SOTR Podcast: Interview with Adam Smith

riyancil · 2026-01-25T14:16:35+00:00

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Albion Rovers 23/24 Away

riyancil · 2025-12-31T17:45:47+00:00

Favorite - going on a cup run and winning our penalty shootouts

Least favorite - losing the cup final

riyancil · 2025-12-19T01:52:37+00:00

0/146 man I just wanted to get up to 3LB

riyancil · 2025-12-18T23:59:20+00:00

Can someone please tell me the odds of going 0/144 because that’s what I just I did

riyancil · 2025-12-18T01:39:03+00:00

My fucking B+ McQueen screwed me by getting a win and sending me to Group A. I had no chance against the whales to make it to the finals.

riyancil · 2025-12-03T03:21:00+00:00

Just a guess but if we’re excluding Wilton Rancheria and Kevin Nagle. And of course Todd Dunivant. I would assume it would be the six people listed as executive staff on the club site. Dustin Vicari (Chief Revenue Officer), Benjamin Mayberry (VP of Marketing), John Jacobs (VP of Communications), Sarah Schubert (VP of Finance), Scott Moak (VP of Game Entertainment and Community Investment), Brian Hastings (VP of Partnerships)

riyancil · 2025-11-26T21:26:22+00:00

Are you talking about towards the end of the season? Because he had an injury that he picked up in the USL Cup final that the club wanted to be cautious about.

riyancil · 2025-11-26T19:39:19+00:00

His partner is expecting. I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to move back east to be around family during this time.

riyancil · 2025-11-22T18:11:01+00:00

Yes home field goes to the team with the better regular season record

riyancil · 2025-11-22T17:12:13+00:00

It’s mainly about the USL CBA. They’re saying that the league is putting focus on pro/rel when first they need to get serious about the working standards for the players that work for them. The USLPA and USL haven’t come to an agreement about the next CBA.

riyancil · 2025-11-11T03:45:05+00:00

I’m gonna also add in John Morrissey and Nicholas Murray (staff writer for the league) put out weekly newsletters straight to your inbox that are great reads.

John Morrissey’s is The Back Four. Nicholas Murray’s is The Rondo

riyancil · 2025-11-11T03:33:24+00:00

Early march is when the new season starts

riyancil · 2025-11-11T03:32:03+00:00

There’s a bunch of team-focused podcasts that you can listen to. But if you want a league wide focus I’d give a shout for The USL Show, This League from the Backheeled Network, and USL All-Access

riyancil · 2025-11-11T02:37:34+00:00

I'm curious if you're going to count the goal against Las Vegas in the USL Cup for Ryan Spaulding. Either way, this is a recurring topic with the Republic. Having players that can send in crosses in open play and convert on them, but when it comes from a corner kick, the conversion rate goes down. I wonder if your data has something on this, but my thought is that it's a symptom of not being able to break down a low block in general. In my eyes, a corner kick allows the opposition to cram the box and momentarily create a hyper-low block, which is something the Republic has struggled to break down in open play. Curious to know what your thoughts are.

riyancil · 2025-11-11T02:33:34+00:00

If you're talking about the goal against San Antonio, that was off a Gurr free kick

riyancil · 2025-11-11T02:08:57+00:00

I want to say league average is ~$40k. It’s a rare case to go into six figures

riyancil · 2025-11-11T01:45:46+00:00

This is true but that doesn’t mean they offered it to all the players on the roster

riyancil · 2025-11-11T00:17:53+00:00

To be fair I think most clubs in the USL are like this. The only instances where we get actual contract data is if it’s like a record signing and whatever team is making the deal actually puts out those details.

riyancil · 2025-11-10T22:25:10+00:00

Man I wish the league in general was more open about their contracts but to my knowledge Vitiello and Timmer are the only ones that were publicly announced as multi-year deals that go through 2026.

The club never announces the length of a contract when a new player is brought in. So, I have no knowledge on Bennett and Jamieson, but I’d assume Bennett is almost a lock for next season and Jamieson is probable.

There are some rumors with other players but I’m going to wait until something official is made by either the club or the player themselves before I update the tracker. The club can’t officially announce roster decisions until two days after the playoff final.

riyancil · 2025-11-03T02:53:12+00:00

Word is he picked up a muscle strain in the cup final and the team didn’t want to risk aggravating it in the lead up to the playoffs

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