Comments on: Final East Bay Boys Soccer Notebook

By: Waterboy

Waterboy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:30:21 +0000

Hey Matt

If you still have not heard from the HAAL, could you run the other league selections,

Thanks,

By: bambam

bambam — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:23:47 +0000

I believe that Howard was one of the 7 players that couldn’t play in the scrimmage against BOD. After that a few players couldn’t play because of DLS being in the State title football game. I know that he missed a few games towards the start of the season.

U-mustbeinsane is correct as we all know the gold teams in club are much better than most high school teams. Especially the academy teams as they play real nice soccer.

By: ebal fan

ebal fan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:22:17 +0000

Santos of San Ramon has a lot high school players as well.

By: LakeTahoeGuy

LakeTahoeGuy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:20:09 +0000

“Mustang” (of Danville), has a multitude of players from many EBAL teams, as well as players from Richmond, and others. Oh, by the way, they also won the State Cup last year, and I wouldn’t bet against them to win it again this year.

By: renegades10

renegades10 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:48:22 +0000

i ask only because when i was there we weren’t allowed to play two sports at the same time. you could only move to your next sport once the first one’s season was completed.

By: renegades10

renegades10 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:46:17 +0000

bambam did howard play the first few games of the season? he was the starting punter for the football team so i was wondering if he wasn’t there at the start of the season due to the football commitment.

By: Tack

Tack — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:30:26 +0000

Dublin didn’t have kids in the nomads tournament because they were told they had to pick nomads or high school. The Santos boys chose highschool while two varsity bound players chose nomads. Well, we all know how those choices turned out…

By: The Truth

The Truth — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:17:16 +0000

Dublin wouldn’t beat DLS. In fact BOD outplayed Dublin but the result went Dublin’s way.Congrats to Dublin for pulling out a great win.Thats the way it goes. If there was any team in D2 that could play with any of the EBAL teams it would either be Acalanes or Las Lomas before Dublin enters the discussions; Acalanes because they had a stout defense and Las Lomas because they had a rugged defense too and a more attacking weapons overall, plus both team match up better size wise in the back line.This year,in my opinion,coaching made the difference and credit to the Dublin coach for getting the best at the most appropriate time.
Honestly, i agree with #29 that all teams have high level players in club and most of the players are very familiar with each other by either playing with or against for years.The difference in game speed is negligible and the only “advantage”is that the bigger schools usually have a bit more on the bench and don’t lose quite as much when they sub.That being said I think the D2 schools.particularly DFAL and HAAL,are close to EBAL in quality and ability and really don’t have any thing to apologize for when it comes to being competitive.
It will be interesting to follow the D2 vs D3 results next year.Congrats to all NCS finalist in all divisions.

By: ebal fan

ebal fan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:23 +0000

Dublin had no guys in Nomads.

By: Backline D

Backline D — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:43:28 +0000

#24 Bam Bam
Not saying that Dublin would beat DLS. Not saying that they would lose to DLS either. My original comment was that due to the recent performance in NCS Dublin should be ranked higher than Cal. With all due respect to Cal.

Dublin played over 200 minutes of soccer against 2 undefeated teams in 3 days, that Matt had ranked in the top 7 and beat them both.
Dublin also has 3-5 academy/D1 players. They also had players in Nomads.
But I will say this I would love to watch their defense against DLS.