SimpleCoach D3 Soccer YouTube Channel

[SierraFD3soccer]

Happy New Year All!  As I resolve to do better in 2023, I wanted to turn my attention to you.

I've been wondering what I can do better, or more of to make watching one of my videos more enjoyable. 

If you have any ideas, no matter how big or small, I would love to hear them.

Thanks a bunch and many blessing to you and yours.

SC.

2.  Interview a few GK coaches on staff with a D3 program.  You've mostly confined your coach-to-coach interviews to head coaches, which makes sense especially at the D3 level where the head coach is often the only full-time employee and has his or her hands on the entire program, but as we've often discussed on the boards, GK coaching is a different animal and D3 programs are spotty in the extent to which they cover that area well or at all.  Given your background as a former college GK coach yourself, I certainly would find it interesting to hear about things like how much time they have with the GKs each week, what they do with them, how they prep them tactically and coach them during the games, their views on stricter rules for GKs in PKs, if they are involved with recruiting them and how they evaluate potential recruits, etc.  I don't necessarily think a conversation with a volunteer asst who coaches GKs, or a trainer who just preps them during practices, would be useful, but there are some schools who have GK coaches as a regular assistant coach (e.g., Michael Mauro at Chicago is a former D1 GK and I assume he coaches the GKs at U of C, while Bill Schmid is the only assistant at Williams and he was the GK coach at Yale and Amherst after playing GK at Springfield). Admittedly, this concept for a show may only interest me and a couple of other people on the board, but I imagine a few head coaches might be interested in what dedicated GK coaches are focused on in training and games!

If you are asking for GK coaches, I'll send you two that might be of some interest.  They definitely are long established and know the environment for keepers.

Thanks for all the good content.

[SimpleCoach]

Thanks for all the feedback folks.  Not ignoring anyone  just in the throws of a battle with COVID.  Hoping I will be on track this week.

SC.

[Another Mom]

Thanks for all the feedback folks.  Not ignoring anyone  just in the throws of a battle with COVID.  Hoping I will be on track this week.

SC.

Get well soon!!

[Kuiper]

Thanks for all the feedback folks.  Not ignoring anyone  just in the throws of a battle with COVID.  Hoping I will be on track this week.

SC.

No explanation required.  Take care of yourself.  Hope you feel better soon.

(and let Jackie guest host in the meantime!)

[Spartan94]

SC, I recently came across your content while researching a school my son was looking at attending/playing at, and I agree with all of the previous comments here in saying that it is great and keep up the good work. 

As a part of the recruiting process for my son, it was hard to decipher what leagues were "good" vs which ones were not ... again, subjecting based upon the fit for each kid, but as a suggestion of what to add for content might be a weekly/bi-weekly "League Power Rankings" across the D3 landscape.  Could be an algorithm mainly and wouldn't require working with high level tech etc.  Again just a thought, but like I said before keep up the great work and content.

Nice. We kind of did this exercise in one of the regional threads (mid atlantic) this year.

I'm pretty sure Massey kind of does this, if not, wouldn't be hard to use Massey and just use the average of the respective schools rankings to figure it out.

Thanks for bringing up Massey Rankings I was unaware of this until you mentioned and I researched!  Gets you close for sure, and with some math could provide a League Power rankings based on how many teams from whatever conference are ranked in tier 1,2,3 etc.  Thanks again!

[Hopkins92]

SC, I recently came across your content while researching a school my son was looking at attending/playing at, and I agree with all of the previous comments here in saying that it is great and keep up the good work. 

As a part of the recruiting process for my son, it was hard to decipher what leagues were "good" vs which ones were not ... again, subjecting based upon the fit for each kid, but as a suggestion of what to add for content might be a weekly/bi-weekly "League Power Rankings" across the D3 landscape.  Could be an algorithm mainly and wouldn't require working with high level tech etc.  Again just a thought, but like I said before keep up the great work and content.

Nice. We kind of did this exercise in one of the regional threads (mid atlantic) this year.

I'm pretty sure Massey kind of does this, if not, wouldn't be hard to use Massey and just use the average of the respective schools rankings to figure it out.

Thanks for bringing up Massey Rankings I was unaware of this until you mentioned and I researched!  Gets you close for sure, and with some math could provide a League Power rankings based on how many teams from whatever conference are ranked in tier 1,2,3 etc.  Thanks again!

Yeah, my bad... I could've linked it and saved you some time.

There's another guy on this board who also produces an RPI ranking and has a spreadsheet. I like his RPI and Massey together to paint a picture with teams/conferences I don't know much about. (paclassic)

And I say this as someone that initially was resistant to these outside sources. In hindsight, a pretty silly stance to take given that we have over 400 teams and a gazillion conferences and how the heck else can we make some semblance of order out of all that.

[D3fense]

SC, I recently came across your content while researching a school my son was looking at attending/playing at, and I agree with all of the previous comments here in saying that it is great and keep up the good work. 

As a part of the recruiting process for my son, it was hard to decipher what leagues were "good" vs which ones were not ... again, subjecting based upon the fit for each kid, but as a suggestion of what to add for content might be a weekly/bi-weekly "League Power Rankings" across the D3 landscape.  Could be an algorithm mainly and wouldn't require working with high level tech etc.  Again just a thought, but like I said before keep up the great work and content.

Nice. We kind of did this exercise in one of the regional threads (mid atlantic) this year.

I'm pretty sure Massey kind of does this, if not, wouldn't be hard to use Massey and just use the average of the respective schools rankings to figure it out.

Thanks for bringing up Massey Rankings I was unaware of this until you mentioned and I researched!  Gets you close for sure, and with some math could provide a League Power rankings based on how many teams from whatever conference are ranked in tier 1,2,3 etc.  Thanks again!

Massey does rank the conferences separately as well, the link to the same is https://masseyratings.com/csoc/ncaa-d3/ratings?c=1

If the link does not come through if you go to Massey rankings for d3 soccer and hit conferences under the More link at the top it will take you to the conference ratings

[SimpleCoach]

First Fields of Dreams of 2023.....

Fields of Dreams - William Paterson University

[camosfan]

retired coach is a great guy, think he still coaching a USL team.

[SimpleCoach]

One of the nicest guys in the business.

Michael Toshack, Head Men's Coach at St. Lawrence University

[stlawus]

Another great interview, SC.   Really glad to hear Sibanda is getting an opportunity in the pros, sky is the limit for him.   A great representative of the program. 

[SimpleCoach]

Bangin' it out in 2023. 

SimpleCoach to Coach with Matt Pivirotto, Head Men's Coach at the @univofscranton

[NEPAFAN]

Bangin' it out in 2023. 

SimpleCoach to Coach with Matt Pivirotto, Head Men's Coach at the @univofscranton

Thank you and Go Royals!

Also was that a conscious choice to wear the Scranton hat and catholic pull over?

Scranton just got one big commitment from a local player today too. You are good luck!

[Ejay]

When are we going to see the hat eating?

[Kuiper]

Don't want to introduce any competition for Simple Coach(!), but I thought this interview with a freshman at Asbury University in Kentucky (a NCCAA school that is transitioning to DIII) was decent and might be worth a listen for a prospective student interested in D3 soccer (or parent of a prospective student).

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-bluegrass-soccer-academy-104890986/episode/recruiting-with-jon-gordon-episode-107341881/