Comments on: East Bay Area Girls Soccer rankings – through Jan. 21

By: bigdog

bigdog — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:48:45 +0000

dont pay no mind to stingray, he be swimmin in the septic tank. thats the shit that he supported on the field. the dude is ignorant. just cause you got a i-pad in the stands takin stats dont mean that you know whats going on. best keep your new freshman mouth shut and keep stats on those 31 goals given up. yea now!

By: Nitro

Nitro — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:16:12 +0000

by the way, stingray, on senior night the seniors were told to play in positions that many had never even played before, unlike the second half when those girls were in their proper positions and had played together all season. In your words the seniors got “smoked” for 40 mins but the team got “smoked” all season.

By: Nitro

Nitro — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:50:09 +0000

the truth is the seniors on the team were never given the opportunity to compete for positions. Rick had his agenda from the beginning of hopefully getting an NCS title down the road so he gave his freshman time on the turf. Unfortunately, they did not perform and now they have probably the worst record in school history. The team was separated from the start and had he played all the girls throughout the season, the stats would probably look a whole lot better. Lets face it, the best players were NOT the starters.

By: bigdog

bigdog — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:48:09 +0000

another true statement from diamondog. DLS does build their players the DLS way. commitment, bonding, and brotherhood. unlike the soccer program at carondelet, which is mustang. diamonddog is making a point how a winning program evolves. stingray is new on the block. he has no DLS ties. bye the way, seperate schools who have been together since the beginning. carondelet should take some lessons.

By: bigdog

bigdog — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:35:48 +0000

what stingray says is true, 5 freshmen did start. the real truth is they did not make a difference, in fact one gave up 31 goals, many were given up when carondelet had late leads. no senior leadership, because seniors were not allowed to play much. the coach should do the math, 4 loses could have been won, lost late leads. 4 more wins equals 11 wins, 8 losses. playoff time. the ebal has alot of depth, as stated in one of the blogs, however carondelet failed to use their depth, leaving many tired and injured players on the field.

By: Nitro

Nitro — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:32:04 +0000

I like reading the comments about Carondelet… No offense to any of the players because the year is not a reflection of the talent whatsoever but rather a strategy to go for another NCS Title down the road and nothing else. Stingray’s comments are interesting considering Carondelet hasn’t been competitive all year with any of the top ranked teams. When you play (5) Freshman most all year who have 2-3 years less experience, are physically less developed then you end up with the record they have had. No the schedule isn’t easy as it hasn’t been in past years. This is a coaching issue and nothing else. All of the girls have played their hearts out.

By: diamonddog

diamonddog — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:32:55 +0000

I’ve seen the process for the past 6 years at Carondelet. The girls might be a great group of girls but This years and next years teams are going to be in knee deep, especially playimng in EBAL. How many of those seniors play on a consistent basis this year or last that got smoked on senior night. The coaches flat out want players ready to go from Mustang. DLS makes players and teams better and Carondelet doesn’t.
Evident by the 2010-11 team being their only superior team. Almost all of them brought in from Mustang as freshman and played 4 years varisty to create a championship team their senior year. It is what is as long as the A.D. is still there.

By: Stingray

Stingray — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:35:15 +0000

@diamonddog
Thats a load of BS First…what does DLS have to do with this? A different school that happens to be next door. Second, its a bit more difficult to compete when the only time the girls have to practice is at 630 in the morning twice a week because they cant get a field. Kinda hard to build a dynasty without players that can perform on the pitch (evident by senior night against MV last week when they started 9 seniors and got smoked in the first ten minutes) Couple that with multiple serious injuries and thats what you get.

By: diamonddog

diamonddog — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:50:36 +0000

Carondelet should be down due to a different philosophy than the one at DLS. They built a dynasty team A few years ago. This is the result of it. Some players didn’t prosper by staying in JV too long and some didn’t wish to play for the coaches after that. For long term purposes, You need to build a program and not draft one.

By: Piedmont Fan

Piedmont Fan — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 06:25:55 +0000

@ Top

I wasn’t talking about MVAL teams over EBAL teams. I’m speaking about WAC teams. I was only speaking about MVAL teams in the past. Just to clarify. Berkeley, Castro Valley, and O’Dowd are very strong teams that make runs in the NCS. Piedmont and Encinal have been pretty scrappy.

@ David
No wonder they still have 3:30 games. That field is an advantage. They don’t even let the boys practice on it, unless Al was able to get that changed recently.