Lacrosse 2012

[Josh '99]

I think by virtue of having bought lax tickets for a Cornell NCAA game or the Faceoff Classic, this comes from M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Anybody else get this? Anybody understand how it relates to lacrosse? "The fastest destructive sport on 8-foot wheels"?

>>> The Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam, Path of Destruction M&T Bank Stadium Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 7:00 P.M
Welcome to Monster Jam, an incredible family-friendly experience starring the biggest performers on four wheels: Monster Jam monster trucks.  These twelve-feet-tall, ten-thousand-pound machines will bring you to your feet, racing and ripping up a custom-designed track full of obstacles to soar over - OR smash through.  Monster Jam provides a massive night's entertainment tailored perfectly for your family's budget, and these colorful, larger-than-life beasts are sure to capture the hearts of both young and old. Plus this summer, the biggest Monster Jam superstars will unleash big air and car-crushing carnage when they hit Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium on June 2nd with the Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam Path of Destruction tour.

Only communists don't enjoy monster trucks.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

FWIW I got one, too.

[KenP]

FWIW I got one, too.

How do you like your monster truck Jeff?  Is it really twelve feet tall?  Have you achieved car-crushing carnage yet?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

FWIW I got one, too.

How do you like your monster truck Jeff?  Is it really twelve feet tall?  Have you achieved car-crushing carnage yet?

My monster truck is 'Murican as apple pie.

[billhoward]

Michigan gets its first win in first varsity lacrosse season, 14-4 over Mercer, in Florida. Now 1-5. http://www.annarbor.com/sports/michigan-lacrosse-gets-first-win-russell-is-u-ms-first-4-time-big-ten-wrestling-champ-and-more-sunda/  

Michigan is playing its home games indoors at Oosgterbaan Field House, a 40-year-old building with FieldTurf added and seating for 800 and now this year 1000 students. http://www.mgoblue.com/facilities/oosterbaan-field-house.html Its real purpose is explained by the name of the adjacent building: Schembechler Hall

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[billhoward]

In the USILA poll for 3/5/12, Cornell vaults from seventh to third, behind Virginia and Johns Hopkins. Inside Lacrosse (sorry, Nike Inside Lacrosse) still third with one first-place vote and five Ivy League schools in the top 20.

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USILA  http://www.usila.org/polls.html
Divison I - Week 3
March 5, 2012
 
Rank Team Record Points Previous Week  
1 Virginia 5-0           180(9) 1
2 Johns Hopkins 4-0      168 2
3 Cornell 2-0            154 7
4 Maryland 3-0           151 5
5 UMass 4-0              149 6
6 Syracuse 2-1           138 3
7 Notre Dame  2-1        117 9
8 North Carolina 4-1     102 4
9 Loyola 3-0             100 11
10 Penn State  3-1        98 13
11 Duke 3-2               85 10
12 Villanova 3-1          79 8
13 Denver 3-1             73 14
14 Princeton 2-1          63 12
15 Yale 2-0               62 16
16 Lehigh 4-1             54 nr
17 Fairfield 4-0          38 20
18 Delaware 3-3           24 nr
19 Hofstra 2-2            11 nr
20 Ohio State  3-2         9 17
Also receiving votes: Harvard, Drexel, Dartmouth, Colgate, Army

Inside Lacrosse http://insidelacrosse.com/rankpoll/d1media/2012-02-20

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Rank  Team                        Points 1st Place Votes  
1 UVA University of Virginia         437 20  
2 JHU Johns Hopkins University       408 1  
3 CORNELL Cornell University         392 1  
4 ND University of Notre Dame        363    
5 UNC University of North Carolina   360    
6 SYRACUSE Syracuse University       327    
7 MARYLAND University of Maryland    301    
8 DUKE Duke University               280    
9 VILLANOVA Villanova University     258    
10 UMASS University of Massachusetts 228    
11 DENVER University of Denver       209    
12 OSU Ohio State University         192    
13 HOFSTRA Hofstra University        140    
14 PRINCETON Princeton University    139    
15 HARVARD Harvard University        110    
16 LOYOLA Loyola University           87    
17 PENN University of Pennsylvania    84    
18 YALE Yale University               70    
19 COLGATE Colgate University         60    
20 PSU Penn State University          57    
Also Receiving Votes
Drexel University , University of Delaware , Bucknell University , Fairfield University , Georgetown University , Siena College , Army , University of Hartford , Robert Morris University , Navy ,  


[Al DeFlorio]

Not sure why Penn should be in the top 20 given record to date.

[billhoward]

Not sure why Penn should be in the top 20 given record to date.

The pro-Southern lax bias starts around the Delaware River.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Not sure why Penn should be in the top 20 given record to date.

