SOT. Women's softball

I see you're as self-delusional as ever. You've never "busted me up". Ever.

Good lord, now you are yapping about "FIU regularly packs their soccer games". Yeah, they had to move them to Joe Robbie to handle the crowds, didn't they (see below)?

But, hey, thanks for using "Women's March Madness, a few years ago" as a comparative. What a clown show.

"I never said that". Yes you did. I don't have to invent the nonsense you spew, I just quote it.

Here we go, I'm about to bust you up, you and your horrible false claims:

FIU Home attendance - 2023 - men's soccer

VCU - 854
Central Arkansas - 574
New Hampshire - 480
Temple - 417
USF - 605
SMU - 502
St. Mary's - 0
Charlotte - 410
FAU - 1,007
Mercer - 687

PACKED. Packed, I tell ya.

Yeah, the joke's not on me. I can't believe you were bragging on FIU men's soccer attendance without even taking a stab at Googling before you shot your mouth off. Oh, sorry, you were probably trampled during that massive FAU-FIU derby...
Seriously, delete your account now:
The rush of support last year surprised even head coach Kyle Russell, who along with the players was swept up in an emotional tide.

“What's happening at FIU with men's soccer is something like I've never seen before at other universities, and it's amazing,” Russell says.

He cites 2022 sold-out home games, overflow spectators watching the action from outside the fences and the university adding more stadium seating for post-season matches to accommodate enthusiasts.

A record number of fans came out to see the team play last season, with the 1,000-person capacity stretched to the limit three times in back-to-back-to-back games.

Even the Panthers of the baseball team made a regular activity of coming out to root for their fútbolcounterparts, bringing with them noisemakers and outsized enthusiasm to stoke excitement and show their pride.
 
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You’re so excited you didn’t notice you put FAU. 😂. Also, it’s not an NFL stadium they’re playing in- it’s very well attended for a college soccer game and gets loud as ****. I don’t need Google for that, I’ve been there. Show me where I said UM men’s soccer would be well attended. Pretend a deposition camera is in front of you so you can’t lie again. Just like UM baseball is hamstring by scholarship limitations when they got the 4th best recruiting class coming in again. Or talk about the futility of checking bats before a series. Don’t forgot to cry to the mods again!

Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? You do realize that FIU hosted FAU for a match, right? I "didn't notice I put FAU"? Are you kidding? Do you even know what a "derby" is in soccer?

This is what you do. You behave in an arrogant and dismissive way, even after you just posted bogus information. And then you invent non-existent and false "mistakes" that you claim other people made.

Show you where you said UM men's soccer would be well attended? Immediately after you said "nobody" would go to a women's softball game, you proposed men's soccer instead. And later you bragged about FIU men's soccer attendance.

I realize you are too ignorant to understand how the limited number of equivalency scholarships complicates our recruiting and makes it more difficult. I've accepted your limited comprehension in that regard.

As for the "futility" of checking bats before a game, again, that's something I never said. I did say that it was stupid and a waste of time, not to mention subject to mind-numbingly ridiculous technicalities like "the sticker fell off". Imagine the wonderful world we would be living in if we required all 85 football players to inspect their opponents' helmets and shoulder pads before every game while putting stickers on the equipment. What a goddamned stupid waste of time that would be.

But, hey, keep acting like you are some kind of unique expert in baseball. You are not.
 
Also, I wasn’t bragging on it, just that there’s a market for college soccer in SF. It’s a fast growing sport here (if you actually lived here you’d know that). There’s a lot of buzz with Messi and Co. and support clubs are springing up. Play a few friendlies like the Canes did with the Marlins and couple that with the U name recognition you’d get a way better turnout than women’s softball. Not Hard Rock but a solid enthusiastic crowd at a small stadium. Now go get your shinebox, gramps.


What ignorance from you. Yeah, I'm incapable of understanding soccer "because I don't live in South Florida". What a joke.

I had season tickets for Orlando City from the time we got our USL team, well before Miami got a team. "Lots of buzz with Messi". It's the typical Miami story, when a superstar pro is in town, suddenly everyone is interested. Maybe the pro interest will stick, maybe it won't, but Miami has lost its pro soccer team before, and might again.

Again, this is the point at which it is easy to prove that you are a sexist and ageist snob (who actually doesn't know **** about what he's talking about). You act like one must choose a men's sport over a women's sport, which was evidenced by your taunting of people by using "Title IX" as an in-your-face challenge to those who want to see UM add a women's softball team.

