Johns Hopkins 2024

[BlueJaySince1947]

An ADs number 1 job is to raise funds. If Baker can't raise enough funds for either men's and/or women's treams to take the necessary flights to away games/conference tournaments then she shouldn't be retained and/or fired.

That's her job. Make sure the teams are fully funded. Taking a plane and then buying back and the men's team taking a bus to Colimbus is javyee like.

Granted Hopkins shouldn't have ever joined the B1G and this is just another reason.

Agreed...NEVER should have joined the "Big" 10 or any conference.
The overriding power of TeeVee money and the George Soros of lacrosse the NC$$ has transformed our sport.
All season long and particularly now 99% of postings are focused on the Memorial Day weekend... pathetic.

[HopFan16]

Never should have joined the conference we just won back-to-back regular season titles in. And now we’re doing antisemitic dogwhistling. Cool, good stuff fellas!

After yesterday’s results, the Jays are likely to be seeded #3 or #4 with a game at Homewood vs. either the CAA winner (Towson/Delaware), A10 winner (Richmond/St. Joe’s), or Patriot League winner (Lehigh/BU).

[OCanada]

An ADs number 1 job is to raise funds. If Baker can't raise enough funds for either men's and/or women's treams to take the necessary flights to away games/conference tournaments then she shouldn't be retained and/or fired.

That's her job. Make sure the teams are fully funded. Taking a plane and then buying back and the men's team taking a bus to Colimbus is javyee like.

Granted Hopkins shouldn't have ever joined the B1G and this is just another reason.

Agreed...NEVER should have joined the "Big" 10 or any conference.
The overriding power of TeeVee money and the George Soros of lacrosse the NC$$ has transformed our sport.
All season long and particularly now 99% of postings are focused on the Memorial Day weekend... pathetic.

Bob Scott, Richie Moran, Ace Adams etc worked hard to get lacrosse as a national title support. Decades of voting were not thought to be as clear cut as a solution on the field. Less subjective.

Your reference to Soros is out of line in my opinion.

Tge NCAA did not want another deficit running title sport.

You are no doubt correct that without a titke game there would be increased attention to the regular season. I don’t think the sport as a whole would support it

[Big Dog]

An ADs number 1 job is to raise funds. If Baker can't raise enough funds for either men's and/or women's treams to take the necessary flights to away games/conference tournaments then she shouldn't be retained and/or fired.

That's her job. Make sure the teams are fully funded. Taking a plane and then buying back and the men's team taking a bus to Colimbus is javyee like.

Granted Hopkins shouldn't have ever joined the B1G and this is just another reason.

Agreed...NEVER should have joined the "Big" 10 or any conference.
The overriding power of TeeVee money and the George Soros of lacrosse the NC$$ has transformed our sport.
All season long and particularly now 99% of postings are focused on the Memorial Day weekend... pathetic.

Bob Scott, Richie Moran, Ace Adams etc worked hard to get lacrosse as a national title support. Decades of voting were not thought to be as clear cut as a solution on the field. Less subjective.

Your reference to Soros is out of line in my opinion.

Tge NCAA did not want another deficit running title sport.

You are no doubt correct that without a titke game there would be increased attention to the regular season. I don’t think the sport as a whole would support it

Perhaps but I would submit that without a title game, the sport would not have grown as fast as it has.

[DocBarrister]

Been biting my tongue for about 5 weeks. Finally making an account to say… fire Crawley for the love of god.

Week after week he gives another example of why he needs to be replaced. We are not struggling for sharp shooters or dodgers on offense, we are desperately struggling on coordination and execution on offense. OC needs to go.

Forget the 10 goals allowed. It is the 1 goal in 3 quarters that lost us that game. Crawley does not have it and needs to be replaced.

The big question is it is basically the same guys outside of English and Kramf and the team is averaging at least 1.5 goals less a game. QuestIons that Crawley and Millman need to ponder.

The other issue is this team has very little killer instinct. It doesn't want to destroy teams. If ND was up 6-1 on Michigan that game is over. Hopkins has now lost 2 games this season up 6-1 in the 2nd quarter.

The team certainly doesn't know how to play when it is the big favorite and teams are gunning for them. That is a coaching and lockerroom ssue.

Hopkins does not have a Pat or Chris Kavanagh. They do not have an Eric Dobson or Jordan Faison. You can’t put teams away when you can’t consistently beat a man and draw a slide. Michigan dominated 1 on 1 matchups all over the field tonight.

That’s the thing … even Notre Dame doesn’t rely on the Cavanaughs or Faison to “consistently beat a man.”

