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houndace1 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:58 pm League will seem more open in 2020 than years past, given the offseason transfer request of Gray, as well as graduation of key seniors at nearly all the schools

oldjayfan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:34 am Looking at the inside lacrosse top 100 recruits, looks like Lehigh has some excellent recruiting going on--at least if you believe the rankings. Seems like most PL teams, save Loyola, have a difficult time keeping positive momentum. Unlike the bigger schools that are able to capitalize on successful seasons. Bucknell had a run, Lehigh, Army, Navy also got it going, but never any follow through. I suppose this will continue?

10stone5 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:04 pm They’re coming around, Lafayette, which that’s good for the League.
They picked up yet another Bogorowski family lacrosse player.
They’ve got the son of Penn State football alum in this class, he’s huge.
And next year is shaping up to be another large class, with a top Canadian box/field player committed (and possibly his brother).

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:45 pm
Pat Meyers is a good dude. Kids like to play for him. Assuming he can hold on to a nucleus of those frosh, they will be a tough out in two years' time.

And yes, we need Lafayette to get better and play a stronger schedule while at it. Their SOS ranking is almost always as low in D1 as it gets. I'd love to see Coach step that up some this year.

RumorMill wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:30 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:45 pm
Pat Meyers is a good dude. Kids like to play for him. Assuming he can hold on to a nucleus of those frosh, they will be a tough out in two years' time.

And yes, we need Lafayette to get better and play a stronger schedule while at it. Their SOS ranking is almost always as low in D1 as it gets. I'd love to see Coach step that up some this year.

Looks like they strengthened their schedule for this spring. Haven't seen Lafayette's full schedule, but looking at some other teams schedules and they have Lafayette listed.

Penn State https://lacrossebucket.com/2019/11/05/2 ... any-lions/
UNC https://goheels.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/schedule
Georgetown https://lacrossebucket.com/2019/11/28/2 ... own-hoyas/

That's a pretty strong start!

calourie wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:30 pm

RumorMill wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:30 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:45 pm
Pat Meyers is a good dude. Kids like to play for him. Assuming he can hold on to a nucleus of those frosh, they will be a tough out in two years' time.

And yes, we need Lafayette to get better and play a stronger schedule while at it. Their SOS ranking is almost always as low in D1 as it gets. I'd love to see Coach step that up some this year.

Looks like they strengthened their schedule for this spring. Haven't seen Lafayette's full schedule, but looking at some other teams schedules and they have Lafayette listed.

Penn State https://lacrossebucket.com/2019/11/05/2 ... any-lions/
UNC https://goheels.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/schedule
Georgetown https://lacrossebucket.com/2019/11/28/2 ... own-hoyas/

That's a pretty strong start!

It appears P. Myers is taking his toughen up the schedule cue from Mike Murphy, the head coach of Penn where Myers was an assistant for 4 years. Regardless of the ding a brutal schedule brought to Penn's won-loss percentage over the years, Murphy insisted on maintaining one of the top SOS schedules in the country year in year out. That approach finally seems to be paying off in spades with a #5 ranking for the Quakers last year and a preseason top ten prognostication for this one. It took some time to fully pan out, but such an approach would appear to be one method for attracting top tier talent to a program. Good luck to Pat in pursuing what looks like it might be the beginning of a duplicate strategy.

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:52 am

houndace1 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:58 pm League will seem more open in 2020 than years past, given the offseason transfer request of Gray, as well as graduation of key seniors at nearly all the schools

Houndace, you know my thoughts, but I have the top three like this:

Loyola
Bucknell
Holy Cross

I think it falls off from there. Losing Gray really hurts BU (duh!); but they also lose Burr. Colgate came unglued at the end, not sure what happened; in theory they have a stellar squad. Lafayette has a ways to go. Army will not be like they have been, even with Nichtern back. Navy will have a new coach, so they are a potential wild card on the upside. Lehigh loses too much.

Loyola and Bucknell will be solid. I don't love the fact that Loyola plays UVA, HOP, Towson, Rutgers and Duke for the OOC...not one cupcake to get the team humming. I understand the theory, but next year would be the year to perhaps start with some team where you can get your plays rolling. Bucknell does Bryant, OSU, UMD, UNC, and Richmond, so they don't exactly take it easy either...

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:52 am

Loyola and Bucknell will be solid. I don't love the fact that Loyola plays UVA, HOP, Towson, Rutgers and Duke for the OOC...not one cupcake to get the team humming. I understand the theory, but next year would be the year to perhaps start with some team where you can get your plays rolling. Bucknell does Bryant, OSU, UMD, UNC, and Richmond, so they don't exactly take it easy either...