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BYU soccer team ends season with tie

It's been a disappointing season for the Cougs, but I think they're well set for next year ... Bryan Black looks like a solid keeper, and there are other good players returning at key positions. Hopefully 2009 will se a return to the playoffs.

It's a dumb sport not a "beautiful game" that ends in a tie. What a crock. Real Football (not written Reee-al) learned that lesson. This game sounds like something created by the PTA so no one's feelings will be injured.

Let them keep playing but take away the goalie. After 5 minutes take away two more players and so forth until it's mano v. mano.

Please don't feed the trolls. There are only here because they feel threatened by the beautiful game.

Troll= whoever doesn't think my pathetic thoughts.

Soccer will never crack the ratings until they start doing the following things:
1. Make the midfield line mean something. Stop boring midfield lobbing and foreplay. Force the action down the field.
2. Unlimited substitutions and 3 time outs per half. Soccer flourished in England (where I lived and played "football" until I came to BYU to play on its team) and the Continent because of subsidized TV (BBC and others have no commercials). Without commercials, there will be no large essential contracts.
3. Offsides rules changed to allow cheery picking and breakaway goals. They add excitement.
4. No ties or "shoot offs". After 5 minutes eliminate the goalie. After another 5, two players each until the best conditioned team wins.

Be as pure as you want in poverty, but as rich as you like in appealing to the market.

Lol...silly ideas from a "throwball" player.

While your'e at it...lets change the rules in Basketball and Baseball too, cause I think those sports are boring.

Don't fight the wagon that is in town, instead, jump on it.

Rule no. 1: passing and looking for the open man is a huge part of the game. It is called ball control.

Rule no 2: In theory I agree with you on that one.

Rule no. 3. No way. Keep the offsides rule.

Rule no. 4. You have to have a goalie. Otherwise the team that kicks off can just boot the ball right into the goal from midfield. Dumb.

I see "RE:" you have no constructive reasons why what I propose would not work, just cheap shots. Guys like you will keep soccer in the USA on a minor league level.

Never heard of "throwball player" so I can't appreciate your cheap shot.

Basketball and Baseball have indeed changed rules to make the game better, or have you not heard of the DH, night games, 3 pt. line, 6 fouls in the NBA, etc.

A few of those ideas aren't bad: eliminating shoot out with elimination of players (it would make the game a heck of a lot more interesting and less dependent on chance); and I agree the offsides rule needs to be fixed or we need to find some way to call it with technology or something cause current linesmen (in leagues all over the world) manage to blow even the most obvious offsides calls, though I'm not sure what the solution would be.

I hope we never have to see soccer tainted with time outs, unlimited subs, commercial breaks though. One of the reasons I love soccer is because you see 90 minutes of action in 120 minutes of t.v. time. That is opposed to football with 60 minutes in 4 hours-ish (pro and college both) and basketball with 48 minutes in almost 3 hours. Baseball is even more painful. I enjoy watching all of the sports but I get tired of watching 30 seconds of action and then 2 minutes of commercials.

I think the limitation of subs brings a lot to the game.

...it would ruin the game. No more flow...just long ball it down to the cherry picker. Lame.

The beauty of the sport is pure. USA should, and will not change it just so that a few simple minded folks can understand it.

Until Fifa changes something, the MLS will remain as is.

We will take over the world. "REAL FOOTBALL" Resistance is futile.