Does anyone care at all about soccer

[HoyaSinceBirth]

I mean I post breaking insider information before it's available anywhere else and no one has any comments at all? at least it's been read 70 times. Sigh.

[Saxa71]

In a word "NO".
If you want proof look how many people attend the NCAA LAX Finals vs the NCAA Soccer Finals
Soccer is a great game for little kids under the age of 10 but that's about it

[CAHoya07]

To quote my high school U.S. History teacher, "Soccer is not a sport. It is a Communist activity."

In all seriousness, while I don't really care about soccer the "sport" itself, I do care about GU athletics, soccer included. Plus Ricky Schramm lived on my floor my freshman year. Based on what you wrote, sounds like a pretty good hire. Hopefully this guy can take GU soccer over the hump that we seem to have been stuck on for the past few years.

[DFW HOYA]

Soccer is viewed in the US like the metric system--sure, it may be widespread elsewhere but there's no groundswell to adopt it here. It also doesn't help how badly soccer is marketed, but that's another topic.

[CTHoya08]

cahoya07 said:

To quote my high school U.S. History teacher, "Soccer is not a sport. It is a Communist activity."

In all seriousness, while I don't really care about soccer the "sport" itself, I do care about GU athletics, soccer included. Plus Ricky Schramm lived on my floor my freshman year. Based on what you wrote, sounds like a pretty good hire. Hopefully this guy can take GU soccer over the hump that we seem to have been stuck on for the past few years.

That's pretty funny. One of my high school math teachers constantly called lacrosse a Communist sport.

[tgo]

soccer is communist and a backward sport that could destroy our country if we let it...

in the history of mankind success has been built on strength and stamina. Families that produced men who could hunt as well as till the largest fields and women who could birth and raise the most children to help with these tasks were the most successful in society. These people would require endurance and an ability to be on their feet all day, traits that help in soccer. For the most part, since industrialization, the focus has shifted to the use of the hands and brain to create and manipulate machinery. The US has been the leader of the industrialized world on the basis of our economy and that is built on people who use their hands and brains to tackle problems. This is overly simplistic i know but these basic understandings are at the core of why the US does not care about soccer and never should and that the third world that cares ever so much about soccer, should be working on producing baseball and basketball leagues if they ever want to leave their socialistic workers paradise where 10 people run around in basic annonimity to protect thier leader "the keeper." and why is he their leader? he knows how to use his hands.
I played soccer in high school and enjoyed it, i excelled most as the backup keeper, but that was only because it kept me busy until basketball and baseball seasons started. I am tired of everyone saying we should be loving soccer, with the reason often given that everyone else in the many backward communist countries around the world love it and we dont know what we are missing.

Go Hoya soccer team, hope the new coach has them a regular in the NCAAs!

[hbhoya]

I care and appreciate your postings. I just hope our team returns to excellence soon.

[HoyasAreHungry]

what a bunch of idiots all of you are...guarenteed that more than half the soccer team is more athletic than the lax idiots here...how much talent does running around with a stick beating the crap outta eachother take? ok sorry for the childish rant i dont want to take anything away from anyone because lets face it anyone that plays a competitive d-1 sport has the talent to do so... but in all seriousness the problem with soccer is that nobody understands it. seriously lets look at basketball because lets face it most of u reading this board are basketball junkies. we know what a good pass is what good defense is how hard it is to do something in the course of a game thats not as apparent as say a dunk or whatever. we know when a "tough" shot was made. in soccer i can almost guarentee none of you know the ins and outs of the game well enough to appreciate it for what it is. yes soccer is not usually a very high scoring affair so this understanding becomes even more important. untill more people learn about the game and get their heads out of there rear ends enough to give it a chance this narrow-sited pro american bs that you all are talking about will continue to hold the sport down....there has to be a reason that this game is the most popular in the world. on a similar note i would encourage everyone who supports hoya athletics at all to give soccer a chance at gtown...you dont have to like soccer but people who went to the games last year had a great time. why not make georgetown one of the most feared places to play in the big east and around the country? come on now our other fall sport football is not doing it... if supporting our beloved hoyas is important to u come out and cheer on a sport that is on the rise and poised to break out into the national scene. this hiring of a new coach should produce great results for next year and the future. it is clear that the athletic department sees the potential that this team has and the fact that so many well established coaches wanted the job should tell you something. lets go hoyas!

[HoyaSinceBirth]

Yeah HAH is absolutely right. if anyone doubts the GU soccer games are exciting just ask anyone at the GU- Nova game this past year. we had a pretty good student section going for that one. We even got Nova's coach a yellow card because he started cussing us out for harassing him. Ben Jefferson Dow had one of the sweetest goals I've ever seen an amazing mid air scissor kick. If people gave the sport a chance and learned about it I think it would catch on

[tgo]

yes, support the hoya soccer team. soccer can be fun to play and if the hoyas or my daughter are playing it can be fun to watch but compared to the big sports (baseball, hoops, football, even tennis) it pales in comparison.

HoyasAreHungry said:

...guarenteed that more than half the soccer team is more athletic than the lax idiots here

maybe, maybe not, so what?

