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You’re right. UNC blew Loyola out in the first quarter. Final score made it seem closer than it was.

And even with that they almost won. If you recall the fateful face-off, Gural popped it out so strongly that a Maryland defenseman scooped the gb as it rolled past the restraining line

But then they admitted me to grad school to compound the error! Thank whatever higher power that’s out there for the GRE!

Since Denver uses a subscription service, I had not seen them except for the Hopkins game. I had the down as a good Big East team that was a notch below the top ACC and Big 10 teams. Watching them take down the Cuse in person changed my perspective. They have a superior FOGO, an excellent goalie, an...

Look, I’m not a big fan of a conference in which two of their members made it clear that I was unworthy, but I would surmise that any Ivy coaching job would be better than any coaching job sort of the few who virtually every year vie for the NC. By the way, the schools that rejected me were right. I...

Will Cormier go one for 11 again? Not likely. Will Millon get six points again? Maybe not but maybe four. Will Schutz, who I think was ranked a little high on some AA lists, contribute some offense? Finally, will 1 limit 1, as he has in the past, or will Shellenberger, probably the best player to we...

How will Morris adjust to starting in a semifinal game? He was solid in the goal against Hopkins, unsurprisingly, but more than held his own outside the goal in the 10 man ride, which, for those who saw the game on tv and not live, where you see what goes on in the middle of the field, was where UVA...

Sunday was the first time I’ve seen Denver since the Hopkins game. In person the size of their offensive middies and defensemen stands out. Bother FOGOs are good, but the Denver guy is a bull. As heavy dogs, the Pios are playing with house money. I can’t really disagree with those who see ND as a pr...

Wasn’t Cornell undefeated as well as Maryland when Hopkins beat them both at Rutgers in 1987?

He was a good judge of talent. He cut me. Maybe that’s why I became a coach. Sort of a variation on the old “those who can’t do, teach.”
Not too many recall that before settling in at his Alma mater, Buddy briefly coached at UVA.

Couldn’t agree with you more on Charlottesville. Had I gotten a job there in 1974 I would probably never have moved back to Baltimore.

Coach Gait did make a couple of personnel changes on offense. Leo replaced Mule at in the first or second quarter and I’m not sure Mule got back in the game. In the fourth quarter, the ran an all Canadian offensive midfield almost every possession with Stevens, who normally runs with the second whil...

I think Morris starts. It’s one thing to pull the starting goalie in the second half of a blowout. Nunes was pulled after giving up four goals in half a quarter in a game that was decided by one. The conventional wisdom said that while Nunes was susceptible to giving up goals in bunches, he was far ...

Certainly an excellent in game coach. He makes adjustments instead of simply “sticking to the game plan.”

Right now it’s 65 and cloudy but should be 1O degrees warmer by face-off. It’s muggy and my phone sometimes says cloudy when it’s drizzling. How much of an advantage does the team with more midfield depth—Hopkins—get from the weather? I think UVA’s top players are better but Hopkins can run two qual...

My phone says 70 and cloudy here tomorrow at noon with the caveat that my phone has been known to say cloudy when it’s drizzling.

Doc reference on the UVA board by a frequent poster on both this and that board is spot on.

Good point. I should have said the seeded teams won.

No upsets so far in this tournament and the remaining ACC teams are favored to win this weekend.

Hopkins faces a tough task in trying to beat a more talented team twice in the same year. I like the depth Hopkins has at both offensive and defensive midfield and worry about UVA’s lack thereof. Any team that can beat UVA at Klockner certainly can do the same up here, but I expect UVA to win by som...