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2025 Schedule Tidbits...

JeremyCuse said:
Good catch, confirms Army is off the schedule. Looks like Yale replaced SU for Army this year, even down to the midweek part. Army again with a decent OOC but a few dregs will definitely wear it down. UNC should be improved but again unless they go almost undefeated in the OOC they will probably be AQ or bust again.
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it is very difficult to come up with a reason for this other than gait just not wanting to play them this year...knights playing a midweek feb. 19 game @ yale means they prob would have been happy to play in the dome again that same day...orange could have fit them in before harvard or utah if they wanted to. is there a concert in the dome that night or something?
 
nyclax said:
it is very difficult to come up with a reason for this other than gait just not wanting to play them this year...knights playing a midweek feb. 19 game @ yale means they prob would have been happy to play in the dome again that same day...orange could have fit them in before harvard or utah if they wanted to. is there a concert in the dome that night or something?
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There is a women's bball game in the Dome on the 20th. The womens lax schedule is not out yet but obviously that wouldn't really impact the men playing on the same day if they had a game on the 19th.

I think it's unlikely SU wanted to avoid Army, however, if Army was insistent on the 19th or that week I could see an issue from SU's perspective. With Maryland on the 15th and Harvard on the 22nd I am not sure they were looking to play Army mid week there. Be it right or wrong, that's not really a game you want in between two of the biggest OOC games on the schedule. Between Harvard and Utah makes much more sense to be honest, not sure if that was considered or not.

Playing Army is a pain in the ass but not having them on the schedule is a bit disappointing. That being said from an SU perspective it's probably not the worst outcome. As good as Army plays versus SU, they (as documented by myself and Powellfan) usually struggle to keep up that level of play in the Patriot and inevitably the win or the loss as it's been the last few meetings usually doesn't look as good by the time May rolls around.

Interesting schedule for Cuse with no Albany, Hobart or Army.
 
DMVCuseLax said:
Manhattan March 18

2025 Men's Lacrosse Schedule - Manhattan University Athletics

The official 2025 Men's Lacrosse schedule for the Manhattan University Jaspers
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I would assume the SU schedule should be out on Monday or Tuesday now as the Manhattan game is likely the replacement for whatever the hell happened with Delaware. I believe they will be the only true cupcake opponent on the schedule outside of maybe Vermont but they should rebound after a down year last spring. Gate should have a really good squad but play a real rough OOC.
 
Since I know it's a lot to ask you guys to scroll up 10 pages...

DateOpponentTimeTV
Sat, Feb 1Jacksonville
Fri, Feb 7Vermont
Mon, Feb 10Towson
Sat, Feb 15at Maryland
Sat, Feb 22HarvardACCNX
Sat, Mar 1at Utah2:00 p.m.
Sun, Mar 9Hopkins
Tues, Mar 18Manhattan
Sat, Mar 22Colgate4:00 p.m.
Sat, Mar 29at Virginia
Sat, Apr 5Notre Dame ?
Sat, April 12Cornell on Long Island
Sat, April 19at Duke
Sat, April 26North Carolina
May 2-4ACC TournamentACCN
May 10-11NCAA 1st RdESPNU
May 17-18NCAA QtrsESPNU
May 24-26NCAA FFESPN2
 
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OrangeXtreme said:
Since I know it's a lot to ask you guys to scroll up 10 pages...

DateOpponentTimeTV
Sat, Feb 1Jacksonville
Fri, Feb 7Vermont
Mon, Feb 10Towson
Sat, Feb 15at Maryland
Sat, Feb 22HarvardACCNX
Sat, Mar 1at Utah2:00 p.m.
Sun, Mar 9Hopkins
Tues, Mar 18Manhattan
Sat, Mar 22Colgate4:00 p.m.
Sat, Mar 29at Virginia
Sat, Apr 5Notre Dame ?
Sat, April 12Cornell on Long Island
Sat, April 19at Duke ?
Sat, April 26North Carolina
May 2-4ACC TournamentACCN
May 10-11NCAA 1st RdESPNU
May 17-18NCAA QtrsESPNU
May 24-26NCAA FFESPN2
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Should that turn out to be the schedule, seems to set up fairly well. All ACC games to end the season save for Cornell and no mid week games after Manhattan on the 18th. No real cupcakes beyond Manhattan. Also for the first time in a while no ridiculous 3 game in 7 day stretch against multiple top 15 opponents.


