Ivy League 2022

[Ezra White]

Random question, but anyone know if there’s a reason the #1 seed in the ILT plays in the second semi? Looks like the Big East and America East do this too.

My gut tells me that if the host team, who we assume will obviously have the largest, crowd were to lose, then many fans may not feel it neccessary to stay around for the next game, especially if the weather is lousy.

I know that if I were at Schoelkopf and the weather was its usual awful self, and Cornell just got beat, that I probably would opt for heading to my local craft brewery to start drowning my sorrows.
GOBIGRED
Joewillie78

I was at the game tonight and stayed to watch a very good Brown-PU game. (What’s brown and smells? )My impression was that most Brown fans showed up after Cornell & Yale were through.

[Ezra White]

That Brown goalie is the main reason they are the tournament's #1 seed. Takes up space, quick hands and feet and can play out of his mind.

Sort of reminds me of the year I spent at UT Austin. If you went to the gym and spoke with the non-team trainers, they’d talk about the hidden scandal of fattening up 19-year-old linemen to over 300 lb and the years big-time college football takes off their lives.

Brown’s goalie is listed as 5’ 7” and 210 lb. Can he qualify for life insurance?

[10stone5]

Handley is pretty good,

bad broadcast or not.

[10stone5]

Random question, but anyone know if there’s a reason the #1 seed in the ILT plays in the second semi? Looks like the Big East and America East do this too.

My gut tells me that if the host team, who we assume will obviously have the largest, crowd were to lose, then many fans may not feel it neccessary to stay around for the next game, especially if the weather is lousy.

I know that if I were at Schoelkopf and the weather was its usual awful self, and Cornell just got beat, that I probably would opt for heading to my local craft brewery to start drowning my sorrows.
GOBIGRED
Joewillie78

I was at the game tonight and stayed to watch a very good Brown-PU game. (What’s brown and smells? )


My impression was that most Brown fans showed up after Cornell & Yale were through.

Excellent

[10stone5]

Penn:

Stop.

Turning.

The.

Ball.

Over.

Murphy probably forgives these lapses,

in exchange for what he got to start that 4th quarter.

[faircornell]

Random question, but anyone know if there’s a reason the #1 seed in the ILT plays in the second semi? Looks like the Big East and America East do this too.

I've always wondered that myself. I've thought that giving the top seed a bit of daylight to play in and a few extra hours of rest made more sense.

There might be the idea that the top seed is the "main event", but my guess is that most anyone who wants to make it at 8:30 PM can likely also make it at 6:00PM.

[tech37]

Hard to believe the video could get worse than the first semi, but it has. Virtually unwatchable. I might get two minutes of uninterrupted video before a reset. Is it the satellite feed I get with Directv or are those of you with cable, fiber, and internet experience having the same problem?

I watched on SlingTV over internet and had the same problem. Irritating as turd.

I was streaming the games. Figured out the beach volleyball listing snafu all right but then to be treated to five hours of technical difficulties, missing key parts of both games?

Technical difficulties happen of course but in four 4-5 hours there was no way to rectify? Unreal...

I think the commentator's (clowns) only mentioned the tech difficulty once but then attempted to joke about it of course.

Hopefully, today's and tomorrow's coverage will be much improved.

[PicLax]

Three comments on the semi-final coverage.
1. Absolutely horrific job by ESPN. Do they not have technical support? Four hours of trash and they never got it fixed. How long would the problem have lasted if it was an SEC football game?
2. The depth of the commentators biased campaigning for the ACC is nauseating. A complete advertising push on their part to get both Duke and ND into the tournament.
3. The comments about poor Ivy defenses and none inside the top 25 wholly inaccurate. Laxreference has a statistic of goals allowed per opponent possessions (a true defensive measurement). Using that metric, here are the ranking of the seven Ivy teams among D-1:

Harvard 9
Brown 24
Penn 25
Princeton 35
Cornell 36
Dartmouth 42
Yale 45

If I'm counting correctly, that's three inside the top 25.

Here are the same rankings of the teams from their favorite conference:

ND 5
Duke 37
Virginia 39
UNC 61
Syracuse 70

Do you think the these three commentators will ever mention this about the ACC or correct the mistake they made about the Ivy's?

[MoralTerpitude]

But…. The ACC team defenses LOOK better to the naked eye. Or at least, to Quint’s and Carc’s naked eyes.

[Farfromgeneva]

I don’t think ESPN would allow you to stay in the same building if you suggested they provide, as a business decision, the same support, investment and resources to IVY conference semifinals lacrosse to a SEC football game. You’d be escorted out of the complex and banned forever.

[ardilla secreta]

FCC looking into deliberate interference of Ivy League lacrosse playoffs by Russian government.

[ICGrad]

That Brown goalie is the main reason they are the tournament's #1 seed. Takes up space, quick hands and feet and can play out of his mind.

Sort of reminds me of the year I spent at UT Austin. If you went to the gym and spoke with the non-team trainers, they’d talk about the hidden scandal of fattening up 19-year-old linemen to over 300 lb and the years big-time college football takes off their lives.

Brown’s goalie is listed as 5’ 7” and 210 lb. Can he qualify for life insurance?

Hell, my brother played d3 football (guess where) and they did the same thing there.

[Farfromgeneva]

That Brown goalie is the main reason they are the tournament's #1 seed. Takes up space, quick hands and feet and can play out of his mind.

Sort of reminds me of the year I spent at UT Austin. If you went to the gym and spoke with the non-team trainers, they’d talk about the hidden scandal of fattening up 19-year-old linemen to over 300 lb and the years big-time college football takes off their lives.

