Speaker 1: Let's find let's find out about breakfast and breakfast food.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of an opening kickoff brought to us
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Speaker 2: Where you be, how's it going?
Speaker 3: I am home?
Speaker 2: Still?
Speaker 3: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean normal answer?
Speaker 1: Considering all of the moving that you have done recently
Speaker 1: and everything that has gone on in your universe, the
Speaker 1: fact that you are locked in place is kind of strange.
Speaker 4: It's the longest time period I'm going to be home
Speaker 4: for a while or have been home for a while,
Speaker 4: So I'm enjoying it for a little.
Speaker 3: Bit while it lasts.
Speaker 1: All right, So let me ask you this, since I'm
Speaker 1: an opening kickoff mode right now, what do you traditionally
Speaker 1: do for breakfast? Considering that you are the at of
Speaker 1: the two of us, you are the athlete, what do
Speaker 1: you traditionally do for breakfast?
Speaker 3: I am like kind of one extreme or the other.
Speaker 4: I'm either like a smoothie or like one of those
Speaker 4: like energy protein like peanut butter, chocolate chip balls, you
Speaker 4: know those things just to have a little something with
Speaker 4: my coffee, or I'm like a brunch like eggs, bacon,
Speaker 4: a bagel, sandwich with all of that, like and I
Speaker 4: go hard at that, and I probably don't eat much
Speaker 4: for lunch.
Speaker 3: So I'm like one extreme.
Speaker 1: Or the other, okay, because the reason I ask is,
Speaker 1: you know, I because of just trying to get everything ready.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm grabbing stuff out of the I'm grabbing
Speaker 1: stuff out of the kitchen.
Speaker 2: And they give you sixteen of.
Speaker 1: This particular product that you buy and they say that
Speaker 1: the daily serving is three.
Speaker 3: That doesn't work.
Speaker 2: No, no, And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's like, so I'm you know, in my situation, literally
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, five and a third.
Speaker 2: This does not compute.
Speaker 1: So do you carry it over to the sixth day
Speaker 1: or do you just say to hell with it and
Speaker 1: do the four on the one day like Friday or
Speaker 1: something just to empty out the container?
Speaker 4: You just finish it off. It's like when you have
Speaker 4: an unread text or an unread email and it bothers you.
Speaker 4: That's what I would feel like if I had the
Speaker 4: extra one, like, finish.
Speaker 2: It off, let's go okay see, And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like for me, I'm like, look, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a day with four and I'm just gonna have to
Speaker 1: deal with it. So, like I said, it was just
Speaker 1: staring at me this morning as I was going into
Speaker 1: the kitchen, I'm like, wait a second recommend it daily
Speaker 1: serving is three. There are sixteen of them here, So
Speaker 1: I was I was kind of freaking out a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know if I was alone in my
Speaker 1: assessments of just making sure that you know that I
Speaker 1: was approaching this correctly and that my guilt should just
Speaker 1: be kind of off to the side and not worry
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: Nah, you're fine, I'd say, go for.
Speaker 2: It, Okay, I support that. Okay, just checking That's opening.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday in we're going to talk a little college or
Speaker 1: probably talk a lot of college, maybe a little MLS,
Speaker 1: whatever else is on your mind here As you met
Speaker 1: Leadoff on Tuesday yesterday you were paired with our friend
Speaker 1: Glenn Davis and got to hang out and watch wake
Speaker 1: in Mississippi State. What some of your takeaways from that
Speaker 1: particular match. As we are in the early season crossover
Speaker 1: part of the non conference schedule early returns from Wake
Speaker 1: and Mississippi State.
Speaker 4: Well, I mentioned on Friday when we're looking at this,
Speaker 4: that there's a lot of ACC versus SEC matchups in
Speaker 4: these non conference schedules. This was another one that I
Speaker 4: was really excited about because Mississippi State has a new coach,
Speaker 4: Nick Zimmerman. He's been there six years and as an assistant.
