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Message: [QUOTE="Zack80, post: 2584637, member: 1245"] I think your prediction is a tad pessimistic towards the Big Ten and a tad optimistic towards the ACC. I don't really see the ACC returning to their status 3-4 years ago next year. PSU, OSU, and Michigan all return a lot next year also. PSU has been struggling with the loss to injury of their star attackman Grant Ament. He should be back next year with Mac O'Keefe and their star FOman Gerard Arceri, and they should be quite tough. Speaking of cyclical, OSU has up odd years and down even years lately, next year is an odd year. OSU showed they can still play pretty well beating UMd last week. I don't know that Michigan is years away, they beat Notre Dame this year and only lost to Hopkins by 1 last week. They will have a lot more senior leadership next season. Rutgers does lose a lot and could struggle next season. Hopkins loses some top players: Tinney, Stanwick, and Moreland, but don't really lose a lot. They return Marr, Williams and DeSimone and bring in a top attack recruit in Epstein, Foley returns to lead the defense; FOs could be a problem. The Terps lose some key guys: Kelly, Rotanz, Dan Morris, and Bryce Young, but Tillman has been pretty resourceful and has a top attackman in Jared Bernhardt to build his offense around. Duke does lose Conley and All-ACC goalie Fowler to go with Guterding, so their losses are getting fairly close to the Terps'. Maybe UNC will rebound, maybe OSU will rebound, OSU does return their star LeClaire. Where is Syracuse's big star on offense? Certainly didn't see him last night. I tend to think the Terps won't be top 5 next year, but then I look at a lot of the other top 5 teams - Denver loses Baptiste, Duke loses Guterding, Albany is already struggling without Fields, and Yale loses Ben Reeves. So it will be interesting. [/QUOTE]

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