The Big Dance

[Mr.Right]

After watching Tufts/Roch 1st half, does anyone beside me get the feeling that Calvin will win by 2-3 goals in the final?

I will take any wager on that...name ur price

[Ejay]

After watching Tufts/Roch 1st half, does anyone beside me get the feeling that Calvin will win by 2-3 goals in the final?

Wouldn't make that mistake. Tufts after all gritted out a 1-0 2OT result in the Final against Calvin in 2016...and I think most would say that Calvin had the better chances throughout the game.

Fair enough.  But man, Calvin just seems to be playing as a cohesive unit.

[Mr.Right]

Now  Tufts looks VERY confident BUT teetering possibly on over confidence. UR has shown in this tournament that they can flip the switch 2nd Half and all they need is one goal....

[PaulNewman]

I'd be shocked if Calvin beat Tufts by 3 and very surprised by 2 (unless an end of game thing where Tufts was pressing at the end to equalize).  I would predict a 1 goal game either way.  I'm always surprised, too, when Tufts is continually underestimated.  They are much bigger (other than Calvin's two CBs who are relatively thin) than Calvin and with a ton of depth.

I don't think they would beat UR by 3 either.

[blooter442]

Fair enough.  But man, Calvin just seems to be playing as a cohesive unit.

100%! They are clicking really well. But Tufts is like Amherst, they can impose their style on any team, even if it is more adventurous than the latter. Regardless, I don't think tomorrow's game will be as open and free-flowing.

[Mr.Right]

I usually break this out once a year but I do not think I have this season. This is a prime example of "Bloots the Diplomat".....All kidding aside you are exactly correct about Tufts depth and Jacobs/Braun and Shapiro not knowing what Braun would give him to start the season. Braun had horrific fitness last season and personally as I have said all year I am a Max Jacobs fan as a striker. He would be starting and scoring goals for most D3 teams up top.

Haha I appreciate that, I think I have maybe been a bit more partisan this year (maybe just salty at times) so perhaps that explains why. But yeah, as much as I wouldn't have picked him a 1st Team AA he is now one and nobody can take that away from him (unless he hires the same law firm as my boy Bruce Poliquin in ME-2...kidding, he had his TRO denied and will probably lose again in court). Anyway, you can only beat what's in front of you and he has done that up to this point.

LOL....Western Maine actually elected a Democrat.....The world is an amazing place...anyhow

[blooter442]

I usually break this out once a year but I do not think I have this season. This is a prime example of "Bloots the Diplomat".....All kidding aside you are exactly correct about Tufts depth and Jacobs/Braun and Shapiro not knowing what Braun would give him to start the season. Braun had horrific fitness last season and personally as I have said all year I am a Max Jacobs fan as a striker. He would be starting and scoring goals for most D3 teams up top.

Haha I appreciate that, I think I have maybe been a bit more partisan this year (maybe just salty at times) so perhaps that explains why. But yeah, as much as I wouldn't have picked him a 1st Team AA he is now one and nobody can take that away from him (unless he hires the same law firm as my boy Bruce Poliquin in ME-2...kidding, he had his TRO denied and will probably lose again in court). Anyway, you can only beat what's in front of you and he has done that up to this point.

LOL....Western Maine actually elected a Democrat.....The world is an amazing place...anyhow

It had a Democrat for a decade-plus before Poliquin got in, but he is the first incumbent to lose ME-2 in more than 100 years. Pretty nuts.

[blooter442]

I usually break this out once a year but I do not think I have this season. This is a prime example of "Bloots the Diplomat".....All kidding aside you are exactly correct about Tufts depth and Jacobs/Braun and Shapiro not knowing what Braun would give him to start the season. Braun had horrific fitness last season and personally as I have said all year I am a Max Jacobs fan as a striker. He would be starting and scoring goals for most D3 teams up top.

Haha I appreciate that, I think I have maybe been a bit more partisan this year (maybe just salty at times) so perhaps that explains why. But yeah, as much as I wouldn't have picked him a 1st Team AA he is now one and nobody can take that away from him (unless he hires the same law firm as my boy Bruce Poliquin in ME-2...kidding, he had his TRO denied and will probably lose again in court). Anyway, you can only beat what's in front of you and he has done that up to this point.

[blooter442]

And Tasker gets the second...that should be game.

[PaulNewman]

A perfect example.  27 for UR is very good but young and just got overpowered by Braun to create a wide open look for Tasker.  That should have been nothing.

[Mr.Right]

Tufts up 2-0 early 2nd Half as Tasker finishes an easy one. Tufts will certainly now sit in their 4-5-1 and be very compact. UR is going to have serious issues finding 2 Goals here. UR does not look sharp today. Passing is not crisp, guys do not look confident in what they are doing, they are not connecting and interchanging like they normally do and they are getting bodied all over the field. They have to find a goal somehow in the next 20 minutes while not conceding.

[oldonionbag]

LOL...really?

After watching Tufts/Roch 1st half, does anyone beside me get the feeling that Calvin will win by 2-3 goals in the final?

[blooter442]

LOL...really?

How's the viewing party? Is BF/Nutmeg there? Tell him we say hello.

[blooter442]

How can you not like Van Brewer? I don't think I've ever seen him yell at the ref or go at people verbally.

[blooter442]

Great finish by Lane (Leopold), that was nice.