Not Cooper
| Favorite team: | UCLA  |
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| Registered on: | 6/30/2015 |
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re: Dan Wetzel blames "Travel Ball" for the lack of development of US Soccer
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/8/26 at 12:32 pm to Adam Banks
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There was a glimmer of a chance with this WC game and the USMNT choked.
It was an extremely poor game but I think the WC overall was a success for soccer popularity in the US. Now US Soccer needs to capitalize on it.
Looking back at the 2014 squad, we had 7 guys playing in a top 5 Euro league and 2 of those were GKs. 2026 has 14 in a top 5 euro and a couple in the Netherlands/Scotland. The talent level is definitely rising. We just have to keep building it
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re: Dan Wetzel blames "Travel Ball" for the lack of development of US Soccer
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/8/26 at 12:17 pm to RolltidePA
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By the time a player is at college age they would be too old to be a prospect. Most of the global professional clubs expect their prospects to be pushing their way onto the senior team by the time they are 16 or 17. Maybe if you're a late developer they'll hang on until you're 18.
The argument here isn’t that we could get good pros out of collegiate soccer. The argument is a lot of kids in the 10-13 year range quit because there isn’t a future in soccer like there is for baseball, basketball, football. Keeping that 10 year old playing soccer with the dream of playing for (insert favorite college) is the goal there.
I don’t think there is one root cause and there definitely isn’t one quick fix. Football is declining in popularity at the youth level and soccer needs to capitalize on that at the club level, high school level and college level.
re: Messi and Argentina are the darlings of FIFA
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/7/26 at 2:54 pm to cwil177
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I only saw the last fifteen minutes. I saw one bad foul call in Argentina’s favor. Was there more going on?
Well they completely wiped out an Egypt goal with a VAR review of a “foul” that happened 100 yards from where the goal was scored
re: World Cup Daily Thread - Tues., July 7
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/7/26 at 12:26 pm to Jwho77
That’s just unbelievably bad
re: World Cup Daily Thread - Mon., July 6
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/6/26 at 7:30 pm to JoeyBiscuits
First 15 minutes looked like an MLS team. Poor touches, no creativity, hopeful long balls. Seems like we’re settling in.
re: World Cup Daily Thread - Sunday, July 5
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/5/26 at 9:24 pm to OleVaught14
I’m not a fan of the VAR red card with no foul called. Just like the CFB targeting ejections when no flag was thrown on the play. If no official thought it was bad enough to even warrant a penalty live then it shouldn’t be worthy of an ejection IMO
re: Deuce Geralds Jacked .. SEC Effed
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/3/26 at 3:14 pm to TopekaTiger
Has not played one college game and being compared to one of the best interior DL of all time :lol:
re: What was your first game seeing LSU
Posted by Not Cooper on 7/3/26 at 1:28 pm to lsuson
2001 Tennessee with my dad. Will never forget LaBrandon Toefield down the sideline. Hell of a first game.
re: Top Golf Baton Rouge
Posted by Not Cooper on 6/29/26 at 11:23 pm to W2NOMO
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So wife commented about that place. Recs?
Cheaper and better for people who actually like to play golf. Although it is not well covered or air conditioned so it can get toasty in the evenings
Anyone played Timberlane CC in Gretna?
Posted by Not Cooper on 6/22/26 at 9:11 am
Playing there this weekend and have never played or honestly even heard of it. Not really sure what to expect.
re: Arrcos vs. Shotscope vs. Anything Else
Posted by Not Cooper on 6/9/26 at 8:46 pm to AUjim
Tried arccos and hated it. It’s a cool concept but it just doesn’t work. You constantly have to be looking at your phone because it will just randomly not register shots or register practice swings as shots, or if you bring 2 clubs to the green and put your putter down it’ll register that as a stroke. One day it just missed every stroke I made and registered an albatross and hole in one on back to back holes.
The yardages also never really worked. I like to hit punch shots with my 4 iron and it would always calculate those into my average distance so I’d have to go in manually and remove those. They were supposed to have improved a lot of those features but I don’t see myself ever going back to it.
The yardages also never really worked. I like to hit punch shots with my 4 iron and it would always calculate those into my average distance so I’d have to go in manually and remove those. They were supposed to have improved a lot of those features but I don’t see myself ever going back to it.
re: Copper Mill
Posted by Not Cooper on 5/31/26 at 1:50 pm to 9114ever
Played today, absolutely not worth $100. Decent greens and layout but no driving range and little else to offer. There’s a better course for much cheaper 10 minutes away.
re: CJJ
Posted by Not Cooper on 5/24/26 at 7:05 pm to WarBoudin
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I’ve never hid that I’m not a fan of CJJ. He just recruits players and expects them to be good. He doesn’t try to develop players. Vitello was fantastic at Tennessee because he invested a ton of time developing his players and word got out and he started getting better players to develop and eventually turned that into a championship.
And Jay has 2 of those. Seems like his way is at least twice as effective as Vitello.
re: LSU 2 @ Ole Miss 12 Final
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/11/26 at 6:07 pm to PP7 for heisman
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We entered this weekend with the 2nd most runs scored in the conference.
In 2 of those 13 games we scored 33 runs. frick right off with that.
re: LSU 2 @ Ole Miss 12 Final
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/11/26 at 5:36 pm to easy money
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Going to take getting some shite together at the plate.
We love bitching about the pitching but we haven’t hit worth a frick all season either
re: LSU 2 @ Ole Miss 12 Final
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/11/26 at 5:32 pm to saltytiger2
All off of a strikeout
Why is Ethan Clauss on the field?
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/10/26 at 9:33 pm
3 of the worst plays I’ve ever seen back to back to back
re: Football Season Predictions
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/9/26 at 11:22 pm to Bayou_Bengal44
We literally know nothing about this team.
re: When LSU is Sweating a "Regional Bubble" late May
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/8/26 at 7:40 pm to josh336
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The reason they have to get to 14 instead of 13, is because of how bad theyve been midweek.
Did I say 13 is a lock? I said 14. And then I said 9-9 (worst record the guy proposed) would be 15 wins.
re: When LSU is Sweating a "Regional Bubble" late May
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/8/26 at 6:42 pm to GeauxPanthers2
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So yeah, I disagree. And part of the reason our RPI is so shitty is these midweek losses.
You are welcome to disagree. You’re also wrong.
re: When LSU is Sweating a "Regional Bubble" late May
Posted by Not Cooper on 4/8/26 at 5:41 pm to RBTiger
Midweeks matter zero. Get to 14 wins in SEC play and you’re in without a sweat. 13 has been a lock lately. A 9-9 finish would easily have us in a regional and on no one’s “bubble”
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