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I’m no twelve year old. Tampa going 10-0 won’t be enough to get me tipsy or lose sight of the fact that they have the weakest schedule of any ranked team in Division II. Let’s see if they can win twelve!

WhiteCarrera wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:37 pm I’m no twelve year old. Tampa going 10-0 won’t be enough to get me tipsy or lose sight of the fact that they have the weakest schedule of any ranked team in Division II. Let’s see if they can win twelve!

Just an observation - my KRACH initial rankings put 4-0 Tampa at #14, with 6-3 Stone at #18. #47 in schedule difficulty as measured there.

They are #13 in Fanlax's rankings (and that Stone team is at #18 as well).

When regional rankings come out it will be interesting to see where they end up...

Red - I agree, it’s going to get interesting. These conference-only schedules make it tricky and remind me of the SEC in football — their credibility comes on reputation and before you know it, mid-pack teams are in a January 1 bowl game.

Tampa will end up 10-0, ranked top 3 on reputation alone without a data-based ranking like yours to back it up (though they might actually be that good). On the other end, the GLVC could have four teams, all with a loss or two, in the top 15, again based mostly on reputation. Over the last four years, I think Tampa is only .500 against the GLVC, so I don’t know where this all goes, but any way it sorts out, the lack of crossover games is going to leave leave some things up to reputation.

Tampa has some issues when they don't win 80% of their faceoffs.

The Wingate/LR game was played at a higher speed and both those teams looked significantly better.

D2fan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:58 pm Tampa has some issues when they don't win 80% of their faceoffs.

The Wingate/LR game was played at a higher speed and both those teams looked significantly better.

16-11 Wingate with something like 3:05 left. At about a minute left - 16-15, and LR had a chance at home to take it to OT...

D2fan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:58 pm Tampa has some issues when they don't win 80% of their faceoffs.

The Wingate/LR game was played at a higher speed and both those teams looked significantly better.

I’ll admit I am surprised by the score of the Rollins game tonight, did not see the game. Perhaps a case of a long time coaching rival knowing his adversary very well and coming up with an effective game plan.

Tampa just has so many weapons on offense, and paired up with Dickerson I can’t see anyone beating them. Ben French scored 85 goals at UVM, he might be the best offensive player in D2 - and he’s the cherry on top of an already talented A/M group.

This is Tampa’s year. I’ll be stunned if they lose a game.

Tampa still won 65% of face-offs, but this is a surprising score.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — for every dominant FOGO, there’s a better athlete pole who can dominate that FOGO. It’ll be interesting to see who has that pole this year. Lindenwood was the last team to exploit Dickerson that way, but this is a different year.

JBFortunato wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:27 pm

D2fan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:58 pm Tampa has some issues when they don't win 80% of their faceoffs.

The Wingate/LR game was played at a higher speed and both those teams looked significantly better.

I’ll admit I am surprised by the score of the Rollins game tonight, did not see the game. Perhaps a case of a long time coaching rival knowing his adversary very well and coming up with an effective game plan.

Tampa just has so many weapons on offense, and paired up with Dickerson I can’t see anyone beating them. Ben French scored 85 goals at UVM, he might be the best offensive player in D2 - and he’s the cherry on top of an already talented A/M group.

This is Tampa’s year. I’ll be stunned if they lose a game.

I would be stunned if they lose a conference game, but would not at all be surprised by a loss somewhere in the NCAA tourney. Too untested with the lack of competition within the SSC can bite you...

Should be a 6 pack after tomorrow WC

As I’ve said several times, I don’t think anyone is disagreeing with you for the next four or five weeks. It seems like a few others though might share my opinions about Memorial Day. Until then cheers. Drink up and I’ll join you.

Tumbleweedlax:
“Absolute domination. Talent is ubsurd. Offense will put up silly record numbers, defense will hold teams to a ridiculous loe [sic] average.”

7-6?

This would have been a nice year to catch the Tampa/Hurst rivalry. Maybe there’s still a chance?

Hurst is playing as such a solid unit this season, would love to see nothing but top 20 games, unfortunately conference play ain’t gonna bring that.

Hey Tumbleweed, what’s up with your boys? if they only play one game every three weeks, I’m going to get kind of thirsty over here!

Tumbleweedlax wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:36 pm Should be a 6 pack after tomorrow WC

Tumbleweed?????????? Ha ha. Love it. Tampa the greatest team ever to win nothing!!

16-15 OT another great game resulting in a loss, I could have watched a replay of the 2019 Limestone game
it was identical to todays. They move fast, precision passing, opening up great shot opportunities, resulting in a nice but certainly not safe first half lead
then coach molasses, does the same thing over and over. He take the speed and precision away from his team and expects them to score with 20 seconds left on the shot clock
If you're going to be a great team and beat a great team (and LR is a great team) you play your skill set for all 4 qtrs

Tampalax - that’s a pretty good take. I’ve seen Tampa play live three times in the last few years, and two of those were losses to Lindenwood that pretty much fit that description.

believe me those young men would rather live and die by the sword than die by the butter knife
what good does recruiting such talent do if you're not going to turn them loose in big games

Great ending to this game.