Hoya Men's Soccer Fall 2021 Big East Champions

[RusskyHoya]

Figured the fall season deserves it's own thread.

Hoyas will scrimmage Penn State up in Happy Valley on August 14th: www.wearecentralpa.com/news/local-news/penn-state-mens-soccer-announces-fall-2021-schedule/

Still awaiting the Hoyas schedule, but it should be any day now.

[Elvado]

So great to know we can see them on the field again live.

[hoyaduck]

It feels like their season just ended, but here we go again. Not that I'm complaining!

[RusskyHoya]

Still waiting on that schedule...

...although we have every conference game except UConn from the Big East website. If I had to guess, I'd say that'll be a home match on 9/25.

9/18/2021
Georgetown (Away)
Creighton (Home)
7:00 P.M. Omaha, Neb.

10/2/2021
DePaul (Away)
Georgetown (Home)
2:00 P.M. Washington, DC

10/6/2021
Georgetown (Away)
Seton Hall (Home)
7:00 P.M. South Orange, N.J.

10/9/2021
Butler (Away)
Georgetown (Home)
1:00 P.M. Washington, D.C.

10/13/2021
Georgetown (Away)
Providence (Home)
7:00 P.M. Providence, R.I.

10/16/2021
Villanova (Away)
Georgetown (Home)
1:00 P.M. Washington, D.C.

10/20/2021
St. John' (Away)
Georgetown (Home)
TBA Washington, D.C.

10/23/2021
Georgetown (Away)
Xavier (Home)
7:00 P.M. Cincinnati, Ohio

10/30/2021
Georgetown (Away)
Marquette (Home)
8:05 P.M. Milwaukee, Wis.

---

Meanwhile, some reinforcements:

[RusskyHoya]

We're also hosting the Twerps at 1 pm on 9/11

[RusskyHoya]

Hoyas host the Fordham Rams at 1 on Sunday, August 29th.

They also have a 7 pm date at Temple on Tuesday, September 14th.

And the kicker - 7 pm Friday night matchup at Cuse on September 3rd!

Still no official schedule, though...this is getting ridiculous...

[whatmaroon]

Official schedule finally released. guhoyas.com/news/2021/8/4/mens-soccer-mens-soccer-releases-2021-schedule-presented-by-medstar-health.aspx

UConn home match is the last regular season game, set for Wednesday, November 3. The 9/25 (Sat.) home game is against Dartmouth.

The Twerps game does not have media (BEDN or TV) listed, nor does the game in Lower Canada. Hopefully that changes. The game at Seton Hall 10/6 (Weds) will be on FS1 and is currently the only non-streaming TV game.

[Elvado]

#5 in National Coaches poll.

Sounds about right.

[Bigs"R"Us]

I feel like GU soccer deserves its own thread at this point.

[RusskyHoya]

Georgetown Soccer Family,

We are back up and running! We’ve just spent four days in a preseason camp hosted by the Mercersburg Academy, which is a wonderful prep school in southern Pennsylvania that looked after us extremely well. We worked through double sessions in some typical August heat and humidity, and the group has started off showing some promise. The seniors are showing signs of exceptional leadership, and the eight newcomers have integrated into training very well, and have collectively shown a real maturity that belies their age.

The team once again carries the weight of expectations with a #5 national preseason ranking along with a schedule that offers no respite. The BIG EAST preseason polls picked the Hoyas to win the league with 8 of 11 first place votes, while senior goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis has been picked as BIG EAST Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year, and was joined by senior Sean Zawadzki and junior Dante Polvara on the BIG EAST Preseason All-Conference team.

Our three preseason matches will tell us exactly what we have to work with as all three, Penn State, American and Virginia Tech, advanced to the NCAA tournament in the 2021 spring season. Our match last Saturday at #11 Penn State was an early marker for us both individually and collectively as we mixed young and old players together into two squads to each play 45 minutes. The group lost the fixture but overall played reasonably well for such an early match, and we learned some important lessons that only games can teach. We followed up that match just three days later with a home exhibition against the defending Patriot League champions from American University. The boys were noticeably sharper than in their opening match, and the win saw goals from junior Stefan Stojanovic, junior Daniel Wu, and freshman Ronan Dillow from his first collegiate touch of the ball on Shaw Field. Onward and upward.

I’ll send along another note after this week to update you on our final preseason match against Virginia Tech this Saturday, and, in the meantime, Go Hoyas!


Brian Wiese
Head Coach, Men's Soccer

[hoyaguy]

Does anyone know if the game tomorrow is open to the public?

