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Post by UICJohn on Nov 7, 2019 19:57:32 GMT -6
UIC women’s soccer has been red hot of late! They won their sixth in a row. This game was an OT winner in the HL playoffs over Northern Kentucky. They advance to the championship game against (most likely) Milwaukee or Oakland.
The Flames were in control the whole game as they outshot the Norse 26-7 and SOG were 11-3.
Go Flames! What a season this program is having!
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Post by Big D on Nov 7, 2019 22:59:20 GMT -6
This is what a good coach can do. We were trash for 5 straight years. One season with a new coach, with some new players, and a number of returnees from last year, and we had one of the biggest turnarounds in the country and are now competing for a championship.
Some people mentioned the past of Coach Anagnost here. I read up a bit on him and there has been some drama...mostly seems to be extremely hard on his players. But when you have a team like Milwaukee that has an absolute stranglehold on this conference, chances have to be taken to unseat them.
Even if we can’t beat them for the first time ever, I’m confident in coach’s ability to put together a solid game plan so that we compete. They are beatable. And if we can’t do it this year, I feel like he will eventually get it done. He has won everywhere he’s been. Would be nice to see it happen here.
I feel like you just felt the program became better when he took over. Never felt that after watching a few games with Moore...never felt that after watching a few games with McClain. When we have the right coaches, we’ll know.
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Post by flamernation on Nov 8, 2019 7:00:15 GMT -6
No one knows what the old women soccer coach is up too but his former assistant left UIC to take the head coaching job at NIU two years ago and has gone 4-34 with no conference wins this season. Two years two wins a season. I agree sometimes you need change. If we kept Rigby we been battling to be in 6th place and a first round lost. With new coach you see discipline, hard nose make a play game plans every game. Great to see the seniors go out as winners after all the losses over the years.
Great fall season. Men soccer, women soccer volleyball doing great. Winter sports be tough to watch. Women basketball probably go 5-26 and men basketball probably finish 6th and be 14-16
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Post by UICJohn on Nov 8, 2019 7:25:12 GMT -6
I remember reading about Coach Anagnost's profile and was impressed on his resume before coming to UIC. And then beating Cincinnati, albeit in an exhibition, you felt something good could happen. And look at the result. It is pretty incredible just how much difference a coach makes on the collegiate level.
The other day after another pathetic showing by the Bulls, their Head Coach talked about how he needed to work to develop 15 players. That isn't the role of a professional coach (especially that no teams really go past 8-10 in their rotation). However, that is a role of a college coach and you just see by the results this year.
We lost 3-0 to Milwaukee the first time around. However, that was earlier in the year and this is a different team than was on the field that time.
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