Very good home slate...Army, Wagner, Stony Brook, Brown, Princeton, Maryland, OSU. I would like to see plenty of Scarlet and Black invade UDel and Hopkins on the road as well.
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Great schedule love the fact that they added Brown. I have it from a pretty good source that BB called every ACC school and with the exception of Duke politely declined. Could not get the dates right for Duke.
Cali we are getting another defenseman from Around by you do you know anything about him
Cali we are getting another defenseman from Around by you do you know anything about him
Hobbs needs to market RU Mens Lax as our Flagship Spring Sport, especially to students. Offer free shuttles to lax games like football and basketball from every campus, do cool halftime shows, get a Spirit Band and the Mascot for games, get the Riot Squad involved. RU Stadium can become as intimidating for lax as the RAC is for wrestling and basketball.
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We go more than a month without a home game between the Princeton and Maryland games.
Would be nice to get the Big Ten tournament moved to Piscataway.
Would be nice to get the Big Ten tournament moved to Piscataway.
Love these ideas. Really hope we do a game before the spring game.
Great home slate. The Brown game alone will be worth the price of season tix. Strongly encourage people to buy them when the come out. If the weather is even reasonable for the Brown game, it will be like watching a tennis match. I can't wait.
For all the lack of offense our football team has, our lax squad will more than even it out. Explosive to say the least.
Color me shocked that the PAC-12 hasn't gone all in on mens and women's lax. Stanford, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah and then move Denver over would be a formidable lax conference.
Suck it up?
I will check on the kid from CDM, Fam. Burke is up north and my connects there are fairly limited. Saw some video on him. What is now a typical Brecht recruit- athletic, rangy and can run. Should fit in nicely. Do you have a full list of signees?
USC's women have been crushing the recruiting game. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they win the NC within 3 years.
Cali, its funny that you say that about the USC women's team as one of my students went to USC to play lacrosse and I believe she was a captain last year. She loved the school and thinks that it will be a Monster program in the future. I feel like that would happen equally quickly if they added men's especially if you could get Arizona, ASU, UCLA, Cal and Standford. Could you imagine the recruit advantage that they would have its crazy.
I always said if the Pac-12 started men's lax, it should be the Cali 4 (Stanford, USC, Cal and UCLA), Oregon, Arizona State, Utah, Colorado, maybe Arizona, and then move Denver to the PAC-12 which they would in 5 seconds after offered. That would be a West Coast monster with the strong lax programs in the High Schools of California, Colorado and Utah.
Very excited to see them playing UD. I live 5 min away so may bring the whole family and friends out.
It's a great place to go to school. Their athletic dept. doesn't mess around. Their AD did an interview after announcing they were sponsoring the sport. They are very focused on one thing. Winning. He said how they are fielding the team to win national championships and will support the program to do that. All over their athletic facilities you see signs saying "we play for championships". There is no confusion at that school. It's all systems go. All the time. In every sport.
5 home matches from 2/11 to 3/14 vs ONLY TWO home matches from 3/15 to 4/29. MUST do a better scheduling job. Crowds, unfortunately, will be skimpy for those Feb/early March titls.
They should not be it is a great venue and the games will be awesome. The Brown game being at 1pm on the first Saturday of lacrosse practice in NJ might make it tricky but if you want to have a double you go 10-12 and then 4-6 no issues. This game should have 10,000 people at it. It will be an awesome event and if they are smart the will promote it to every HS team in the state
Sorry Cali but the fan base will not grow when people have to sit in 40 degree weather to watch a lax game. I ref in that weather and it is not fun. The parents on the sidelines don't want to be there and it is their kids playing. Trying to get the parents of middle and high school kids to drive their kids to a game and sit in that weather to watch a college game is not happening. I realize that is the direction college lax is going but it is wrong. Push the start of season back to March 1 and play a game during the week and on a weekend like they did in the past.
I personally think they need to move the season back a few weeks. Start in early March and play through the first or second week of June. That might sound blasphemous not having the Final Four on MDW but I think it would grow the sport faster to have it start in March and end in early to mid June.
Yes we did but it seems now like the coaches want to be like football coaches and only have one game a week to prepare for it. For Rutgers there are enough quality schools around to play mid week games.
But now they can be. Especially the B1G ones.
And the '"big" ones will make their way on to at least ESPNU depending on the record and match up.
Need more homes games later or just move the thing a few weeks forward.
I agree, start the season later and forget about MDW. But that's not happening now and the end of the season is strictly reserved for B1G games. And no way are we playing Brown mid week in April.
Short of blizzard conditions, this could be one of the best games of the year.
Maybe what BB should do is invite the top 10 programs in the state to practice at Rutgers that day and then watch the game. They can't have scrimmages as they need 6 practices to do that, but t I think they can have a combined practice. There are plane types of RU guys coaching. Just an idea.
We used to scrimmage them every year back in the day. We now have two Ivy teams, can't see another being added.
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