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Wonder how many are just seeking a fifth year after graduation vs unhappy undergrads who looked who at a deep roster and unlikely playing opportunities and are looking to see the field elsewhere?

UNC’s problem (as many teams have is one on of inconsistency). Initially they relied too much on a great player(duffy). When he got hurt and could not play, they had to coalesce and played three great halves against two teams then ranked #1 and #2 (ND and Duke. UNC fans can be extremely proud of the...

Too bad all this “win by 5 and you’re in” controversy is detracting from a very gutsy total team performance. FOGO/goalie/defense/ offense all were clicking. Probably 1% of lax fans thought UNC would pull off a victory against Duke. Even if they got in and had two improbable wins they would have bee...

This sums it up: gritty win by UNC players who never gave up on themselves…..great lasting memory on a disappointing season. Inexcusable coaching blunder to be unaware of what it took to guarantee a post season bid. Coaching staff responsible for lack of post season play. Could have reminded the tea...

That is a very good question. If fans knew of a five goal win differential insuring an ACC tournament bid and the players and UNC coaches did not, then that is a terminal indictment of the UNC coaching staff and should result in a total termination of the staff. On the other hand i dont believe any ...

Well UNC very easily could have quit on themselves and their coaches after losing four straight towards the end of the year and three of them by 1 goal. They played ND tough for one half before the expected ND comeback. To finish the year and beat NUMBER 2 Duke is a testimony to their grit. Team did...

Anything can happen……UNC has played very well at times hanging with some top teams and narrowly losing to Army/ Syracuse, etc. just not sure how much is left in the tank??? Any result ranging from a narrow shocking victory to a blowout defeat would not surprise me. Here is hoping for the former!

Only the IVY players have another year of eligibilty. Some IVY players took five years to graduate from their IVY institution and therefore had only one extra grad year. Others went straight through undergrad without withdrawing and preserving another IVY season and therefore had two grad years elig...

Yes a disappointing second half but a valiant first half effort up 3-2 at end of first and down 5-4 at half. UNC is down three key starters and ND is averaging 16+ ppg. ND has scored just 10 once, 13 once and 14+ on all others including 18 against Cornell,15 against Duke and 14 against Syracuse. No ...

UNC on a four game losing streak, losing 3 games all by one goal. They now finish playing Number 1 ND and Number 2 Duke. They were down 10-4 last week against Syracuse and could have folded but went on a five goal streak bur still lost 10-9.
Here is hoping for a competitive finish!

Congrats to Cornell for a gutsy comeback but be careful about selective examples of interconference matchups. You stated “Harvard’s loss to UVA showed the difference in quality between the fifth-best IVY team and one of the top two ACC teams”…….. well what about the fifth ranked ACC team (UNC) sound...

Heard rumor that USArmy bought 2000 or so tickets to give to nearby Fort Bragg Soldiers. Rumor has it that this may be an “away game” atmosphere for hometeam UNC. We need every UNC fan available to attend!

What do you mean by “a hot dog and a bag of chips”?

Unfortunately “free” or nearly free education for children from families earning “only”$125k or less will be valued as much as everything else that is “free” Providing “free” for those who can’t provide for themselves is a mistake No matter how “poor” one is, they can pay more than a $5000/year pitt...

Second season starts today: 1) Army’s loss to BU yesterday takes a little luster off next weeks game; too bad Army will be more focused and Angry 2) But first UNC needs to take care of HPU. They have scored a lot of points and cant be overlooked. 3) Anything is within reach….one game at a time! Good...

Their last five games are against teams currently ranked 1-9. Plenty of exposure to high quality teams…..let the season play out.

UNC is ranked 18th, their strength of schedule is 18th. Three teams ranked higher than them have weaker (sos); yale (20) Richmond (21); GT (23) and number one Denver sos is 17. UNC has a new DC, new OC, starts 3.5 freshman, (FOGO frosh splitting with senior). They play five teams ranked 1-6, eight t...

Is there a ranking of schedule “toughness”. I know in college football preseason there is a ranking of strength of schedule. If there is a ranking of lacrosse strength of schedule where is it? And if the answer is common knowledge my apologies.

Well yes downgraded some in nonconference. Yet they still play 6 games against teams ranked 1-9 and 7 against top 11. Prior to yesterday Penn was top 20 and High Point is receiving points for top 20( not sure if they were top 20 yet this year). 9 0f 14 games are against top 25 teams. By the end of t...

I seriously doubt he was excluding the ACC when he made the comment that the Big10 was the best conference ……. I would bet big dollars in fact. What is the best conference ??? now that should trigger some interesting discussion……a week or more ago they were all undefeated!