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Post by campion109 on May 17, 2021 16:41:40 GMT -5
Watching the Men’s NCAA Tournament this weekend, it really struck me. Not long ago, we regularly played, competed and beat many of the teams in the NCAA Tournament, including some of the higher rated seeds. Now, we can’t win a game in conference. Have we dropped that far and that fast??!! Very sobering indeed...
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Post by stagz on May 19, 2021 21:35:22 GMT -5
Ugly season. Weakness at D especially, but also a very strong CAA. It was a joke that Delaware did not get an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament.
We are closer than results appear.
Have to give it a few more years (if we are heading in right direction with recruiting, etc., of course).
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Post by ctghostman on May 20, 2021 6:13:48 GMT -5
How does our talent stack up? How many top 50 recruits? How many top 100?
There are 74 D1 lax programs with a max of 12.6 scholarships each. 932 scholarships. 100 top 100 players per 4 years = 400 of these. Our program needs a share of these.
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Post by stags74 on May 20, 2021 7:53:12 GMT -5
Ugly season. Weakness at D especially, but also a very strong CAA. It was a joke that Delaware did not get an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament. We are closer than results appear. Have to give it a few more years (if we are heading in right direction with recruiting, etc., of course). I am not sure we are closer then the results appear. As Stag73 noted in a previous post a declining number of wins each year in the CAA a negative track record. I do agree the CAA is a very tough league and you need top level recruits to compete successfully. Like you I am willing to give Andrew Baxter more time to be successful. His first year was cut short by Covid and second season start delayed by Covid. However, every team in the nation faced similar obstacles. The difference at FF was the stags failed to overcome the same obstacles winning only two games against opponents that had a combined record of 1-21. IMO that really is not acceptable for year #2. |
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Post by FU73 on May 20, 2021 7:58:36 GMT -5
stags74 said, I am not sure we are closer then the results appear. As Stag73 noted in a previous post a declining number of wins each year in the CAA a negative track record.....
Stags in CAA (2015-2021) (11-22) (.333)
2021 (2-9)(0-8)
2020 (5-2)(0-0) Covid season CAA Season cancelled 3/17/2020
2019 (5-9)(0-5)
2018 (4-11)(1-4)
2017 (5-9)(2-3)
2016 (9-8)(4-1) Lost 2-4 to #11Towson in Championship Game
2015 (9-6)(4-1) Lost 8-9 to UMass in Semifinal Game
Since getting to the CAA Championship game as the CAA Regular Season Champions in 2015 and 2016, the Stags have won only 3 CAA games out of the last 20 CAA games that they played and have had two winless CAA seasons (2021, 2019).
The University opened the $16 million Rafferty Stadium on March 21, 2015. CAA Champions, MAAC Champions and Patriot Champions since 2015 season: CAA-Towson 4, UMASS 1, Drexel 1. MAAC-Marist 2, Monmouth 2, Quinnipiac 1, Canisius 1. Patriot Champions-Loyola MD 3, Colgate 1, Army 1, Lehigh 1.
Stag Men's Lacrosse
MAAC Lacrosse League Champions* (3): 1996, 1997, 1998
Great West Lacrosse League Champions* (2): 2002, 2005
ECAC Lacrosse League Regular Season Champions (1): 2014
CAA Regular Season Champions (2): 2015, 2016
NCAA Tournament Appearances (2): 2002, 2005
* Neither the MAAC or GWLL hosted a conference tournament in these years. The regular season champion was the overall conference champion.
Stag Women's Lacrosse
MAAC Regular Season Champions (13): 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
MAAC Tournament Champions (6): 2001, 2009, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021
NCAA Tournament Appearance (5): 2009, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021
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Post by terpstag on May 20, 2021 10:31:39 GMT -5
Fairfield simply waited too long before commiting resources to lacrosse. If the University had decided to go big in the early 2000's it would probably be a much different story today. In the 10 years Fairfield dithered many power 5 schools (Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State etc.) went all in. Now instead of just going against traditional Lacrosse programs we are fighting them and new programs at established athletic schools for a diluted pool of recruits.
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Post by Stagophile on May 20, 2021 11:40:58 GMT -5
Fairfield simply waited too long before commiting resources to lacrosse. If the University had decided to go big in the early 2000's it would probably be a much different story today. In the 10 years Fairfield dithered many power 5 schools (Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State etc.) went all in. Now instead of just going against traditional Lacrosse programs we are fighting them and new programs at established athletic schools for a diluted pool of recruits. Spot on! While we dithered others pounced on the opportunity. I chock up our early program success to one man, Coach Spencer, and the fortune of sitting in a lacrosse hotbed. It basically fell in our laps and we did nothing with it for much too long. |
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Post by stagz on May 21, 2021 9:13:11 GMT -5
I think we are all on the same page here. Yes, Fairfield was not strategic and quick enough when we had an advantage.
Kind of reminds me of the decision to sell the Mailands Road land, what a strategic blunder and lack of long-term vision! Now we are playing from behind buying houses on North Benson.
All being said, keep the faith and hope! We have incredible facilities and are still in a hot bed. If you look at the team this year, we were missing some stud defenders and a tenacious team defensive attitude.
We had some good scorers and some really good talent. Our goalie was a freshman and looks promising. Our face off guy competed well.
We need to fix the D, add some attitude, and never hurts to continue to add scorers, etc.
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Post by Stagophile on Jul 26, 2021 17:10:22 GMT -5
Just lost a quality Class of 2022 recruit (Michael Meyers, A, Northport, NY) who changed his commitment to Bucknell. Grrr... Still looks like a quality class coming with a couple of All-American defensemen.
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