[RusskyHoya]

TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Top 25:

Preseason
Aug 1, 2021 to Aug 25, 2021

RANK SCHOOL CONFERENCE
1. Marshall Conference USA
2. Indiana Big Ten
3. Pittsburgh Atlantic Coast
4. North Carolina Atlantic Coast
5. Georgetown Big East
6. Wake Forest Atlantic Coast
7. Stanford Pacific 12
8. Clemson Atlantic Coast
9. Washington Pacific 12
10. Penn State Big Ten
11. Missouri State Missouri Valley
12. Marquette Big East
13. Seton Hall Big East
14. UCF American Athletic
15. James Madison Colonial Athletic Association
16. Loyola Marymount West Coast
17. Kentucky Conference USA
18. Charlotte Conference USA
19. Virginia Tech Atlantic Coast
20. New Hampshire America East
21. High Point Big South
22. SMU American Athletic
23. St. Mary's (CA) West Coast
24. Fordham Atlantic 10
25. Oregon State Pacific 12

[DanMcQ]

Aug 21, 2021 1:02:02 GMT -5 hoyaguy said:

Does anyone know if the game tomorrow is open to the public?

Tickets on sale...

links.engage.ticketmaster.com/servlet/MailView?ms=NzI1MDM5MgS2&r=MTczMjM3ODczMDY1S0&j=MTMyMTYzNTczNgS2&mt=1&rt=0

[RusskyHoya]

Some positive vibes to kickoff the first gameday of the season: a poster on the BigSoccer forums asked a question:

Super Bobo
New Member

#6
Jul 8, 2021

Any insiders know if the players like their coach? From the outside, Wiese seems like he coaches them up and they grow under his leadership.

Thoughts?

The responses, from neutral parties, should make everyone here feel real good:

Diceshooter
New Member

#7
Jul 8, 2021

The players and parents love the Coach

Sandon Mibut
Member+

#8
Jul 8, 2021

I have a friend whose kid got recruited by Georgetown and spoke glowingly of Wiese.

I mean, he's from the Bobby Clark tree so I'd be surprised if he wasn't as gracious and player-first as Bobby was.

JoeSoccerFan
Member+

#9
Jul 9, 2021

Utmost respect for Brian. He is his players best advocate, tactically astute and a quality individual. I talk to many coaches and he is top-notch. If anything he will not say anything critical about his team or coaches, instead he'll spin it.

collegesoccer
Member+

#10
Jul 10, 2021

There are certain guys in college soccer that if someone is bad-mouthing them then there is something wrong with the person doing the bad-mouthing. Brian is one of those guys.

[Elvado]

Aug 25, 2021 22:28:50 GMT -5 RusskyHoya said:

Some positive vibes to kickoff the first gameday of the season: a poster on the BigSoccer forums asked a question:

Super Bobo
New Member

#6
Jul 8, 2021

Any insiders know if the players like their coach? From the outside, Wiese seems like he coaches them up and they grow under his leadership.

Thoughts?

The responses, from neutral parties, should make everyone here feel real good:

Diceshooter
New Member

#7
Jul 8, 2021

The players and parents love the Coach

Sandon Mibut
Member+

#8
Jul 8, 2021

I have a friend whose kid got recruited by Georgetown and spoke glowingly of Wiese.

I mean, he's from the Bobby Clark tree so I'd be surprised if he wasn't as gracious and player-first as Bobby was.

JoeSoccerFan
Member+

#9
Jul 9, 2021

Utmost respect for Brian. He is his players best advocate, tactically astute and a quality individual. I talk to many coaches and he is top-notch. If anything he will not say anything critical about his team or coaches, instead he'll spin it.

collegesoccer
Member+

#10
Jul 10, 2021

There are certain guys in college soccer that if someone is bad-mouthing them then there is something wrong with the person doing the bad-mouthing. Brian is one of those guys.

There are not enough good things to say about Coach Wiese. The way he and his program took my son into their hearts when he was a little boy and have kept him part of the family is proof positive of what a class act he is.

And by the way, he is one hell of a soccer Coach as well.

[Elvado]

Game postponed (heat?).

Play tomorrow at 11:30 am

[hoyaduck]

Aug 26, 2021 16:36:59 GMT -5 Elvado said:

Game postponed (heat).

Play tomorrow at 11:30 am

Heat? Is the weather bad out there?

[SSHoya]

Aug 26, 2021 16:48:13 GMT -5 hoyaduck said:

Aug 26, 2021 16:36:59 GMT -5 Elvado said:

Game postponed (heat).

Play tomorrow at 11:30 am

Heat? Is the weather bad out there?

Big lightning and thunderstorm also rolled through DC this afternoon around gametime.

[Elvado]

Did not know about storm but Coach indicated it was ungodly hot today.

[SSHoya]

Aug 26, 2021 17:26:31 GMT -5 Elvado said:

Did not know about storm but Coach indicated it was ungodly hot today.

Yes, it was extremely hot and probably that alone was reason to cancel. I also assume that the cancellation was prior to the storm rolling through but the lightning probably just added to the corrrectness of the decision.

www.arlnow.com/