The play I noticed most from yesterday’s Notre Dame humiliation of Virginia?

Reilly Gray (#17), a middie with a whopping 8 goals and 2 assists, dodges hard down the right alley. Gray doesn’t beat anyone on the dodge … NO ONE … but he gets several Virginia defenders moving. Those Virginia defenders are not rushing towards Gray. All they are doing is turning slightly to Gray and maybe moving a step or two towards him. Then Gray, having beaten NO ONE on the dodge, passes the ball to Chris Cavanaugh behind the net.

Now, does Chris Cavanaugh, who has moved offball and does not have a defender on him, make a spectacular dodge to the net and score? No, he passes to Max Busenkell (#23), a middie with a (now) whopping 8 goals and 5 assists, who finishes for the score (that was Busenkell’s 8th goal).

That play didn’t require a single player beating his man. It was all generated by Reilly Gray dodging hard, causing just a little movement from the Virginia D, some good offball movement from Chris Cavanaugh, and a nice finish from a guy who hasn’t tallied 10 goals yet.

Why can’t we see Collison, Peshko, and Grimes dodge hard, cause some movement on the opposing D, and set up a teammate for a goal?

Crawley and PM are relying far too much on the little guys like Bauer, Angelus, and Ayers to dodge and try and beat their man. Have the Big Guys dodge hard. If they beat their man, great. If they power dodge, can’t beat their man, and can still get a shot or pass off, terrific. If they can’t beat their man (or several defenders) but can still get the opposing D moving, wonderful. All three scenarios create good situations.

Right now, the Hopkins O is not forcing opposing Ds to move enough, and that is mainly due to underutilizing the Big Guys for aggressive dodges.

Opponents have figured out how to defend against the Blue Jays’ Tulip Ball.

Crawley and PM need to ramp up the aggression on O or the Blue Jays won’t last long in the tournament.

DocBarrister

[a fan]

An ADs number 1 job is to raise funds. If Baker can't raise enough funds for either men's and/or women's treams to take the necessary flights to away games/conference tournaments then she shouldn't be retained and/or fired.

That's her job. Make sure the teams are fully funded. Taking a plane and then buying back and the men's team taking a bus to Colimbus is javyee like.

Granted Hopkins shouldn't have ever joined the B1G and this is just another reason.

Agreed...NEVER should have joined the "Big" 10 or any conference.
The overriding power of TeeVee money and the George Soros of lacrosse the NC$$ has transformed our sport.
All season long and particularly now 99% of postings are focused on the Memorial Day weekend... pathetic.

Since when wasn't Hopkins all about Lacrosse Championships? It's your raison d'être, isn't it?

[DocBarrister]

Fire Crawley

which good offensive assistants are available?

Crawley is a fine young OC.

Right now, he is a good second-tier OC … an “investment” for the future.

Crawley’s O is struggling right now. What he does to fix that will be quite telling regarding his potential as an OC.

I have confidence in him.

DocBarrister

[StephenBaldwin]

Been biting my tongue for about 5 weeks. Finally making an account to say… fire Crawley for the love of god.

Week after week he gives another example of why he needs to be replaced. We are not struggling for sharp shooters or dodgers on offense, we are desperately struggling on coordination and execution on offense. OC needs to go.

Forget the 10 goals allowed. It is the 1 goal in 3 quarters that lost us that game. Crawley does not have it and needs to be replaced.

The big question is it is basically the same guys outside of English and Kramf and the team is averaging at least 1.5 goals less a game. QuestIons that Crawley and Millman need to ponder.

The other issue is this team has very little killer instinct. It doesn't want to destroy teams. If ND was up 6-1 on Michigan that game is over. Hopkins has now lost 2 games this season up 6-1 in the 2nd quarter.

The team certainly doesn't know how to play when it is the big favorite and teams are gunning for them. That is a coaching and lockerroom ssue.

Hopkins does not have a Pat or Chris Kavanagh. They do not have an Eric Dobson or Jordan Faison. You can’t put teams away when you can’t consistently beat a man and draw a slide. Michigan dominated 1 on 1 matchups all over the field tonight.

That’s the thing … even Notre Dame doesn’t rely on the Cavanaughs or Faison to “consistently beat a man.”

The play I noticed most from yesterday’s Notre Dame humiliation of Virginia?

Reilly Gray (#17), a middie with a whopping 8 goals and 2 assists, dodges hard down the right alley. Gray doesn’t beat anyone on the dodge … NO ONE … but he gets several Virginia defenders moving. Those Virginia defenders are not rushing towards Gray. All they are doing is turning slightly to Gray and maybe moving a step or two towards him. Then Gray, having beaten NO ONE on the dodge, passes the ball to Chris Cavanaugh behind the net.

