Jumbo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:06 am
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Babson, Union, Endicott, Bowdoin & Williams. This is list of Northern teams who are middle of the road top 25 at best but are getting some serious (biased) love. Unions two losses are to two top 5 teams by a combined 19 goals. That doesn't equate to a top 15 ranking. All the rest are NESCAC schools with a soft OOC schedule. Gotta have some perspective.
The whole idea that the north is and always has been superior still blows my mind, at least try to post on here in a way that isn't biased.
Have you followed lacrosse this year? In matchups between upper level (for the region) teams, the north has won the vast majority of games this year. This isn't some sort of subjective opinion.
Considering my name on here I think you know I've watched, my Alma Mater puts on the biggest event of the year in D3 lacrosse, just a thought.
Secondly, what are you talking about? The teams I mentioned haven't played a single opponent from the South. SLU has two one goals wins against south opponents. Wouldn't call that dominating. Stevens whooped Wesleyan. Tufts beat Stevens by 13. RPI beats York by 1. Just bc CNU get dominated by a couple Northern teams you start jumping to conclusions. Oh and didn't Amherst just lose to a L-Burg team who is significantly down this year? L-Burg has a bad loss to Hamilton.
The ONLY North team with south wins of significance is RIT. And they took tufts to the woodshed at the classic.
Maybe do some homework next time bc dominated and losing close games are vastly different. Oh and btw it seems rather odd how no one in the North EVER schedules Salisbury. Want to go best vs best, gotta play the best year and year out. Only two northern teams playing the best teams OOC are consistently Tufts and RIT.
North Wins:
Tufts 18, CNU 10
Tufts 20, Stevens 7
Williams 18, CNU 12
Hamilton 16, Lynchburg 15
Wesleyan 23, Roanoke 16
Wesleyan 23, Stockton 10
Amherst 14, Swarthmore 11
Amherst 9, Gettysburg 8
RIT 11, York 10
RIT 15, W&L 9
RIT 17, Ursinus 11
St. Lawrence 9, York 8
St. Lawrence 13, CNU 12
RPI 11, York 10
South wins:
Stevens 16, Wesleyan 10
Lynchburg 15 Amherst 13
If none of those are wins of significance, then this an admission there is one good team in the south. It’s absolute one sided dominance this year. Not the northern teams fault that you think none of the southern teams are good enough to count as a quality win.
Six one goal wins is dominating? Can tell you there wouldn't be a Sourh homer on here talking about "dominance" if that were the case.
Get some perspective.
It’s just part of the mentality. In typical years where the NUSAC is strong, the chatter is the overall conference dominance. That doesn’t exist this season because #downyear, so they lump in the Liberty league as part of a greater “North” that they can tout superiority through.
The conference might usually be the strongest, but the fans representing them here must’ve never been apart of that success as players. They’re like the dog that is constantly posturing and jockeying for dominance. Major sign that he’s never been the Alpha, and likely never will. #betamentality
In my opinion, the LL this year is better than the NESCAC. After all, I allegedly don't watch lacrosse but I do remember the game last month at my beautiful home Mustang Stadiun, where the LL #3 WHOOPED the NESCAC #1.
Furthermore, using pcow logic, since RIT beat Tufts, that would mean the top three LL teams are better than the best NESCAC team(s).
many NESCAC fans are overly annoying. not all. but many. probably the rudest home teams fans i have encountered and i have been to many D3 stadiums. many of the fans here are just as bad. i was reading in the NESCAC board about the RIT /Tufts game. someone made a comment about Rit Dominating Tufts and a fan freaked out and turned personal. funny, how someone on this thread referred to several 1 goal north over south wins as “dominating”, but when NESCAC losses, a 5 goal loss was just a fluke.
LL is by far the strongest conference this year.
when the dust settles and the selections are made, i expect the LL should have three teams make it. maybe 4. NESCAC really shouldn’t have more than 2
Jumbo, I have a sneaking suspicion you are referring to me regarding the Tufts fan who reacted to the dominating comment. So, let me see this about that. I simply said that a three-goal game with about eight minutes to go, which ended up a five goal game when Tufts pressed out and RIT scored a couple goals late, including an empty netter, would not be considered dominating. Said poster then came back and made some false accusations, jumped to false conclusions and put words in my mouth. In my opinion, that was rude and I took offense to that. Was my response a little harsh? Probably. Did I “freak out” as you say? Well, I guess that’s a matter of opinion. But, in the words of Sly,” he drew first blood”! However, they always flag the second guy who takes a cheap shot! My bad.
And, by the way, I agree with you about the strength of the LL vs the NESCAC thus far this season. But, there’s a lot of lacrosse left to be played!