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The Navy fans on here blame Phipps. Everyone else blames Tillman. Maryland fans point out the talent deficit. Everyone’s got someone they wanna blame. It doesn’t really matter. It sucks and they gotta fix it. I think the team is completely out of confidence and has been for awhile. At least the offe...

worst performance + loss of the Tillman era, following up on the previous in the Big Ten Tournament last year to Michigan Hope Erksa is okay Things are just broke right now. The offense is cooked, and when Wierman doesn't win FOs, the defense has carried a weight that is now bogging them down. They ...

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

Either way, things are clearly broken right now. Program needs a reset in the off-season. Gotta change up how they’re doing things and commit to a massive injection of new talent. What’s happening now isn’t working.

They don't

Your bye week adjustment update: Malever moves to midfield and somehow the offense looks *even worse*

Win today and they're guaranteed a home game. They could even really climb up the ladder if they win two this weekend. Lose, and they're going to be going on the road in the first round. So it's a big one. I agree with everything said above about Penn State being probably the best match-up for them ...

The last team in is Georgetown. If there’s a bid steal from the B1G or Ivy, they’re the one getting booted, unless of course they win their AQ. After that, the second to last team in is Yale. Maryland and UVA both have better resumes than Yale. Cornell or PSU is probably third to last. PSU might jum...

This thread reads like a post-mortem on a wasted season. You guys are performing an autopsy on the patient while he’s still alive, already looking at 2025. Man. Tillman could turn this around with one decision: go uptempo. You’ve got an AA first teamer at FOGO but you take the full shot clock to ge...

They’re in the tournament 100%. They’re still a seed right now, so even if there’s bid stealing they have a clear path over multiple teams.

He feels more like Shack to me; but agreed a Stanwick is the comparison My post even bringing them up was in response to someone saying that the guys coming in next year will push for starting attack roles. With everyone lamenting the lack of dodging, the comments about Ford and Gardiner don't seem...

He feels more like Shack to me; but agreed a Stanwick is the comparison

Ford reminds me of the younger Stanwicks. He doesn't have great foot speed, not overwhelming athleticism, but he always knows how to get to his spot, he's a tremendous passer, great stick skills, can play off-ball as well. Think of all the Boys Latin attackmen you've seen before (Stanwicks, Wisnausk...

I think Tillman is a little too cautious with this team. Also, people speak in generalizations with him and his mindset too much. From 2011-2015, it was that all he cared about was stalling and didn't know how to coach offense by letting players play....and then he got Rambo and Kelly and Heacock an...

When you don’t have shooters, you don’t have passers, and you don’t have a dedicated crease guy….your EMO is going to be bad More concerning for me is how atrocious their man down defense is. They give up the same goal to the interior every single game. There were two guys in front of the goal just ...

It shouldn't have been surprising to see Smith take Erksa instead of Kilrain, who'd been taking the opponents' top dodger for a few weeks now. Erksa struggles with physical defensemen who can run well enough to at least keep a stick in his gloves. Usually, when you get a physical defender, you eith...

NIL was introduced in summer of 2022. The guys on the field now committed in 2019, 2020, and 2021. To the degree that it has any impact on recruiting - and so far I've yet to really see any evidence it does - it has nothing to do with the guys on the field now. Recruiting dropped off after Bernhard...

NIL was introduced in summer of 2022. The guys on the field now committed in 2019, 2020, and 2021. To the degree that it has any impact on recruiting - and so far I've yet to really see any evidence it does - it has nothing to do with the guys on the field now. Recruiting dropped off after Bernhardt...

The second midfield getting the run it has all year with the production it’s put up is inexcusable. Just wasting minutes every time that group is on the field each game unfortunately. Give other guys a shot. Something is not working with what they’re doing. The coaching staff doesn’t have solutions ...

Great crowd, great atmosphere, great weather at Homewood today. Defense did everything they possibly could in the second half.

If only the offense got off the bus. Oh well.

Does the Ivy have better offensive personnel, or do they just have a completely inability to slide and rotate effectively? (The ACC on the whole is the best conference this year, though not by as much as last year; but all these conferences have their strengths and weaknesses. I think it's clear tho...