Couple of interesting stretches the most obvious being the last six games starting with Gate on the 22nd and ending with UNC on the 26th. Good news is those are all Sat games with no mid week opponents, nice to see.

Other interesting stretch to me is Towson through Hopkins. Gonna need to play well, lot of potential pitfalls in that stretch and the makeup/MO of most of those teams are completely different which will present some challenges. At Utah will be very interesting.
 
For our first game, DraftKings has us as a 7.5 goal favorite over Jacksonville.

For the National Championship, they have us 2nd at +550 after ND at +425. Then it's Va at +800, Cornell +900, MD +1000, Dook +1000, JHU +1100, Yale +1600, PSU +1800, UNC +3000, Gtown +3000, Denver +3000.

Our other opponents: Towson +5000, Harvard +7500, Colgate +10000, Utah +10000, Jacksonville +10000, Vermont +20000, Manhattan +50000

[This is without any school in NJ included.]

Only 29 days to go.
 
FloridaCuse said:
For our first game, DraftKings has us as a 7.5 goal favorite over Jacksonville.

For the National Championship, they have us 2nd at +550 after ND at +425. Then it's Va at +800, Cornell +900, MD +1000, Dook +1000, JHU +1100, Yale +1600, PSU +1800, UNC +3000, Gtown +3000, Denver +3000.

Our other opponents: Towson +5000, Harvard +7500, Colgate +10000, Utah +10000, Jacksonville +10000, Vermont +20000, Manhattan +50000

[This is without any school in NJ included.]

Only 29 days to go.
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No
 
JeremyCuse said:
Should that turn out to be the schedule, seems to set up fairly well. All ACC games to end the season save for Cornell and no mid week games after Manhattan on the 18th. No real cupcakes beyond Manhattan. Also for the first time in a while no ridiculous 3 game in 7 day stretch against multiple top 15 opponents.


Couple of interesting stretches the most obvious being the last six games starting with Gate on the 22nd and ending with UNC on the 26th. Good news is those are all Sat games with no mid week opponents, nice to see.

Other interesting stretch to me is Towson through Hopkins. Gonna need to play well, lot of potential pitfalls in that stretch and the makeup/MO of most of those teams are completely different which will present some challenges. At Utah will be very interesting.
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At Utah indeed... have to prepare for the elevation and potentially need a deeper bench. You never know what will happen. I've been to the Rockies so many times and had one incident in my mid 20s where it hit me like a freight train for whatever reason. I was in tip top shape at the time. Who knows.
 
FloridaCuse said:
For our first game, DraftKings has us as a 7.5 goal favorite over Jacksonville.

For the National Championship, they have us 2nd at +550 after ND at +425. Then it's Va at +800, Cornell +900, MD +1000, Dook +1000, JHU +1100, Yale +1600, PSU +1800, UNC +3000, Gtown +3000, Denver +3000.

Our other opponents: Towson +5000, Harvard +7500, Colgate +10000, Utah +10000, Jacksonville +10000, Vermont +20000, Manhattan +50000

[This is without any school in NJ included.]

Only 29 days to go.
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7.5 goal favorite, yikes.
 
JeremyCuse said:
Should that turn out to be the schedule, seems to set up fairly well. All ACC games to end the season save for Cornell and no mid week games after Manhattan on the 18th. No real cupcakes beyond Manhattan. Also for the first time in a while no ridiculous 3 game in 7 day stretch against multiple top 15 opponents.
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Yes, it should be interesting to see who each school puts in that week that they're the odd team out of the ACC conference game schedule. For us, it's Lafayette on Apr 19.
 
Hoo's That said:
Yes, it should be interesting to see who each school puts in that week that they're the odd team out of the ACC conference game schedule. For us, it's Lafayette on Apr 19.
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Why not just play a local high school team?
 
If there are no surprise teams added to the schedule, it looks like Syracuse essentially traded,

High Point for Jacksonville - feels like a wash

Army for Harvard - given the team's history, this feels like a slight step down for SU, but probably not by much. I think Army will be one of the more talented teams next year, but Harvard will have some good players as well (and benefit of Ivy League boost).

Hobart for Towson - this is a huge step up (no disrespect for the Statesmen intended). Towson of course was a tournament team last year that gave SU all they could handle for a half last season. They return some very good players and should be in the hunt for another NCAA tournament boost. Hobart I have to imagine will struggle again next year.

