Men’s college soccer opened with a bang over the weekend, and TopDrawerSoccer.com is here with five of the most tantalizing talking points from a high-flying weekend of action. Perhaps the biggest question mark is whether Stanford coach Jeremy Gunn can hang onto Jordan Morris for much longer.
Stanford plans around Jordan Morris
The story of college soccer so far this year is Stanford speed merchant Jordan Morris. The rapidly rising sophomore forward was the first college player named to a USMNT roster in nearly 20 years last week, and the game’s Sept. 3 date in the Czech Republic left Morris’ status this weekend uncertain. Morris ultimately played in the Cardinal’s first game, a 2-0 loss at Creighton on Friday in which he registered a solitary shot. He missed Stanford’s second, a 2-1 overtime win over Nebraska-Omaha, and whether or not he’ll make it back to start for Stanford’s Sept. 6 match against San Jose State is up in the air. What isn’t is the fact that Morris’ ballooning status has to have coach Jeremy Gunn questioning Morris’ future in the Stanford red. Seeing Morris in a Stanford uniform as an upperclassman is becoming increasingly unlikely.
