The Road To Threepeatsville Is Paved With Away Games
by Sean Keeley on Dec 4, 2009 3:27 PM EST
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The 2010 Syracuse Lacrosse schedule is out and there's a mixture of familiar faces and new rivals all over it. The No. 2 Orange will see a lot of old favorites and tough match-ups before winding down the season with the bulk of its new Big East rivals.They'll also see one of the toughest schedules I've ever seen in my life...
No. 17 Denver - Friday 2/19, 7pm
No. 22 Army - Sunday 2/28, 5pm
@ No. 3 Virginia - Sunday 3/7, 1pm
No. 13 Georgetown - Saturday 3/13, 2pm
@ No. 6 Johns Hopkins - Saturday 3/20, 8pm
@ Hobart - Tuesday 3/23, 7pm
No. 25 Villanova - Monday 3/29, 3pm
No. 20 Albany - Saturday 4/3, 4pm
No. 8 Princeton (Big City Classic) - Saturday 4/10, 6:30pm
@ No. 5 Cornell - Tuesday 4/13, 7pm
@ Rutgers - Sunday, 4/18, TBD
Providence - Saturday 4/24, 2pm
@ No. 9 Notre Dame - Saturday 5/1, TBD
@ St. John's - Saturday 5/8, 1pm
In addition to the regular-season, the Orange will also host Le Moyne (VENGEANCE!) and Hofstra (assuming they don't cut the program) in a three-way scrimmage on Feb. 7 and Maryland on Feb. 12.
Whoever those people were who were worried the Big East would water down SU's schedule...you can stop now.
Apologies in advance to any Syracuse lacrosse season ticket holders. Enjoy Providence and Villanova cause almost all of the best games this year will be somewhere else.
As usual though, the schedule is stacked. Ten ranked opponents (9 of the first 10 games). Glaringly, all of the games against Top Ten teams will take place either on an away or neutral field. The Orange also finish the season playing away from the Dome five of the last six games. And that's the easy part...
The money-stretch for the Orange is sure to be beginning of April where they play Princeton in NJ and then head over to Ithaca for a championship game rematch with Cornell three days later.
Who put this schedule together? The head coaches of Virginia, Duke, Princeton, Cornell North Carolina and Johns Hopkins?
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Question:
Do we get the automatic berth with a conference win this year? Or does that not take effect yet?
Either way, I like how we finish the season. Let’s say we sit at 6-4 after the Cornell game (and I think we will probably have a better record than that), I like our chances to sweep those last 4 games. All of which are BE games to boot.
Still, tough schedule. We will have to earn a tourney bid this year for sure.
No idea.
The Big East isn’t doing a tournament (why not?), but the regular season champ might (the only requirement is at least six teams).
1. The BE is not doing a post-season tourney because Desko said so. It would require SU to give up 1 or 2 more OOC games. Not happening.
2. Regular season winner will eventually get the AQ (same way the Ivy League does it). Don’t know if it takes effect this season since the BE is a new conference.
BE gets an autobid. Only way Desko agreed to joining/starting the BE. I do not want a playoff for BE, as takes away another game or 2. All it would do was give SU rematches (an almost certain wins) with GTOWN (who we clobber usually) and Notre Dame who should be beatable (not UVA, JHU, Cornell, or Princeton)
Or
they could add more games to the schedule. Two games per week is not unheard of, and the season lasts for more than two months now (it starts up in February now if I’m not mistaken). A 16-20 game season (16 with a tourney or 20 without) should be an obvious choice.
Gotta think of players health, time and money. Not enough schools play for it to be many short trips which need to have for wkday games as not a lot of money in lax. Notice we only get weekday home games (usually at least ) they are close teams. Also lacrosse is a high injury sport you need the recovery time. Also not enough teams to create schedules that big, as only 56 teams (or was last count I took) in D1 lax so if played 20 games you’d be playing nearly half of schools that is a bit ridiculous. I’d rather get to play Hobart & Colgate than have a tourney to play the same teams over again. I mean this way see more styles and teams in less games.
Oh yeah
I forgot he left Princeton (who’s their new coach? They didn’t swipe Brechi away from UNC after one season, did they?)
Does this mean we play Denver every year now?
That guy Bates from Drexel. I still gotta ask my friend who’s a senior for Princeton how the new system’s going for them
Which reminds me, I would’ve loved to seen him play at the Carrier Dome, but no I gotta find a way to go back down to New York that weekend (though I think they’re running a bus to the Big City Classic thank god)
by RyanMcD29 on Dec 4, 2009 10:17 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
SU may play
an easier schedule in the NCAA’s. Holy crap.
The easy game should be PC (won 22-3 last yr), Nova (remember top 25 in LAX is like Top 125 in college bball and beat nova 21-6 two yrs ago), Rutgers (won 17-9 in 2008 & 10-3 in 2009), and St. Johns. I also wonder about either Denver or Princeton, as I think there is a chance either Denver will struggle to learn a new system or Princeton will struggle with a new coach/system (which I doubt as I see them as underrated @ #8 with their yng talent).
I was mightily embarrassed last year when I dragged a friend of mine (Princeton alum, and former hockey goalie for the Tigers) to the Meadowlands…only to watch the Orange get beat. Fortunately, since he drove, it made the ride back much better. This year, I’m driving so we better freaking win.
That game this year will actually be the first sporting event in the New Meadowlands Stadium (sponsorship not named yet…), so it should be exciting. I was there last year as well… it was cold and lame.
Nice schedule for NYC-area fans, can see them play 3 times (@RU, @SJU, Princeton) in the area.
Maybe SU should sell NYC area packages
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Nothing says marginal program like a 3pm game on a Monday. Thanks, SU athletics.
You forgot to mention (because you aren’t a student and don’t care) that the one really good home game, the game we should be able to build up as a big east rivalry game, against Georgetown is conveniently scheduled during both spring break and the Big East Tournament.
And all this with a team that is going to be really very young.
Other than the Princeton game
but sure yet
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