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[SimpleCoach]

Another great interview.  Another gem of a program

A SimpleCoach to Coach Interview with Tommy DiNuzzo, Head Men's Coach at Hampden-Sydney College

[SimpleCoach]

Another great program out west.... not to mention spectacular views from the soccer field... at least from what the pictures show... Really enjoyed this one with Coach Scott Palguta, Head Men's Coach at Colorado College.

Scott Palguta, Head Men's Coach at Colorado College

[SimpleCoach]

In this SimpleCoach to Coach, I speak with Tim Penrod, Head Men's Coach at SUNY Canton and cover the moon and the stars, from the last season, to youth soccer, Iceland and the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

A SimpleCoach to Coach Interview with Tim Penrod, Head Men's Coach at SUNY Canton

[SimpleCoach]

A first for the channel.  Great discussion with a seasoned... and successful assistant.  Enjoyed it and am now calling on assistants to jump in the game....

A SimpleCoach to Coach Interview with David Yates, Assistant Men's Coach at Mary Washington

[Kuiper]

Another great program out west.... not to mention spectacular views from the soccer field... at least from what the pictures show... Really enjoyed this one with Coach Scott Palguta, Head Men's Coach at Colorado College.

Scott Palguta, Head Men's Coach at Colorado College

Loved this interview, in part because Coach Palguta has such a good attitude about Colorado College's travel and the realities of qualifying for the NCAA tourney from Region X.

SC - I think the California mountain area you were thinking of is Big Bear Lake, but I didn't know the US MNT ever trained up there.  I assume they went to the Olympic training site in Colorado Springs for altitude and I know they went to Chula Vista in California, but it's certainly possible they went up to Big Bear some years.  It's about 7,000 feet elevation, which roughly matches that of Mexico City, and is about 1000 feet higher than Colorado Springs.

One question I wished you would have asked, but was sort of surprised the coach didn't mention himself, is the announcement that Trinity and Southwestern will be leaving the SCAC for the Southern conference in 2025.  I guess that's far enough in the future that he's not thinking about it yet, but it will surely impact Colorado College fairly significantly.

[EnmoreCat]

In this SimpleCoach to Coach, I speak with Tim Penrod, Head Men's Coach at SUNY Canton and cover the moon and the stars, from the last season, to youth soccer, Iceland and the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

A SimpleCoach to Coach Interview with Tim Penrod, Head Men's Coach at SUNY Canton

Great to hear, "The West Wing" reference in the interview with Coach Penrod.  Also interesting to hear the varying attitudes from all of the coaches interviewed to the transfer portal also.

[SimpleCoach]

Enjoyed my time on this SC2C.  A true gentleman of the game.

A SimpleCoach to Coach Interview with Tommy Ardt, Head Men's Coach at Lancaster Bible College.

[SimpleCoach]

Never thought I would do this one, but don't you know, it happened.  Probably one of the more interesting discussions I have had ... and we really didn't talk soccer.

Hope you enjoy.... and yes... @EnmoreCat, it was for you.

An SC2C with Justin Serpone, Head Men's Coach at Amherst College - The EnmoreCat Edition

[EnmoreCat]

Special moments SC! On behalf of the Mammoths Nation, thanks for going outside your comfort zone.  Definitely one for the Ammirers...

[Ejay]

I enjoyed this interview very much.  Serpone seems like a genuinely nice guy. I loved his tirade on the OT rule change and agree with his position.  I was also happy to hear he has no interest in leaving D3.

With all that said, I still think his teams foul too much and I find their games unwatchable. Would be great if he would take take his team to NJ to play Drew since he spoke so highly of his time there and coach Armuth, who incidentally should reach 400 wins this coming season.

[SKUD]

Looking forward to hearing the interview. He has built a remarkable program. 

Did you ask him if he coached the Amherst behavior or just allows it?

[stlawus]

The Serpone interview was one of the better ones in my opinion, my thoughts on the Amherst program are well documented but I've consistently said that the results Serpone gets are quite admirable.  I was pretty impressed with his answers on the philosophical and leadership side of coaching.  It's very difficult to get a group of 25 kids aged 18-23 to all be on the same page and uniformly buy in to something but he seems to do it on a yearly basis.  I do think they are sometimes unfairly criticized in terms of tactics which he alluded to.  Yea they do play back to front sometimes but when they have the ball they move it well and keep it on the floor.   

Kudos to SC for asking some difficult questions but without being confrontational about it.  Of course, there were things I definitely did not agree with (my thoughts are well known) but that's the beauty of SC's channel, it's awesome to get a look under the hood of a perennial national championship contender and see things from their point of view.

[Kuiper]

Never thought I would do this one, but don't you know, it happened.  Probably one of the more interesting discussions I have had ... and we really didn't talk soccer.

Hope you enjoy.... and yes... @EnmoreCat, it was for you.

An SC2C with Justin Serpone, Head Men's Coach at Amherst College - The EnmoreCat Edition

Great interview.  I can see why his players are so motivated to play hard for him (something surely necessary for a pressing style of play).

I cringed, however, when he threw shade at the Johns Hopkins Women's Soccer Team for their National Championship win in 2022 because of their use of graduate transfers.  I have absolutely no affiliation with the university or anyone associated with it, but implying that they don't develop their players was a pretty gratuitous cheap shot for a program that appears to have been fabulously successful for quite a long time.  They did have a lot grad students last year and went undefeated at 23-0-2, but they were 16-2-2 the previous year, 17-3-4 in 2019, 18-3 in 2018, 18-3-3 in 2017, 17-3-2 in 2016, and in their worst year in the last decade in 2015, went 14-5-1 after going 19-4-2 in 2014 and 21-2-1 in 2013.  I looked on their website and the last time Johns Hopkins Women's Soccer had a losing record was almost thirty years ago in 1995 when they went 6-9-2.  Every year since then Hopkins' record has been really, really strong.  That doesn't sound like a program that has had any trouble developing its players and creating a strong culture of winning.  I'm guessing there's some men's program that irked him because of one or more of their grad transfers, but he didn't want to name them so he went after a women's program instead.

Frankly, I can't really blame JHU or any other D3 university if they took advantage of one of their main strengths -- the high quality of their graduate programs -- to give student athletes an opportunity to make up for the year they lost due to Covid shutdowns while getting a start on their graduate degrees.  There's going to be some more of those examples this year, since students who were freshman in 2019-2020 just graduated, and a few more next year (but only for D1 students who were granted an extra year of eligibility for medical reasons this year and then still can use their Covid year next year) and that will likely be it but for the rare case.  It's definitely not a long-term issue that merited that kind of reaction.

[4231CenterBack]

Great interview!  Serpone is a bright and engaging.  It's obvious why his players love him and love being a part of the team.

Kuiper, 100% agree on Hopkins. He blew it on that one.

Also, people don't like Amherst soccer because the team is "diverse"  What???  Or maybe its the sideline antics?  I'm "curious and not judgemental" why this otherwise impressive and winsome guy can't act like a gentleman on the sideline.

He seems to be very intentional about Amherst v. the World so maybe this is part of his method.  He outright said keep the negativity coming 

Again, well done SC.  For those of us in the D3 soccer community this stuff is gold!

[SimpleCoach]

Starting something new on the channel.  A space to talk about anything soccer.  Welcome to Injured Time. 

And no, this isn't me channel the main purpose of putting a spotlight on Division III.  Just another outlet for other opinions that don't fit nicely into the content that I put out there.

Injured Time - A Weekend Full of Soccer

I wont post other episodes here anymore cause it is not specific to DTres.