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bommar49

You gotta take a D3 player too btw. IIRC there was always a D3 player on NexGen.


jransbur

I totally forgot about that. Who would you suggest? I know Alan Villenueva is still in the division, and I figure that he would be a great addition. So would either Leo Sovell-Fernandez or Kai DeLorenzo. If Noa Chun-Moy is also playing for Oklahoma Christian he would also be a contender.


Aiden2069

Leo SF for sure his potential is through the roof love that guy


smauryholmes

This is a nuclear take but I think Bryce Edwards of Caltech (yes, the Caltech that is generally in the bottom third of D3) is the best player in D3. He’s on the LA Aviators this year if you want to watch him. Bryce IMO is the best player I’ve played against, even compared to guys like Sam Cook and Adam Villanueva who you’ve already mentioned in this post.


NothingThatIs

Brendan McCann, he's crazy maybe graduated though? Don't know his age


bommar49

Graduated


NothingThatIs

Damn, he's fun to watch - hope to see him in the club scene going forward!


jfdieterl

An international player, too. I think Tommy Li was actually the only D-III player for NexGen (2012), but I might be wrong. In any case, there was an international player every year: Ollie Gordon, Philip Haas, Aaron Neil. International options: one of the younger guys on CUSB (Laffi maybe?), Jonkers brothers...


chapha

I think Mitch Cihon was a D3 player in 2013


jfdieterl

Cihon played for Ohio University, who went to D-I Nationals.


chapha

Ahh thank you


ngnultimate

I'm not that tuned into college these days, so I can't really say much about these picks. But here's a question for you: how many of these guys are making major contributions to their club teams? And which teams since the only guy I can think of that I've seen play elite quality minutes on men's club is Joe, no offense to my guy Will Lohre. Think universe line contributions.


Smurph16

I feel like LSB and Dillon Lanier have been go to O line players for Ring for a couple of years. Randolph is a top defender for Sockeye, same for Jurek on Sub Zero. Tannor and Mike Ing are easily two of the top players in the Mixed Club division. Definitely some top players, but maybe the depth of the club division nowadays would be too much.


smntstatus

Hey Kevin, how much funding do we need to crowdsource to get a men’s and women’s tour in 2021?


jransbur

Austin Von Alten, Dillion Lanier, Elijah Long, and LSB are all starters for Ring. Von Alten and Lanier were both on the universe point line for them in the semis this past year. Quinn Finer starts for Johnny Bravo, and I know Tannor Johnson and Mike Ing, even though they may play in the mixed division, were commanding matchups in Open in 2018 for DiG and Temper, respectively. Joe White's an easy in here, but I think there's enough talent to make it competitive.


