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Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:02 am
by Asgot
I am assuming that no D# has started practice yet and that most teams will begin this coming weekend. That seems like a pretty short preseason if you are playing on 2/10. when does the team you follow start practicing?
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:07 am
by Laxattackjack
Asgot wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:02 am
I am assuming that no D# has started practice yet and that most teams will begin this coming weekend. That seems like a pretty short preseason if you are playing on 2/10. when does the team you follow start practicing?
I think I heard Salisbury was back last week
Lynchburg, SMCM, and Roanoke have posted on social media about being back this week
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:27 am
by laxdad1434
Kean - Back in school last 1/16, practice begins 1/23.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:06 pm
by SKUD
Many teams already started this week.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:50 pm
by laxdad30
Goucher starts practice on 01/24. Classes resume 01/29. First scrimmage on the 3rd, Alumni Game on the 10th and then First game on the 17th.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 5:23 pm
by Laxdds
I believe the Centennial cannot start practice until 2/1
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:40 pm
by smoova
NESCAC practices begin 2/5.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:41 pm
by Jumbo
smoova wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:40 pm
NESCAC practices begin 2/5.
That’s not even D3. Like D3 lite. Playing half of a season.
Just kidding.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:44 pm
by smoova
Jumbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:41 pm
smoova wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:40 pm
NESCAC practices begin 2/5.
That’s not even D3. Like D3 lite. Playing half of a season.
Just kidding.
Savage
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:07 pm
by D3LaxFan2
Jumbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:41 pm
smoova wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:40 pm
NESCAC practices begin 2/5.
That’s not even D3. Like D3 lite. Playing half of a season.
Just kidding.
When does NJIT start?
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 2:49 pm
by Jumbo
D3LaxFan2 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:07 pm
Jumbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:41 pm
smoova wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:40 pm
NESCAC practices begin 2/5.
That’s not even D3. Like D3 lite. Playing half of a season.
Just kidding.
When does NJIT start?
What are the D3 D1 scrimmages this spring. And what games will be real games?
York plays Wagner. That should be a full scrimmage. We should get an idea of a top 15 D3 vs a low level D1.
York plays Towson. That will probably have mostly backups for Towson and lots of backups for York. Won’t be a good indicator.
Lynchburg and CNU scrimmaging uva and Penn.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:33 pm
by pcowlax
As has been said, what difference really is there between college lacrosse and football and basketball? I love seeing the results of the annual pre-season Ohio St. vs Mt. Union scrimmage.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:56 pm
by Jumbo
pcowlax wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:33 pm
As has been said, what difference really is there between college lacrosse and football and basketball? I love seeing the results of the annual pre-season Ohio St. vs Mt. Union scrimmage.
Is this sarcasm? NCAA football and basketball are saturated with teams. The best players go D1. Lacrosse only has 75 D1 programs. Top level kids end up at better D3 programs than low level D1.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:36 pm
by Nosey Ned
Jumbo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:56 pm
pcowlax wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:33 pm
As has been said, what difference really is there between college lacrosse and football and basketball? I love seeing the results of the annual pre-season Ohio St. vs Mt. Union scrimmage.
Is this sarcasm? NCAA football and basketball are saturated with teams. The best players go D1. Lacrosse only has 75 D1 programs. Top level kids end up at better D3 programs than low level D1.
I read it as saying only in lacrosse is the talent level close enough that D3 teams can realistically scrimmage D1 teams!
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:55 pm
by Unknown Participant
Nosey Ned wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:36 pm
Jumbo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:56 pm
pcowlax wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:33 pm
As has been said, what difference really is there between college lacrosse and football and basketball? I love seeing the results of the annual pre-season Ohio St. vs Mt. Union scrimmage.
Is this sarcasm? NCAA football and basketball are saturated with teams. The best players go D1. Lacrosse only has 75 D1 programs. Top level kids end up at better D3 programs than low level D1.
I read it as saying only in lacrosse is the talent level close enough that D3 teams can realistically scrimmage D1 teams!
Actually, there are a decent number of D1 v D3 hockey games each year, esp. w D1 independents.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:10 am
by choochooCharlie
Per their Twitter, W&L just finished their first week of practice
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:59 pm
by RE6ULATOR
D3LaxFan2 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:07 pm
Jumbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:41 pm
smoova wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:40 pm
NESCAC practices begin 2/5.
That’s not even D3. Like D3 lite. Playing half of a season.
Just kidding.
When does NJIT start?
NJIT has been back. I think if you took a few NJIT players put them on Tufts and allowed them to start last week like NJIT does, who knows….
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:12 am
by pcowlax
Jumbo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:56 pm
pcowlax wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:33 pm
As has been said, what difference really is there between college lacrosse and football and basketball? I love seeing the results of the annual pre-season Ohio St. vs Mt. Union scrimmage.
Is this sarcasm? NCAA football and basketball are saturated with teams. The best players go D1. Lacrosse only has 75 D1 programs. Top level kids end up at better D3 programs than low level D1.
Yes Jumbo, this is sarcasm. There were some ignorant clowns on here who think the discrepancy in play between D1 and D3 is the same for lacrosse as it is for football and basketball. Data pint #2,957 why this is asinine is that D3 teams not only scrimmage D1 teams, they scrimmage top level D1 teams. Of course no D3 team could beat UVA or Penn but the talent is comparable enough that those D1 powers feel it is worth their while and good training to play top D3 teams. In football, the worst FBS team, let's say my home state UConn, would so thrash the D3 champ that it would be literally physically unsafe to even play the game.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:52 am
by DeepPocket
Ladies and gentlemen. One week from today, meaningful Win/Loss lacrosse will be played. That is all.
Re: Starts dates for D3 teams
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:12 am
by laxdad1434
pcowlax wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:12 am
Jumbo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:56 pm
pcowlax wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:33 pm
As has been said, what difference really is there between college lacrosse and football and basketball? I love seeing the results of the annual pre-season Ohio St. vs Mt. Union scrimmage.
Is this sarcasm? NCAA football and basketball are saturated with teams. The best players go D1. Lacrosse only has 75 D1 programs. Top level kids end up at better D3 programs than low level D1.
Yes Jumbo, this is sarcasm. There were some ignorant clowns on here who think the discrepancy in play between D1 and D3 is the same for lacrosse as it is for football and basketball. Data pint #2,957 why this is asinine is that D3 teams not only scrimmage D1 teams, they scrimmage top level D1 teams. Of course no D3 team could beat UVA or Penn but the talent is comparable enough that those D1 powers feel it is worth their while and good training to play top D3 teams. In football, the worst FBS team, let's say my home state UConn, would so thrash the D3 champ that it would be literally physically unsafe to even play the game.
Cortland, North Central, Wartburg would beat Stony Brook, Western Illinois, The Citadel...But that was never the point.
The point was there's a reason for different divisions. In most cases, the kids, are bigger, faster, stronger in all D1 sports.