Pitt Women's soccer beat #23 Ohio St 2 - 0 in exhibition match today.
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Pitt a footbol school? Who could have thunk that statement isn't even close to the joke it was a year ago?
And then they lost last night 2-0 to a team picked to finish 7th in the SEC. While the program has been improving and maybe they are ready to turn a corner, the results of one exhibition game, not even a non-conference game but an exhibition game, isn't what is going to show that.
I follow college women's soccer closely and Pitt is in a really uphill position in the ACC. UVA, UNC and FSU can be penciled in as perennial Top 10 teams. Their rosters are always filled with girls who have been playing on U.S. and International Youth National teams. FSU is #1 this year. That said, if Pitt can play respectable soccer the ACC can get as many as 10 or 11 teams in the NCAAs so they can be in play for a bid. WSOC has a 64-team NCAA bracket so lots of spots to fill, and most of them go to Power conference teams.
Interestingly, Penn State, WVU and Rutgers are all Top 10 programs over the past few years. PSU has been dominant for many years and finally won the national title in 2015. Pitt probably can't compete with PSU, but there's no reason they can't have a few seasons like WVU and Rutgers have had recently. WVU has a Canadian pipeline, in fact their two best players were starters on the Canadian World Cup and Olympic teams. Rutgers has a huge talent pool in New Jersey and has done well to keep them home. They are by far the best program in a VERY mediocre athletic department.
Pitt played to a 2-2 draw in last night's season opener against a Michigan team that probably slots in the middle of the B1G.
Interestingly, Penn State, WVU and Rutgers are all Top 10 programs over the past few years. PSU has been dominant for many years and finally won the national title in 2015. Pitt probably can't compete with PSU, but there's no reason they can't have a few seasons like WVU and Rutgers have had recently. WVU has a Canadian pipeline, in fact their two best players were starters on the Canadian World Cup and Olympic teams. Rutgers has a huge talent pool in New Jersey and has done well to keep them home. They are by far the best program in a VERY mediocre athletic department.
Pitt played to a 2-2 draw in last night's season opener against a Michigan team that probably slots in the middle of the B1G.
Pitt went 5-1 in spring. Beat some very good programs. However Spring is nothing more than an exhibition game. They are 1-4-1 as of now blown out by two lower level California teams. Not off to a good start with two more non league games to go (Kansas and Kent St). Those are two games they are suppose to win. Hopefully they turn it around.
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Ok. They lost to Kansas and Kent St. Now 1-6-1. From what I'm hearing. The coaches are losing the players. Many of them have lost faith in there decisions. This is year 5. You can blame it on injuries and playing freshman every year. But when the staff doesn't develop and lose 7-8 transfers after there 1st and 2nd years. You can't build a program to compete in the ACC. The top freshman scorer last year transferred to Maryland. The first ACC game is this week against Louisville. Hope this turns around
As someone said on the way out of the Duquesne loss, it's the coaches 5th season. Are they really any better now than they were five years ago?
Honestly, I think the answer is yes. But not by a whole lot. They do indeed keep losing girls to transfers every year. Not just people who aren't playing. Good players, the kind that you could build a decent team out of. When you lose good players every year something is going on.
Honestly, I think the answer is yes. But not by a whole lot. They do indeed keep losing girls to transfers every year. Not just people who aren't playing. Good players, the kind that you could build a decent team out of. When you lose good players every year something is going on.
1-8-1. ACC losses to Louisville 1-0 and 3-0 to BC tonight. Team is playing uninspired. A coaching change is needed. No doubt AD Barnes is watching. He is accompanying the team to the ND. There are many good women coaches in the country with HC experience that would love to coach an ACC team. Bring someone like the men's program who has had success. Vidich will have the program going the right way. The women's team has some talent. The girls like I said before has lost all confidence with the staff.
The two sports where Pitt needs to seriously step up its game or risk getting buried are baseball and women's soccer. The ACC is filled with Top 25 programs in those sports and the current approach isn't working in either, especially women's soccer. The ACC is loaded this year and even the mid-level programs are getting good results like Miami beating UVA the other night and NC State beating ND.
Of course that PK was Pitt's first goal in over 600 minutes and broke a nine game losing streak. This has not been a good year for the women's soccer team.
The team needed that. However being 2-11-1 is pretty hard to digest. The team has looked unprepared for most of the season. I think a change for both the coaches and the players is needed at the end of the season IMO. A program relying on freshman every year to carry the program is doomed for failure. Hence what we have this season. 4 out 5 seasons with that philosophy doesn't win games.
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