No one grows up wanting to be a middle reliever either but the Jesse Oroscos and Jeff Nelsons of the world take those jobs because they're jobs. They successfully transitioned Jaronski (an lsm), mcdermott/raposo (originally offensive middies), we'll see where they go whether it's the names 51 or hf16 suggested who are already in house, kids they add from the outside or kids they move from other positions. I thought they never really replaced Mazzone on the long stick part of the wing this year so they have that issue as well.coda wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 10:55 ambecause everyone want to score. Nobody grows up saying I want to be a bad ass SSDM. 10-20% go to D-Pole. The rest want to score goals. Lacrosse losses a lot of those high end athletes to sports like football.Matnum PI wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 10:08 amThis doesn't make sense to me. How hard can it be to find good athletes. In theory, it doesn't even need to be a lacrosse player.primitiveskills wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 6:15 pm Seems like everyone is in the SSDM market, Hopkins included. Great SSDMs are like gold in the current game.
On the very positive side, a lot of Petro teams at the end of his tenure were undone by injuries and kids who had off field issues. They seemed to do a really good job this season helping kids stay on the field health/academics/behavioral wise. You also did not see the size/speed/athleticism concerns that caused a lot of unhappy springs a few years ago.