MUSTANGS clinch CUSA soccer title

by **indianmustang** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:52 pm

By CALVIN WATKINS / The Dallas Morning News

SMU clinched the Conference USA men's soccer regular-season title with a 7-0 win over East Carolina on Friday in Greenville, N.C. The Mustangs (10-4-2, 8-0), on an eight-game winning streak, have earned a conference regular-season title five of the last six seasons.

Five players scored, including seniors Kellan Zindel and Duke Hashimoto with two goals each.

The Mustangs will host the C-USA tournament Nov. 9-13

by **SmooPower** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:23 pm

Nice!

by **PonyPride** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:57 pm

The guys are rolling, and at the right time, too.

And while we're at it, the women's soccer team smoked UAB tonight, 4-0. Four straight shutouts -- they also are cranking it up a notch or two. Come out Sunday for the last home game.

by **Charleston Pony** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:26 am

and the boys are playing tomorrow in my backyard here in Columbia. looking forward to seeing a top 10 SMU program in action

by **Dopey Doowrong** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:11 am

You SEE!!! We're doing GREAT THINGS here in athletics. GREAT THINGS!!! Without me, you got bubkis.

by **PonyTales** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:27 am

I checked my DD-to-English dictionary, and his statement translates to: "Congratulations to Coach Hyndman and the Mustangs on another conference title. Finish strong with a win over South Carolina and kick some tail in the C-USA tournament and the NCAAs! Good luck."

by **PonySnob** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:36 pm

How many millions does soccer pay to the conference for being in the NCAA's? At least we are having success in something.

by **indianmustang** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:53 pm

we are having success in the most known sport in world

by **MrMustang1965** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:00 pm

indianmustang wrote:we are having success in the most known sport in world

...but you won't see 90,000 people packing a college stadium in the United States on a Fall afternoon to watch the game played.

by **MustangSally** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:45 pm

I'd REALLY like to see the marketing dept (i know they work hard), the DC, student senate, mustang maniacs, WHOEVER, to really encourage people to come out and support the soccer teams.

When I was at SMU, we started the SMU soccer hooligans, or SMUlligans (weird spelling, don't ask me), and I thought that was the best idea ever. I imagined a huge group of us just tearing the place up, imagine any "rape and pillage" scene from a good pirate movie. They sold t-shirts in the student center, everyone was hyped about the team, or so it seemed. I went with 4 other smulligans to the SMU-TCU game in Ft Worth, and they sat on their hands the entire time. I was all pumped to paint my face and start trampling people, but no one was with me. The next home game, it was about 12 smulligans, mostly girlfriends of the players and I usually got yelled at for "not being a good sport" for cursing, or yelling constantly. Hey, am I confused about the definition of a soccer hooligan? Apparently so.

I blame the NCAA, they have all kinds of crap rules in place to keep soccer boring. I remember some of us band guys got together and went to play at a soccer game at westcott. We were told we could not play while the ball was in play...ok, so we waited till it went out of bounds and quickly played Peruna or Pony Battle Cry. Then the officials said they were mistaken earlier, and that now we couldn't play while the clock was running. In soccer, the clock runs non-stop except at halftime...WTF NCAA jerks. Then we didn't play anything but took the drumsticks and were trying to get some cheers going by banging on the bleachers. Besides the dirty looks from the 20 other fans there, a CSC Event Staff guy was sent over and told us that banging on the bleachers was "artificial noisemaking" and we would be thrown out if we continued. What a crock, we played at one or two more games that year, sometimes standing outside the fence and just blasting, but that was the end of that.
What really steams me was reading an article about how "rabid the womens soccer fans are at aTm" and how they have a wild group of fans that "bangs drums and leads cheers the whole game" and how no other school has an atmosphere that compares. Gee, I wonder why, because you get threatened to get kicked out if you do anything more than stare at the field.

Oh well, what could have been, maybe someone else will start something else.

by **that's great raplh** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:30 pm

its our first cusa crown?

by **Charleston Pony** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:45 pm

well, the Ponies didn't look like a champion today. Got whipped by a more aggressive and physically dominating USC team, 3-0. USC had a respectable crowd today on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. No band, no artificial noise, but a very supportive group that had their GameC0cks all fired up on their senior day. Quite a few Texas kids on the USC roster. Let's hope that game was a wake up call for our guys going into the CUSA Tourney...and that we don't get matched up with USC

by **Mustangs35SMU** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:38 pm

that's great raplh wrote:its our first cusa crown?

Yep..seeing as this is our first year in CUSA.

Lets hope we can turn this around and win the Tournament and then go on to the National Tournament

by **EastStang** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:36 am

Given that we clinched the CUSA regular season title and the #1 seed on Friday, did Hyndemann rest any starters on Sunday? Did the two late SC goals come when we were pressing to even the match and left the back door open?

by **Dutch** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:57 pm

isn't there a board on this site titled "other sports"?

I've been under the impression that soccer would fall under that category, unless the person who posted this happens to be from a country other than the United States and might have confused Football, a sport played by men, with soccer or futbol.

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