Men's lax to play UVA

[ithacat]

...and tidbits on SU and an extension for JT.

http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/SPORTS/806120341/1006

[Josh '99]

Cornell and Syracuse first met in 1920, and have played 93 times since, marking one of the oldest rivalries in college lacrosse. The two programs have won a combined 13 national championships.

I hate to make fun of our program like this, but isn't that like saying "Greg and Mike Maddux have won a combined 389 MLB games"?

[KeithK]

[quote Josh '99]

Cornell and Syracuse first met in 1920, and have played 93 times since, marking one of the oldest rivalries in college lacrosse. The two programs have won a combined 13 national championships.

I hate to make fun of our program like this, but isn't that like saying "Greg and Mike Maddux have won a combined 389 MLB games"?[/quote]
It's probably closer to Phil (318) and Joe (221) Niekro.  Three championships is nothing to sneeze at; Mike Maddux's 39 wins is.

[je08]

[quote KeithK][quote Josh '99]

Cornell and Syracuse first met in 1920, and have played 93 times since, marking one of the oldest rivalries in college lacrosse. The two programs have won a combined 13 national championships.

I hate to make fun of our program like this, but isn't that like saying "Greg and Mike Maddux have won a combined 389 MLB games"?[/quote]
It's probably closer to Phil (318) and Joe (221) Niekro.  Three championships is nothing to sneeze at; Mike Maddux's 39 wins is.[/quote]

I like saying Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. combined to hit 752 HR.  Percentage-wise, 152/752 is pretty close to 3/13.

[Josh '99]

Yeah, I'm sure there are better examples, I just didn't have time to hunt them down.  I agree that three championships is nothing to sneeze at, but phrasing it as "combined for 13 championships" to me implies a more equal distribution of those 13.

[ugarte]

There was an ex-broadcaster or coach who used to say that he and Wilt Chamberlain "once combined for 112 points."

[billhoward]

[quote ugarte]There was an ex-broadcaster or coach who used to say that he and Wilt Chamberlain "once combined for 112 points."[/quote]
And 5006 partners.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[quote ithacat]...and tidbits on SU and an extension for JT.

http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/SPORTS/806120341/1006[/quote]

This is unfrigginbelievable. Seriously. I never thought I'd see the day when one of the established southern lacrosse superpowers would dare to play Cornell in a fair, home-and-home series again. My first thought was that this was the first such series since Cornell played Maryland a while back, but a far more knowledgable source said that the Terps insisted on two games in College Park for every game in Ithaca -- an agreement typical of the bullshit that Cornell has had to put up with in recent years, when the only games against ACC teams have emerged from agreements yielding spring break road games with no reciprocal home games. So I suppose the last fair, home-and-home series against a southern superpower was the iconic series against Johns Hopkins that lapsed in the early 1980s.

The timing couldn't be better. Virginia is in a good position to be a top-ranked team for the next few years.

So here's what I don't understand: Why, as rumored, did Princeton drop their annual game with the Cavs? Without the Tigers dropping Virginia, a Cornell-UVA series may not have happened.

[TimV]

Easy one.

Virginia got disatisfied with playing the perrenial number two team in the Ivies...:-D:-D

[billhoward]

Could it be UVA coach Dom Starsia is one of the true gentleman coaches of lacrosse, and being a Brown grad, has a soft spot in his heart for the Ivies? Not to replay a question more than three decades old, but: How did Starsia ever escape Richie Moran's recruiting web?

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]Could it be UVA coach Dom Starsia is one of the true gentleman coaches of lacrosse, and being a Brown grad, has a soft spot in his heart for the Ivies? Not to replay a question more than three decades old, but: How did Starsia ever escape Richie Moran's recruiting web?[/quote]
Cornell and UVA lacrosse go back a long way.  Cornell's 1971 NCAA championship team lost its season opener at UVA, then won thirten straight.

[Swampy]

[quote billhoward]Could it be UVA coach Dom Starsia is one of the true gentleman coaches of lacrosse, and being a Brown grad, has a soft spot in his heart for the Ivies? Not to replay a question more than three decades old, but: How did Starsia ever escape Richie Moran's recruiting web?[/quote]

I think Starsia was a football player who picked up lacrosse after he started at Brown.

[ben03]

yup, see bottom of UVA's Starsia bio page

"Starsia is a graduate of Valley Stream Central High School, where he was an outstanding football player. He had never seen a lacrosse game before entering Brown as a student in 1970. Showing natural talent for the game, however, he became one of the best defensemen in school history."

definitely appears to be cut from the same cloth as Simmons (Sr & Jr) and Urick and is the gentlemen's gentleman.

for some coaching antonym's see Mike Pressler or ::asshole:: Bill Tierney

[Al DeFlorio]

Some interesting stuff here on the Vail (lacrosse) Shootout, where the "elite" competition was won by a "Cornell-based" team: http://insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=191084

[Al DeFlorio]

Myers gets another year of eligibility: http://blogs.insidelacrosse.com/2008/07/21/cornells-myers-receives-fifth-year/

Article also reports Dartmouth's faceoff guy (who graduated) going to Virginia in order to get his year of eligibility.