LaxPower Back-Up Stick

Ignoring transfers which will happen, both in and out, I'd go 1) BC -- will be preseason #1, probably unamimous. 2) NW -- a lot more talent there than most people think 3) Yale -- been building for this year for a while 4) Michigan -- moving in right direction with 2 potential Tewey finalists 5) UVA...

The talent gap between these two team is pretty big. When one team's entire second midfield would start for the other team, you got a pretty big mismatch.

The top programs will be looking hard at the transfer portal. Just so many high level players leaving the sport. It's basically the 2020 and 2019 high school graduates leaving in 1 year. A large % of the high level 2019's used that extra year as well as a few top 2018's. It all added up to a big nu...

Will be interesting to see if this is the year that Cathy decides to hit the portal aggressively.

Time to move Quarters to neutral site…you know, like the men. 2 games in a hotbed will draw big $$. Beats what happened today. Schools will fight that in a big way. 1) Takes away home field advantage for higher seeds 2) Increasing travel expenses. Now 8 teams have to travel instead of 4. As long as...

Clearly a tough start for MD, but the athletic difference between Maryland and Florida is pretty clear.

Almost feels like AOL is taking a bit of a KAH approach in recruiting -- valuing size/speed over technical lax skill.

Clearly a tough start for MD, but the athletic difference between Maryland and Florida is pretty clear.

Almost feels like AOL is taking a bit of a KAH approach in recruiting -- valuing size/speed over technical lax skill.

anyone have any insight on what is going on at Xavier?

Heard from my daughter who is a freshman at another school (but had a club teammate at Xavier) that more than half the Xavier team entered the portal last week. Assume its a coaching issue..

saltylaxer wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 4:39 pm is ESPN the only reason the quarterfinals are on thursday rather than the weekend?

Yes

THE IRONY THAT THE DIRTIEST PLAY OF THE YEAR CAME FROM A JEN LEVY-COACHED UNC PLAYER PUTS A RIBBON ON THE DUMBEST RULE CHANGE (GREEN CARD) EVER INTRODUCED. "what's good for me but not for thee" THIS HAS TO BE REVIEWED IN THE OFF SEASON. KILLED THE RIDE. RUINED THE FLOW OF THE GAME. What p...

Big fan of field hockey or basketball for my young laxers. The late great iaamfan told me that field hockey and basketball were the best sports to prepare for lacrosse. Had never heard about gymnastics being good training for lacrosse. Interesting. From what little I know about the sport, it sounds...

Honestly probably a better list than most years. I'd make a few changes I'd have Pavelini 3rd team at a minimum, same with Collignon from yalem both over teammates who made 3rd team.. And you can't convince me that Laliberty isn't one of the top 9 goalies in the country. Also some of the womens list...

Big fan of field hockey or basketball for my young laxers. The late great iaamfan told me that field hockey and basketball were the best sports to prepare for lacrosse. Had never heard about gymnastics being good training for lacrosse. Interesting. From what little I know about the sport, it sounds...

My I know nothing about lax Bracket Picks Sweet 16 NW over Denver Loyola Over Penn Florida over UVA JMU over MD BC over Princeton Michigan over ND Hopkins over Yale Cuse over Stony Elite 8 NW over Loyola FLorida over JMU BC over Michigan Cuse over Hopkins Final 4 NW over Florida BC over Cuse Champi...

Devil's advocate here (pun kinda intended) Why are we giving Fairfield a free pass here? Agree Navy should be in, but.... Does anyone here think Fairfield would beat Duke on a neutral field? Fairfield has 2 pretty bad losses (HC and Niagra), much worse than Duke's worse loss (Clemson). In terms of ...

My I know nothing about lax Bracket Picks Sweet 16 NW over Denver Loyola Over Penn Florida over UVA JMU over MD BC over Princeton Michigan over ND Hopkins over Yale Cuse over Stony Elite 8 NW over Loyola FLorida over JMU BC over Michigan Cuse over Hopkins Final 4 NW over Florida BC over Cuse Champio...

Devil's advocate here (pun kinda intended) Why are we giving Fairfield a free pass here? Agree Navy should be in, but.... Does anyone here think Fairfield would beat Duke on a neutral field? Fairfield has 2 pretty bad losses (HC and Niagra), much worse than Duke's worse loss (Clemson). In terms of w...

Navy (#22 RPI) 8-1; 15-4, lost in overtime in PL final Duke (#31 RPI) 4-5; 10-8; blown out in 1st round of ACC tournament And Navy has the head-to-head. Brutal selection, just shows how much the criteria are stacked toward the power conferences. Pretty much shows that SOS matters. Hopefully the pat...

To connect this discussion with this thread about coaching … I would be willing to bet that the majority of successful coaches also demonstrate a high level of respect for the players they are recruiting. The fact is, many of these are incredible young women. I would also bet that a decent number o...

spidey44 wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 10:23 am Based on this, and I hate this, tough NOT to pick team C. Still noodling who else...

Based on this you have to pick B, then C