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While I think having Albany make a run is good for Lacrosse I do wish the Thompsons were still around.
My sons and I met Lyle and Myles at the Indoor World Championship up around Syracuse a few years ago. Couldn’t have been nicer and great ambassadors of the sport.
My sons and I met Lyle and Myles at the Indoor World Championship up around Syracuse a few years ago. Couldn’t have been nicer and great ambassadors of the sport.
All the over rated teams are out now - ND, Cuse, UVA, Denver & Nova. Hopefully UMD & JHU can do their part and prove what we already know - that the B1G was easily the best conference in the country. 7 bids between the ACC & BE and only one still standing halfway through quarter finals. Good chance none will make it to championship weekend.
My grandson played in their clinics. Got to meet them & their cousins & socialize. Really nice guys as you say. As you might expect, their dads were ironworkers, a trade that I was in for some years. A real bonus for me.
Not sure if it’s the Mohawks, Iroquois or Onondaga but one group were known for having no fear of heights. Which came in handy when building the skyline of NYC.
Never can keep all the tribes straight but we had Mohawks on the job[South Mall in Albany-took 17yrs to build]. They came down from the St Regis reservation in Canada. Good guys, good ironworkers. Believe the Thompsons from the Ned Row reservation near Syracuse were also Mohawks. They told me that they had ironworker kin who were from St Regis. We also had a couple of Ned Row guys on the job when I was on it.
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Some strange history.
Lacrosse was played by Native American nations across North America long before it was colonized by Europeans. But despite Native people’s historical and cultural connection to the game, they were periodically banned from playing before the 1973 American Indian Religious Freedom Act restored Native peoples’ right to practice religious and cultural ceremonies. Native Americans who play and coach lacrosse today have recent ancestors who were forced to play in secret.
Had no idea. Have to ask my son who did a research paper on Native Americans & Lax at Holy Cross. Believe he said that they went at it in lacrosse as a substitute for war. Not sure though. Long time ago. Sid Jamieson, from the Cayuga Nation of the Iroquois Confederation I believe, class mate of mine at Cortland, went on to become long time very successful lax coach at Bucknell.
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You are using a single data point to make a case as to why the mighty ACC deserved 4 bids ? I thought ND grads were smarter than that.
Since a single data point is enough empirical evidence for you - UM beat you at home and they didn't even make the B1G tournament.
Didn't say we did----please advise where you saw that.
RU definitely deserved in over Nova and UVA IMO----stated that in earlier post
The poster said we were overrated----we weren't great but we certainly deserved a bid based on SOS and quality wins.
RU definitely deserved in over Nova and UVA IMO----stated that in earlier post
The poster said we were overrated----we weren't great but we certainly deserved a bid based on SOS and quality wins.
The original post you responded to simply said that certain teams, including ND, were overrated and your response is to take a shot at RU. That is all you did in that post - take a shot at RU. If you made reference in another thread that RU deserved to be over Nova and UVA well that is in another thread not this one. Besides, that still doesn't justify the shot at RU on our board. Just make your argument that the 4 ACC teams belonged in the tourney without the pot shots at RU and you might have received a better response.
11-4 Maryland with 3:17 remaining in the 3rd. Tillman seems to have gotten his team out of the sleepwalk they'd been in during the last 5 or so games.
You go there MD ... B1G pride!!! Now for JHU to seal the deal and end the argument on the best conference!!!
Mohawks & Onondagas were tribes in the six nation Iroquois Confederation. Went back and refreshed.
We weren't overrated----calling BS on that. That's my right----it's an internet board----if you make a statement back it up with some facts.
We beat OSU , Duke and UVA on the ROAD which IMO is the true test of your team-----everyone is pretty good at home. Beat Richmond a conference champion-----beat Army 17-5.
Believe our SOS was Top 3
Wasn't looking for a pissing match but if you're going to call us overrated put something behind it.
You also lost to Michigan at home, I can do that also. I would say your Michigan loss is vastly worse than our OSU loss on the road
LOL the irony. I called you out over the pot shot at RU. You didn't offer any facts or as you say "put something behind it" you simply responded to someone who said the ACC was overrated with a pot shot over 1 common opponent. Now you're back tracking and stating some facts. Two separate issues. The first is the gratuitous pot shot and the second is the quality of ND wins (and they were quality wins).
Anyway, RU has no one to blame but itself for imploding at Princeton and not taking down Hopkins at home.
and a fun trivia fact
Hockey is not the national sport of canada
its lacrosse
Hockey is not the national sport of canada
its lacrosse
Actually that’s no longer 100% accurate. Hockey is now the national winter sport of Canada an lacrosse is the national summer sport.
Well somehow I don't think the BIg was the best conference in lacrosse. Maryland and John Hopkins both went quietly.
Yale vs Duke is gonna be fun. I love watching Ben Reeves...power lacrosse needs to be more prevalent on offense IMO. Being able to overpower poles and defenders would lead to a ton of goals in front of the cage. I wonder why more teams don't use their most physically dominant player on offense more often.
In the past poles were allowed to blow up attackmen in front of the cage.
This was questionable before the tournament even started. With that said, the quality of a league is never determined by a member winning the national championship or how well one or two teams perform. Maryland and Hopkins had fine seasons. The Big Ten at-large had a fine season.
The other B1G programs will continue to get better to help build depth that will challenge the ACC's established supremacy year in and year out. Part of why the ACC gets the pub it does is because every single one of its members generally perform at a high level and have Final Four banners and national championship trophies to flaunt.
Maryland has been to five straight Final Fours and 10 of the last 18. Hopkins has 9 national titles. Those performances do absolutely nothing for Rutgers, OSU, PSU, and Mich or how those programs are perceived nationally. All in all, B1G lacrosse is light years ahead of where I think most people thought it would be so soon.
When the weakest team in the conference beats Notre Dame and loses to Yale 15-11 it surely points to a deep and talented group. BTW, there were 3 ACC teams that went even more quietly than Maryland and Hopkins.
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