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MVPiccoli wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:53 pm

Dehuntshigwa’es wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:12 pm Smoke in the cockpit….Big fan watching the development of this program last 10 years. They will continue to be a top 10 but this was their year. If you can’t do it this year it may still be awhile before they win a championship. What I thought would be a strength (5th years) is becoming an issue. I had a conversation with a D3 Coach who also has a number of 5th years and he said it comes with issues and at a cost to roster development. CNU is a very good team but will not beat Salisbury, Tufts or RIT when it maters

I keep coming back to this, but the cultural issues that accompany graduate student laden rosters are also a challenge. It's not just the on-field development of the underclassman being sacrificed. You're gonna lose the buy-in from a lot of those kids and families. Equity theory. And if you DON'T play the 5th/6th years you'll lose the whole locker room. It doesn't seem to be working particularly well for many of these rosters.

Motorman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:19 am

MVPiccoli wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:53 pm

Dehuntshigwa’es wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:12 pm Smoke in the cockpit….Big fan watching the development of this program last 10 years. They will continue to be a top 10 but this was their year. If you can’t do it this year it may still be awhile before they win a championship. What I thought would be a strength (5th years) is becoming an issue. I had a conversation with a D3 Coach who also has a number of 5th years and he said it comes with issues and at a cost to roster development. CNU is a very good team but will not beat Salisbury, Tufts or RIT when it maters

I keep coming back to this, but the cultural issues that accompany graduate student laden rosters are also a challenge. It's not just the on-field development of the underclassman being sacrificed. You're gonna lose the buy-in from a lot of those kids and families. Equity theory. And if you DON'T play the 5th/6th years you'll lose the whole locker room. It doesn't seem to be working particularly well for many of these rosters.

It’s not the issue, plenty of teams are carrying 5th years without a problem, look at Salisbury.

aroundtheoutside wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:03 pm It's looked to me like the 5th years aren't all playing locked in lacrosse (the only exception I'd mention is Brendes. He's an absolute gamer and never seems to take a play off). They're obviously incredibly talented, but they don't seem as focused, or energized, as last year. Maybe taking too much for granted? Maybe believing the narrative that nothing else matters until Salisbury at the end of the year? Maybe mentally moved on to post-college life? I don't know. If they all show up, they can still battle with the top tier. They just haven't for some reason.

What's funny is the amount of whining and crying that's happened on this forum about CNU's 5th years. Clearly it hasn't made them unstoppable. It might even be working against them. Is that a consolation to the criers that they couldn't compete with CNU last year when the roster WASN'T stacked with 5th years?

As for this year, the regression of Hanway and Cabaniss has crippled them.

On the bright side, I like the way MT is working in the younger guys. Today it looks like many of the 2nd line guys started the game? McCullough getting the start in cage is interesting...I wonder if he's getting a serious chance as the starter or if they're just saving their horses and giving the young guys some more minutes against a team that can't threaten them. The younger Miller, Fulkerson, Jackson, McCullough, several of the poles...there's some real talent there for the future. I think it'll be refreshing for the whole program to start building a new identity with a whole different core and an underdog mentality again, as it seems D3 nation will be salivating to count CNU out.

Oaklax wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:29 pm Must have been a great practice week down in Newport News after last week’s loss to salisbury. MT and Coach Z switched some lines up and positions on the offense that seemed to work well. Thought CNU offense played extremely well today vs Kean. Ball movement was crisp, shot selection much better, and off ball movement was 10x better. Miller brothers put a show on today.

Glad to see #57 get the start as he played great today. As well as #41 going 13-17 I believe at faceoff X.

Hopefully see these new lines and some new faces enter the mix to finish out CLC play before finishing up against W&L before conference tournament play.

laxdad1434 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:27 am

Oaklax wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:29 pm Must have been a great practice week down in Newport News after last week’s loss to salisbury. MT and Coach Z switched some lines up and positions on the offense that seemed to work well. Thought CNU offense played extremely well today vs Kean. Ball movement was crisp, shot selection much better, and off ball movement was 10x better. Miller brothers put a show on today.

Glad to see #57 get the start as he played great today. As well as #41 going 13-17 I believe at faceoff X.

Hopefully see these new lines and some new faces enter the mix to finish out CLC play before finishing up against W&L before conference tournament play.

CNU FO controlled the game, total beat down. Kean was missing some key players, including their leading scorer, but it wouldn’t have mattered. CNU is a much better team.

Laxguy703 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:24 pm CNU absolutely dismantling UMW right now. Lots of starters out for CNU which is a bit puzzling. Cabbanis, Adams, and Hanway are all out. They all played and seemed healthy on Saturday.

Either way the Captains are starting to hit their stride. UMW clearly isn’t a great team, but a 12-0 lead heading into the half is more on par with the CNU team’s we have seen in the past compared to what we have seen this year so far. One of the best things about this game today is that most of the points have come from young guys. Program will stay in good hands.

EasternShoreLaxGuy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:03 pm 2 goalies = no goalie.

Feel for hanway in 5th year but they just ruined the freshman’s confidence as well. MT is creating a problem for years to come right now

Laxguy703 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:24 pm CNU absolutely dismantling UMW right now. Lots of starters out for CNU which is a bit puzzling. Cabbanis, Adams, and Hanway are all out. They all played and seemed healthy on Saturday.

Either way the Captains are starting to hit their stride. UMW clearly isn’t a great team, but a 12-0 lead heading into the half is more on par with the CNU team’s we have seen in the past compared to what we have seen this year so far. One of the best things about this game today is that most of the points have come from young guys. Program will stay in good hands.

ODACtionEmpire wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:32 am Caught a bit of the UMW game last week and glad to see someone caught the same thing I did - a lot of starters out with no real reason to unless you really needed to rest guys up for Stockton/Colorado College... word around the rumor mill was the core of the team finally stood up to the geriatric group of 5th years and put them in their place, and MT took their side. This is obviously coming from sources outside of the team, but it echoes some of the sentiments that more knowledgeable posters have been talking about all season.

MVPiccoli wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:47 pm

ODACtionEmpire wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:32 am Caught a bit of the UMW game last week and glad to see someone caught the same thing I did - a lot of starters out with no real reason to unless you really needed to rest guys up for Stockton/Colorado College... word around the rumor mill was the core of the team finally stood up to the geriatric group of 5th years and put them in their place, and MT took their side. This is obviously coming from sources outside of the team, but it echoes some of the sentiments that more knowledgeable posters have been talking about all season.

(beats the culture drum again) Good for them. Now, do the grad players resent and poison the season, or do they answer the call?

It's fascinating to me (as a guy that got a C- in his only college psychology class) how these things play out.