Keep moving the goalposts. Now it's "solid enthusiastic crowd at a small stadium". Which is EXACTLY what women's softball provides at campuses across the country, while you fraudulently claim that "nobody" would go to see UM softball.

You've been exposed. I realize that YOU only want to see sports involving penises, but there are plenty of other people who enjoy supporting all of the sports played at UM.
 
Seriously, delete your account now:
The rush of support last year surprised even head coach Kyle Russell, who along with the players was swept up in an emotional tide.

“What's happening at FIU with men's soccer is something like I've never seen before at other universities, and it's amazing,” Russell says.

He cites 2022 sold-out home games, overflow spectators watching the action from outside the fences and the university adding more stadium seating for post-season matches to accommodate enthusiasts.

A record number of fans came out to see the team play last season, with the 1,000-person capacity stretched to the limit three times in back-to-back-to-back games.

Even the Panthers of the baseball team made a regular activity of coming out to root for their fútbolcounterparts, bringing with them noisemakers and outsized enthusiasm to stoke excitement and show their pride.


Ooooh, the "rush of support". Ooooh, the "emotional tide".

If there were "sold-out home games" and "overflow spectators" in 2022, then tell me what happened in 2023? Do you think I just made up the 2023 attendance numbers? They come straight off the FIU website.

So, again, your TERRIBLE reading comprehension has been exposed. YAY, in 2022, FIU had THREE games at their 1,000 person capacity. And then in 2023, that dropped to ONE (the "FAU" derby match that you can't seem to comprehend). Maybe you were "so excited" that you didn't notice that you bragged about 2022 after I had already posted 2023 numbers. 😂

Whatever was "happening" at FIU in 2022 seems to have dissipated in 2023. That's just a numerical fact. I posted every single 2023 game attendance figure. I'm not just quoting some selective hyperbolic quotes by the coach.

But GOOD FOR YOU for finally Googling. Belatedly.
 
Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? You do realize that FIU hosted FAU for a match, right? I "didn't notice I put FAU"? Are you kidding? Do you even know what a "derby" is in soccer?

This is what you do. You behave in an arrogant and dismissive way, even after you just posted bogus information. And then you invent non-existent and false "mistakes" that you claim other people made.

Show you where you said UM men's soccer would be well attended? Immediately after you said "nobody" would go to a women's softball game, you proposed men's soccer instead. And later you bragged about FIU men's soccer attendance.

I realize you are too ignorant to understand how the limited number of equivalency scholarships complicates our recruiting and makes it more difficult. I've accepted your limited comprehension in that regard.

As for the "futility" of checking bats before a game, again, that's something I never said. I did say that it was stupid and a waste of time, not to mention subject to mind-numbingly ridiculous technicalities like "the sticker fell off". Imagine the wonderful world we would be living in if we required all 85 football players to inspect their opponents' helmets and shoulder pads before every game while putting stickers on the equipment. What a goddamned stupid waste of time that would be.

But, hey, keep acting like you are some kind of unique expert in baseball. You are not.
I prefer UM soccer over women's softball, which is subjective, and also unrealistic, so you trying your hardest to be disprove a subjective opinion with an objective position that is really a non-sequitur is awfully weak. But... at least I gave reasons why it would be more successful. Your counter is that you've attended many women's sporting events. Probably back in the Nixon administration and probably hoping your male feminist routine would get you some.

I'm glad you think checking a football player's shoulder pads is the equivalent of a baseball bat that could potentially kill a player. Shows what type of person you are.

I notice you still haven't reconciled the 4th ranked recruiting class with those awful private school scholarship limitations. You may have missed it. That's ok, you probably got a Werther's Original stuck to your Walgreen's reading glasses.

How do you if Unoriginal Cane is a Canes "Insider"? Don't worry. He'll tell ya!
 
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I prefer UM soccer over women's softball, which is subjective, and also unrealistic, so you trying your hardest to be disprove a subjective opinion with an objective position that is really a non-sequitur is awfully weak. But... at least I gave reasons why it would be more successful. Your counter is that you've attended many women's sporting events. Probably back in the Nixon administration and probably hoping your male feminist routine would get you some.

I'm glad you think checking a football player's shoulder pads is the equivalent of a baseball bat that could potentially kill a player. Shows what type of person you are.

I notice you still haven't reconciled the 4th ranked recruiting class with those awful private school scholarship limitations. You may have missed it. That's ok, you probably got a Werther's Original stuck to your Walgreen's reading glasses.