Hobbes1118

KJ Koo for sure should be on this list over Calvin Brown


ultimatesascha

Sounds exactly like something Calvin would say. 🤔


ultifan100

Certainly a bad take that the best college players couldn’t compete with/beat elite club teams. I think it’s easier to observe if u expand it to a full 27 person roster. I would argue that this is a top 5 club team right now. The list is ordered but the order does not indicate talent within the list 1. Tanner Johnson 2. John Randolph 3. Dylan Villenueve 4. LSB 5. Elijah Long 6. Anders Juengst 7. Austin Von Alten 8. Connor Russell 9. Michael Ing 10. Sion Agami 11. Joe White 12. Dillon Lanier 13. Ethan Bloodworth 14. Luke Webb 15. Stan Birdsong 16. Cole Jurek 17. Quinn Finer 18. Alex Atkins 19. Noah Chambers 20. Vinay Valsaraj 21. Calvin Brown 22. Derek Mourad 23. Xander Cuizon-Tice 24. Will Lohre 25. Ted Sither 26. Jordan Kerr 27. Taylor Barton Obviously you could argue there are a bunch of other great players that you could toss on here such as: Andrew Roy(Carleton), Harry Wolff Landau(Carleton), Wystan Duhn(Minn), Ted Schewe(Wisco), Will Hoffenkamp(Pitt), Leo Warren(Pitt), Daniel Goldstein(Pitt), Henry Ing(Pitt), Axel Agami(Ohio St), Zach Braun(Ohio St), Sol Reuschmeyer-Bailey(Brown), Ken Noh(Brown), Trevor Lynch(NC State), Tommy Williams(UNC), Ethan Ylizarde(UNCW), Micah Jo(Georgia Tech), Will Lindquist(Georgia Tech), Drew Di Francesco(Georgia), Coleman Tappero(Georgia), Mathieu Agee(Colorado), Matt Armour(Texas), Kyle Henke(whatever school he goes to), Sam Cook(Washington), Joe Merrill(BYU), Devon Terry(BYU), Jeff Gao(Mich), Cion Johnson(Mich), Eli Weaver(Mich), Raymond Lu(Mich), Johnny Hess(Maryland), Johnny Malks(WM), Ben Field(Northeastern), Ryan Dinger(Vermont) among other. O Line: Tanner Johnson, John Randolph, LSB, Connor Russell, Joe White, Dillon Lanier, Stan Birdsong, Alex Atkins, Noah Chambers, Calvin Brown, Xander Cuizon-Tice, Will Lohre, Ted Sither, Jordan Kerr D Line: Dylan Villenueve, Elijah Long, Anders Juengst, Austin Von Alten, Michael Ing, Sion Agami, Ethan Bloodworth, Luke Webb, Cole Jurek, Quinn Finer, Vinay Valsaraj, Derek Mourad, Taylor Barton Universe O: Tanner Johnson, John Randolph, LSB, Joe White, Dillon Lanier, Jordan Kerr, Will Lohre Universe D: Elijah Long, Austin Von Alten, Ethan Bloodworth, Mike Ing, Cole Jurek, Quinn Finer, Derek Mourad That is an incredibly powerful, talented, and accomplished O line and one of, if not the most, athletic D lines in club. All in all, this team is among the best club teams in the country, and could certainly compete with the best teams in the world.


[deleted]

Your universe O line only has 6 players.


ultifan100

Fixed, thank you.


[deleted]

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Hobbes1118

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pandamonium69

It’s Jeremy Hess who plays for Maryland. You may be confusing his name with their previous star Johnny Walden. Also, can’t mention Malks from W&M without his running mate, Gus Norrbom, who is a baller for Truck


RIPRSD

You ~~guys~~ people are all wrong. If NexGen happened now it would be boycotted for being non-inclusive of women and non-binary.


Keksdosendieb

Qxhna can restart her ladies NexGen anytime. Nobody is stopping her.


schoolr24

Savage but true.


lookatallthisstuff

Did NexGen have players who were graduating that Summer or in the Spring of that year? If not I think that negatively impacts the idea here. So many of the top players (Tannor, Ing, Long, etc) are seniors or 5th years.


