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[QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 4207217, member: 4819"]
It starts at the one minute mark.  The full question from the reporter is hard to make out, and Gait is speaking pretty low and there are other background noises but you can make it out. Upon listening to him again, I think his answer is a little more defensible but not by much.  I should have provided the full context to the question he was answering. I do not have a Newhouse degree so bear with me.

Reporter asks "is what Hopkins and Syracuse use to be, attainable despite the fact that lacrosse is not a headcount sport".

Gait - "Absolutely, Syracuse lacrosse is invested in brining the program back to where it needs to be. We're providing everything we need to have success.  Now it's just up to us to do our job recruiting.[I] I think you'll start the see the results next year.  We have players coming in that will help us get us back to where we need to be.[/I]"

I think coaches who are struggling on the field always have a hard time in these types of press conferences. We all got tired of Desko "tipping his cap" to the other team. After the first couple of losses this season Gait kept hammering execution. That got a bit tiring after the UVA loss.  I don't think he's wrong in his answer, we are all saying the same on this board, but it seemed like an "own goal" he could have avoided by leaving out the italicized sentence.  I think he was just trying to say, "we are getting SU back to old days, and you'll see that when we get the number one recruiting class come to campus." But what gets implied is that it's not these guys on the team right now that are going to do it.
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