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Post by LizziebethHoya on Apr 23, 2011 19:06:33 GMT -5
Wow. This season is now officially disappointing.
I respect and thank Urick for all he has done for the program, but if we are going to be a serious lax school I think it may be time for a change.
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Post by hoya4ever on Apr 23, 2011 21:53:46 GMT -5
For the first time in many seasons, I agree with Lizzie about Urick. What's going on coach?
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Post by FrazierFanatic on May 2, 2011 9:57:55 GMT -5
Wow. This season is now officially disappointing. I respect and thank Urick for all he has done for the program, but if we are going to be a serious lax school I think it may be time for a change. +1 |
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 4, 2011 12:14:56 GMT -5
Washington Times on the Hoyas' four one goal losses this season: "The six teams Georgetown defeated --- Jacksonville, St. John's, Providence, Navy, Mount St. Mary's and Rutgers --- own a combined record of 28-53. Only Mount St. Mary's (7-6) has a winning record. The seven teams the Hoyas lost to --- Maryland, Harvard, Syracuse, Duke, Notre Dame, Loyola and Yale --- are a combined 72-22. Each owns at least eight wins." Bottom line, as the article points out, a tough schedule did the team no favors this season. www.washingtontimes.com/blog/d1scourse/2011/may/4/hoyas-rueing-one-goal-losses-entering-finale/ |
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 13, 2011 13:34:46 GMT -5
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Post by hoyaLS05 on May 13, 2011 14:20:09 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thinks AD as an abbreviation for "Associate Director" is really misleading? When I first saw this posted the other day, I thought he was THE new athletic director at UDC. Granted, I should perhaps have thought that fishy, to go from assistant lacrosse coach to athletic director, but very misleading PR. |
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Post by Guest on May 13, 2011 16:34:09 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thinks AD as an abbreviation for "Associate Director" is really misleading? When I first saw this posted the other day, I thought he was THE new athletic director at UDC. Granted, I should perhaps have thought that fishy, to go from assistant lacrosse coach to athletic director, but very misleading PR. Nope I made the same mistake. on twitter. in public. |
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Post by LizziebethHoya on May 30, 2011 16:59:00 GMT -5
UVA takes the championship even though they did not play well for most of the season and they dismissed their two "superstar" brothers from the team for violating team rules.
Just goes to show what a little teamwork can do.
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Post by WilsonBlvdHoya on May 30, 2011 17:05:42 GMT -5
UVA takes the championship even though they did not play well for most of the season and they dismissed their two "superstar" brothers from the team for violating team rules. Just goes to show what a little teamwork can do. *sigh* This and signing Steele Stanwick, who decided he didn't want to follow his sisters at Georgetown!!! *sigh* |
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Post by LizziebethHoya on May 30, 2011 18:10:10 GMT -5
*sigh* This and signing Steele Stanwick, who decided he didn't want to follow his sisters at Georgetown!!! *sigh* Can't say anyone here could blame him. |
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 30, 2011 19:06:50 GMT -5
*sigh* This and signing Steele Stanwick, who decided he didn't want to follow his [three siblings] at Georgetown!!! *sigh* Or Greg Paulus. |
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Post by LizziebethHoya on May 30, 2011 21:58:17 GMT -5
*sigh* This and signing Steele Stanwick, who decided he didn't want to follow his [three siblings] at Georgetown!!! *sigh* Or Greg Paulus. In Greg's defense, he committed to Duke when Esh. was still the coach |
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Post by HometownHoya on May 31, 2011 8:34:06 GMT -5
