Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:47 amI don’t recall people saying Bu was cake, feel free to spend time finding properly contextualized quotes to the contrary, but we’re simply pointing out in the first 1-1.5mo of the season that OSUs win profile wasn’t nearly as good as others. Obviously as the season changes we see things like Colgate as now a 3 win season and BU w 9 wins (and 4 losses) so the perspectives changes.Cooter wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:45 pm With Loyola losing, UMd should move up to 2, and with UVa losing, Yale probably moves to 3, Duke to 4 with win over UVa.
Then you have the problem of comparing Loyola and Virginia to Penn and OSU.
Loyola's loss was to a non-top 20 team BU. Several laxpower posters were claiming BU was essentially a "cake" win for OSU early this season.
1 Penn State
2 Maryland
3 Yale
4 Duke
5 Penn
6 Virginia
7 Ohio State
8 Loyola
9 Syracuse
10 Cornell
That being said, I don’t see OSUs top wins against Bu, umass, Nd & JHU as better than UVA, Hop, GT & Lehigh. If we’re going to use the BU common opponent, the. We should note that OsU scraped by JHU Where Loyola emasculates them and throw in the RU results. I’m no Loyola booster but might note Loyola lost this game after games against lehigh and GTown (midweek) before making the trip to boston aa a factor.
To me Loyola still should be above OSU
I'm a Loyola fan. But if we're being honest, the Hounds are periphery top-20 at best given how they have played the last two games. Army is likely to beat them this weekend. The HOP and UVA wins were so early in the season, I'm not sure I even look at them as SOS so much as scrimmages.
This weekend versus BU: Spencer abandoned leadership roles on the field for some reason (internet speculation is he's hurt and Toomey isn't telling anyone); he was passed the ball, then he as quickly gave it up to a teammate. Defense was atrocious; slides were ill advised and lackadaisical. FO's suspect; wIng play was brain-dead. Middies literally played catch with the opposition for walk-in doorstep scores. If it wasn't for Stover, we'd have lost 30-11.
Team has looked demoralized for last two games. I wish I knew where it went wrong so fast. You can speculate on scheduling (why schedule a really hard OOC game like Gtown the one week where you play your two toughest in-conference foes Saturday and Saturday), with the BU game being 'away', but then again, the game this weekend is also away. The Hounds don't like traveling apparently. The problem with that is, then they aren't going to play any more games at the RAC if they lose to Army.
If they lose to Army, then I am afraid we might not see much of the Hounds in the Top-20. Something has gone wrong real fast.
OSU deserves to be way ahead of Loyola right now.