Speaker 4: This is his first year as head coach and taking
Speaker 4: on a coach Antony Dlouz, who's been there for twenty
Speaker 4: nine years, a Wake Forest program that's very well established
Speaker 4: College Cup finalists last year. I thought it would be
Speaker 4: very unique to see how this matches up because when
Speaker 4: talking with both coaches, Nick Zimmerman even said they want
Speaker 4: to possess the ball as well, and everyone that follows
Speaker 4: in CAA women's college soccer knows that's what Wake's m
Speaker 4: O is, and so I was kind of looking at
Speaker 4: it going let's see if Mississippi State can get some possession.
Speaker 4: Not only did they get the win, but they had
Speaker 4: the vast majority of possession in the game at their
Speaker 4: home field. It was a really good performance all around
Speaker 4: from them, So I was really impressed with Mississippi State.
Speaker 4: And that's not to say Wake Forest wasn't good either.
Speaker 4: Going on the road second game in the weekend is tough,
Speaker 4: but Mississippi State showed that they can play with.
Speaker 3: The best this year.
Speaker 2: And I want to go.
Speaker 1: I want to go back a step because for those
Speaker 1: that follow you on the social media's you, you had
Speaker 1: the chance to go back to your old haunt also
Speaker 1: on the weekend, and you had to be there bright
Speaker 1: and early.
Speaker 2: We saw your cup of coffee. I guess it was
Speaker 2: coffee that you.
Speaker 3: That you It was coffee. It was coffee. Yes, I
Speaker 3: brought that in. I needed it.
Speaker 4: I had to arrive at like ten am, So that's
Speaker 4: an early that's an early arrival for me.
Speaker 1: For broadcasting you you ain't kidding, And it was a
Speaker 1: chance for you to go back to to the Alma
Speaker 1: and check out North Carolina in their early part of
Speaker 1: the season. So takeaways from that broadcast as well what
Speaker 1: happened there?
Speaker 4: Well, before I get into the broadcast, you seemed really
Speaker 4: upset with me last week that I only owned one
Speaker 4: Carolina mug. I went to Franklin Street and I got
Speaker 4: the ultimate Carolina mugul rameses. I was like, I cannot
Speaker 4: be talked to like that, so I have to get
Speaker 4: another Carolina mug, and I did went to the student
Speaker 4: stores and got one, So there you.
Speaker 2: Go, John, Nothing wrong with that, Nothing wrong with that
Speaker 2: at all. I mean.
Speaker 1: And the size of that mug that is a ram
Speaker 1: I mean literally did That's the size of a ram truck.
Speaker 1: That's not just a ram case it is And I
Speaker 1: think I.
Speaker 4: Could fit my whole pot of coffee that I brew
Speaker 4: in the morning in this in one go, so it
Speaker 4: gets its money's.
Speaker 3: Worth for sure. But yeah, so I was really I
Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 4: Just grateful to be able to go on campus, you know,
Speaker 4: like you said on my Instagram story, walking through where
Speaker 4: I used to train and into the state. Just to
Speaker 4: have that opportunity was just a nice personal moment for
Speaker 4: me to be able to do it. From a soccer perspective,
Speaker 4: the expectation was that you and c would bounce back
Speaker 4: after playing Georgia and having that loss against a team
Speaker 4: like Rice, and even speaking with Brian Lee, the head
Speaker 4: coach of Rice, he has been trying every year to
Speaker 4: schedule against the reigning national championship for the past four years.
Speaker 4: I think he's accomplished that three out of the last
Speaker 4: four years, and he said, we know it's going to
Speaker 4: be a huge task, but it shows us where we're
Speaker 4: at and it gives us some confidence that we can
Speaker 4: come up against anyone. So they take that into their
Speaker 4: conference play. So the expectation was that you and c
Speaker 4: was going to win this game, and they did. What
Speaker 4: I'll say is I don't believe. And this isn't just
Speaker 4: from an alumni perspective, from a truly analytical perspective that
Speaker 4: it's not all doom and gloom. Because they have two
Speaker 4: losses early in the season, one of their senior defenders
Speaker 4: in midfielders, Tessa Della Rose, is still out. She hasn't
Speaker 4: seen in any minutes this year, and she's a huge
Speaker 4: leader and catalyst for success for this group. And their
Speaker 4: entire starting roster is incredibly young sophomores and freshmen, with
Speaker 4: only Kate Fosse and Olivia Thomas as upper classmens. So
Speaker 4: while they figure all of those little kings out, while
Speaker 4: they figure out their goalkeeping situation, I think it's going
Speaker 4: to be completely fine as they start to get into
Speaker 4: conference play.
