just plain ouch

Only 3 months and 17 days until lacrosse season!

Though honestly, although it’s embarrassing, it still doesn’t count on the record. I just hope my fellow students don’t take this loss and make it into another pathetic turnout like football next week….

complete disgrace.they should use that new melo center to run sprints from now til midnight. and then run more tomorrow.

Also watched on SNY…

Played little to no D
The bigs are still big pansies. Neither could do anything inside and have yet to develop any moves. Oh well.
Wes Johnson: better than advertised
Triche is no Flynn. Had some bad turnovers, but showed he’ll be solid.
Turnovers….

It was a typical SU game. Uninspired play, got outhustled, bricked open shots, etc. Thankfully it doesn’t count, but the damage is done. That was pathetic and really puts a damper on this team going into the year.

For a team who thinks they’re inheriting the hot program that sent a sophomore to the #6 spot in the draft and have the best 2010 recruiting class and everything is A-OK time to go play and be given what’s theirs, this is great.

These clowns haven’t earned anything together. Nothing is bestowed upon a program because of its documented past and presumed future. If any of these kids have half the pride that it takes just to be a scholarship athlete, this loss will completely consume them to stay late after practice for 2 hours and run by themselves until they throw up. They will wake up before the sun rises and block everything into its appropriate compartment… school, gym, meals, socializing, stretching, and resting. They will be regimented and focused, because this is the most humiliating performance I can imagine.

Nothing against the LeMoyne team, who deserves every bit of glory they EARNED with this win. Fortunately for most of them, there are very few press clippings to skew their collective self-perception. At this point, they have to believe that a commitment to each other and the game itself will trump anything else they face. Regardless of how “flat” Syracuse may have been, this will hopefully do for LeMoyne and Syracuse the same thing:

It will teach them that at the end of the day, the only difference-maker is unadulterated commitment and hard work.

I won’t even wish best of luck to both teams, because if this game shows anything, it’s that luck is not a strategy. Instead, I’d like to wish them each the willpower to use this game as a springboard to taking no opportunity for granted.

this week is the worst ever for a syracuse fan.

Thankfully the selection committee won’t be looking at this. It’s not like Kentucky losing to Gardner-Webb two years in a row. It’s more like Izzo losing to Grand Valley State, which meant nothing (Sparty got a 5 seed that year if I recall).

But man, after this week, it really does feel like we just suck at everything. Ugh.

Syracuse was first on Sportscenter…..oh wait…fuck

Considering it’s two different college sports and are completely different animals, but Central New York’s other winter institution, Cornell hockey, lost an exhibition game and they’re still nationally ranked. Although with basketball it’s much more under the microscope, things will be fine once the season starts next week

OK, horrible horrible comparison. But still, I hope to God people don’t think this is already a doomed season because of this.

My cousin is a Dolphin, she found this highly amusing. :/

Yesterday at lunch I was getting my hair cut in Liverpool. In walked 2 young men. One was the starting point guard and the other the 6th man for LeMoyne. They both talked about playing hard but they figured there was no way they could win the game.

Guess they were wrong.

To their credit, LeMoyne played their asses off and this was the biggest game of the season for them. During the second half it didnt feel like an exhibition. Christopher Johnson played out of his mind. We played man most of the game, which we were VERY inexperienced with. Clearly, foul trouble is going to be an issue for us this season. The one thing that has me calmed down right now is how calm Jimmy B was after the game. He didnt seem to care.

whats up with offensive and defensive PG switches? Is this lacrosse?

i didn’t watch the game, but the story made it seem like Syracuse played man the entire game…any truth to that from those that watched?