Now, does Chris Cavanaugh, who has moved offball and does not have a defender on him, make a spectacular dodge to the net and score? No, he passes to Max Busenkell (#23), a middie with a (now) whopping 8 goals and 5 assists, who finishes for the score (that was Busenkell’s 8th goal).

That play didn’t require a single player beating his man. It was all generated by Reilly Gray dodging hard, causing just a little movement from the Virginia D, some good offball movement from Chris Cavanaugh, and a nice finish from a guy who hasn’t tallied 10 goals yet.

Why can’t we see Collison, Peshko, and Grimes dodge hard, cause some movement on the opposing D, and set up a teammate for a goal?

Crawley and PM are relying far too much on the little guys like Bauer, Angelus, and Ayers to dodge and try and beat their man. Have the Big Guys dodge hard. If they beat their man, great. If they power dodge, can’t beat their man, and can still get a shot or pass off, terrific. If they can’t beat their man (or several defenders) but can still get the opposing D moving, wonderful. All three scenarios create good situations.

Right now, the Hopkins O is not forcing opposing Ds to move enough, and that is mainly due to underutilizing the Big Guys for aggressive dodges.

Opponents have figured out how to defend against the Blue Jays’ Tulip Ball.

Crawley and PM need to ramp up the aggression on O or the Blue Jays won’t last long in the tournament.

DocBarrister

Had to go back and watch the tape on this play. It works because of how atrocious uva played it.

Pkav puts his man in between the ball and slide and then pops towards midfield behind the dodge. Both Kastener and #44 follow Pkav out leaving a 4v3 on the backside. Exchange on the crease occupies 2 men and busenkill just sits on the back pipe. If Kastener and #44 simply talk this play never happens.

[DocBarrister]

Been biting my tongue for about 5 weeks. Finally making an account to say… fire Crawley for the love of god.

Week after week he gives another example of why he needs to be replaced. We are not struggling for sharp shooters or dodgers on offense, we are desperately struggling on coordination and execution on offense. OC needs to go.

Forget the 10 goals allowed. It is the 1 goal in 3 quarters that lost us that game. Crawley does not have it and needs to be replaced.

The big question is it is basically the same guys outside of English and Kramf and the team is averaging at least 1.5 goals less a game. QuestIons that Crawley and Millman need to ponder.

The other issue is this team has very little killer instinct. It doesn't want to destroy teams. If ND was up 6-1 on Michigan that game is over. Hopkins has now lost 2 games this season up 6-1 in the 2nd quarter.

The team certainly doesn't know how to play when it is the big favorite and teams are gunning for them. That is a coaching and lockerroom ssue.

Hopkins does not have a Pat or Chris Kavanagh. They do not have an Eric Dobson or Jordan Faison. You can’t put teams away when you can’t consistently beat a man and draw a slide. Michigan dominated 1 on 1 matchups all over the field tonight.

That’s the thing … even Notre Dame doesn’t rely on the Cavanaughs or Faison to “consistently beat a man.”

The play I noticed most from yesterday’s Notre Dame humiliation of Virginia?

Reilly Gray (#17), a middie with a whopping 8 goals and 2 assists, dodges hard down the right alley. Gray doesn’t beat anyone on the dodge … NO ONE … but he gets several Virginia defenders moving. Those Virginia defenders are not rushing towards Gray. All they are doing is turning slightly to Gray and maybe moving a step or two towards him. Then Gray, having beaten NO ONE on the dodge, passes the ball to Chris Cavanaugh behind the net.

Now, does Chris Cavanaugh, who has moved offball and does not have a defender on him, make a spectacular dodge to the net and score? No, he passes to Max Busenkell (#23), a middie with a (now) whopping 8 goals and 5 assists, who finishes for the score (that was Busenkell’s 8th goal).

That play didn’t require a single player beating his man. It was all generated by Reilly Gray dodging hard, causing just a little movement from the Virginia D, some good offball movement from Chris Cavanaugh, and a nice finish from a guy who hasn’t tallied 10 goals yet.

Why can’t we see Collison, Peshko, and Grimes dodge hard, cause some movement on the opposing D, and set up a teammate for a goal?

Crawley and PM are relying far too much on the little guys like Bauer, Angelus, and Ayers to dodge and try and beat their man. Have the Big Guys dodge hard. If they beat their man, great. If they power dodge, can’t beat their man, and can still get a shot or pass off, terrific. If they can’t beat their man (or several defenders) but can still get the opposing D moving, wonderful. All three scenarios create good situations.

