Re: Johns Hopkins 2021
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:54 am
if the ath dept is committed (what's their hockey team doing?), they get a lot more mileage (literally) out of trying to catch a win in the acc. and 2 games.51percentcorn wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:27 am Have to admit I am surprised of the news that Denver will go to North Carolina to play Duke and UNC but they do have to travel significantly to play their conference opponents - thought they might bag OOCs altoegther or play Air Force and Utah.
I've heard Loyola and Hopkins upper brass have been sharing COVID details with each other. It makes sense geographically for two schools to play that are only 2 miles apart from one another.HopFan16 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:10 am Not playing Syracuse or UNC this year. If we do have any OOC games they will probably be just 1 or 2 out of Towson, Loyola, MSM, Delaware, Georgetown, UMBC. But it's starting to look more likely than not that none of the Big Ten teams are able to schedule non-con games due to the conference's unique testing protocols. Would be a slight bummer but still, 10 games of B1G play in a pandemic would be more than good enough for me. Plus the rumor is every team will make the conference tournament—not sure that that makes any sense but if true it would guarantee at least an 11th game, assuming no cancellations of course.
-it's an enormous recruiting opportunity for the big ten, especially if the ivy does not play. You'll basically only have 2 conferences playing weekly top 10 matchups on national tv and the acc isn't slated to have as many conference games. that's Milliman's men of magic getting beamed in to young kids around the country playing against school brands they know.jhu08 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:05 amI've put my expectations "low" on OOC stuff, too.51percentcorn wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:58 am Towards the topic of scheduling and OOC - Villanova has announced their schedule and their two OOCs - Delaware and Lehigh - are both essentially 45 miles from the Villanova campus. Somewhat surprised it's not Drexel or St. Joe's for example but still very close. Maybe I'm wrong - but I would be surprised if Hop went to Chapel Hill, Syracuse or vice versa. No one's calling Milliman except for maybe Nadelen, Toomey, Gravante, and Moran probably.
Mentally, I'm planning on conference only, so I won't be disappointed if it is.
But I think the best case in the local-only scenario of Loyola and Towson (plus our 10 conference games) would make for a pretty darn solid schedule. I'd be thrilled with that schedule.
I haven't looked all that closely at the various early rankings, but I suspect we'd have in most of them
2 games against a top 5 opponent (Terps)
7 games against a top 10/15-ish opponent (Terps, PSU, OSU, Loyola)
9 games against a top 20/receiving votes opponent (Terps, PSU, OSU, Rutgers, Loyola)
Michigan and Towson would look on paper to be the weaker opponents on our slate, and I would not consider either of them to be bad or anything close to a free win.
w/all the defections and players leaving there should be plenty of $ and spots outside of attack to add guys.HopFan16 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:24 pm TD Ierlan in the transfer portal again due to Ivy League uncertainty. Could be the first of many: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ ... 2021/57173
Our FO unit is probably one of the team's strengths (wing play TBD) but he's the type of game-changing talent that pretty much every program in the country will be after. Milliman did recruit and coach TD's brother at Cornell...
I think I read somewhere TD is studying finance—Hop's business school does not yet have the renown of some of its competitors but they do offer a 1-year MS in finance. I'm not sure what program Cole Williams is enrolled in, might be that one.
if he was the best attackman, he would have a spot.jhu06 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:05 pmw/all the defections and players leaving there should be plenty of $ and spots outside of attack to add guys.HopFan16 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:24 pm TD Ierlan in the transfer portal again due to Ivy League uncertainty. Could be the first of many: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ ... 2021/57173
Our FO unit is probably one of the team's strengths (wing play TBD) but he's the type of game-changing talent that pretty much every program in the country will be after. Milliman did recruit and coach TD's brother at Cornell...
that's on me.51percentcorn wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:48 pmThere's 57 people on the roster - do you think John Schreiber and Giacalone were absorbing full schollies or something?
At the risk of going down another Zapruder rabbit hole...51percentcorn wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:38 pm"Clearly"? - I can't find that Waldo - I see the guy doing push ups at the top of the bleachers but I never saw a boot
That we now have almost 10 teams from other leagues that are playing non-conference games who have put out their full schedules, and there hasn't been a single Big Ten team appearing on any of them, I think you're probably right. It's still not impossible that every Big Ten team could be playing 1 or 2 non-conference games, but I'm feeling like it's unlikely.HopFan16 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:10 am Not playing Syracuse or UNC this year. If we do have any OOC games they will probably be just 1 or 2 out of Towson, Loyola, MSM, Delaware, Georgetown, UMBC. But it's starting to look more likely than not that none of the Big Ten teams are able to schedule non-con games due to the conference's unique testing protocols. Would be a slight bummer but still, 10 games of B1G play in a pandemic would be more than good enough for me. Plus the rumor is every team will make the conference tournament—not sure that that makes any sense but if true it would guarantee at least an 11th game, assuming no cancellations of course.