UVA takes the championship even though they did not play well for most of the season and they dismissed their two "superstar" brothers from the team for violating team rules. Just goes to show what a little teamwork can do. I don't think that this is just it. UVA was a team that was beaten and out. Anyone who followed college lax didn't think UVA was making it with 6-7 games left in the season. The cause of this team winning is not a great player, "Steele Stanwick", or even just great team work. I believe the success of this UVA team is laid all on Dom Starsia's shoulders. In all of his years of coaching, he has NEVER played a zone. Yet he switched to one part way through the year and it covered up some of their weaknesses. UMD was unable to break that zone all day yesterday. Another coaching success was a change in the mentality of the team. They knew they hit rock bottom so Starsia just rebuilt everything from the bottom up. A team that is usually based upon stellar midfield play needed balance on all sides. Even in the title game...Stanwick only had two points I believe. I think a major difference between our season and UVA's season is the margin of victory. While UVA's losses were deep and demoralizing, we were losing by 1 or leading most of the game, giving us a misplaced confidence. Lacrosse is a coach's sport and Urick was at one time one of the best. UVA's go to play (3 cutters across the net, 1 curling back around), is pretty much unstoppable. Even UMD has a play they call "Pride", aka their Pride and Joy, that 1 play that you run thousands of times, that you can run with your eyes closed. That play needs to be effective and get you that 1 goal you need not to lose by one. I hope Urick comes back to the top of his profession soon but its a growing sport with an increasing number of coaches. Not sure where I'm going with this but just a bit of a rant. I don't think we should fire Urick quite yet but Denver shows you the importance of an elite coach. Georgetown is still known as a lacrosse school but if we continue being 3rd-4th fiddle in the BE and missing the NCAAs, we will get recruits like that and the lax community will start to look down upon Gtown (which will happen). PS What year was our starting Goalie this year? |
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Post by RusskyHoya on May 31, 2011 9:35:03 GMT -5
Even UMD has a play they call "Pride", aka their Pride and Joy, that 1 play that you run thousands of times, that you can run with your eyes closed. That play needs to be effective and get you that 1 goal you need not to lose by one. I hope Urick comes back to the top of his profession soon but its a growing sport with an increasing number of coaches. Now now, I know for a fact Georgetown has a play called "Saxa" that I have heard them run multiple times in the past. Granted, from what I could tell, it consisted solely of Brendan Cannon running back and forth behind the goal until he got bored and decided to try to score. But still, the existence of "Saxa" implies that there must also be a "Hoya" as well! |
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Post by HometownHoya on May 31, 2011 11:10:30 GMT -5
Thats fine Russky, I fully expect us to have such a play. The question is 1) why weren't we running it in the final minutes of games to secure victory if not OT or 2) If we are, why is it not effective. Is it just not a good play? Can the players not execute it well enough? Or are the players just not skilled enough to execute such a play? Given our recruiting I believe it is one of the first two. But that lands on the Coaches, either its a bad play or they didn't practice it enough to make the players be able to sleep walk through it.
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Post by RusskyHoya on May 31, 2011 13:22:03 GMT -5
Hmm, I must not have calibrated my Sarcasm Dispenser properly this morning. Let me be more direct: I'm pretty sure "Saxa" is lacrosse-speak for "shotgun draw." It is widely known and bemoaned that our offense is as stale as a Philly Pizza crust after a couple of weeks on a Village A rooftop. One of my Hoya Blue fellows commented during a game that he ran a more complex and creative offensive scheme with the little kids he coached... and everyone around us laughed ruefully and nodded in agreement.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Jun 1, 2011 7:27:39 GMT -5
The play is particularly ineffective without Brendan Cannon to run it.
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Post by dchead on Jun 14, 2011 18:30:14 GMT -5
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Post by nychoya3 on Jun 14, 2011 19:45:14 GMT -5
Ugh. He was our best offensive player last year and our best returning player. Is he eligible immediately? Don't know the rules for lacrosse?
Definitely a bad omen for next season and for the course of a program that has gotten way off track the past five years.
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Post by LizziebethHoya on Jun 14, 2011 20:08:07 GMT -5
Well, I was wondering if the school was going to make any off-season changes to show commitment to the lax program, and this just answered the question for me.
So sad.
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