2022 D3 Men's Soccer National Perspective

[Hopkins92]

C2C Semifinals kicking off down in Salisbury:

11a - CNU vs. UW-Whitewater
2p - Mary Washington v. Salisbury

Reminder that Salisbury is a 5 win team (after PK win yesterday) and they just beat MW last week on this very field (2-1)

This game is pretty bonkers. CNU was up 2-0 with 12 minutes to go when Whitewater pulled one back. They then leveled with 1:40 left.

They are now in OT and CNU is up 4-2... BON.KERS.

The 3rd goal was a really bad gaffe from the keeper. Ball had to be 40 yards out and the Captain player mis-hit service on a direct kick and it floated right over the keeper. Dagger.

They then scored less than a minute later on a header off a CK... 4-2... C2C Action... It's FANtastic.

[Hopkins92]

Blue Streaks is still one of the sillier mascots I've come across in D3 land.

"The 1924 season was barely underway when the sports editor of The Ignatian noted that other colleges had nicknames for their teams. John Carroll used "Fighting Irish" for a short time, but that was already University of Notre Dame's nickname.

The person generally credited with christening the team with the new name, "Blue Streak," is Raymond Gibbons '24, who followed the team on the practice field after his graduation, despite a serious illness. On one of these occasions, he reportedly remarked, "they're tearing around like a blue streak." At his death in 1925, The Carroll News referred to him as "one of the most ardent followers of Carroll's teams and since his graduation he has kept up his interest in the Blue Streak eleven that he so aptly christened, attending every game he possibly could."

Its early use was always in the singular; it became "Blue Streaks" in the 1930s."

It sounds like a Smurf with bowel problems.

[Gregory Sager]

Blue Streaks is still one of the sillier mascots I've come across in D3 land.

I know a JCU grad who refers to JCU's archrival Baldwin Wallace as "the Brown Streaks".

[PaulNewman]

It's interesting how we all have different associations and thoughts triggered by various things.

I've always thought Blue Streaks was a really cool name....and now I will forever also think of GI distress.

We all go to some interesting places at tourney time.

[Hopkins92]

I mean, I'm being a jerk because they beat "my" team last year.

It's a perfectly fine mascot.

I mean, what the heck is a Green Terror? (And I like to rename them the Night Terrors for no particular reason.)

[PaulNewman]

And that's a wrap for Sewanee....very nice season, though.  Birm-So marches on.

[Hopkins92]

C2C Semifinals kicking off down in Salisbury:

11a - CNU vs. UW-Whitewater
2p - Mary Washington v. Salisbury

Reminder that Salisbury is a 5 win team (after PK win yesterday) and they just beat MW last week on this very field (2-1)

I want to be charitable, as I'm increasingly aware that there are a lot of lurkers out there. The 2 separate announcing crews at the C2C semis... Um... Bless their hearts?

Wow. MW has a player sent off for DOGSO.

Chaos Alert!!! Deep in the first half, all tied at 0-0... The really interesting thing about the card... I think the Salisbury player was going to be called offsides. The way the linesmen are instructed to keep their flag down probably allowed that situation to play out, as opposed to just calling him offside right away.

[paclassic89]

Mary Washington red card on a Salisbury player that was coming back from an offsides position?  Controversy haha

[Hopkins92]

Mary Washington red card on a Salisbury player that was coming back from an offsides position?  Controversy haha

Yep. Did you see what I saw? Dude was clearly like 4 yards offside, came back into an onside position but the ball had already been played.

[paclassic89]

Yeah, I don't know why the ref didn't at least talk to his linesman.  Seemed like an obvious offsides to me.  Salisbury was getting shellacked before that happened too lol

[Hopkins92]

Yeah, I don't know why the ref didn't at least talk to his linesman.  Seemed like an obvious offsides to me.  Salisbury was getting shellacked before that happened too lol

Yep. And it happened right in line with the MW bench... Coach must be livid.

[PaulNewman]

Confused....what was red card for?

[Hopkins92]

Confused....what was red card for?

The offsides guy was taken down on a breakaway about 25-30 yards from goal. If it wasn't for the offsides and was just a breakaway, it was a textbook denial of goal scoring opportunity.

But, in the old days, the flag would've been up long before the trip. As it stands, the AR was letting the situation play out OR more likely he just missed that the guy was offsides.

It was pretty blatantly offsides. Maybe a 2 man high school reffing crew could miss that, but, c'mon AR has really one job and he blew it there.

[paclassic89]

https://streamable.com/z2orc1

[Gregory Sager]

Nice work, paclassic!