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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...

McAdorey was back at midfield yesterday with Williams back at attack. Who knows who will play where against Duke?

Bud stealer goes out hard.

If tomorrow goes the way today did, a single digit loss would be moral victory for Lehigh.

I picked Princeton to win tonight. They gave Maryland about as good a game as St. Joe gave UVA and Zutah gabs Duke. Terps made the Tigers look like an AQ from a weak conference. I thought Princeton was better than this.

Duke has been known to drop some that they should win, but this won’t be one of them.

Basically a bye for the Irish.

Princeton’s young guys have improved steadily. Maryland is an excellent program having a down year, and they may be missing a key offensive player from an o that lacks initiators. Loathe as I may be to pick against the Terps I’m May, I think the Tigers take this one by a couple.

Michigan’s tour de force in the Big 10 tournament embarrassed a couple of teams who were already locks and sent Cornell packing. The last time I saw a full Denver game was against Hopkins. I think they advance with a close win as the coach turns back into a pumpkin.

St Joe hasn’t lost in ages while the hosts are staggering into the tournament plagued by the Cumberland Blues. The again, look who has beaten them: the number one team in the country (twice), a conference rival who has their number, and two traditional powers who are notably “back” this year. Five l...