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Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Sat Oct 08, 2022 9:47 am
by Sad Din
haha, All for bringing back baseball but NOT at the expense of soccer. I agree that 2-0 loss to CIT is unacceptable but all in all both mens and womens soccer is one of the programs that brings a little happiness to sad din!
Golf, Tennis, bball, XC are the others. Sometimes FB when they are consistently winning but its been a while
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Sun Oct 09, 2022 1:32 am
by apaladin
Another scoreless game from the Men’s team Saturday. Drop soccer. Yes I now 80% of soccer games have at least one team that doesn’t score.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Sun Oct 09, 2022 11:44 am
by Davemeister
No worse than scoreless baseball.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Sun Oct 09, 2022 3:27 pm
by DungeonRealm
Davemeister wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 11:44 am
No worse than scoreless baseball.
Agree, but can you imagine sitting there for the entirety of the past 2 Furman men's soccer games and neither team scored the entire game lol, I guess that's why nobody had posted in this message board all year, the sport in general is just lame. Keep soccer its all good, but damn that sport is boring.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:15 pm
by Sad Din
About boring... didnt grow up watching soccer. Started watching it due to Dempsey on National Team and USA soccer is always fun during world cup
SD likes soccer now but it has to be for some loyalty such as a player or home team.
IMHO soccer isnt boring. Its alot more exciting than baseball. Its non stop action. Its more about one on one balltles and when a team is good strategy also.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:44 pm
by Davemeister
Baseball is a good excuse to sit outdoors in Spring & Summer, drinking beer and eating hotdogs.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:10 pm
by apaladin
Davemeister- no such thing as scoreless baseball. So now the FU men’s and womens soccer teams have gone a combined 5 games without scoring. How exciting is that? Keep the streak going. Another reason to dislike soccer is thst espn tries to be politically correct by constantly showing soccer scores from leagues all over the world that no one cares about except the most die-hard of soccer fans and doubt many of them know anything about these or even where they are located. Espn is trying to cram soccer down our throat just like the WNBA.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:19 am
by Roundball
Please, for the sake of all that is good, move this discussion to General Idiocy.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:50 pm
by MNORM
Roundball wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:19 am
Please, for the sake of all that is good, move this discussion to General Idiocy.
Should've been moved after the first post......
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Thu Oct 13, 2022 12:23 am
by apaladin
Men broke the 5 game scoreless streak with a 1-1 tie. Now ONE goal in 6 games for both teams.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Thu Oct 13, 2022 5:12 am
by Roundball
apaladin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 12:23 am
Men broke the 5 game scoreless streak with a 1-1 tie. Now ONE goal in 6 games for both teams.
It is a obvious that you hate Furman. Why do you bother to post on the UFFP?
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:49 am
by Furmanoid
Too bad about baseball, but the fact is that it just isn’t the big deal it used to be. And for awhile soccer was the new up and coming sport. So right now at a place like FU it is likely that more students played serious soccer than serious baseball. So soccer wins.
I was gonna say soccer participation is growing while baseball participation is shrinking. But turns out both are shrinking and soccer is shrinking faster. I think soccer peaked a few years back. I hope it doesn’t drop off too much because it is a great way to keep kids running around. Baseball was invented to give exhausted farm hands something to do on Sunday. So there isn’t much running around. Nobody needed exercise.
My theory is that overall participation in a sport suffers when the sport becomes dominated by the year-round travel culture. The kids whose parents can’t or won’t do the travel thing (the vast majority) feel outclassed by the year round players and stop playing. Basketball hasn’t started dropping yet, but it has pretty much plateaued and it has this weird cultural exclusion of 80% of kids. And the quality of AAU basketball is comical and getting worse.
The sports with growing participation? Golf, tennis and other individual sports. No sucking up to a coach. No playing time drama. No phony “making the team” by writing a check. Want to go to tournaments?Fine, there’s a pretty cheap fee and you don’t have to pay for a coach, uniforms etc. You don’t even spend the night unless you are really good. So sports like baseball and soccer have been erecting barriers to exclude people while the old country club sports are tearing their barriers down.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:40 am
by din23
apaladin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 12:23 am
Men broke the 5 game scoreless streak with a 1-1 tie. Now ONE goal in 6 games for both teams.
It's as if you're actively cheering against the Paladins. Or at least reveling in a dry spell of two of the most successful programs our school has ever had. You're reaching a new low.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:41 am
by din23
Furmanoid wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:49 am
Too bad about baseball, but the fact is that it just isn’t the big deal it used to be. And for awhile soccer was the new up and coming sport. So right now at a place like FU it is likely that more students played serious soccer than serious baseball. So soccer wins.
I was gonna say soccer participation is growing while baseball participation is shrinking. But turns out both are shrinking and soccer is shrinking faster. I think soccer peaked a few years back. I hope it doesn’t drop off too much because it is a great way to keep kids running around. Baseball was invented to give exhausted farm hands something to do on Sunday. So there isn’t much running around. Nobody needed exercise.
My theory is that overall participation in a sport suffers when the sport becomes dominated by the year-round travel culture. The kids whose parents can’t or won’t do the travel thing (the vast majority) feel outclassed by the year round players and stop playing. Basketball hasn’t started dropping yet, but it has pretty much plateaued and it has this weird cultural exclusion of 80% of kids. And the quality of AAU basketball is comical and getting worse.
The sports with growing participation? Golf, tennis and other individual sports. No sucking up to a coach. No playing time drama. No phony “making the team” by writing a check. Want to go to tournaments?Fine, there’s a pretty cheap fee and you don’t have to pay for a coach, uniforms etc. You don’t even spend the night unless you are really good. So sports like baseball and soccer have been erecting barriers to exclude people while the old country club sports are tearing their barriers down.
I'm pretty sure the only place where baseball vs. soccer is being debated is in apaladin's mind. No one else is pitting the two against one another.
Re: DROP SOCCER, BRING BACK BASEBALL
PostPosted:Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:01 am
by Furmanoid
Well at FU they got pitted against each other and baseball lost.