Brown’s goalie is listed as 5’ 7” and 210 lb. Can he qualify for life insurance?

Hell, my brother played d3 football (guess where) and they did the same thing there.

I was an ILB at Bart and came back looking great summer of junior year, tanned, quit drinking for the summer and dropped to 190 from 210-215. Prepared to get lots of a** that year but the coaches had me with the OL in camp after triple sessions more or less force feeding us sheet pizzas and wings at 10pm every night. They claimed it was so we wouldn’t lose any more weight. It was awesome for like two days then I hated pizza and wings for a month or more…

Ali Marpet just retired from the Bucs after 7yrs, a family member of his told me he was going to play one more year but if you saw his parents and siblings you’d see how fast he’ll drop from 305 to 240. He used to eat 20 chick fil a sandwiches a day to maintain this weight first few years in the pros. That’s a real number. He banked his first contract and signing bonus form second and is going to have a nice long healthy second life with over $20mm in the bank.

[Ezra White]

That Brown goalie is the main reason they are the tournament's #1 seed. Takes up space, quick hands and feet and can play out of his mind.

Sort of reminds me of the year I spent at UT Austin. If you went to the gym and spoke with the non-team trainers, they’d talk about the hidden scandal of fattening up 19-year-old linemen to over 300 lb and the years big-time college football takes off their lives.

Brown’s goalie is listed as 5’ 7” and 210 lb. Can he qualify for life insurance?

Hell, my brother played d3 football (guess where) and they did the same thing there.

I was an ILB at Bart and came back looking great summer of junior year, tanned, quit drinking for the summer and dropped to 190 from 210-215. Prepared to get lots of a** that year but the coaches had me with the OL in camp after triple sessions more or less force feeding us sheet pizzas and wings at 10pm every night. They claimed it was so we wouldn’t lose any more weight. It was awesome for like two days then I hated pizza and wings for a month or more…

Ali Marpet just retired from the Bucs after 7yrs, a family member of his told me he was going to play one more year but if you saw his parents and siblings you’d see how fast he’ll drop from 305 to 240. He used to eat 20 chick fil a sandwiches a day to maintain this weight first few years in the pros. That’s a real number. He banked his first contract and signing bonus form second and is going to have a nice long healthy second life with over $20mm in the bank.

I forgot to mention that the trainers also said, even at UT the chances of an individual lineman making the pros were slim.

I’m glad Ali Marpet will be dropping to a more healthy, sustainable weight. I just hope the damage of seven + years can be overcome.

[Mid-Lax]

For max Ivy League post season participants, who do we painfully root for in this Dukey vs ND game? I guess we want lower RPI team to get pushed down so we root for ND to lose.

[Farfromgeneva]

That Brown goalie is the main reason they are the tournament's #1 seed. Takes up space, quick hands and feet and can play out of his mind.

Sort of reminds me of the year I spent at UT Austin. If you went to the gym and spoke with the non-team trainers, they’d talk about the hidden scandal of fattening up 19-year-old linemen to over 300 lb and the years big-time college football takes off their lives.

Brown’s goalie is listed as 5’ 7” and 210 lb. Can he qualify for life insurance?

Hell, my brother played d3 football (guess where) and they did the same thing there.

I was an ILB at Bart and came back looking great summer of junior year, tanned, quit drinking for the summer and dropped to 190 from 210-215. Prepared to get lots of a** that year but the coaches had me with the OL in camp after triple sessions more or less force feeding us sheet pizzas and wings at 10pm every night. They claimed it was so we wouldn’t lose any more weight. It was awesome for like two days then I hated pizza and wings for a month or more…

Ali Marpet just retired from the Bucs after 7yrs, a family member of his told me he was going to play one more year but if you saw his parents and siblings you’d see how fast he’ll drop from 305 to 240. He used to eat 20 chick fil a sandwiches a day to maintain this weight first few years in the pros. That’s a real number. He banked his first contract and signing bonus form second and is going to have a nice long healthy second life with over $20mm in the bank.

I forgot to mention that the trainers also said, even at UT the chances of an individual lineman making the pros were slim.

I’m glad Ali Marpet will be dropping to a more healthy, sustainable weight. I just hope the damage of seven + years can be overcome.

He retired a year early because his second concussion two years ago, one of only three injuries he ever had, got him worried about his long term health and he pulled forward his retirement by a year. He never intended to finish out his full contract that would go through year 9 (rookie contracts are 3+1yr option then he signed a 5/$55mm second contract but only finished 3yrs of that).

Was hoping he’d come recruit more kids for Bart but from what I’ve heard more recently he’s going to do volunteer and community work in the Tampa area. Really good dude.

[PizzaSnake]

A tale of two ass kicking quarters.

Too bad I couldn’t see it. Fnck ESPN and fnck Disney.

the early part of the game actually was on the app, on the loyola marymount volleyball game. you should have looked there.

Called India and some nice young lady had no idea where it was. I guess I need a new secret decoder ring.

[bearlaxfan]

Sunday overcast, 54°, wind 15-25, gusts over 40. Nice day for D to D cross field passes against the ride. Punt return clear attempts could result in a bit of, umm, contact.
"Football isn't a contact sport. Basketball is a contact sport. Football is a collision sport."- Bill Russell

[laxfan1313]

For the future of the Ivy League in NCAA playoffs, we need some Ivy League wins in the first round of the tourney. Period

[CU77]

Brown fans should root for Penn, Cornell fans for Yale:

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