Thank you for the clarification and follow up. Can we actually judge a team or teams using Tufts as the measuring stick ? Other that the top 5% in DIII, what teams are able to actually make it a game, let alone competitive, against the Jumbos?Unknown Participant wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:22 pm
Seen Tufts v Springfield 3x (ex 2021) over the last 4 years. They play every year in the Lax for Lindsey game in honor of the Sprinfield coach's deceased daughter. Two blow outs with one kind'a close at the half, and then Tufts ran away. MIT and Tufts scrimmaged in 2020. MIT could not get the ball into the restraining box on offense, and resorted to having a dmid stand at the end line so that MIT could get possession on a missed Tufts' shot. So MIT played 5v6 above GLE. I saw that once in HS ball so I recognized it. The other parents were befuddled. I realize that MIT had a big time transfer over the last couple that changed the dynamic, but assume back to the norm this year and beyond.
Transfer or not, MIT did beat Hamilton and Trinity "recently", along with Springfield beating beating Amherst. Will that change this year and for the future? Possibly. Only guarantees in life are death, taxes and a rule change in college lacrosse every two years (because we can, not because we have to).