Right now, the Hopkins O is not forcing opposing Ds to move enough, and that is mainly due to underutilizing the Big Guys for aggressive dodges.

Opponents have figured out how to defend against the Blue Jays’ Tulip Ball.

Crawley and PM need to ramp up the aggression on O or the Blue Jays won’t last long in the tournament.

DocBarrister

Had to go back and watch the tape on this play. It works because of how atrocious uva played it.

Pkav puts his man in between the ball and slide and then pops towards midfield behind the dodge. Both Kastener and #44 follow Pkav out leaving a 4v3 on the backside. Exchange on the crease occupies 2 men and busenkill just sits on the back pipe. If Kastener and #44 simply talk this play never happens.

Yes, and all of it starts with a hard dodge.

That’s the great thing about making the opposing D move … forces them to compensate, “talk,” or do more than ball watch.

One could argue that aggressive dodges … whether anyone actually “beats their man,” is the genesis of all lacrosse … the foundation of the game.

Instead, some here say guys like Collison shouldn’t be dodging because some superstar SSDM is guarding them. Teams like Michigan depend on leaving guys like Pederson on an island. Go f*ck up those plans by dodging hard against him.

That is precisely what this Hopkins offense is lacking … some basic aggression to disrupt and create chaos on opposing Ds.

Tulip “Minimally Invasive” Ball … enough of that sh*t.

DocBarrister

[howdyyall]

This guy wouldn’t know good lacrosse if it smacked him in his TDS face. Surprised he has anyone who would consider him knowledgeable on any subject based off his bat turd crazy, non sensical twitter posts (which consists mostly of clinton love letters (you know the woman who effed up Bengazi and killed American soldiers and the husband who had so many affairs it would make JFK jealous. Not to mention Jeff epsteins best friend!)

[StephenBaldwin]

Been biting my tongue for about 5 weeks. Finally making an account to say… fire Crawley for the love of god.

Week after week he gives another example of why he needs to be replaced. We are not struggling for sharp shooters or dodgers on offense, we are desperately struggling on coordination and execution on offense. OC needs to go.

Forget the 10 goals allowed. It is the 1 goal in 3 quarters that lost us that game. Crawley does not have it and needs to be replaced.

The big question is it is basically the same guys outside of English and Kramf and the team is averaging at least 1.5 goals less a game. QuestIons that Crawley and Millman need to ponder.

The other issue is this team has very little killer instinct. It doesn't want to destroy teams. If ND was up 6-1 on Michigan that game is over. Hopkins has now lost 2 games this season up 6-1 in the 2nd quarter.

The team certainly doesn't know how to play when it is the big favorite and teams are gunning for them. That is a coaching and lockerroom ssue.

Hopkins does not have a Pat or Chris Kavanagh. They do not have an Eric Dobson or Jordan Faison. You can’t put teams away when you can’t consistently beat a man and draw a slide. Michigan dominated 1 on 1 matchups all over the field tonight.

That’s the thing … even Notre Dame doesn’t rely on the Cavanaughs or Faison to “consistently beat a man.”

The play I noticed most from yesterday’s Notre Dame humiliation of Virginia?

Reilly Gray (#17), a middie with a whopping 8 goals and 2 assists, dodges hard down the right alley. Gray doesn’t beat anyone on the dodge … NO ONE … but he gets several Virginia defenders moving. Those Virginia defenders are not rushing towards Gray. All they are doing is turning slightly to Gray and maybe moving a step or two towards him. Then Gray, having beaten NO ONE on the dodge, passes the ball to Chris Cavanaugh behind the net.

Now, does Chris Cavanaugh, who has moved offball and does not have a defender on him, make a spectacular dodge to the net and score? No, he passes to Max Busenkell (#23), a middie with a (now) whopping 8 goals and 5 assists, who finishes for the score (that was Busenkell’s 8th goal).

That play didn’t require a single player beating his man. It was all generated by Reilly Gray dodging hard, causing just a little movement from the Virginia D, some good offball movement from Chris Cavanaugh, and a nice finish from a guy who hasn’t tallied 10 goals yet.

Why can’t we see Collison, Peshko, and Grimes dodge hard, cause some movement on the opposing D, and set up a teammate for a goal?

Crawley and PM are relying far too much on the little guys like Bauer, Angelus, and Ayers to dodge and try and beat their man. Have the Big Guys dodge hard. If they beat their man, great. If they power dodge, can’t beat their man, and can still get a shot or pass off, terrific. If they can’t beat their man (or several defenders) but can still get the opposing D moving, wonderful. All three scenarios create good situations.