The pro-Southern lax bias starts around the Delaware River.

But it usually seems to work only if you're east of it, i.e. Princeton. ::innocent::

[Towerroad]

Michigan gets its first win in first varsity lacrosse season, 14-4 over Mercer, in Florida. Now 1-5. http://www.annarbor.com/sports/michigan-lacrosse-gets-first-win-russell-is-u-ms-first-4-time-big-ten-wrestling-champ-and-more-sunda/  

Michigan is playing its home games indoors at Oosgterbaan Field House, a 40-year-old building with FieldTurf added and seating for 800 and now this year 1000 students. http://www.mgoblue.com/facilities/oosterbaan-field-house.html Its real purpose is explained by the name of the adjacent building: Schembechler Hall

[clear]

This is so not right. Lacrosse should be played outdoors in almost any weather if the weather dictates a postponement so be it, that is the way the Lacrosse gods meant the game to be played. There should be a rule, even if we need to grandfather Syracuse and their wussy dome.

[Jim Hyla]

Michigan gets its first win in first varsity lacrosse season, 14-4 over Mercer, in Florida. Now 1-5. http://www.annarbor.com/sports/michigan-lacrosse-gets-first-win-russell-is-u-ms-first-4-time-big-ten-wrestling-champ-and-more-sunda/  

Michigan is playing its home games indoors at Oosgterbaan Field House, a 40-year-old building with FieldTurf added and seating for 800 and now this year 1000 students. http://www.mgoblue.com/facilities/oosterbaan-field-house.html Its real purpose is explained by the name of the adjacent building: Schembechler Hall

[clear]

This is so not right. Lacrosse should be played outdoors in almost any weather if the weather dictates a postponement so be it, that is the way the Lacrosse gods meant the game to be played. There should be a rule, even if we need to grandfather Syracuse and their wussy dome.

And the field should go from treeline to treeline, the sticks should be wooden with pockets such that you can actually knock the ball free. But I don't think any of those things will happen either.:-}

[Al DeFlorio]

Michigan gets its first win in first varsity lacrosse season, 14-4 over Mercer, in Florida. Now 1-5. http://www.annarbor.com/sports/michigan-lacrosse-gets-first-win-russell-is-u-ms-first-4-time-big-ten-wrestling-champ-and-more-sunda/  

Michigan is playing its home games indoors at Oosgterbaan Field House, a 40-year-old building with FieldTurf added and seating for 800 and now this year 1000 students. http://www.mgoblue.com/facilities/oosterbaan-field-house.html Its real purpose is explained by the name of the adjacent building: Schembechler Hall

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Actually, its purpose is revealed by its own name.  Bennie Oosterbaan was Michigan's football coach in the 40s and 50s, and was All-American in both football and basketball at Michigan.

[Josh '99]

Not sure why Penn should be in the top 20 given record to date.

There's a ton of discrepancy between those two polls; turns out it's because the Inside Lacrosse poll Bill posted is from February 20th.  Here's the current Nike/IL poll, in which we're still 3rd but don't have any first-place votes (and which for some reason has 20 voters when the 2/20 poll had 22 and the 2/27 poll had 24).

[Towerroad]

Michigan gets its first win in first varsity lacrosse season, 14-4 over Mercer, in Florida. Now 1-5. http://www.annarbor.com/sports/michigan-lacrosse-gets-first-win-russell-is-u-ms-first-4-time-big-ten-wrestling-champ-and-more-sunda/  

Michigan is playing its home games indoors at Oosgterbaan Field House, a 40-year-old building with FieldTurf added and seating for 800 and now this year 1000 students. http://www.mgoblue.com/facilities/oosterbaan-field-house.html Its real purpose is explained by the name of the adjacent building: Schembechler Hall

[clear]

This is so not right. Lacrosse should be played outdoors in almost any weather if the weather dictates a postponement so be it, that is the way the Lacrosse gods meant the game to be played. There should be a rule, even if we need to grandfather Syracuse and their wussy dome.

And the field should go from treeline to treeline, the sticks should be wooden with pockets such that you can actually knock the ball free. But I don't think any of those things will happen either.:-}

I am not a complete Luddite. I have no problem with the modern sticks although I learned with a wooden one nor do I mind the current field size. But for me Lacrosse has been a harbinger of spring. It starts cold and nasty and with luck ends in the sunshine of Memorial Day. I feel the same way about baseball. You need to be a little tough to play spring sports in the North but you need to be tough to play Lacrosse. If you want to play inside take up basket ball or box lacrosse.

[Swampy]

Word is, Pannell out until mid-April at the earliest and barring a miracle. ::bang::