Speaker 1: When you look at the non region I mean, right
Speaker 1: now through the ACC. You look at Pitt who's run
Speaker 1: the table. They won their first four. Stanford has won
Speaker 1: their first four, and the numbers are staggering that they
Speaker 1: have put on the board so far, nineteen goals scored
Speaker 1: in their first four matches. They've only given up two.
Speaker 1: Virginia undefeated, Duke undefeated. Florida State undefeated right now at
Speaker 1: two and zero, and they've scored seven in their first two.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame still hasn't lost. And then you get into
Speaker 1: a couple of one lost teams so far with Louisville, Miami, SMU, Syracuse,
Speaker 1: votech Wake Forest, they're all three and one. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe they all find the same folks to beat up
Speaker 1: on or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: BC col they're hanging out just a little above five
Speaker 1: hundred North Carolina. Your your heels are two and two.
Speaker 1: Clemson off to a hiccup. He start at one to
Speaker 1: one in one, NC State at three and one going
Speaker 1: through this first four matches in the ACC, I guess
Speaker 1: we you know early returns on, all right, so I
Speaker 1: guess give me all right, Well, let's play let's play
Speaker 1: stop light, all right, Let's go red light, yellow light,
Speaker 1: green light. Okay, after the first four matches, is there
Speaker 1: anybody right now that's like red light? You know, danger
Speaker 1: Will Robinson kind of a thing. After the first four matches?
Speaker 1: Is there anybody in the red light category for you?
Speaker 3: In C State's going to have a tough year.
Speaker 4: They have a new head coach, Gary Higgins there, who's
Speaker 4: had a lot of success, but they've been down for
Speaker 4: a couple of years and so it's not one of
Speaker 4: those one year project type of things. So it's just
Speaker 4: sticking with the staff, the new staff and getting through
Speaker 4: this season I think is going to be incredibly difficult
Speaker 4: for them. So I would say they're the main one
Speaker 4: right now that I'm not surprised at the start because
Speaker 4: there's a lot of work to be done for the
Speaker 4: new coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Okay, So along those lines, how patient as a rule
Speaker 1: are administrations these days when it comes to soccer From
Speaker 1: what you've been able to gather, if it's a new coach,
Speaker 1: if it's a new coach and a new coaching staff,
Speaker 1: how patient are they are they looking at immediate returns?
Speaker 1: Has the pressure been dialed up in this era when
Speaker 1: it comes to sports and soccer too.
Speaker 2: Does it drift off to there or is there more patients.
Speaker 1: When it comes to new administrations and new soccer coaches
Speaker 1: and things like that, what have you been able to observe.
Speaker 4: One of the things you always have to think about
Speaker 4: is how early is the recruiting process, because back five
Speaker 4: six years ago, before we started having the transfer portal
Speaker 4: and everything, it would take a good three to four
Speaker 4: years minimum to see your players come in because women's
Speaker 4: soccer recruiting was so early in the high school game.
Speaker 3: Now it is still early.
Speaker 4: Especially for your powerful conferences, but because you have the
Speaker 4: ability to have transfers, there's a little bit of a
Speaker 4: tweak of expectation that it's a little bit earlier. But
Speaker 4: I would still say in the first year, even two years,
Speaker 4: you're not looking at vast turnarounds. What I think administrators
Speaker 4: are really looking at, and from conversations I've had when
Speaker 4: I was in the college game, was what does what
Speaker 4: does the team look like? Are they heading in the
Speaker 4: right direction? What's the whole morale and thoughts around the team.