Right now, the Hopkins O is not forcing opposing Ds to move enough, and that is mainly due to underutilizing the Big Guys for aggressive dodges.

Opponents have figured out how to defend against the Blue Jays’ Tulip Ball.

Crawley and PM need to ramp up the aggression on O or the Blue Jays won’t last long in the tournament.

DocBarrister

Had to go back and watch the tape on this play. It works because of how atrocious uva played it.

Pkav puts his man in between the ball and slide and then pops towards midfield behind the dodge. Both Kastener and #44 follow Pkav out leaving a 4v3 on the backside. Exchange on the crease occupies 2 men and busenkill just sits on the back pipe. If Kastener and #44 simply talk this play never happens.

Yes, and all of it starts with a hard dodge.

That’s the great thing about making the opposing D move … forces them to compensate, “talk,” or do more than ball watch.

One could argue that aggressive dodges … whether anyone actually “beats their man,” is the genesis of all lacrosse … the foundation of the game.

Instead, some here say guys like Collison shouldn’t be dodging because some superstar SSDM is guarding them. Teams like Michigan depend on leaving guys like Pederson on an island. Go f*ck up those plans by dodging hard against him.

That is precisely what this Hopkins offense is lacking … some basic aggression to disrupt and create chaos on opposing Ds.

Tulip “Minimally Invasive” Ball … enough of that sh*t.

DocBarrister

Collison should definitely be taking short sticks to the rack, my point was it wasn’t necessarily a hard dodge that made that play go. UVA created that goal, not ND

[DocBarrister]

This guy wouldn’t know good lacrosse if it smacked him in his TDS face. Surprised he has anyone who would consider him knowledgeable on any subject based off his bat turd crazy, non sensical twitter posts (which consists mostly of clinton love letters (you know the woman who effed up Bengazi and killed American soldiers and the husband who had so many affairs it would make JFK jealous. Not to mention Jeff epsteins best friend!)

Ahh … right on schedule … some wonderfully thoughtful MAGA conspiracy trash.

Why not better occupy your time and take a puppy out to a gravel pit?

DocBarrister

[BlueJaySince1947]

Never should have joined the conference we just won back-to-back regular season titles in. And now we’re doing antisemitic dogwhistling. Cool, good stuff fellas!

After yesterday’s results, the Jays are likely to be seeded #3 or #4 with a game at Homewood vs. either the CAA winner (Towson/Delaware), A10 winner (Richmond/St. Joe’s), or Patriot League winner (Lehigh/BU).

What's " antisemitic dog whistling "...???

[44WeWantMore]

This guy wouldn’t know good lacrosse if it smacked him in his TDS face. Surprised he has anyone who would consider him knowledgeable on any subject based off his bat turd crazy, non sensical twitter posts (which consists mostly of clinton love letters (you know the woman who effed up Bengazi and killed American soldiers and the husband who had so many affairs it would make JFK jealous. Not to mention Jeff epsteins best friend!)

Ahh … right on schedule … some wonderfully thoughtful MAGA conspiracy trash.

Why not better occupy your time and take a puppy out to a gravel pit?

DocBarrister

How about you both retire to Hamsterdam?

[norcalhop]

wow. I guess the posters are mirroring the play on the field. Left field into middle of nowhere like the offense.

[Lacrossefan25]

With our performance in the big ten tourney I think we need to be in the final 4 or Milliman is on the hot seat

[norcalhop]

With our performance in the big ten tourney I think we need to be in the final 4 or Milliman is on the hot seat

I don't think he is on the hotseat nor do I think this team is getting into the semifinals. Crawley might be however.

[HopFan16]

Random accounts with hardly any posts coming out of the woodwork the last few days. This program still owns real estate in a lot of people’s heads.

Towson won, which means there’s a decent chance the Jays see them round one.

[HopFan16]

Michigan turns into a different team in the conference tournament. They’re taking it to PSU right now. Tough to play as a team with a bid locked up against a team with their backs against the wall.

St. Joe’s or Towson will not be an easy first round opponent by any stretch, but hoping we get another crack at Denver in a potential quarterfinal.

[primitiveskills]

Michigan turns into a different team in the conference tournament. They’re taking it to PSU right now. Tough to play as a team with a bid locked up against a team with their backs against the wall.

St. Joe’s or Towson will not be an easy first round opponent by any stretch, but hoping we get another crack at Denver in a potential quarterfinal.

PSU just needs to dodge harder. You know, be invasive.