HoyasAreHungry said:

i can almost guarentee none of you know the ins and outs of the game well enough to appreciate it for what it is.

dont make assumptions, I played 3 years varsity soccer, i understand the game.

HoyasAreHungry said:

there has to be a reason that this game is the most popular in the world.

just because everyone else likes it doesnt mean we should or it should be popular. Most of the rest of the world is socialist to one degree or another and backward in many many ways, we shouldnt be trying to emulate them. we have heard about soccer "catching on" for decades now, guess what, it aint gonna happen.

[FLHoya]

Oh just wait until thebin, myself and all the other soccer fans on Hoyatalk come out in force for the World Cup this summer. June/July 2002 was one of the only times I ever actually read the B&G board back on the old Sportsonly version of Hoyatalk.

[CAHoya07]

Oh, I don't doubt the athleticism of soccer players at all, they are incredible. I'm just saying that soccer as a spectator sport doesn't really do it for me. Maybe I don't understand it, but I'd much rather watch one of the big three: baseball, basketball, or football. I think it's an American thing, because we like our sports and our heroes to be larger than life. Americans are drawn to the home run, the slam dunk, the bonecrushing tackle, and you don't really have that in soccer, which is more of a finesse game.

I'll watch some World Cup games, though. And as HSB said, some of those GU soccer games in the fall were really fun.

[Jack]

I love soccer at the highest level- follow all the major int'l tournaments, stayed up till all hours watching games in '02, am psyched for this summer, etc. But let's be honest, US college soccer is not even close to the highest level. Many of the best Americans don't ever play college soccer, let alone the real flair, creativity, and talent that come from the rest of the world. Almost no one with serious international football ambitions plays in the NCAA (Claudio Reyna being an obvious exception over a decade ago).

Of course I support Georgetown's program and I wish them well, but the comparison to lacrosse is BS- GU does play lax at very near the highest level, but GU soccer is not even close. The relative athleticism of the players is not as relevant as the quality of play, and on that score college lacrosse kills college soccer, I am sorry to say.

[HoyasAreHungry]

let me ask you a question: how many lacrosse programs are there in the US....not near the number as soccer...its an east coast sport. thats IT....of course this as one of the few schools that has lacrosse will be an elite program thats fine. im not going to take anything away from our guys as I love all georgetown sports. college soccer is becomming more and more competitive. while it is not the end all be all for the sport and not all the players have pro potential it is improving. it is true that in the past college soccer was complete garbage.....But my main point in all of this like some of you have agreed that the games were fun and that you should support the team here. forget about all the other comparisons and other stuff....agree to disagree....all im saying is id like to see as many people as possible cheering on the hoyas at their home games next year. im sure the players appreciate a home field advantage

[Deleted]

The only good thing about soccer is the moms.

Or so a few pay web sites would have me believe.

[miamihoya]

cahoya07 said:

To quote my high school U.S. History teacher, "Soccer is not a sport. It is a Communist activity."

Wow you must of had the same high school history teacher as I did, cuz he would make the exact same claim anytime somone, such as myself, would have to leave class early for a soccer game.

Coming from a Colombian heritage I have grown up surrounded by soccer my whole life, and played since I was a child. I can understand though why some people have trouble enjoying the sport, especially from a spectator standpoint. Among major sports, it has the hardest time translateting onto the tv (with the exception of hockey). Nonetheless, I'm excited as hell for the World Cup this summer, and I recommend that anyone who enjoys the sport or GU athletics in general go out to the games next year, cause there definatley is fun to be had (the close environement allows for some fun fan-player-coach interaction)

[Deleted]

My problem with soccer is that its the only sport that rewards failure. I see guys put some nasty moves on a defender, let rip a sizzling shot, and miss by a mile... and the crowd roars in applause.

I can't imagine an NFL running back breaking six tackles, running 54 yards and fumbling on the two yard line getting applauded. Or some baseball player knocking one in the gap, try to stretch a double to a triple, get thrown out, and bring the crowd to its feet in appreciation afterwards. Or a hoopster missing a dunk on a breakaway, or a hockey player missing an open net on the power play, or a bowler failing to pick up an easy split, etc.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

Well the thing with soccer fans is there excitable first of they're cheering for the move psyching out the defender and then they're already cheering for the shot before he gets it off. I do it myself when i see a guy winding up i'm already on my feet. People don't usually continue applauding after he misses they're just already cheering before he hits it. Like when a guy goes up for a dunk people are already cheering when he misses they groan the same happens in soccer in my experience. Or like when people stick up their hands as a three ponter is released it happens all the time.

[Saxa71]

In terms of athletic skill I am not taking anything away from those who play soccer. Playing DI soccer takes just as much athletic talent as it takes to play DI basketball, LAX etc.
The question asked was "Does anyone care at all about soccer". The answer remains "NO" at least in the United States and that's all that really matters. Who cares what the #1 sport is in some third world country. The American Woman's team was the best in the world and they couldn't sell their league. As I said in my earlier post just check out the attendance at the NCAA Lax Championship vs the NCAA Soccer Championship.
Its a great game for little kids but once they figure out that God gave them arms and hands for catching and throwing the majority of them abandon soccer for other sports.

"Soccer is a communist plot to weaken the youth of America"