Speaker 4: And then you want to see those little results here
Speaker 4: and there that you get that maybe you shouldn't have gotten,
Speaker 4: and that's kind of shows that maybe the next year
Speaker 4: will be the turning point.
Speaker 1: Tacy White hanging out with us, going over college soccer,
Speaker 1: and we got a couple of things up our sleeve
Speaker 1: a little later on here in the segment, as Casey
Speaker 1: Bat's lead off here on our Tuesdays on SDHAM, all right,
Speaker 1: we did red light. Who's in the yellow light for
Speaker 1: you right now? Who you kind of sitting there going?
Speaker 1: I don't know one way or the other after the.
Speaker 4: First four Well, I think wake Forest and Clemson are
Speaker 4: interesting for two different reasons. I think they're both yellow
Speaker 4: light in some ways because wake Forest in a more
Speaker 4: positive yellow light going to green was three and oh
Speaker 4: coming into the game against Mississippi State. They beat SMU,
Speaker 4: they beat LSU, and they beat Villanova, so a couple
Speaker 4: of really good wins in there. Then went on the
Speaker 4: road against a good Mississippi State team and lost. I
Speaker 4: don't think that's going to define their season by any means,
Speaker 4: but they do have a really young team that everything
Speaker 4: clicked early. So I think there's a management piece now
Speaker 4: of how do you deal with the loss and how
Speaker 4: do you solve it and come back? So I think
Speaker 4: that's an interesting one to watch, and I think Wake's
Speaker 4: going to be very good, but I still put them
Speaker 4: there because it's a bit of an interesting point in
Speaker 4: the season for them to deal with that first loss
Speaker 4: with a lot of freshmen and sophomores in their roster. Clemson,
Speaker 4: you mentioned one one and one. I said, I think
Speaker 4: it was two weeks ago. I was going to say
Speaker 4: that I think they'll have a better year this year.
Speaker 4: They lost a lot of players last year into the NWSL,
Speaker 4: so it was a rough one for them. So I
Speaker 4: think jury's still out on them to see if they can.
Speaker 3: Turn the tide.
Speaker 1: And so, since you have Wake heading into the green
Speaker 1: light category, who are your green lights? After the first four?
Speaker 1: Who has has it been a pleasant surprise so far?
Speaker 1: Has it pretty much been chalk of Yeah? I figured
Speaker 1: these folks would be here.
Speaker 4: It's pretty much the usual suspects in a lot of ways. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Stanford being new to the ACC is a usual suspect
Speaker 4: from a national perspective, not necessarily ACC so I would
Speaker 4: put them in there. The amount of goals is pretty insane,
Speaker 4: I will say that. So you got to tip your
Speaker 4: hat to that Florida state we know is always going
Speaker 4: to be a national contender from doing their first game though,
Speaker 4: and watching them their dynamic attack, it's even more than
Speaker 4: I think they've had in the last few years. They've
Speaker 4: always been a possession oriented team and really war opposition down.
Speaker 4: I think they have a really good balance of let's
Speaker 4: just get after it and then let's slow it down
Speaker 4: and be more methodical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you've got to go see them against those
Speaker 1: the lowdown dirty cheaters from the University of South Georgia.
Speaker 2: James.
Speaker 4: I'm not just supporting them because of you, but I
Speaker 4: will so I will be honest a lot on the way.
Speaker 2: But they're good for sure, no doubt. Sec.
Speaker 1: Right now, you know you're still looking at non regions Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Tennessee. Tennessee went out west and it's just
Speaker 1: basically started thumping folks. They're taking care of business out
Speaker 1: in the Pacific time zone before they come back here.
Speaker 2: They're all four to no. Georgia Vandy three and one.
