Colgate Gameday...

[OttosDad]

I was in town and able to make it to the game this weekend. Good win. Colgate’s offense is legit, they can spin the ball and are creative with picks and the two-man game. I think they are similar to Cuse’s offense actually.

Shout out to Jimmy McCool he was stellar in the first half. Trey Deere had a nice game after I’d been hounding him for a few weeks. I echo what a lot of folks are saying regarding the 2nd line mid, they have to rotate body’s through and try to generate production. Right now it’s stale. Would like to see a Kellogg, Hottle, Anderson grouping at some point.

 

[Gettysbrg10]

Can anyone explain to me why every year Notre Dame plays 3 regular season games and Duke plays 20?

 

[Powellfan]

Can anyone explain to me why every year Notre Dame plays 3 regular season games and Duke plays 20?

I think the rule is you are given something like 17 “competitions” and they are split between scrimmages and games. You can schedule multiple scrimmages on one day and they count as one competition. Most teams schedule one or two scrimmages in the fall, and one or two in the spring. The extreme examples are Duke, who uses all their competitions as games, and Notre Dame who schedule the bare minimum amount of games.

I thought there was a minimum amount of games you had to play, but last year ND was below that threshold (can’t remember if it was 12 or 11 games). I have to imagine that distance between schools is why ND doesn’t schedule many games, but to me that’s not a great reason.

Quint has been advocating for more equity between the amount of games played. I think he has said schools like ND should be punished by the selection committee but I might be making that up.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

I think the rule is you are given something like 17 “competitions” and they are split between scrimmages and games. You can schedule multiple scrimmages on one day and they count as one competition. Most teams schedule one or two scrimmages in the fall, and one or two in the spring. The extreme examples are Duke, who uses all their competitions as games, and Notre Dame who schedule the bare minimum amount of games.

I thought there was a minimum amount of games you had to play, but last year ND was below that threshold (can’t remember if it was 12 or 11 games). I have to imagine that distance between schools is why ND doesn’t schedule many games, but to me that’s not a great reason.

Quint has been advocating for more equity between the amount of games played. I think he has said schools like ND should be punished by the selection committee but I might be making that up.

ND has a rule where that can't play non-conf road games in the middle of the week (unless they're a bus ride away).

 

[DoctahLexus]

With the second line, right now the only guy I would take a look at switching out is McCarthy. Hottle and Cordez were just crucial in our win over Hopkins. Is one game against a team that played mostly zone and zero middies on any line had serious impact enough to put them on the bench? McCarthy is strong off the dodge and often draws a long pole and rotates defenses, but is really struggling with his confidence as a shooter from any sort of range. Two goals on the year, despite being the one guy who has been permanently on the 2nd middie line. 13% shooting. He clearly has upside, but it is not coming together right now. Still a valuable athlete who is doing well on the wing and on clears. Possible that Deere replaces him instead of one of the other guys when he goes back to middie.

 

[Powellfan]

ND has a rule where that can't play non-conf road games in the middle of the week (unless they're a bus ride away).

They could start their season a week earlier like most of the ACC teams. They have a bye this weekend. That’s two games right there. Just not sure if they are doing it for cost reasons or if they think it’s better for their RPI. Probably a combination.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

They could start their season a week earlier like most of the ACC teams. They have a bye this weekend. That’s two games right there. Just not sure if they are doing it for cost reasons or if they think it’s better for their RPI. Probably a combination.

Didn't they screw themselves a few years ago by ending up on the bubble?

 

[CuseAlum87]

Didn't they screw themselves a few years ago by ending up on the bubble?

believe it was 2022 and they went 8-4. Two of their wins were against a weak Syracuse team(4-10) and another two came from beating Duke twice. Duke wasn't a tournament team that year either.

 

[36'sq.]

Denver beating up on Duke made my weekend! I need to go watch the highlights, didn't see any of the game.

My hope is that if Duke couldn't win it all with O'Neill, they won't be able to do it in the next few years either. Danowski will then retire, they'll need a few years to reform, and then I'll maybe be older enough that I've mellowed in how strongly I dislike everything about the school. (I actually like Coach Danowski, he's a really nice guy. I just don't like Duke one bit.)

Agreed though, it is crazy how many games Duke plays and how few ND plays. I'm amazed Michigan upset Maryland, caught some of the Michigan/ND game last weekend and ND just hammered them. Wasn't even competitive. Surprising rebound from Michigan. (I also hope to never hear "maize and blue" in the context of lacrosse again, spare me the marketing/branding hype of big-time sports. Thanks!)

 

[ks orange]

Denver beating up on Duke made my weekend! I need to go watch the highlights, didn't see any of the game.

My hope is that if Duke couldn't win it all with O'Neill, they won't be able to do it in the next few years either. Danowski will then retire, they'll need a few years to reform, and then I'll maybe be older enough that I've mellowed in how strongly I dislike everything about the school. (I actually like Coach Danowski, he's a really nice guy. I just don't like Duke one bit.)

