Greg Bice, an osu grad looks like he might cry on the post game, a lot.
Obviously the first thought is Martin. Hopefully it's just a stinger.
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In game adjustments. Double polling the faceoffs, ayers for melendez, timeout management, the reworked man up, the collison looks they designed for the end of the game. Quite a few. They went to a 3rd midfield early, a sign they really really knew how important this game was and they tried all sorts of changes that left ohio state without a response. The last regime was too slow to change, and tonight pm/jc/jk really went into their bag all night.
Degnon/Angelus-They keep talking about Degnons goals, he's all over the field causing turnovers and there's the small matter of where this program has grown over the course of his/angelus careers.
McDermotts finish-really rough start. Really rough, but closed extremely well, a big ct etc
Peshko-see above. It's not always greatness and there's a lot of is he really out there, but he's found ways throughout his career to deliver enough, although could be more.
Defensive finish-they were better than their goals allowed to start and closed hard against a home team who is supposed to have one of the finest strength/nutrition all that stuff programs on the planet. Gbs were 12-4 in the first and 10-5 in the 4th. It was 6-1 to finish the game and they shut the door.
Collison-It's not fair to him to just talk about his finishing but he's been clutch when they need it. Also a good time to relook at this guys wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chr ... (lacrosse)
The future of the season-Losing this game and instead of vying for a top national 4 seed it's vying for a home game. The martin injury at the end added some added pressure and awareness about added minutes can subject teams to. Clinching a bye in the big ten tournament and probably bid is a big achievement this early in the season. A few years ago they lose this game 16-8, other years 15-10
Ticket sales-74 with a crab and conference on the line.
Smith-hoover today
Deans-When they ran him out his freshman year I had no idea who he was but he's come on big.
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The start-the focus went up when the sun went down
Ayers-One of the few things Hop and Maryland can agree on is a lot of things you can say at a bar but not here about this guy. If he coached at a Syracuse, Hopkins, North Carolina, Maryland that the wider lax world cares about his behavior would get a forum post.
Initial offensive game plan. Was there one?
ssdms-really a hard night although they rallied. Jaronski, Raposo and Ince are going to really have to step up and the offense is going to have to score more, they're going to need more faceoff wins and better everywhere to make up for martins potential loss.
Martin's injury absolutely sucks. Hopefully they can get him back.
Bauer-he had a number of great looks and didn't shoot.
Grimes-Another quiet game
Melendez-a lost year, maybe the midfield switch will rejeuvenate him. They've essentially been playing with 2 quality attackmen all year although I'm sure rival teams respect him and know his resume.
Bice-Big time homer broadcaster. Ann Arbor will probably rewatch the last 40 minutes just to hear him sob.
Arteaga-please no
Dixon-he has a lot of relationships in the game and you can tell in the broadcast that like the rest of the lax media they're there to protect the images and feelings of folks first rather than do their jobs. Degnons goals are nice but the real story of his career and this class is the program turnaround on and off the field and that's what guys like him are paid to explain. He's a ref and hit a few missed calls correctly but also missed peshkos goal, didn't explain how Hopkins turned it around or why ohio state like penn state last week who come from athletics programs with 9 figure budgets that train olympians wore down against a program that is housed in a d3 athletics department. Stoebner was downgraded weeks ago and he treated his injury like it's martins.
They're probably going to be gassed from this and Martin's injury is a really really big problem potentially. After Ierlan Angelus Degnon and maybe Smith the guy they could least afford to lose. They seemed to have worked out a lot of issues that had been lingering for weeks-the offense, some man up concerns, maybe now the faceoffs although not sure 2 poles are sustainable. Maryland probably enjoyed watching them get beat up on a short week with a flight but there might have been some longterm improvement figured out.
