is the last school in the billion-dollar club (83rd).

Chicago is 13th at $6.6 billion.

[wingtips2]

Must be nice in D1 the ACC, Big 10 and Pac 12 get 7 and 6 and 5 schools respectfully into the NCAA D1 tournament. Some of those ACC schools that got At-Large bids are like 11-7-1 and 13-7-2 etc. You lose about half your games and your in because you have a high RPI. With 24 At Large bids and 24 AQ's The ACC, Big 10 and Pac 12 get 15 of the 24 At-Large. That is top heavy.

To be fair, the #1 seed has 4 losses, the #2 seed has 4 losses, the #3 seed has 4 losses, the #4 seed has 5 losses...this isn't like the d3 level where you have 20 teams with less than 3 losses all ranked in the top 25 (four with 4 losses and one with 5).  The #1 seed at the d1 level only won 11 of their 19 games - only 1 d3 team ranked had 8 blemishes (wartburg) and only 10 made the tournament (only one as an at-large selection, Rochester). 

[wingtips2]

Yea that's a PK, straight red, all wrapped up with a bow. Wow.

The only bigger-impact missed call I've seen in D3 in the past few years was the foul that allowed 2010 Messiah to survive the national championship game against Lynchburg. In both cases, tough for the kids on the receiving end to take.

That was awful.
This one may be even more blatant - the ref didn't even try to disguise it by giving a corner.

[lastguyoffthebench]

What makes is worse is the fact he was in a great position on the field to make the call.  Apparently the AR has no sack either...  Either way, simple call to award Catholic the PK.

Lynchburg call also makes me sick....  they were 2 steps away from going up 2-0, then the GK serves that long ball with no intention other than to clear it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACWWeaD0x18   

[Mr.Right]

Awful non call. God that keeper looks incredibly slow and clumsy in that play. That video feed actually looks better than the one Muhlenberg had going this past weekend. If that is the quality of the stream I can live with that.

[Mr.Right]

Poll Question #2....Of the 8 matches how many will go to Pk's?

Answer:   Because of all the parity this year my guess is 3.

[Mr.Right]

Who is the most surprising team in the Sweet 16? Also, for the message boards..why are they the most surprising team?

[Mr.Right]

Can anyone find any other post game presser's like the one I included from Amherst and SLU?  I am a big fan of hearing the coaches and players after winning and losing. Like the presser for Amherst and SLU obviously Durocher and Hunt and Provost were depleted and disappointed. Serpone was very complimentary of SLU in his and Bull and Owen were also very humble. Had Amherst lost it might have looked a bit different

[KnightFalcon]

Yea that's a PK, straight red, all wrapped up with a bow. Wow.

The only bigger-impact missed call I've seen in D3 in the past few years was the foul that allowed 2010 Messiah to survive the national championship game against Lynchburg. In both cases, tough for the kids on the receiving end to take.

Here's something interesting from that play that most people may not know about. A CBS Sports video crew was at midfield on the OPPOSITE side of the fans and from where the game video was shot. CBS was there to shoot clips for their Fall Championship special that would be shown a few weeks later over the holidays. The CBS video was at ground level and directly in line with what the ref saw (you can see the ref in the clip). And from that angle, the play looks like 2 players jumping up with no contact - and no foul. I've only seen the clip a couple of times - once when it first aired and a second time after I DVRd it. Been looking for it on YouTube and have never found it again.
That was just one of several amazing plays from that game: the Lynchburg goal was an upper 90 shot from 20+ yards, the save by Messiah's goalie in OT off a header and of course Pezon's clinical finish on the game-winner.

[wchandy22]

they were 2 steps away from going up 2-0, then the GK serves that long ball with no intention other than to clear it...

Say what you want about the foul but you are dead wrong when you say Berry had no intention other than to clear it. Lynchburg found themselves pressing for that 2nd goal and left themselves a little exposed in the back. Jake realized this and quickly played the ball deep hoping to take advantage. I don't think he was expecting to have an assist on that play but he was looking to counter. Was it a foul? Let's just say I would have called it if I were a referee. But please don't let that non-call tarnish some other very good performances. A call did not go their way but Lynchburg had every opportunity to win this game in the final minutes or in overtime.

Something most people forget is Pezon's game winning goal in OT.  Lynchburg was in attendance the day before while Messiah was playing Wisconsin Oshkosh in the semis (some of their players can be seen in the lower right (in the stands) at the beginning of this video.  Pezon scores on a breakaway going near post.

Geoff Pezon's Goal Against Oshkosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc8w5YZWvXI

I am certain the Lynchburg GK remembered this because he starts creeping near post when Pezon breaks away in OT. So Geoff goes far post this time.

Geoff Pezon's Goal Against Lynchburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8q3uGQFAE