The US Women's soccer team got blown out by an elite U14 or U15 team. Iowa or South Carolina would get blown out by an elite 9th grade team. Iowa and South Carolina would also get blown out by elite 9th graders. They arent going to get beat by Ringgold's varsity.
Women’s final four
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The US Women's soccer team got blown out by an elite U14 or U15 team. Iowa or South Carolina would get blown out by an elite 9th grade team. Iowa and South Carolina would also get blown out by elite 9th graders. They arent going to get beat by Ringgold's varsity.
You do realize there is almost as much of a difference between the ability and athleticism of a 14 year old and an 18 year old as a 18 year old man and a 22 year old woman Why do many women’s teams get guys to practice against them. These are essentially dudes who played high school basketball that couldn’t play college ball at any level
And the fact that is was a 14 or 15 U team that bets the woman’s makes it even worse They got smoked by little boys
Listen, I rip the women's team all the time for losing to FC Dallas U15s but that's an elite U15 team of kids in 9th grade. To play on a team like that, you have to be a man, from a maturity standpoint. You cant be this little scrawny 9th grader who looks like he's 11. These are kids who hit puberty early and look 18-20. Actually, there was a push by US Soccer to use "biological age" instead of birth year because you'd have all these kids who were 2, 3, 4 years more mature/physically developed making these birth years teams and the late developers were being left behind. Nothing ever came of it though. From a sports science perspective, I think its a great idea. If you are a soccer club investing in 12, 13, 14 year old players, do you want the kid who looks 18 already? Because he may be done developing. Everyone picks those kids though because they are really good RIGHT NOW.
Clark did a lot for the game but I'd really like to see a UConn vs South Carolina finals next time. Two teams that can go 8 or 9 deep.
South Carolina's bench had 37 points to Iowa's 0! SC's bench also scored 222 points over the tourney.
Wasn't the issue this year with UConn that they had zero depth due to injuries?
Yes, they only had 10 active players (!) for 4 games this year. Crazy amount of injuries. I guess that could happen again, but typically they're going to have a lot more depth, which is what South Carolina had going for them. Paige Bueckers will be back (though even she's had two knee surgeries too)
Clark was the intrigue for me. I won't be back until the next women's prodigy takes the stage.
That sentence reads kind of oddly (at least to me) so I want to clarify for people, they only had as many as 10 players dressed for four games this year, they had fewer than 10 for all the rest. By the end of the season they were dressing eight.
BTW, 18.7 million people watched the final. That was more than any basketball game since the Virginia - Texas Tech men's championship game in 2019 and slightly more than game six of the NBA finals that same year.
BTW, 18.7 million people watched the final. That was more than any basketball game since the Virginia - Texas Tech men's championship game in 2019 and slightly more than game six of the NBA finals that same year.
Without a phenom at Clark's level, I do wonder what the ratings will be like next season? They'll still be very good for sure. But Iowa UConn FF was 14.2 and South Carolina NCSU FF was 7.1. I bet USC NCSU was actually up too because people watched it in waiting watch Clark or see who she might play. Will the ratings drop to half or a third of what they were this year?
