Took a look at UVA's schedule this year. A very cavalier approach to scheduling versus our death march.
Manhattan, Stony Brook, Drexel, Dartmouth, Vermont and VMI equals six easy wins. Give me a double helping of that please.
Stony Brook is back on the schedule, replacing Cornell. For a while we played both of them. Nobody predicted the adding of Manhattan. This time it works out as part of the Spring Break trip. We play them on Wednesday night and Stony Brook Saturday afternoon in NY. I guess next year it will be in C'ville. We've played Drexel for the past 18 years in a row now. Dartmouth is back on the schedule after being off for a bunch of years. We played Vermont when alum Ryan Curtis was their coach. We're playing them in Connecticut and I've hear rumors it some sort of benefit game. We dropped them in 2013 and now they're back. VMI is an hour away and we've played them since they've had a varsity. At least one of Manhattan or Dartmouth is on the schedule because we didn't play against other teams in the Fall, so we didn't have an "encounter" that reduced the Spring schedule.Took a look at UVA's schedule this year. A very cavalier approach to scheduling versus our death march.
Manhattan, Stony Brook, Drexel, Dartmouth, Vermont and VMI equals six easy wins. Give me a double helping of that please.
We should have kept Siena and St Johns instead of Navy and Rutgers.
Stony Brook is back on the schedule, replacing Cornell. For a while we played both of them. Nobody predicted the adding of Manhattan. This time it works out as part of the Spring Break trip. We play them on Wednesday night and Stony Brook Saturday afternoon in NY. I guess next year it will be in C'ville. We've played Drexel for the past 18 years in a row now. Dartmouth is back on the schedule after being off for a bunch of years. We played Vermont when alum Ryan Curtis was their coach. We're playing them in Connecticut and I've hear rumors it some sort of benefit game. We dropped them in 2013 and now they're back. VMI is an hour away and we've played them since they've had a varsity. At least one of Manhattan or Dartmouth is on the schedule because we didn't play against other teams in the Fall, so we didn't have an "encounter" that reduced the Spring schedule.
Last year's schedule was similar and it still didn't get us into the NCAAs. You could say that this year we've traded a regular season loss to Penn for a regular season win over Princeton.
I wish I knew what the story was behind dropping them. (I wish I knew the story behind how we got a bunch of the non-obvious teams on our schedule.) I guess at one time we played both SU and Cornell each year to be sure we always had a game in CNY for the players who were from there since we played one of you in C'ville and the other in CNY.{ snip} ... picked up a mid level team like a Cornell which as you noted UVA dropped.
Dropping one would have been fine, dropping both made absolutely zero sense especially knowing how good Albany was going to be this year. At this point SU really only has 2 cupcake type games and they already played 1 of them. I REALLY hope Dekso and staff gets the message and tries to modify the schedule up a little bit. Even if we have to play Navy and RU next year add Canisius and or Siena as a mid week game for a full 14 game schedule. Staff is going to take a bunch of heat if we finish with the #1 SOS but go 6-7 keeping us out of the tournament.
Dropping one would have been fine, dropping both made absolutely zero sense especially knowing how good Albany was going to be this year. At this point SU really only has 2 cupcake type games and they already played 1 of them. I REALLY hope Dekso and staff gets the message and tries to modify the schedule up a little bit. Even if we have to play Navy and RU next year add Canisius and or Siena as a mid week game for a full 14 game schedule. Staff is going to take a bunch of heat if we finish with the #1 SOS but go 6-7 keeping us out of the tournament.
I know this is not 1990s or 2000s. Man it is depressing if just making the tournament based on our schedule is the priority now. I would rather earn our way into the field than sneak in based on playing weaker opponents.We should have 2 of Canisius, Siena, Marist, Fairfield, St. John's, Sacred Heart, Manhattan or Hartford every single year. Agree on mid-week games especially if its a team from that group.
I don't think Jeremy is advocating putting together a weak schedule, he's just saying with the 4 ACC teams, Hop, Hobart, Cornell, etc., it makes no sense to play the killer schedule we have this year. If we had both Siena and Canisius instead of Navy and the Girls, there would be no one saying we snuck our way into the field.I know this is not 1990s or 2000s. Man it is depressing if just making the tournament based on our schedule is the priority now. I would rather earn our way into the field than sneak in based on playing weaker opponents.
I don't think Jeremy is advocating putting together a weak schedule, he's just saying with the 4 ACC teams, Hop, Hobart, Cornell, etc., it makes no sense to play the killer schedule we have this year. If we had both Siena and Canisius instead of Navy and the Girls, there would be no one saying we snuck our way into the field.
The problem is, with the schedule the way it is, and the team being as young as it is, there may be no sneaking in this year.
SU is only playing a 13 game schedule and could have played two more games. I know Desko is not a big fan of mid-week games but would playing Siena say this Wed really made that much of an impact?
Below is my ideal schedule when the acc starts up. I really cannot imagine any way that st johns or providence stay on the schedule. Based on the trajectory of their program, it may make sense to keep Georgetown on the schedule for an easy win. As I stated last year, SU needs to maximize exposure in the big recruiting areas (Maryland and Long Island). Joining the acc will help in Maryland, SU needs to play on Long Island in an attempt to stop some of the top players from going to our new league rivals.
UVA
Maryland
Unc
Duke
Hopkins
Princeton
Hobart
Cornell
ND or Michigan
Villanova
Army
Albany
Rutgers
Hofstra or stony brook
When did you graduate? I am from the Class of 2000.Trust me, I lived those days. My four years at Syracuse the team lost a total of four games in the dome and only one was to a team outside the top five.
98When did you graduate? I am from the Class of 2000.