Cornell lacrosse 2018

[scoop85]

Welcome to our friends from LaxPower.  If that forum does fold we'll have plenty of discussion over here.

[dag14]

And there is a lot of crossover; I have enjoyed both forums [fora?] for years.  Although with a very different user name on laxpower.

[Scersk '97]

Were you one of the JHUxxxx? My favorite in joke on that forum.

[dag14]

Nope; sorry

[KenP]

Will there be enough people and conversation threads to warrant a separate lax forum?  Who / how would that happen?

[Swampy]

Will there be enough people and conversation threads to warrant a separate lax forum?  Who / how would that happen?

The forum over at Laxpower has Cornell lacrosse as only a single topic. But it resets every year: the current Cornell thread is Cornell 2018. The Cornell 2017 topic closed at the end of last season, but you can still read it.

A few schools have 2 topics. JHU, for example, has a Johns Hopkins Recruits topic and a Johns Hopkins 2018 topic. I haven't spent any time with either, but from comments people have made on the Cornell topic, I gather having more topics does not necessarily correlate with having better conversation.

A major loss, should Laxpower end its forums, would be some of the crossover between schools. The Ivy League topic is quite good. And although conversations on each Ivy school's topic is understandably homerish, there's also considerable positive commentary from persons affiliated with other Ivies and with other schools. Some are extremely knowledgeable about the sport; others may have interesting information because of where they live, etc. For example, I'm thinking of one person who, IIRC, played at Dartmouth and whose son plays for Harvard. Others from the Bal'more or Long Island often have good information about recruits, etc.

[lakerlaxfan]

While sitting here bored at work for a 12 hr shift I'm looking at the schedule and thinking 2018 will be a good year for the Big Red. I really think they can go 12-4 or 11-5. With possibly 3 out of the 4 to 5 losses being close enough to win the games.
Colgate-W
Hobart-W
Albany- L. #40 will have to make 30 saves and we will have to go at least 50% at the x and shoot very well to have a chance at this one.
Binghamton-W
Penn State-L but this is one I think we have a good chance.
Yale- L another one I think we have a good chance .
U Penn-W
AFA-W
Dartmouth-W
Harvard-W
Cuse-L another one we have a chance .
Lehigh-W
Brown-W
Princeton-W/L

[TimV]

I'm not as optimistic as you are.  Think Penn should be a toss-up like you have Princeton.  Why do we have a better chance vs Yale than Syracuse?  Weakness in net for Yale?

[lakerlaxfan]

To Me Yale and Cuse are both toss ups. I can see us winning both of those games if we play well as I can see us losing if we don't shoot well. Both teams will have new starters in the goal.

[semsox]

I'm with lakerlaxfan. Anyone who was not the biggest fan of Kerwick is probably very bullish on this team, particularly with Teat leading the offense. Wouldn't be shocked with an NCAA appearance

[lakerlaxfan]

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/2018-face-off-yearbook-ivy-league-outlook-preseason-all-conference/51086

I think we are much better than this. But of course it is IL. Also I think we have a few players that will be recognized once the games begin. Can't wait until the Feb 10th scrimmage to get here.

[upprdeck]

coaches poll has penn at 18 and brown at 20 and yale at 5..  pretty far off this poll that has penn at 6th in the league.. we would probably be around 30-40 if the USILA poll went that far

[TimV]

We're Wayyyy underestimated.

Good.::uptosomething::

[billhoward]

We're Wayyyy underestimated.
Good.::uptosomething::

Happened to men's hockey this year, too.

[CU77]

Yes, I'm very much hoping the lax team can replicate the unexpected success of the hockey team this year ...