OCanada wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:52 pm
Well that was interesting. Speaking of history I can remember a Loyola game. 1st quarter Hopkins is ahead 8-0 and coach tells the team not to score. Goalie throws an outlet that was intercepted for a score. 9-0 and a future HOFer is pulled.
I can recall a LC team that went undefeated during the season and had the #1 seed playing at home. They lost. Has any other undefeated team lost a first round home playoff game? Seems many on the team were out past 2:00 AM at the Green Turtle.
Side note: I watched, with Joe Boylan the last lax game Diane Geppi-Akens coached vs Yale in the NCAAs. Mo one could have beaten them that day. She died not long after. I didn’t know my future wife’s daughter was playing for Yale. Small but would run through a wall.
It’s amazing how much mental shelf space Hopkins occupies in a few of Loyola fans’ minds. They have an elite coach and a great program but can’t quite shake that inferiority thing
Towson has a long history of physical play and getting the best out of their players. Nads has them well coached and disciplined but except for a few years they have not had enough depth but they are usually a tough out in one way or another.
Because hopkins is a program that many strive to be like in terms of prestige, achievement, tradition with the 180+ All Americans and 44 national championships. Sure Hopkins hasn't had the greatest success in the last couple years, but it doesn't change the fact that when you think of lacrosse powers, you think of JHU
The record between our school is 8-47 (48?)? so of course we feel the inferiority complex (i most certainly do). Peter Brown might not feel that, given the last 7 years and the head to head record that has produced but Loyola is a tiny catholic school in Baltimore with 5000 students, that is not nationally ranked academically, doesn't produce world leaders/politicians/STEM leaders, running out of funding etc etc