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Not really that surprising, from what little I've gathered, just in passing. I don't even follow them that closely. What was surprising was that he came looking better of the two coaches in the OSU-MD glovegate game.
It seems wise to wait till most of the transfers have signed on, before doing the early rankings.
id personally have gtown 11-12-13. but i think stevens heavily will heavily weigh the fact that they were a quarterfinalist last season and have been top 10 for several years in a row now. methinks he defers to that rather than look into things too deeply. plus bundy-godine-donaldson-leary-hess-vardaro-tominovich-halpert-crogan is still fringe top 10 talent and they add a good freshman class with 4 new balance AAs
Not sure how to feel about the Michigan spot. 10-7 with some losses and close ones to bad teams last year, but they did get hot at the right time. Lose Zawada but Christian Ronda and Beau Pederson from princeton are very nice portal grabs. Also got Justin Tiernan from Lehigh, who is a large quality off ball type. Believe they also have to replace a lot of their middie depth. Wins like their ones against MD look less impressive in hindsight since MD really started to struggle towards the end of the season.
Feel about the same. I also wonder if Maryland belongs in the top 5 after how they finished the season last year. No massive moves in the transfer portal on offense, their area of most need. I am not in the know entirely, but don’t believe they landed a high level offensive stud who is projected to play immediately, but they may strike gold like they did with Erksa. Think they would need at minimum a 100% recovery from Malaver to start turning things around there. That or some kind of Owen Murphy revenge tour. Still think he has a lot of talent.
Maryland was without Zappitello, and Geppert was hobbled with an injury ar the end of last season.
malever tore two ligaments and broke his leg. it was a catastrophic injury. it is far far far from a guarantee he's the same player he was. you can't count on that being akin to adding a top transfer
I know it's not as simple as this, but I think the return of McNaney will be huge and the most important piece. 36% and 24% was Ruppel's save percentage against Michigan and Army respectively. Ruppel struggled so much against Army early that I felt Tillman should have pulled him and given Dolan a shot. The Terps offense will be fine regardless of where Malever's progress is.
That is good news. I hate it when the kids get injured.
training in a gym isnt playing in a real lacrosse game. will he regain his explosiveness? will he trust his knee to make cuts at game speed? is he at risk of reinjury? will he overcompensate and injure his other leg? (happens a lot.) will it hold up to the wear and tear of a full season?
I was a very explosive and shifty player when played. Plant n go opposite way or spin or deke like was nothing. Then after two acls and mcl tares all in same knee I was able to regain strength and most of my range(grant didn’t have the training or stuff kids at these top schools have now no doubt) but never really got my shiftyness fully back. Also even to this day when i go to plant where use to be no hesitation now i slow down way to much before doing it and think bout it everytime. Almost like everything else is fine but the mental part. So not same injury but it is very hard to get back to old self even if body is there people forget the mental part of it which hard to overcome. After injuries i kinda adjusted to diff style of play getting away from what made me special will say and instead leaned more on my stick protection simple dodging and iq rather then speed quickness n explosiveness if get what trying to say. Give anybody credit if they have big injury n make it back to their old selfs as it is not easy.