Speaker 1: Mississippi State once once again the match that you called
Speaker 1: with wake out of the blocks, they've won their first
Speaker 1: two A and M. At two OHO and two the
Speaker 1: low down dirty cheaters have actually won twice. I don't
Speaker 1: know how that happened. I guess they cheated Oh, Missus
Speaker 1: two and one, Auburn two to one and one, LSU
Speaker 1: at five hundred, Arkansas at five hundred, Missouris at five hundred,
Speaker 1: Texas one two and one. Early returns red light, yellow light,
Speaker 1: green light in the SEC What do you think, Oh.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. We have to start with Tennessee.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go the other direction because that makes that
Speaker 4: loss that you and c had early in the season
Speaker 4: looked very good. When you start going to the West
Speaker 4: Coast and beating up on top programs there as well.
Speaker 4: Joe Kurt has been with that program for a number
Speaker 4: of years. I don't even remember how long. I believe,
Speaker 4: and don't quote me on this. I believe I was
Speaker 4: playing at North Carolina and he was an assistant goalkeeping coach.
Speaker 4: It was either then or just after under Ange Kelly.
Speaker 4: I know he was there for a while, So to
Speaker 4: see him step into that head coaching role, I love
Speaker 4: that just from a colleague perspective and that he got
Speaker 4: that opportunity. But he has this team rolling, so they're
Speaker 4: in a really good spot. So for a green light,
Speaker 4: definitely Tennessee. I would even say Georgia is kind of
Speaker 4: in that green light, maybe yellow light still kind of
Speaker 4: to see what's going to happen. But Mississippi State is
Speaker 4: a team that I think is in.
Speaker 3: The yellow light.
Speaker 4: They got a big win, like we said, first, wake
Speaker 4: Forest tenth in the country at the time, but with
Speaker 4: all the cancelations early in the season, they really hadn't
Speaker 4: been tested. They had only played Jacksonville State in a
Speaker 4: handful of exhibitions. Now, just wonder after getting that big win,
Speaker 4: do they use that as a catalyst and it shows
Speaker 4: really how good they are or are they just highly motivated.
Speaker 4: They hadn't played games. They're at home under the lights
Speaker 4: with wake Forest coming to you, and so they met
Speaker 4: the challenge, which there's something to be said for that.
Speaker 4: And Nick Zimmerman is known to be a great motivator.
Speaker 4: He organizes his teams very well.
Speaker 3: So will that be.
Speaker 4: Something that they can sustain throughout the whole year? So
Speaker 4: I'll be interested to see that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Joe Kirk, by the way, after since you appropriately filibustered
Speaker 1: for me, mainstay on the Tennessee sideline since two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, UT soccer head coach by vice Chancellor and
Speaker 1: eighty Danny White April twenty ninth of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: I was so close.
Speaker 4: I graduated six last season, so I thought it was
Speaker 4: close to when I was playing so a lot of years.
Speaker 1: There's your there's your crossover with Joe Kirk. Let me
Speaker 1: have you put your coaching hat on for a second?
Speaker 1: Non region schedules or non conference schedules and you are
Speaker 1: in a position to lay out a grid to get
Speaker 1: you ready for conference play whatever conference you were in
Speaker 1: were you? Are you of a mind that you want
Speaker 1: to challenge yourself and whatever the non region schedule is,
Speaker 1: line them up? And if I go and eight, I'm oh,
Speaker 1: and eight? Do you want to mix? Do you want
Speaker 1: to blend? Do you do the do you do the
Speaker 1: belt curve to where you try to build into a
Speaker 1: non region schedule? If you're a schedule maker as a coach,
Speaker 1: which method would you pick and how would you address
Speaker 1: it when you're talking about a college schedule?
Speaker 3: Well, how honest do you want me to be?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: I'm scared put it out? I mean, that's what we're
Speaker 2: here for.
Speaker 4: I'm not a very controversial person, but I'm gonna say
Speaker 4: a couple of things that are just real. Uh, It
Speaker 4: kind of depends on where you're at in your coaching right,
Speaker 4: So how long have you been somewhere, how is your
Speaker 4: team performing, because one of the things you have to
Speaker 4: be careful with is going too hard and it looking
Speaker 4: like there's not a successful season, because some athletic directors
Speaker 4: and administrators define success only by wins, even at women's soccer.
Speaker 3: So if you've had a.
