Soccer Manual

Red River Athletic Conference

Soccer Manual
 

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Schedules

III. Scores

IV. Players of the Week

V. Statistics

VI. Ratings

VII. Red Cards/Yellow Cards

VIII. All-Conference Team

IX. Rules Interpretations

X. Rain out Protocol

XI. Conference Tournament

XII. Conference Uniforms

XIII. Contacts


I. Introduction

The Red River Athletic Conference is entering its 12th year as an affiliated conference of the NAIA, and this is the 12th year in which the conference has sponsored men's soccer, the eighth year for women's soccer.

The RRAC will feature ten (10) men's soccer institutions in 2010:

Bacone College (Okla.)

Huston-Tillotson University (Texas)

Louisiana State University - Shreveport (LA)

Northwood University (Texas)

Our Lady of the Lake (Texas)

Southwestern Assemblies of God University (Texas)

Texas College

Texas Wesleyan University

University of the Southwest (NM)

University of Texas-Brownsville

 

The RRAC will feature ten (10) women's soccer institutions in 2010:

Bacone College (Okla.)

Huston-Tillotson University (Texas)

Louisiana State University - Shreveport (LA)

Northwood University (Texas)

Our Lady of the Lake (Texas)

Southwestern Assemblies of God University (Texas)

Texas College

Texas Wesleyan University

University of the Southwest (NM)

University of Texas-Brownsville

The conference chairs for the 2010 season are:

Men -Dan Balaguero, University of Texas - Brownsville
Women - Josh Gibbs, Texas Wesleyan

The conference oversight committee for the 2010 season is:

Men - Arick Lassiter, HTU, Shane Hurley, OLLU
Women - Nik Barjaktarevic, UTB, Josh Gibbs, Texas Wesleyan

II. Schedules

Each member/coach/SID is responsible for posting their information on the RRAC website. For representatives that are new to the conference, you will need to register for access at www.redriverconference.com/admin. After you are approved for access, you are able to navigate through the website to enter your team's schedule. Please be sure to include only official contests and to update if there are any changes.

III. Scores

Each RRAC soccer program is required to report scores on the day of each match, whether home or away. It's important that you enter your scores through SID Help for the RRAC instead of the SID Help for the NAIA. Your scores will automatically be posted to the national site, but scores posted to the NAIA first don't transfer to the RRAC site. Please log on and report scores through www.redriverconference.com/admin.

If you don't have website access, please leave your scores on the RRAC hotline or email to rracsid@tx.rr.com. We will post scores nightly.

To leave scores on the RRAC hotline:

  1. Dial 1-877-505-6509
  2. Dial 315 and wait for the beep to leave your message.
  3. When leaving your message phrase the final score in this manner: "Men's soccer score from Tuesday…Chicago 2, New York 0." (In other words, mention the sport, day and final score with the winning team listed first.)
  4. To check other scores reported that night, dial 399.
Scores will be updated on the conference website at http://www.redriverconference.com/ by 10 p.m. and midnight each night, and the RRAC hotline will be updated each night at 11 p.m. in addition to other updates.

IV. Players of the Week

During each week of the 2010 season, RRAC coaches are encouraged to nominate players from their team for RRAC Player of the Week consideration. Nominations are not a requirement, but student-athletes that are not nominated will not be considered.

Enter your nominee's information at www.naiastats.org/admin by 5 p.m. on Sunday. Again, you will need to be sure that you have registered with the NAIA website. This is a function that is linked from the RRAC admin page, but the nominees aren't posted through our website.

One week constitutes the previous Monday through Sunday. For example, a nomination on September 15 will be for games played during the dates of September 8-14.

Nominations received after the deadline and incomplete forms will not be included in consideration.

There can only be one nominee per team per week.

The RRAC player of the week will be submitted for regional and national award consideration.

Weekly winners will be announced each Tuesday morning through email and on http://www.redriverconference.com/. Following are the dates on which nominations may be submitted:

September 5, 12, 19, 26

October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

November 7

V. Statistics

Throughout the 2010 season, RRAC coaches and/or SIDs are REQUIRED to upload/websync their stats using DakStats software. You will need to download the software from Daktronics to begin.
If there are matches that are not updated, the NAIA will start issuing warnings that could lead to the loss of postseason recognition for your student-athletes if the oversight goes unresolved.

