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molo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:13 am Tommy Smith, who started at lsm before moving to close d, has died. I didn’t realize he had been the d coach under Roy Colsey at Ridgefield. Tommy Smith was the most prominent defender of the early Starsia years. Sad to hear that he died so young.

Matnum PI wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 6:16 pm Any predictions for what Tucker Mullen's PT will be in 2024?

wgdsr wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:52 am

Matnum PI wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 6:16 pm Any predictions for what Tucker Mullen's PT will be in 2024?

he's been mentioned by those that have viewed practices and scrimmages, but not as potentially cracking the lineup. that is, as making some plays, similar to harmeyer. mencke also, tho he may be closer to getting pt.

molo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:24 pm Roster is finally up on the team website. Interesting to see that Boyden is pursuing a grad degree in education, which makes sense if he’s going in coaching. My former profession can use all the smart liberal arts grads that it can get.

viho wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 2:54 pm James Madison (and ODU to a much lesser extent) is on the rise in UVA’s backyard. Watching to see their impact on UVA, VT , UMD and even PSU recruiting. Recruiting higher academic profile football and basketball players doest’t work if you’re not winning. JMU could take a bite out of UVA’s bottom line. Maybe JMU is the next men’s D1 lax addition. We can’t forget their women’s team.

blue angels wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:18 am

viho wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 2:54 pm James Madison (and ODU to a much lesser extent) is on the rise in UVA’s backyard. Watching to see their impact on UVA, VT , UMD and even PSU recruiting. Recruiting higher academic profile football and basketball players doest’t work if you’re not winning. JMU could take a bite out of UVA’s bottom line. Maybe JMU is the next men’s D1 lax addition. We can’t forget their women’s team.

Sounds like you are making a football post on a lacrosse site. Virginia football has been in a low place the last few years, but ultimately, it's an arms race and you need to have a lot of money to play for any length of time. Virginia is building fancy new football only facilities and a billionaire alumni donor is working on making their facilities and NIL competitive with their current conference peers. The jury is still out on how all that shakes out. I have no idea whether JMU has the alumni financial support, or desire, to compete in that arena over the long term. As to whether JMU develops a D1 men's lacrosse program. I suspect, It would have little impact on Virginia, as the creation of a very competitive program at Richmond, hasn't had a negative impact either.

wgdsr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:52 pm liberty would make some sense primarily because they have the most gung ho athletic department. they've got a real mission as it were to funnel energy and dollars into a whole athletic department, build their brand from it. their complex is crazy.

w&m could if they wanted to pursue heads in beds, though i doubt that's a problem for them. vt if they ever wanted to expand the department, but for most p4/p5's that's not on the radar. jmu has a certain amount of momentum from football and hoops, and yeah have a women's lax natty, so a liberty-like fervor could take hold, but you're talking about revenue sports that at least try or have a chance to pay "for themselves", which is altogether different than adding to the size of the department.

not sure what op's post was regarding competition between uva (and vt, umd and psu?) and jmu. there are probably some fans from over the mountain that are fine following the dukes now, but there's not a lot of direct competition for players.

molo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:15 pm Still no speculation as to whether the third attackman will be the grad transfer or the first yearman. I’m guessing they’ll both toggle between attack and midfield for a while.

molo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:40 pm No argument about that.