Speaker 4: Couple bad years, you don't want to go crazy and
Speaker 4: start zero to six. That's not looking good for job security.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna be honest right there. That's part of
Speaker 4: things when you're not in a good spot as a
Speaker 4: college head coach. So I wanted to address that first.
Speaker 4: But let's say everything's hunky dory, you're not worried about it,
Speaker 4: and you're looking at your schedule. My personal philosophy has
Speaker 4: always been that conference is really what matters.
Speaker 3: So you have an amount of.
Speaker 4: Time preseason plus non conference to find out who your
Speaker 4: team is, and that means what are we good at,
Speaker 4: what are we exposed by, and how do we evolve
Speaker 4: that or change that in a really short amount of time.
Speaker 4: On top of that, you have to think about the
Speaker 4: mental side of the game. I've always been very big
Speaker 4: on the confidence side and building the mentality side. And
Speaker 4: mentality and building confidence doesn't just mean that you win
Speaker 4: every game. Like we talked about earlier, Rice wanting to
Speaker 4: play the defending national champions, teams like that, Florida going
Speaker 4: to Florida State first game of the year, talking with
Speaker 4: Sam Bohan. They want to see how their team stats
Speaker 4: up and then they can use that to build confidence
Speaker 4: that they can go into conference play and compete with
Speaker 4: almost everybody. And so all of those factors come into
Speaker 4: play so that when you hit conference play you.
Speaker 3: Can be rolling.
Speaker 1: Then how do you keep people from freaking out, whether
Speaker 1: it's on your roster or just out in the community
Speaker 1: that are fans and boosters. If that number to the
Speaker 1: right in the wins and losses, if the number of
Speaker 1: the right of the dash is bigger then the number
Speaker 1: on the left. As you're going into conference play, how
Speaker 1: do you keep people from freaking out? How difficult is
Speaker 1: it to sit there and have them understand the context
Speaker 1: of why you did what you did, even though you
Speaker 1: might be three and five, two and six or whatever
Speaker 1: going into conference play.
Speaker 4: It's so hard because it's a roll of the dice,
Speaker 4: Because what if you don't perform in conference, then your plan.
Speaker 3: Does kind of go out the window.
Speaker 4: But being in the community, being in the media and
Speaker 4: kind of putting your vision out there and your message
Speaker 4: just like you would to your players, is important to
Speaker 4: your stakeholders and to your community and to your boss
Speaker 4: things like that. Everyone needs to understand that vision to
Speaker 4: a degree, just at different levels. And so you can
Speaker 4: get ahead of those things with how you communicate to
Speaker 4: the people that genuinely care about your program. Ultimately, wins matter,
Speaker 4: and we know that, yes, this isn't pro sports, but
Speaker 4: the reality is the landscape is changing and winds do matter.
Speaker 4: Is just how much is that going to trickle down
Speaker 4: and permeate into the Olympic sports like a women's soccer,
Speaker 4: like a men's soccer, and other sports along that line.
Speaker 1: All right, before you get out of here, believe you've
Speaker 1: got New England and Charlotte coming up this weekend in
Speaker 1: the MLS's and as of right now, revs they know
Speaker 1: the pressure that they're under. And you listen to Leo Campana,
Speaker 1: you listen to Caleb Porter, it's like, yeah, we know,
Speaker 1: we know, we know. You don't have to remind us
Speaker 1: we're on an Upswing. Just kind of bear with us
Speaker 1: here a little bit. Right now, they're favored seven forty
Speaker 1: kick on the thirtieth and Charlotte comes comes to Foxborough
Speaker 1: as a plus one seventy three, So they're a slight
Speaker 1: dog in your draws, a plus two seventy with Charlotte,
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get with wilf' saha on a daily basis. Is Wilf
Speaker 1: gonna sit there and complain and gesture and gesticulate widely
Speaker 1: to fans who are not happy with his output. Christian
Speaker 1: Coalina continues to stand on his head when it comes
Speaker 1: to being in net. They've had a couple of acquisitions
Speaker 1: come in in the secondary transfer window. New England kind
Speaker 1: of sitting with who they are, but they brought in
Speaker 1: this guy named Matt Turner to kind of help out
Speaker 1: between the sticks. Early thoughts as you prep for that
Speaker 1: one coming up this weekend.
