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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 4663236, member: 4819"] I thought this was a good interview. First 10 minutes Gait talks SU lacrosse, middle portion is about the Transfer Combine through St James and the last 10 are he and Quint discussing tourney matchups. First 10 minutes are definitely worthwhile. Random notes: -Sounds like Gait wanted the '22 team to play with different pockets that would make passing easier (i.e shallower) and that the team was resistant. Last year's group was easier to persuade and he says that's what led to them moving the ball better. -Quint congratulates him on a "pair" of transfers committed to the team, while not divulging their names says lots of nice things about them. Gait can't comment since they are still in the tournament. Obviously he is talking about English and Stevens. -Gait notes that they are exploring FOGOs in the portal and it seems like that is a focus of the offseason. He is high on the freshman John Mullins (says he is going to watch him play today) but wants more depth. -Blames a lot of this years issues on the face-off situation and says they would have won 3-4 more games with 48-50% there. - Sounds like the schedule will be more difficult next year. Gait said they scheduled the way they did since he wanted lots of young players to play this year, but in hindsight that the two weakest teams on the schedule really hurt their RPI. -Think I heard this right but Gait said he applied to be the under 20 coach for Team Canada, mostly to help recruiting efforts north of the border. All in all I think he says all the right things. Would have been nice if the transfer news had been announced so they could discuss those specific players more in depth, but hard not to feel positive about the direction of the program after listening to Gait. [/QUOTE]

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