Cornell-Syracuse lacrosse game thread

[nshapiro]

What about changing to the women's standing faceoff it seems much harder to be totally dominant

[rss77]

The rules committee has attempted to reduce the importance of a dominant FOGO over the years through rules adjustments. It hasn't worked out as a good FOGO can always make adjustments.  To address Cornell's issues their wing play on faceoffs has been a weak point also.

[CU77]

Good FOGOS are quick enough to clamp the ball a high percentage of the time. This could be eliminated by changing the rule to have a starting position where both FOGO stick heads are flat on the ground. The quicker FOGO could get to the ball first, but would rarely be able to clamp it before the other knocks it away. This would turn almost all faceoffs into 50-50 ground balls.

[Swampy]

The rules committee has attempted to reduce the importance of a dominant FOGO over the years through rules adjustments. It hasn't worked out as a good FOGO can always make adjustments.  To address Cornell's issues their wing play on faceoffs has been a weak point also.

But this is puzzling. Faceoff wing players use skills that all players, even goalies, need to have. Admittedly goalies less than others, but for the rest there's speed, ground ball play, ball handling, riding, etc. Nothing really unique to faceoff wing play.

Cornell played on a very high level last year and has a roster filled with elite-level players. I don't know what explains the drop in the quality of our faceoff wings.

[upprdeck]

i think its also a function of where the x puts the ground ball..  if you cant get it you need to move it to where your help is