Disappointing Women's Soccer season finally over

[disillusioned]

So let's take a look at the numbers:

The Lady Mustangs finish the season ranked 158th. The highest rank of any team that they defeated was TCU at 131.

Going back over the past three years: Top victory in '12 was over #20, final ranking #63. Top victory in '11 was over #20, final ranking #76. Top victory in '10 was over #35, final ranking #53.

THIS is how the program is supposedly being turned around?

[mustangbill67]

Give Chris Petrucelli a break. He has a great pedigree and has been here for a little over a year. Most of his team are not players he recruited and we stepped up a notch in competition. Next year should be a better gauge of where we are as a program. I am not worried.

[netminder]

MB67,

You are so, so wrong. Pedigrees are for dogs and horses, coaches need to produce results.

CP has been here now for two full seasons. And given his experience, the ramp up period shouldn't be long.

Basically, he's just not as good as your rose colored glasses lead you to believe. Great players can make an average coach look good, but he washed out at Texas when he had pretty decent players. And now, in two years he couldn't do much with another set of pretty decent players.

The guy has no heart in the job, no desire, but for a weekly paycheck, and certainly can care less about the players he didn't personally recruit.

Mix that all up in a recipe and you got what you got. A has been.

Not many recruits want to come to a team ranked 158.

[PonyPride]

SMU's teams are the Mustangs (not "Lady Mustangs") and have been for more than 20 years. "Mustang" is not a gender-specific mascot.

[mustangbill67]

sounds like an axe to grind

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

sounds like an axe to grind

Definitely.

We are fine and should to be in great shape for the future.

[disillusioned]

Give him a BREAK?

Please...Netminder is spot on. The team has high caliber players that he seems to have disdain for and ignores their ability or contribution potential for his "pack" of favorites, of which one is his own daughter... Who has slid into a starting position, despite the fact that this season she has TWO yellow cards for verbal abuse of officials, one RED card for punching another player, AND quietly sat out a game for what appeared on film to be punching her OWN teammate. Some role model.

He has completely alienated the team, snuffed out their competitive spirit, and lost the ability to lead. The ladies get visibly tired, yet he elects to stay the course, rarely providing fresh legs. Their substitution rate is probably 20% of what their opponents is.

Take a look at the bench during games; where else have you seen the ENTIRE team sitting absolutely as far away as possible from the staff? Not sure if they are instructed or required to do that, but it certainly is different from all the other teams I have seen them play, and seems to speak volumes about the relationship.

It is all about results; which, as Netminder pointed out, have not been favorable. We shall see what direction things go from here. I certainly hope for better!

[redpony]

The women's team has nothing over the men's team when it comes to under-performing. Hopefully the men's team will have a new coach before the end of this year.. Maybe we can even hire a coach with experience in winning at the top levels who can bring the men's program back to where it was before SO made his k-mart hire..

[disillusioned]

Yes, with a 3-11-2 overall record heading into the conference tourney, I guess that would be an understatement.

[giacfsp]

How cool! One person with an ax to grind against one soccer coach hijacks a thread by others with an ax to grind against the other soccer coach! That is teamwork, people!

If you don't think this year's women's team is better last year's team, you didn't watch many (or any) games. There were some good players last year (Smith, Scoville, Baum, Clarke, Elliott, etc.), but there wasn't enough depth. (Stop with the cards thing. There are plenty of good players who pick up cards. Whether CP's daughter deserves to start can be debated, but if she gets cards and is still one of the best 11, she should play.)

[disillusioned]

You are free to express your opinion.

Bottom line, the RESULTS, and AMBIANCE speak for themselves. There is no axes to grind here. Just simple disappointment.

As for CP's daughter, those actions also speak for themselves. ANY coach's kid playing under a parent coach should be against NCAA rules, in my naive opinion. There is NO WAY that the situation could ever be beneficial. There is no way that it could EVER be viewed as unbiased, one way or the other. It is just not fair to the coach OR the player.

But whether the previous teams were BETTER than the current due to attrition can always be up for debate...unless many of those veterans still on the team sit on the sidelines and hope to see time on the pitch.

[disillusioned]

CP has obviously been entrusted to spearhead the womens' program. But when the season progresses, and the results are just plain not there, maybe taking a look at the overall layout, where the majority of players are in spots where they have not played most of their entire career and it is NOT working, is warranted.

[disillusioned]

Oh...and GIAISCP...you are right. There are plenty of players who get cards. Any idea how many are ENTIRELY not from the result of PLAY ON THE PITCH?

[Fresh]

No coach should be able to coach his or her child? I would have done anything to play basketball for my dad. I would have gone to the worst school anywhere and played in a bad gym with awful equipment just to play for him. I wasn't good enough and never had the chance. But to say that should be illegal is ridiculous.

[disillusioned]

I can totally understand.....but in a competitive collegiate environment, would that have been fair to HIM? There is no way he would have been able to remain impartial, no matter HOW hard he tried. And, even if he wasn't either too [deleted] you or too soft for being his child, any decision regarding you would have been judged by both the other players around you, and the fans in the stands.

That was my line of thought there....