How do you if Unoriginal Cane is a Canes "Insider"? Don't worry. He'll tell ya!


Nobody cares if you have a preference. The issue is that you chose to taunt people (with a Title IX insult) who might advocate for the addition of a women's program. So this isn't "subjective" vs. "objective", it's you being a sexist piece of garbage by acting as if we should add men's soccer instead of women's softball.

And you didn't give us any "reasons why it would be more successful", outside of some nonsense about FIU 2022 attendance, which immediately declined in 2023. Sure, those massive crowds of four or five or even SIX hundred are quite the success story. The only time FIU had a "packed house" last year was when local rival FAU came to play, but that won't stop you from spinning a myth about how men's soccer will suddenly transform the Athletic Department budget.

As for all of the stuff that you just pull from your ******, wasting the time of (partial) scholarship athletes to inspect bats (because, I guess, too much pine tar on an aluminum bat could "kill a player") is just insane. I'm sure you'll now belatedly try to buttress your position by going out and Googling some random coach's quote from a decade ago about how pre-game inspections "save lives".

And, no, I'm not going to slog through another one of your arrogant statistical battles over a 4th-ranked recruiting class. Unlike you, I actually know players and coaches and I've been told (for decades) how challenging it is to recruit partial-scholarship players to UM with our high cost of tuition. Nobody disputes that we find players with TALENT, but the character of our team has certainly become relatively one-dimensional, as our HS recruiting ranks are filled with rich kids who might not have the level of grit required when faced with adversity. But, hey, keep bragging about "recruiting rankings", since the "class rankings" certainly helped us to win national championships under Shannon and Golden and Richt and Diaz, right? Are you going to tell us how great our football program has been for the past 20 years "because recruiting rankings"?

Just stop lying. And look in the mirror once in a while. It's pretty telling as to your lack of character and argumentative ammunition when you complain about me mentioning attendance at women's sporting events...right after YOU brag about going to one Women's March Madness game (years ago) and a few FIU soccer matches in 2022.

What a lack of self-awareness on your part.
 
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@PIPO

We have a showdown here…


about….. Miami Women’s Softball …


A "showdown" should be relatively equal.

I am absolutely destroying this simp. He actually thought he spotted me typing "FAU" instead of "FIU". He's citing 2022 FIU attendance stats AFTER I post 2023 FIU attendance stats. He's whining about me saying I've gone to women's sporting events after he bragged about going to a Women's March Madness game.

This isn't even a fair contest. I am killing every one of his dopey points.
 
Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? You do realize that FIU hosted FAU for a match, right? I "didn't notice I put FAU"? Are you kidding? Do you even know what a "derby" is in soccer?

This is what you do. You behave in an arrogant and dismissive way, even after you just posted bogus information. And then you invent non-existent and false "mistakes" that you claim other people made.

Show you where you said UM men's soccer would be well attended? Immediately after you said "nobody" would go to a women's softball game, you proposed men's soccer instead. And later you bragged about FIU men's soccer attendance.

I realize you are too ignorant to understand how the limited number of equivalency scholarships complicates our recruiting and makes it more difficult. I've accepted your limited comprehension in that regard.

As for the "futility" of checking bats before a game, again, that's something I never said. I did say that it was stupid and a waste of time, not to mention subject to mind-numbingly ridiculous technicalities like "the sticker fell off". Imagine the wonderful world we would be living in if we required all 85 football players to inspect their opponents' helmets and shoulder pads before every game while putting stickers on the equipment. What a goddamned stupid waste of time that would be.

But, hey, keep acting like you are some kind of unique expert in baseball. You are not.
You fight soccer wars too!? 😱
 
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You fight soccer wars too!? 😱


**** yeah. I've been following soccer my whole life. Went to see the Tampa Bay Rowdies play the NY Cosmos (with Pele) when I was a small lad.

Meanwhile, this genius just got excited about soccer now that Messi is in town, and he's trying to lecture me on these "packed" crowds of several hundred people at FIU two years ago.
 
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**** yeah. I've been following soccer my whole life. Went to see the Tampa Bay Rowdies play the NY Cosmos when I was a small lad.

Meanwhile, this genius just got excited about soccer now that Messi is in town, and he's trying to lecture me on these "packed" crowds of several hundred people at FIU two years ago.
The nerve of him. Does he not know that you’re like the Thomas Rongen of CIS???
 
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