If you have any difficulties with the software, please contact Nancy Preteau of Daktronics at nancy.preteau@daktronics.com. Also, be sure to contact Darin David or Tony Stigliano to ensure that the NAIA is notified of your issue.

VI. Ratings

 

Updated ratings information is due to the conference soccer chair each week to assist with national rankings. Please send your scores to the appropriate chairperson by 4 p.m. each Sunday.


VII. Red Cards/Yellow Cards


All coaches are required to submit an email to Darin David following any match in which a player received a red or yellow card. The information must include the name of the player, the match in which the infraction took place, the color of card the player received and the nature of the violation. Red Cards for foul language from players, coaches, or support staff will not be tolerated.
VIII. All-Conference Team

All-Conference nominations will need to be in to the Conference office by noon on Wednesday , November 3rd so that it can be presented at the banquet. The voting format will remain the same.

IX. Rules Interpretation

It is not allowed for a RRAC school to provide teams outside the conference with a scouting report on another RRAC team at any time during the season.

The RRAC will follow all NCAA Rule book procedures. For clarification, the NCAA rule for overtime is 2, 10 minute overtime periods with a "golden goal". In regular season conference play, if no goal is scored in the either overtime period, then the game is ruled a tie.

X. Rain-out Protocol

In the instance of a rain out, both teams should attempt to play the game the next day. If that is not possible, then the game will be played at the end of the conference season IF NEEDED. If the game has no impact on the conference standings/seedings in the conference tournament, then the game will not be played.
XI. Conference Tournament

RRAC Soccer Conference Tournament will be held 4th, 5th, and 6th 2010 at UT-Brownsville

Seedings for both tournaments will be determined by the final conference records. The conference has the following rules in place in tie-breaker situations:

  1. Head-to-head results versus teams that are tied.
  2. Goal differential (just a total "plus minus +/-").
  3. Goals scored in the conference
  4. Coin flip.
If a team is eliminated by one of the tie-breaker procedures and other teams remain tied, the process reverts back to the first tie-breaker procedure, which is head-to-head. The process goes through the rest of the tie-breaker procedures until a winner is determined.

XII. Conference Uniforms

The home team will wear their dark uniforms for every Thursday conference game and white (light) on every Saturday game unless otherwise agreed upon by both coaches and athletic directors.

XIII. Contacts
 
Name Position Phone Email
Tony Stigliano RRAC Commissioner 254-755-8170 tonystig@aol.com
Darin David RRAC Commissioner 214-755-9402 rracsid@tx.rr.com
Walter Liszeski BC Men's Coach 918-685-0520 liszeskiw@bacone.edu
Ana Costa BC Women's Coach 918-360-3676 costaa@bacone.edu
Arick Lassiter HT Men's Coach 512-505-3015 adlassiter@htu.edu
Rebecca Devine HT Women's Coach 512-751-6040 rkdevine@htu.edu
Krasi Kolarov LSUS Coach 318-797-5094 krasi.kolarov@lsus.edu
Ryan Lindell NU Men's Coach 972-293-5481 lindellr@northwood.edu
Tyler Powell NU Women's Coach 214-908-5267 powellt@northwood.edu
Shane Hurley OLLU Coach 210-434-6711 dshurley@lake.ollusa.edu
Aaron DeLoach SAGU Men's Coach 972-825-4676 adeloach@sagu.edu
Tim Grant SAGU Women's Coach 972-825-4676 tgrant@sagu.edu
Demetrio Hernandez Texas College Coach 903-593-8311 dhernandez@texascollege.edu
Gaspar Martinez TWU Men's Coach 817-531-4223 gmartinez@txwes.edu
Josh Gibbs TWU Women's Coach 817-531-7556 jjgibbs@txwes.edu
Don Koontz USW Men's Coach 575-492-2147 dkoontz@usw.edu
Kara Hanlon USW Women's Coach 575-392-6565 khanlon@usw.edu
Dan Balaguero UTB Men's Coach 956-882-7386 daniel.balaguero@utb.edu
Nik Barjaktarevic UTB Women's Coach 956-882-7386 nikola.barjaktarevic@utb.edu