Taken together this seems like a harder schedule than last year. The Towson game on short rest following Vermont makes me nervous, but it's also a game that SU should win (on paper), and both games are at home. Obviously you can't take a teams performance from one year and transcribe it onto the next (UVA could take a step back, UNC could take a step forward, surprise teams will emerge, etc). But on the whole this seems like a very competitive schedule on the whole.

I am sure they will take some guff for only having four true road games (and a neutral site game vs Cornel), but it is what it is at this point. If teams are willing to come to the Dome for early season games, I don't think Syracuse should actively turn them down to make sure they are playing an even amount of home and away games, so posters on FanLax will feel a sense of contentment. As opposed to some other years, if the schedule breaks the way Xtreme has laid out, no month long period of away games, which is also really nice. Cornell and Duke might be the only multi-game stretch that is away from the Dome.
 
Powellfan said:
If there are no surprise teams added to the schedule, it looks like Syracuse essentially traded,

High Point for Jacksonville - feels like a wash

Army for Harvard - given the team's history, this feels like a slight step down for SU, but probably not by much. I think Army will be one of the more talented teams next year, but Harvard will have some good players as well (and benefit of Ivy League boost).

Hobart for Towson - this is a huge step up (no disrespect for the Statesmen intended). Towson of course was a tournament team last year that gave SU all they could handle for a half last season. They return some very good players and should be in the hunt for another NCAA tournament boost. Hobart I have to imagine will struggle again next year.

Taken together this seems like a harder schedule than last year. The Towson game on short rest following Vermont makes me nervous, but it's also a game that SU should win (on paper), and both games are at home. Obviously you can't take a teams performance from one year and transcribe it onto the next (UVA could take a step back, UNC could take a step forward, surprise teams will emerge, etc). But on the whole this seems like a very competitive schedule on the whole.

I am sure they will take some guff for only having four true road games (and a neutral site game vs Cornel), but it is what it is at this point. If teams are willing to come to the Dome for early season games, I don't think Syracuse should actively turn them down to make sure they are playing an even amount of home and away games, so posters on FanLax will feel a sense of contentment. As opposed to some other years, if the schedule breaks the way Xtreme has laid out, no month long period of away games, which is also really nice. Cornell and Duke might be the only multi-game stretch that is away from the Dome.
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Agree on everything. This schedule is harder on paper and easier on the mentals, with three of our in state rivals who are out for blood when they play us off the list. Of the three off (Army Albany Hobart), Albany is probably the most disappointing. It is highly likely that they will be the best team in the American East this year, with minimal losses in the offseason and some promising young talent. Wish we found a way to play them while dropping one of Jacksonville Utah Vermont or Manhattan.

On that subject, I also wish we just dropped Manhattan all together, despite the Odierna connection. No real opportunity to improve as a team or learn anything by teeing of on a team of their caliber. Even if they win their conference, which is far from guaranteed, it is unlikely to be any sort of RPI boost. For a team with such an experienced starting lineup like ours I really do not see the point other than extending an olive branch to Odierna's former school, which just ain't worth it
 
Wow, I was just starting to type in how Duke was actually playing a Big Ten team from the Michigan schedule - and bang you put up the Duke schedule.

Looking at the UVa schedule, they play at Ohio State on Feb 22. I just wanted to mention that playing OSU in their rinky dink lacrosse stadium has been pretty tough for opponents. Even further, UVa plays a midweek game on Tuesday, Feb 18 against High Point. Another note on this game is that there isn't a lot of seating in OSU's rinky dink stadium, so you might want to look into tickets now if you are thinking of going.
 
Zack80 said:
Wow, I was just starting to type in how Duke was actually playing a Big Ten team from the Michigan schedule - and bang you put up the Duke schedule.

Looking at the UVa schedule, they play at Ohio State on Feb 22. I just wanted to mention that playing OSU in their rinky dink lacrosse stadium has been pretty tough for opponents. Even further, UVa plays a midweek game on Tuesday, Feb 18 against High Point. Another note on this game is that there isn't a lot of seating in OSU's rinky dink stadium, so you might want to look into tickets now if you are thinking of going.
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that rinky dink stadium is a much better lacrosse venue than byrd
 
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