Lax All-Americans

[Swampy]

the right player won the Tewaaraton ... it's awarded for the entirety of the season. Stanwick ended our season and won a NC ... pretty simple - he wins.

This seems like a contradiction - it sounds like you're actually basing your position on a single game (the UVa-Cornell playoff game) rather than the entire season.  Over the entire season, it's very clear that Panell had a better year than Stanwick.

Actually, it boils down to a single quarter: the disastrous (for us) second. We outscored UVa the rest of the game.

[ben03]

Look .. I wanted Pannell to win as much as the rest of us, trust me.

But Stanwick almost single-handedly put UVA on his back and brought them back against Bucknell (3G/5A), destroyed us head-to-head (3G/4A), had a solid game vs. Denver (3G/2A) and one could say he laid a pretty big egg with (0G/1A) in the Final. On balance it was a two horse race coming into the NCAA and it would be tough to argue UVA didn't play a tougher schedule with Stanwick injured for some of the season plus all the drama et al. Pannell OTOH, was pretty red hot most of the year but couldn't finish out strong. I think if we played another game he wins ... but we didn't.

[Al DeFlorio]

On balance it was a two horse race coming into the NCAA...

I'd say it was pretty much a given it was a one-horse race coming into the NCAA.  Stanwick's NCAA performance--and it was terrific--is what made it a two horse race.  Note that three of the four voters in the Inside Lacrosse staff debate chose Pannell as attackman of the year, as did the USILA, and the latter gave Pannell player of the year.

http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2011/06/14/staff-debate-best-position-players-2011#comment-519909