There was a learning curve for Guhl and chemistry issues to overcome. When he came to Butler, he was still unsure if he could play at this level.”ĭespite understanding the physical and mental demand of college soccer, the start at Butler was rocky, Dick said. And then he trained with a PDL team in the summer and got a concussion. “Here he is, he had a year at SMU and scored zero goals. “To be honest, he didn’t know if he really belonged in Division I,” Snape said.
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The summer prior to his first season at Butler, Guhl played in the Professional Development League where he suffered a minor concussion, Butler head coach Paul Snape said.
So this is the part of the story where everything is sunshine and rainbows and Guhl naturally becomes the player he became at Butler, right? Wrong. He wanted to do whatever it took to help the program.” He would text me throughout the season and talk to the coaches all the time. I learned that pretty early on and it would continue throughout the season. A guy willing to learn, buy into the system, whatever it is. “You could tell he had a chip on his shoulder,” former Butler goalkeeper Eric Dick said. But this time, he went in ready to prove he was still the player who put up crazy numbers in high school. With a year of college soccer under his belt, Guhl arrived on Butler’s campus and joined a team that, like SMU originally, was in need of a striker. “I wanted to make this transfer worth it,” Guhl said. They also told him he’d better go into it ready to avoid another situation like what happened at SMU.
Guhl’s father and the rest of his circle, which included Guhl’s club team technical director Don Gemmell and other Texas Rush coaches, stressed to him they would support his decision to chase soccer at Butler. Less than one year after arriving at SMU, Guhl was the new kid on the block again. Butler caught his eye due to the vacancy at striker left by David Goldsmith, who had scored 41 goals in a Butler uniform, along with the leadership of head coach Paul Snape, who was a successful striker in his own right. And adding insult to injury, his coach told him at the end of the year they were going in a different direction at striker.Īfter his freshman season, Guhl decided to make a change and transfer. Instead of being the guy, Guhl appeared in eight games for the Mustangs and only took one shot. “Not knowing absolutely anything about how college soccer works, I expected to be the guy.” “I came into SMU cocky because I had a pretty good résumé in high school,” Guhl said. Like every highly recruited high school player, Guhl was told he was the guy the Mustangs were trying to build around. To a similar tune, Guhl led both the state of Texas and the central conference of the United States Soccer Development Academy in goals the following season. In 2014-2015, Guhl, then a youth soccer player in Texas, scored the third-most goals in the US Soccer Academy season. When he stepped on SMU’s campus in the fall of 2016, it had been a while since Guhl wasn’t the best scorer on the field every game. The first take was set in Dallas, Texas, at Southern Methodist University. JOSH MULLENIX | STAFF REPORTER | is a “take two” of sorts for junior Brandon Guhl and college soccer. Brandon Guhl during a game at the Sellick Bowl.
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