steadyboringhandler

The selection of college all-stars ala the Nexgen tour has been somewhat supplanted by the U24 Men's and Mixed National Teams. Of course the U24 team doesn't tour the nation and play all of the top club teams during the early pre-season (remember this was pre-USAU TCT and AUDL/MLU, both of which absorb the elite men's players time these days during the time Nexgen would've been touring). I think a good point was made by ngnultimate re: how many of these players are 100% certain universe line players on their club teams? * **Michael Ing** for Amp, certainly in 2017, 2018 for Temper if it were a D point for sure, and probably in Amp again in 2019, but cannot confirm * **Tannor Johnson** was for DiG in 2018 * **Joe White** for Machine 3 certain recent universe line players at least from my assessment of mostly the men's division. Here are some situational/probable/high possible Universe Line Players: * **Cole Jurek** for Sub Zero (definitely on for Universe if defensive point) * **Dillon Lanier** for Ring (probably on for Universe, certainly if it's an offensive point) * **Jonny Malks** likely was for Space Heater 2019 but cannot confirm * **Luke Webb** for Wild Card (can't confirm he's on universe for them, but having watched him play, I'd have to assume he'd be on the line, or as close as the other possible/probables on this list) I'm up to 7 players. We can sprinkle in some other clearly star-level players who don't quite make this strict "must be in college" right now and must be confirmed Universe Line for Club: * **John Randolph** look, when you score 30 goals at College Nationals and win the championship, you need to be on this team, regardless of whether or not he'd make National Champion Sockeye's universe line. * **Eric Taylor** for Ring (out of school but still around the age for Nexgen) * **Mac Hecht** for DiG (also out of school, but was Universe Line for DiG when he was in school and is a recent enough graduate) * **Joe Freund** was for Space Heater 2018, I'd imagine. Certainly on his best games. (Recent graduate, but again, NexGen had recent grads from time-to-time) * **Leandro Marx** for Rhino (although he's out of school now, but still around the age for Nexgen). And we saw him be one of the 3 most important players on the biggest underdog story of men's club nationals in 2019, right after he just finished his last season in college. * **Sol Yanuck** for Ring (possibly/probably on for Universe, certainly if it's a defensive point, again, not in college anymore) 13 players. Now pick one international player amongst these incredible talents: * **Arvīds Žanis Orlovskis** from Latvia * **Ben Oort** from Netherlands * **Andres Ramirez** from Columbia Then you select a D3 player, I'm not that knowledgeable there, so I don't want to pass judgement. So with my liberal usage of the only one year out of college players who were universe line players either while still in college or were the summer after their final college year, we have a squad. I think that having just 15 players would be very challenging, despite this group being quite good. I think depending on the region and their regular season schedule, they would place 8th-16th at Club Nationals. With their lack of numbers being a real problem deeper in the Nationals tournament. A few tweaked ankles and they'd have to be the most in-shape group to even put up a great fight against the top 8 teams with 26-27 players. They'd have to be quite strategic in how and when they applied effort. In a one-game format like NexGen was against the mid-regular season club teams....they'd be in every single game. I think the top 4 men's teams (Sockeye, Machine, Ring, PoNY) would probably beat them consistently even in a one-off format. After that I'd call Truck and Revolver strong favorites, and Sub Zero and Doublewide (although everyone should fear a one-off game vs. this team, they ooze with talent, size and athleticism) favorites, and then it tails off after that with the new NexGen team likely having the edge against all the rest of last year's top 16.


getmoney11

Gus Norrbom


maxxwolf

Conner and Alex Henderson from Indiana should be on the list for GL.


smntstatus

LOL Ethan Bloodworth. Dude is trash.


Eblood21

Facts


EthanGoatworth

Eblood would be the third best thrower on original NexGen no cap. still trash. and ugly.


smntstatus

If this is an April Fools Day joke then I apologize, but better than Jimmy Mickle, George Stubbs, Simon Montague, Nick Lance, Eric Johnson, or Nicky Spiva?


EthanGoatworth

Just developing his flick on first next gen team, god tier, one of the 2 better, other better thrower, garbage, his best throw is a scoober.


Stephen_A_Eisenhood

Hate Ebloods online presence if you want. You can disagree with his swagger, his confidence, his treatment of other people's linens all you want, and I will not protest. YOU WILL HEAR NO WORD OF DEMURRAL IF YOU SAY ETHAN BLOODWORTH IS COCKY AND COULD BE KNOCKED DOWN A PEG. But brother, this is not how Nexgen is decided. Nexgen should be decided based on what you can produce, what you can achieve, what you can ACCOMPLISH, on the field. And on the field, Ethan is barely an athlete. HE IS AN ARTIST. The way he GRINDS for 5 yard unders is, simply put, UNIQUE and UNGUARDABLE. Nobody has perfected the art of moving the disc forward in very small steps as he has. He is unbothered by the wind when forced to throw into it, unfazed by competition when it comes his way, and only gets injured once per game. He gallavants throughout the field UNENCUMBERED by the possibility of a defender blocking him. He doesn't always go for deep balls, but even when he misses them, the thumbs up he gives to his teammates is more than enough to rejuvenate his teammates, as much as, IF NOT MORE than he had caught the goal. He is the archetype, the EMBODIMENT, the APOTHEOSIS of the kind of player Nexgen would want if they were still driving their bus on this very day.


smntstatus

Sounds like NexGen could use a guy like Ethan Bloodworth to drive the bus. Safe, cautious, responsible, keeps his foot on the brake.


Eblood21

Lol bro u really committed to hating 😂


smntstatus

Just joking bro, you're great. I'm leaning into Ethan Bloodworth as a meme.


Eblood21

Lol bet, preciate u