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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 4644647, member: 6798"] Feel less bad about not playing cornell this year since it was immediately replaced with Princeton, another Ivey that was also at least projected to be a high ranking team. Shame they couldnt be a bigger boost for us this season. Two Iveys next year could be a big help and it kind of sounds like that is going to happen. The strategy this year seemed to be focused on getting some reps for an inexperienced team with the cupcakes early (but UVM was not exactly a walk in the park). Also it was clearly a conscious choice to have a natural break in the season with the middle of the pack stretch of easy teams. It is tempting to knock the schedule when we are in this borderline scenario if we get one more win this season. You knew this was coming by playing teams like holy cross. But in the end we had our opportunities to be in a relaxed position right now and we came up short. If we took care of business in a couple of our games in the early season (won 2 of UNC Duke MD Hop) then this past weekends UNC victory would probably be locking us into the playoffs. A couple of those games were close. We did not get it done. If it really is going to come down to a scenario where we win one more game and, for instance: -We would have made the playoffs if we played no game instead of playing Holy Cross that one weekend -We make it if we played a cornell or army and LOST instead of playing a team like holy cross early. If thats the case then you have to think the cupcakes on there for a break or confidence or what have you just aint worth it. We wont be dropping Hobart or Albany any time soon and they are not total lost causes. Hobart almost beat St. Joes which would have been nice. Bonaventure had a solid year against mostly lesser teams last year (11-4). A goal away from beating manhattan and making the playoffs. Im sure we were not banking on them being quite so poor when we signed up, but the writing was somewhat on the wall with their new difficult conference and no Brett Dobson in cage. Similar case with Hofstra. With Holy Cross there is no excuse. Any one could tell you they were looking at another year of the same and be some kind of drain. Did we get better or learn anything worthwhile that day? Probably not. [/QUOTE]

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