You mean Epstein, and yeah, the kid could barely walk, let alone play lacrosse. Reports are that he's back to full health.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:25 pmThink I’d be more surprised if PSU finished last rather than OSU. Don’t see Tambroni having a truly down year now that he’s got this thing rolling (which took longer than anyone seemed to think it would but he got there).HopFan16 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 8:42 pmSomeone has to.
I've acknowledged Hopkins could finish last too—the range of outcomes for the Blue Jays is pretty big IMO. New staff trying to instill their culture and develop a new system without an offseason? As far as I know they still haven't met a lot of the players in person yet. It'd be a lot to ask of them to be super competitive in the conference this year—but it's a good staff, and there is talent to work with, so who really knows. I wouldn't be shocked to see them finish anywhere between 2 and 6.
Penn State without Ament is also a little bit of a wild card. I think the team they'll have in 2021 is better than the one they had the year Ament was injured but there's no denying that they just weren't the same with him out of the lineup.
Rutgers should be improved—again, their fans seem quite optimistic—but they've consistently been one of the weaker teams in the conference and I'm not sure if Kirst changes things THAT much to the point where they can't still finish last. Offense has not really been the issue for them recently. The FOGO transfer could help but he was 55% at St. John's—pretty good but we'll see how he does against the Big Ten gauntlet of faceoff guys: Arceri, Inacio, Prouty, Shockey, etc.
I think any of those four teams could finish last. I'd be surprised if Ohio State does—they might not win the conference but they're pretty solid, no huge glaring weaknesses. Though curious to see the goalie situation. The kid from Furman they replaced Kirson with has had a solid career but was underwhelming in 2020. Schedule is not going to get any easier.
Basically, could end differently w various permutations but if you just head to head the teams other than UMD where do you find the Mich win? Seems most likely to be Hop or Rutgers but I don’t see that assuming Hop gets their act together quickly and Tinney is 85-90% of his old self (supposedly he wasn’t last year). So hard to not see Mich at the bottom at the moment. The more interesting question may be Rutgers v Hop.
Rut v. Hop is a close call...good thing they'll have at least two meetings to sort it out. Possibly three!