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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jan 22, 2024 9:37:23 GMT -5
Season gets underway in two weeks against Providence at home.
This program is 2-26 over the past two seasons. Both wins have come against UMass Lowell, who is, fortunately, on the schedule this season.
In PL games over the past two seasons, we have been outscored by an average of 8.2 goals per game.
What are realistic expectations / goals for this season?
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Post by bfoley82 on Jan 22, 2024 11:56:33 GMT -5
Season gets underway in two weeks against Providence at home. This program is 2-26 over the past two seasons. Both wins have come against UMass Lowell, who is, fortunately, on the schedule this season. In PL games over the past two seasons, we have been outscored by an average of 8.2 goals per game. What are realistic expectations / goals for this season? I just went through the entire Patriot League Men's Lacrosse record book, Holy Cross has NEVER finished in the top four of the conference regular season standings. Lowell has a second year head coach this year so might not be an auto win anymore. |
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Post by hcpride on Jan 22, 2024 12:40:39 GMT -5
Season gets underway in two weeks against Providence at home. This program is 2-26 over the past two seasons. Both wins have come against UMass Lowell, who is, fortunately, on the schedule this season. In PL games over the past two seasons, we have been outscored by an average of 8.2 goals per game. What are realistic expectations / goals for this season? I just went through the entire Patriot League Men's Lacrosse record book, Holy Cross has NEVER finished in the top four of the conference regular season standings. Lowell has a second year head coach this year so might not be an auto win anymore. Eyeballing the newcomers I don't see a turnaround this year. But I do see Chaminade grad and HC frosh Jude Lynch is the younger brother of absolutely superb Notre Dame faceoff/middie Will Lynch. (Thought that was interesting.) |
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Post by purplehaze on Jan 25, 2024 11:54:58 GMT -5
Poll released today - will be a successful season if we can finish out of the cellar
2024 Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Preseason Poll
Army West Point – 126 (14 first-place votes)
Boston University – 103 (1)
Loyola Maryland – 99
Navy – 84 (1)
Lehigh – 82 (1)
Lafayette – 60 (1)
Bucknell – 44
Colgate - 33
Holy Cross – 17
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Post by bfoley82 on Jan 25, 2024 12:04:58 GMT -5
Poll released today - will be a successful season if we can finish out of the cellar 2024 Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Preseason Poll Army West Point – 126 (14 first-place votes) Boston University – 103 (1) Loyola Maryland – 99 Navy – 84 (1) Lehigh – 82 (1) Lafayette – 60 (1) Bucknell – 44 Colgate - 33 Holy Cross – 17 Zero players on the Preseason All-Conference Team also |
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jan 25, 2024 12:45:45 GMT -5
America U has six men's sports. No football, no hockey, no lacrosse, no baseball. When I look at the lack of success of our minor sports it makes me wonder what we're doing having so many sports.
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Post by crusader99 on Jan 25, 2024 13:22:33 GMT -5
giving essentially full paying students an opportunity to play college sports.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jan 25, 2024 13:31:42 GMT -5
giving essentially full paying students an opportunity to play college sports. True but full paying college students would be there without the financial burden of having an athletic team if they didn't exist. |
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Post by rgs318 on Jan 25, 2024 14:27:09 GMT -5
giving essentially full paying students an opportunity to play college sports. College sports at the D1 level. That is something for which many would pay. |
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Post by purplehaze on Jan 25, 2024 14:27:18 GMT -5
That's not the school's theory - HC adm thinks those full paying student athletes would be somewhere else and they want them on campus even though 'the team they play on wins about 25-35 pct of their contests' - Our school doesn't care to finish last in the overall league standings.
