Men's Lax Final

[thornski]

Always painful and vomit-inducing to see the Orange win anything.

sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3413075


If there's any silver lining, hopefully my sister who goes to JHU will begin to hate Syracuse as much as we do....

[HometownHoya]

There is a discussion about it going on in the 2008 Lacrosse thread in the Georgetown sports section.

I'm not sure what we are lacking (since on paper we are there), but on the field, it doesn't look like our team could be there

[hoyarooter]

Yes, it is unfortunate, but Syracuse does have a long and storied history of lacrosse success. Jim Brown was supposedly a better lacrosse player than football player, which maybe makes him the best lacrosse player ever. I'll leave that to the lacrosse experts to decide.

[DFW HOYA]

I was too young to see him play, but everything I've read about Jim Brown suggests he may have been the best pure athlete of the last half century.

Here's a feature on Jim Brown and lacrosse.

nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/7903131/site/21683474/

[Elvado]

A great actor and wife-beater as well.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

question does this help us hurt us or have no impact on the future of a big east lacrosse conference? I'm worried this may hurt it's chances of getting created. I mean cuse has been like ND and football and wanting to retain their independent status. But then they had a down year and they were willing to jump on board. now they've won the national title again. do they back track and realize they don't need us and remain independent?

[hoya4ever]

That's a good point but I think the fact that they already seemed so enthralled by the idea means that because of public opinion they might stay on.

Obviously they are not locked in or anything, but it would not be good if they vacilate too much.