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Message: [QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 4630164, member: 229"] There's things I don't like about Gait but this is a complete rebuild so you have to give the guy some time. The roster was in horrible horrible shape. The team imo is on the rise and I'd look for them to take off next year. I don't think you really have to look any further than the age difference between front line players. Look at the age of Notre Dame's starters versus our startes. I believe this was our ND box score [B]Cuse starting attack[/B] freshman (2 points) sophomore (3 points) grad student (4 points) [B]Cuse starting midfield[/B] 1 line freshman (2 points) freshman (1 points) grad student (3 points) 2 line (not entirely clear here but these two play the most) sophomore - Birtwhistle (1 point) freshman - Rhoa [B]Cuse Starting Defense[/B] Sophomore Sophomore Freshman [B]LSM[/B] junior (2 points) freshman [B]SSDM[/B] Combo of juniors and sophomores [U][B]Notre Dame - every kid who registered a point vs Cuse and defense starters[/B][/U] Dobson - junior middie[B] (starter) [/B](5 points) Taylor - senior attack[B] (starter) [/B](4 points) P Kavanagh - senior attack [B](starter) [/B](5 points) C Kavanagh - sophomore attack [B](starter) [/B](4 points) Gray - senior middie (3 points) Simmons - grad student middie (2 points) Walker - junior attack [B](starter) [/B](1 points) Tevlin - grad student middie McCahon - grad student middie [B](starter) [/B](1 points) Parlette - junior middie Westlin - grad student attack/mid Harris - senior middie Donovan - freshman lsm [B][U]Defense Starters[/U][/B] Fake - Grad Student Napolitano - Grad Student Conlin - Senior ND is a top 3 team starting 2 grad students and a senior on defense as well as their senior all-american goalie. It matters. Offensively - of Notre Dame's 30 points, 25 of them were from juniors, seniors and grad students. 26 if you omit the LSM. Offensively - Syracuse had 18 points. Only 9 were from juniors, seniors and grad students - 2 from an LSM. So from an offensive standpoint it's 7 points. Less than half our scoring. On the flip side though, our two grad students did the bulk of the scoring for us. Age and Experience matter. It's not rocket science. [/QUOTE]

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