Agreed though, it is crazy how many games Duke plays and how few ND plays. I'm amazed Michigan upset Maryland, caught some of the Michigan/ND game last weekend and ND just hammered them. Wasn't even competitive. Surprising rebound from Michigan. (I also hope to never hear "maize and blue" in the context of lacrosse again, spare me the marketing/branding hype of big-time sports. Thanks!)

I was sold on Danowski after the 2013 championship game against Syracuse. As his team celebrated before going through the handshake line, Danowski told them to take off the championship t-shirts and recognize that "that's a proud program [Syracuse] over there (pointing to the Orange sideline).

 

[ks orange]

I was sold on Danowski after the 2013 championship game against Syracuse. As his team celebrated before going through the handshake line, Danowski told them to take off the championship t-shirts and recognize that "that's a proud program [Syracuse] over there (pointing to the Orange sideline).

 

[MD Cuse Fan]

Denver beating up on Duke made my weekend! I need to go watch the highlights, didn't see any of the game.

My hope is that if Duke couldn't win it all with O'Neill, they won't be able to do it in the next few years either. Danowski will then retire, they'll need a few years to reform, and then I'll maybe be older enough that I've mellowed in how strongly I dislike everything about the school. (I actually like Coach Danowski, he's a really nice guy. I just don't like Duke one bit.)

Agreed though, it is crazy how many games Duke plays and how few ND plays. I'm amazed Michigan upset Maryland, caught some of the Michigan/ND game last weekend and ND just hammered them. Wasn't even competitive. Surprising rebound from Michigan. (I also hope to never hear "maize and blue" in the context of lacrosse again, spare me the marketing/branding hype of big-time sports. Thanks!)

I read this is the 4th straight win against MD for Michigan so they clearly have something figured out when it comes to playing the Terps. Conry is a former MD assistant so it may start there?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[JeremyCuse]

Can anyone explain to me why every year Notre Dame plays 3 regular season games and Duke plays 20?

Corrigan likes to schedule like Desko did when he had that last stretch of really good games. 12 or so games, almost no mid week games and zero mid week games in the later half of the season. ND has some rule about mid week games as Powell noted but I don't think it would change much if they didn't.

IF your really good there's no real issue scheduling so few games but ND has made some mistakes this year. Unlike when Desko did it Corrigan added two cupcakes in Marquette and Cle State. That was a mistake, he should have played one of them and then played an Army or Denver or a St. Joes type of team or another higher mid major. The other issue is that they lost what looks like their two biggest OOC games in Maryland and Ohio State. Yes Michigan just beat Maryland but there going to be lucky to finish above .500 when the season ends. I also didn't understand scheduling Penn. They weren't projected to be in the upper echelon of the conference and that game at the end of the year is only a lose/lose at this point.

ND has put itself in a tough spot with such a small schedule there is little room for error if things go south. Now they are still a very talented team and I fully expect they will likely win a number of ACC games if not the conference itself but ya the next two games for them are absolutely enormous.

Danowski is the opposite, he can't play enough games. Duke would play 20 if they would let him. Danowski usually goes a good job mixing in elite OOC opponents with upper level mid majors to spike the RIP and other #s. Although again that Denver loss was really a bad one in the context of the season they are having.

 

[DoctahLexus]

Always amazed by the inconsistency lax social media/forum guys have with praising top attack performances against a bad team and/or bad defense. CJ Kirst is that dude don't get me wrong, but everyone is hyping up a 9 goal performance against 1-5 Yale, with a notoriously poor defense, where literally all his goals were wide open shots from close range, rebounds, and offball finishes, aside from one dodge against a short stick. If anything, you think the praise would be for his running mate Goldstein, who drew the eyes of the defense and made the pinpoint passes on most of the goals.

If Spallina has a game like that then it is a mad dash in the comments for everyone to point out Yale's bad defense, that all the goals were offball and not 1v1 against a longpole, and so on. He went 5 and 6 against a similarly poor defense on over 60% shooting and actually scored against a longpole on three of those, and while the local media and cuse fans give him props, it is not talked about by the same people fawning over Kirst. It is totally fine that people don't heap praise on Spallina for big games against a bad defense, but where the hell is the consistency?

Kirst, as good as he is, gets locked up in certain top match ups too. He went 2-1 against the one higher level defense they played this season in Penn State and had the same stat line against them last season. He went 0-1 against Penn with the playoffs on the line last year. He went 2-1 in the first round playoff loss against Michigan in 2023. He gets some benefits not going up against every ACC team plus MD and Hop in his regular seasons, or a schedule like Hops in the big 10. I think he is better than Spallina, but it is not because of big performances against a team like Yale. And yet, you have people talking like he just punched his ticket for the Tek this year because of that game.