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Kosty
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Ohio State is in our new conference right? Wouldn't they then be coming to Amherst next year?
And why did we give up a home game to play in Snorrs??? What sense does that make....just so we can keep the Georgetown game on the schedule?? Ugh. |
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Mass Grad
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| I counted 6 home games not counting E. Hartford against Georgetown. Where am I wrong. |
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MassMan06
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| Must have been updated. I remember counting 5 earlier as well. |
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| Kosty wrote: | Ohio State is in our new conference right? Wouldn't they then be coming to Amherst next year?
And why did we give up a home game to play in Snorrs??? What sense does that make....just so we can keep the Georgetown game on the schedule?? Ugh. |
Ohio State is in the western lax conference with Denver, Notre Dame, and Air Force. While a diecent lax program they don't have the pull of a Hopkins/UVA/Cuse to demand one way games so I'd assume that OSU will play in Amherst in 2011.
Rumor is the Georgetown game was put in East Hartford as a catalyst to get a varsity UConn lax program going. My only guess is that UMass lax is getting some money from somebody to play the game there and perhaps a scheduling guarantee with a future UConn program.
Personally I'm still disappointed that UMass and Cornell still can't find a way to hook-up in the regular season. |
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Crank
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^Wonderful  We get to be a participant in helping conU set up a D1 lax program so they can jump right into the new Big East conference while our established program gets shafted into a second-tier league. Maybe I'm an alarmist, but what the Fuck?! |
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npt3
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| Crank wrote: | | ^Wonderful We get to be a participant in helping conU set up a D1 lax program so they can jump right into the new Big East conference while our established program gets shafted into a second-tier league. Maybe I'm an alarmist, but what the Fuck?! |
First off, all speculation. The whole idea of this game being a "catalyst" (posted accurately as rumor) for a UConn program sounds goofy anyway, but at the same time I can't think of any reason we would not play this game at Garber (where we'd get the entire gate, concessions, a packed house, and an exciting atmosphere to showcase our program for recruits). A great disappointment that it's not a true home game, as well as a five-game home schedule.
As for the CAA being a second-tier league, that's just a load of hooey - anyone who thinks a league with Penn State, UMass, Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra and Towson is smoking crack. Ivy League was only "Princeton and Cornell and those other guys" until Tiffany and Tillman revived their programs rather recently; the new ECAC is arguably weaker without us and Penn State; ACC lax barely qualifies as a league with four teams in it; and America East and the MAAC are not as strong, top-to-bottom, as the BE, CAA or Ivy. Big East lax is was built from the ground up to be a marquee league, especially with the bonus of 'Nova springing to life last season, but that doesn't render everyone else as 'second-rate.' We could have done A. Lot. Worse. than the CAA.
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InnervisionsUMASS
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If us helping UCONN get a Lax program gets a UMASS-UCONN game back on the schedule every year, I'm all for it.
Otherwise, screw them. |
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Jackman
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| npt3 wrote: | | As for the CAA being a second-tier league, that's just a load of hooey - anyone who thinks a league with Penn State, UMass, Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra and Towson is smoking crack. |
This doesn't really help your point (which is missing a couple words), but St. Joseph's is joining up too.
Really the big loss in this transaction was losing the Syracuse series. Other than that... eh. |
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npt3
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| Jackman wrote: | | npt3 wrote: | | As for the CAA being a second-tier league, that's just a load of hooey - anyone who thinks a league with Penn State, UMass, Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra and Towson is smoking crack. |
This doesn't really help your point (which is missing a couple words), but St. Joseph's is joining up too.
Really the big loss in this transaction was losing the Syracuse series. Other than that... eh. |
Insert "is weak is" between "Towson" and "is". 
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I guess I put it a little too harshly, but I can't shake the feeling that this ECAC/Big East/CAA league shakeup is just the beginning of a familiar road that we've been down before with basketball. The first few years of the Eastern 8/Atlantic 10 where we had schools such as Penn State, Pitt, Villanova, West Virginia only to see them leave for greener pastures while we remained behind in an increasingly less relevant league. I'd hate to see us, as one of the long time pioneering lax schools, end up pushed down the ladder just as the sport is taking off in popularity.
Sorry to be a such a downer, but I fear I've read this script before. |
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Kosty
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| I tend to agree with Crank on this one. This smells like a total setup and us being stuck in the CAA for now will only lead to bad things for the lax team in the future as the Big East continues to grow and the possibility of the ACC expanding to more than 4 teams. |
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InnervisionsUMASS
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| This all comes down to football. Plain and simple. We solve that problem, then we don't have to worry about the other sports conference affiliations. |
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Jack
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Uconn is not likley to be playing scholarship lax anytime soon. they havea total of 2 scholarships for hockey and had to eliminate cheerleader schollies.
I agree w/Crank. Yet again Massachusetts looks to be poorly positioned to take advantage of the league shake ups. |
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