splitting hairs is welcome, and as always, I'm fine with being corrected.TNLAX wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:22 amLet me split hairs here, but BC to UMASS is a good hour and forty-five minutes without traffic. But I don't know how fast you driveMDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:40 amYou're correct 6 home games, all the rest are away. 9 Away.OuttaNowhereWregget wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 4:35 amActually, it's not a lot of travel. Not even close.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:01 pmWhich 7 games are in NH???OuttaNowhereWregget wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:24 pmI don't know how that conclusion was arrived at. 7 games in home state of New Hampshire. After that, the team travels outside New England 4 times, twice to NY, once to New Jersey and once to Illinois. Hardly a lot of travel.
You're including the 5 home games?
What are the other 2? I see one, but maybe I'm mistaken.
9 away, 5 home games...sorry, that's a lot of travel games.
If you want to remark on a lot of travel, check out Denver over the last few years. Here's an example--their 2019 schedule. Now that's a lot of travel.
https://denverpioneers.com/sports/women ... edule/2019
As far as Dartmouth's 2022 schedule, Big Green has 6 home games at Scully-Fahey field, not 5. The other game in NH is less than 2 hours away by bus to UNH. The games in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are easy bus rides--less than 3 hours to R.I. and even less time to Massachusetts. Then twice to NY, once to New Jersey and once to Illinois.
Dartmouth College
2022 Women's Lacrosse Schedule
Date Time At Opponent Location
Feb 19 (Sat) 1:00 PM Away New Hampshire Durham, NH
Feb 27 (Sun) 12:00 PM Away Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY
Mar 5 (Sat) 12:00 PM Home Yale Hanover, N.H. (Scully-Fahey Field)
Mar 8 (Tue) 7:00 PM Away Merrimack North Andover, MA
Mar 18 (Fri) 1:00 PM Home UMass Hanover, N.H. (Scully-Fahey Field)
Mar 21 (Mon) 7:00 PM Away Northwestern Evanston, IL
Mar 27 (Sun) 1:00 PM Away Brown Providence, RI
Mar 30 (Wed) 7:00 PM Away Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA
Apr 3 (Sun) 1:00 PM Away Harvard Cambridge, MA
Apr 9 (Sat) 3:30 PM Home Columbia Hanover, N.H. (Scully-Fahey Field)
Apr 16 (Sat) 12:00 PM Away Princeton Princeton, NJ
Apr 20 (Wed) 6:00 PM Home Vermont Hanover, N.H. (Scully-Fahey Field)
Apr 23 (Sat) 12:00 PM Home Penn Hanover, N.H. (Scully-Fahey Field)
Apr 26 (Tue) 3:00 PM Home Drexel Hanover, N.H. (Scully-Fahey Field)
Apr 30 (Sat) 3:00 PM Away Cornell Ithaca, NY
It's a lot of travel.
But sure, Denver requires more flights. This isn't Denver's or their conference's thread. So, I wasn't commenting on them.
But as long as you want to go out of conference, I know you admire the Boston College team.
9 home games, 8 away. And 2 of those (Harvard, UMass-Amherst) away are less than an hour drive, a third (Brown) is less than 2 hours.
Yes, there are benefits of location.
But usually the home and away is pretty balanced, tipping by one each way, year to year.
This is unusual for Dartmouth.
And my son made that same lax trip twice from Boston to Amherst, so I should know better.
Brown is actually closer at barely over an hour. Of course, bus travel can be a little slower.
The UMass trip is akin to Dartmouth to UNH. Just long enough that it's very important to get there early enough to loosen legs, but down or up and back in a day pretty darn easy.
My point is that all of those other away games for Dartmouth are too far to do in a day and back without that being a real detriment to game readiness, meaning overnights and more lost class time. It's just unusual to have the balance this far tipped.
By comparison, the Big Green Men have 7 home games, 6 away this year. Some years, that's flipped.
But hey, just glad that games will get played (let's hope!!!).