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jrn19 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:42 pm Same thing it does every year. Beating good teams. They didn’t beat any good teams in 2022.

you should send a letter to the nc$$ about their criteria about good teams, then, if that's your contribution.

Nah. I’m good. Notre Dame should try winning more lacrosse game this year though.

jrn19 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 2:22 pm Nah. I’m good. Notre Dame should try winning more lacrosse game this year though.

believe everybody's gonna try to do that. save the terps, they just have to match. we'll see what matters in '23. i'm backing the committee, whatever it is.

Sure. Not everybody had a whole campaign out there about how they had let the best team in the country out of the tournament despite the fact they hadn’t accomplished anything. Or alums who worked for “the source of the sport” calling the head of the committee the c-word. But I digress. I did think Corrigan was very magnanimous. I do think they’ll be in the tournament in 2023. Maybe they’ll finally win it all this year.

what i've seen in some corners is a lack of separation re: the partisan village idiots on twitter, etc. and the actual candidacy of the team. it probably continues to this day.

no predictions from me.

I'm not sure how far they will go this year, either, but I don't expect just one team from the ACC to make the tournament.

Oh I don't think they should have made it in anyway. I would have been fine if they made it in, it was a close call, but I was fine with them being left out. Such is life on the bubble. That's why you don't want to be there.

I'd have them as a Top 10 team to start this year and I do think they'll be better than last, but I admit to being a little bemused at pegging them as national title favorites or #1 to start the year. Even if you think they should have been in, they were not a Top 5 team and they haven't been a Final Four team since 2015. And they tend to fall into the same trap every year of always being very good but never being great. MD, UVA, Duke during their best years, Yale...when they're great, they're at an elite level. ND tends to be about the same every year. They're good. But even their best teams tend to not be much better than their regular run of the mill teams.

Finally get to see Notre Dame today...

Wouldn’t want to be Marquette today,
guessing that Corrigan is looking for someone to lay
a beat down on.

With their transfers and team chemistry and... I'm just very curious to see what they look like. Who starts where and how do they perform.

Matnum PI wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:21 am With their transfers and team chemistry and... I'm just very curious to see what they look like. Who starts where and how do they perform.

Pat Kavanagh will probably get 15 points per game and win me the Fantasy Championship, again.

ohmilax34 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:25 am Pat Kavanagh will probably get 15 points per game and win me the Fantasy Championship, again.

My curiosity is Brian Tevlin...

I'm curious about Jeffrey Ricciardelli.

ohmilax34 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:43 am I'm curious about Jeffrey Ricciardelli.

Right. Will he start? Get real PT at the least? How many points? I hear that. Could be a star with real points. Or... Could just get got-me-into-the-fantasy-play-offs-but-nothing-more points.

ohmilax34 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:43 am I'm curious about Jeffrey Ricciardelli.

Yeah, that was a good pick up,

a decommit from UPenn.

Taylor is the guy they’ll miss - he looked like he provided a large
amount of energy in last year’s year end run.
And really, made Corrigan’s offense a lot more fun to watch.

Ricco had five goals today. ND O in synch, their D however not up to usual standards with Marquteer hitting double digits despite limited possessions

Saw the box score. Any details? E.g. middie lines.

stupefied wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:56 pm Ricco had five goals today. ND O in synch, their D however not up to usual standards with Marquteer hitting double digits despite limited possessions

FWIW, I've seen Entenmann play up close. My initial thought vs Marquette is that he's the type of goalie who needs to be engaged and in constant action to be at his best.

Anyone know why ND played this game indoors? Was the midwest weather a factor? Field conditions? Isn't their outdoor field turf? Seems the winter weather gods have been smiling on lax this year...at least so far.

tech37 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 8:46 am Anyone know why ND played this game indoors? Was the midwest weather a factor? Field conditions? Isn't their outdoor field turf? Seems the winter weather gods have been smiling on lax this year...at least so far.

Wondered this myself. It was 45 and clear in South Bend at gametime yesterday. Easily could have been played outdoors to accommodate more fans. Then again, they don't have any fans.