Speaker 4: Charlotte is in great form. We know that with their
Speaker 4: series of wins that they're seven in a row right now,
Speaker 4: but their home record is really where they hang their hat,
Speaker 4: and so they have to go on the road to
Speaker 4: New England. They've shown that they can do that, but
Speaker 4: will be very interesting. What I think will help them
Speaker 4: is that they just played a game against Red Bulls
Speaker 4: that they did not have the majority of possession, and
Speaker 4: that's not normal against a Red Bulls team who usually
Speaker 4: likes to play in transition. This year, they're possessing a
Speaker 4: lot more. Charlotte showed that they can sit in defensively
Speaker 4: in that four four to two block and use the
Speaker 4: attacking transition and then see out a one zero game.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of different ways you can win and
Speaker 4: that's something that they can take into this game. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying they can't possess against New England, but when
Speaker 4: you go on the road sometimes it's a little bit
Speaker 4: more difficult. But they're in such great form and there's
Speaker 4: so much confidence that they have with not only scoring
Speaker 4: goals but getting shutouts. But I have to say this.
Speaker 4: I mentioned the mentality piece. New England is in a
Speaker 4: must win situation in every single game.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I love this time of the year because this is
Speaker 4: where you see that sometimes tactics are important, which I love,
Speaker 4: but sometimes you throw them out the window. Sometimes players
Speaker 4: just have to step up. There's mental sides to things.
Speaker 4: There's courage, there's bravery, there's just getting after it. And
Speaker 4: when you have a team that has their back against
Speaker 4: the wall, you really don't always know what to expect.
Speaker 4: So will New England be able to use that as
Speaker 4: a catalyst to be able to get results because ultimately
Speaker 4: they have to have it. They're very far off the
Speaker 4: playoff line, so these three points are vital to them.
Speaker 1: New England right now thirty one points, eight points out
Speaker 1: of the nine slot and the play in eight twelve
Speaker 1: and seven, three, eight and two and Fox Buro this year,
Speaker 1: which is kind of an odd duck. Charlotte right now
Speaker 1: fourth in the East, seven on the spin, fifteen wins
Speaker 1: on the season, but they're four to nine and one
Speaker 1: away from the bank and so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Seven point forty is a part of the Big seven
Speaker 1: thirty kickoffs on Saturday, and as always case, it's great
Speaker 1: to pull through the universe and see what's going on
Speaker 1: in the world of women's soccer. What else you have
Speaker 1: on your mind? Any other parting shots before you get
Speaker 1: out of here, doesn't have to be anything to do
Speaker 1: with soccer. Is there anything else on your mind that
Speaker 1: you want to get off your collective chest?
Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, I have some exciting news, which is that
Speaker 4: I figured out how to turn off my email notification
Speaker 4: so they don't ding during during this interview and I
Speaker 4: was messing around with it. I'm like, it is that simple.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that because I think it was.
Speaker 3: Two weeks ago.
Speaker 4: I said I don't know how to do that, and
Speaker 4: I after that, I thought, that's really not very smart, Casey,
Speaker 4: so you need to go figure that out.
Speaker 1: So exciting news, absolutely, and you're a step ahead of
Speaker 1: it when it comes to me. As always, Casey D.
Speaker 1: You know you've got a place to hang your hat
Speaker 1: whenever you got something on your mind. It's always ready
Speaker 1: to catch up with you in your normal Tuesday slot
Speaker 1: bat and laid off when it comes to women's soccer
Speaker 1: and the college game across the board. As always great
Speaker 1: to see him, my friend. Don't be a stranger. We'll
Speaker 1: catch up soon.
Speaker 3: Sounds good. Have a great week.
Speaker 1: There goes Casey and there goes Casey D. Where she
Speaker 1: be she'd be at home,