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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5124809, member: 27"]
I went to the tournament.  It was my first.  Had a great time.

I think all the players were there.  Four of them actually played in the tournament.  Coach Ian says he needs to do a better job recruiting players who golf.

It was a beautiful day.  Coach had players deployed all over the course interacting with people playing in the tournament.  He came up with a number of ways to force the players to talk to us and be outgoing.

Think that was a good move.  We got to know a bunch of the players pretty well and the players, some of whom were clearly somewhat uncomfortable talking with strangers, had a chance to work on dealing with drunk older people.

At the dinner, Ian had all the players introduce themselves and answer a question.  The question usually was why did they choose Syracuse and the answer was pretty much always the staff/locker room.  The players appear to be very tight and coach says the strength of the team is the locker room.

In terms of public speaking, they all did well, even the true frosh, but the guys who were most comfortable were

Josh Smith (keeper)
Andre Cutler-DeJesus (defense)
Sam Layton (midfielder)
Carlos Zambrano (midfielder) 
Gavin Wigg (defense)
Ben Rosenblatt (D/M; very articulate)
Daniel Burko (forward)
Sam Sery (frosh /M)
Dominic Bell (frosh forward
Sachiel Ming (frosh forward, HS AA; scored goal in WC qualifier for Bermuda recently)

Bell said he blew out his ACL 9 month ago and he is just now getting back to playing.

I don’t think incoming HS AA Kelvin de Costa and Garrett Holman, was there.  But I might have missed him.  It was hot and I was very dehydrated.

I asked a couple players about who might start and who was really looking good in practice and they would not talk about it.  They did a good job keeping things on the down low.
  
 Sorry not a lot of specifics.
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