The soccer team demolished Louisiana Tech 4-0 in Ruston after a disappointing loss to North Texas last weekend.

Good stuff. The team is talented and just needs to keep working hard. The wins will come.

(09-23-2016 12:14 AM)Owl1912 Wrote:  Good stuff. The team is talented and just needs to keep working hard. The wins will come.

Good to see a big win. I have been to a couple matches this year and haven't been too impressed so far. We had a difficult time generating anything from the run of play (corner kicks were our primary offense) and we were markedly less athletic than our opposition. To be fair, the two opposing teams I saw (UNT, Samford) look to have pretty good teams this year.

If my memory serves correct, I think I saw that our first two goals last night were off corners as well?

Cheering for the women and hope last night's victory initiates a winning streak.

Yes. They did not look good against North Texas. I hope this won't be another disappointing season like last year. Stat tune.

(09-23-2016 02:32 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-23-2016 12:14 AM)Owl1912 Wrote:  Good stuff. The team is talented and just needs to keep working hard. The wins will come.

Good to see a big win. I have been to a couple matches this year and haven't been too impressed so far. We had a difficult time generating anything from the run of play (corner kicks were our primary offense) and we were markedly less athletic than our opposition. To be fair, the two opposing teams I saw (UNT, Samford) look to have pretty good teams this year.

If my memory serves correct, I think I saw that our first two goals last night were off corners as well?

Cheering for the women and hope last night's victory initiates a winning streak.

Rice has a big game Friday against Western Kentucky. They need to win if they want to compete for the conference championship. Everyone please come out and bring your friends. Should be beautiful weather.

Rice currently has a RPI of 100.
North Texas at 88 and WKU at 101.


http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-wome...soccer-rpi

Thanks for the information. Conference USA has a terrible RPI rating for soccer relative to the other major conferences. We should be dominating the conference. We really need a tougher non conference schedule. Other wise we will always have a high RPI (>75).

(09-27-2016 07:31 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Rice currently has a RPI of 100.
North Texas at 88 and WKU at 101.


http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-wome...soccer-rpi

another situation where a little recruiting money should lead to domination.

There is virtually no 'path to the pros' here, so the value of our education over our conference peers should be almost immeasurable. We should be able to get almost anyone we want

WKU wins 1-0.

Persevere.

This team is not very good but pretty young too.

(09-30-2016 09:40 PM)billstudabaker Wrote:  Persevere.

Rice wins against USM

In C-USA play (since joining the conference in 2005) Rice has allowed one goal by USM. Yesterday's win extends the record against USM to 10-0.

(10-01-2016 09:52 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  This team is not very good but pretty young too.

To me, a young team is a team dominated by freshmen and sophomores (like the MBB team). If your freshmen and sophomores are already getting most of the playing time and having the greatest impact, then you can argue that the team is likely to improve as these young players develop, mature, and improve.

On this soccer team, we do have a freshman goalie. However, it is juniors and seniors (mostly juniors) who have played the most minutes and taken the most shots.

After a 1-1 weekend, moved up slightly in RPI to 91.

North Texas 80
WKU 90
Rice 91
UTEP 100
Charlotte 110
ODU 127

Thanks for the ranking. What was our ranking at the end of 2015 and 2014? Any information available?

(10-03-2016 07:33 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Thanks for the ranking. What was our ranking at the end of 2015 and 2014? Any information available?

After NCAA tournament, Rice was 46 in 2014 and 112 in 2015.

Interesting we are higher ranked then last year. I thought the team last year was more athletic then this year's team but also older. However, we did have some disappointing losses in the tournament.

(10-03-2016 07:56 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(10-03-2016 07:33 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Thanks for the ranking. What was our ranking at the end of 2015 and 2014? Any information available?

After NCAA tournament, Rice was 46 in 2014 and 112 in 2015.

Rice beat UTSA last night, 3-2.

Halftime at UTEP, Rice leads 2-0.