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Post by alum on Jan 25, 2024 16:40:52 GMT -5
America U has six men's sports. No football, no hockey, no lacrosse, no baseball. When I look at the lack of success of our minor sports it makes me wonder what we're doing having so many sports. AU is Only 36% male. |
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jan 25, 2024 16:54:28 GMT -5
America U has six men's sports. No football, no hockey, no lacrosse, no baseball. When I look at the lack of success of our minor sports it makes me wonder what we're doing having so many sports. Only 36% male. That's still about 3,000 males, a lot more than HC. |
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Post by hchoops on Jan 25, 2024 16:54:49 GMT -5
America U has six men's sports. No football, no hockey, no lacrosse, no baseball. When I look at the lack of success of our minor sports it makes me wonder what we're doing having so many sports. Only 36% male. AU males have to like that ratio |
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Post by timholycross on Jan 25, 2024 17:14:49 GMT -5
That's not the school's theory - HC adm thinks those full paying student athletes would be somewhere else and they want them on campus even though 'the team they play on wins about 25-35 pct of their contests' - Our school doesn't care to finish last in the overall league standings. I think you mean care if we finish last. |
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Post by hcpride on Jan 26, 2024 6:18:05 GMT -5
giving essentially full paying students an opportunity to play college sports. True but full paying college students would be there without the financial burden of having an athletic team if they didn't exist. That sounds like a logical rebuttal to the usual argument for having a (perennially) losing men’s lax squad and paying the associated costs (staff, transportation, equipment, facility…). BUT (essentially) full-paying males who are pretty good students are relatively rare in regards to HC admissions. There are about 45 men on the HC roster. [These considerations and this math may or may not be in play at other schools - or even HC women’s lax - so mileage will vary.] That’s the single best reason I can come up with (although certainly not the whole story) for the existence of this participatory team (and a few others) up at HC. |
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Post by crusader99 on Jan 26, 2024 6:53:44 GMT -5
Let’s be realistic. For years, the same could be said about the 80+ FBall and 20+ men’s hockey student athletes. Look at Men’s Hoops. Those 15 students cost the school way more than several of the olympic sports combined — with the return in terms of on the court results the same as mens lax, soccer etc… (excluding the years when most current college age male students were not yet born).
The discussion should be how to improve the team and program. This is the same analysis for all programs. The proper mix of coaching, recruiting and funding is what ADKH needs to achieve to continue to attract high level students and athletes that aspire to attend HC to play any of the sponsored teams.
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 27, 2024 16:17:05 GMT -5
True but full paying college students would be there without the financial burden of having an athletic team if they didn't exist. That sounds like a logical rebuttal to the usual argument for having a (perennially) losing men’s lax squad and paying the associated costs (staff, transportation, equipment, facility…). BUT (essentially) full-paying males who are pretty good students are relatively rare in regards to HC admissions. There are about 45 men on the HC roster. [These considerations and this math may or may not be in play at other schools - or even HC women’s lax - so mileage will vary.] That’s the single best reason I can come up with (although certainly not the whole story) for the existence of this participatory team (and a few others) up at HC. I like your analysis. I also think if HC doesn't offer graduate schools, nursing and other health fields, no or underdeveloped business and engineering programs, then it at least should be full service in what it does offer like D-1 athletics. |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jan 30, 2024 18:57:11 GMT -5
Poll released today - will be a successful season if we can finish out of the cellar 2024 Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Preseason Poll Army West Point – 126 (14 first-place votes) Boston University – 103 (1) Loyola Maryland – 99 Navy – 84 (1) Lehigh – 82 (1) Lafayette – 60 (1) Bucknell – 44 Colgate - 33 Holy Cross – 17 Matthew Sluka isn't walking through that door... |
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Post by rgs318 on Jan 30, 2024 19:37:06 GMT -5
He did last night for the HC/BU game.   |
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Post by hcpride on Jan 30, 2024 20:05:19 GMT -5
Wonder how UNLV would feel if he picked up a stick and played lax for us this spring. 😄 No doubt he’d be our best player.
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Post by rgs318 on Jan 31, 2024 6:17:13 GMT -5
That is certainly an interesting possibility to consider...though quite unlikely. |
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Post by purplehaze on Feb 4, 2024 12:18:34 GMT -5
Nice day for an opener at Fr. K field today vs Providence - two huge wins for the league yday as Loyola beat no.12 Georgetown 18-10 and Colgate won at no.4 Penn State 13-12
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Feb 4, 2024 13:21:56 GMT -5
Might be in for another long season.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 4, 2024 13:35:56 GMT -5
Difficult to watch. Down 8-1 in the second quarter.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 4, 2024 13:38:21 GMT -5
Now 8-2 ….looking slightly better.
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