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[PAcuse]

That was Gary's excuse in the post-game presser: we haven't played on grass and we haven't practiced on grass. A number of us commented that is Gary again not taking responsibility.

Daily Orange Staff Writer:

This should be a fireable offense. He can't have the team pratice on grass????
We complain when football HCs leave time outs on the table, this is waaaaay worse.
What a joke.

 

[SULAXAHOLIC]

Do you live anywhere in NY there isn’t a grass field anywhere in NY that would come close to mimicking Dorance field. Most fields here are underwater we had a large snowpack melt followed by heavy rain all week. Syracuse was in Carolina for 24 hours not a week

 

[nocohalo]

Do you live anywhere in NY there isn’t a grass field anywhere in NY that would come close to mimicking Dorance field. Most fields here are underwater we had a large snowpack melt followed by heavy rain all week. Syracuse was in Carolina for 24 hours not a week

The easiest solution is to just not say anything about the field. All it does is make the coach and program a punchline to everyone else and gives needless negative attention. These are the things that add up for the fans who are sick of the BS from the coaching staff. These dumb excuses combined with 5 years of failing to address ANY of the same problems makes the fans' patience wear very thin very quick.

 

[PhatOrange]

Do you live anywhere in NY there isn’t a grass field anywhere in NY that would come close to mimicking Dorance field. Most fields here are underwater we had a large snowpack melt followed by heavy rain all week. Syracuse was in Carolina for 24 hours not a week

some of this stuff is a little overblown. grass fields in upstate are perfectly fine right now and HS teams are playing on them. I can't think of a more perfect field to play on yesterday, but that said nothing in NY mimics at a golf course green even in the best of conditions. If the ground was hard under that short grass you can understand guys slipping but I didn't see Carolina guys slipping. How many different cleats are out there. Seems like they're all molded but I don't know what the college teams have.

 

[PAcuse]

Do you live anywhere in NY there isn’t a grass field anywhere in NY that would come close to mimicking Dorance field. Most fields here are underwater we had a large snowpack melt followed by heavy rain all week. Syracuse was in Carolina for 24 hours not a week

He's commits where bush league at best.
You can find a damn field, no way all of NY is that way. I know I'm 5 hours away but I could throw a stone and hit 7 fields to pratice on.
These guys where they TOP class when they came in and are now Seniors...how the hell can't they play on grass fields...Gait is a joke for that commit.

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

He's commits where bush league at best.
You can find a damn field, no way all of NY is that way. I know I'm 5 hours away but I could throw a stone and hit 7 fields to pratice on.
These guys where they TOP class when they came in and are now Seniors...how the hell can't they play on grass fields...Gait is a joke for that commit.

I've got to assume you went to SU. Maybe it was awhile ago. I can assure you that we haven't gotten close to spring yet in upstate new york and schools are using grass fields sparingly if at all. At this point, they'd be more of an injury risk for the team than something that actually helps them prepare for a game. And regardless, the grass is completely different up here than it is in the Carolinas.

I can only speak for Section 2, but pretty much all of the high level schools/programs are playing on turf right now. Ballston Spa and Averill Park are the only two high schools I know of without a turf field that play lacrosse at a decent level.

The easiest solution is to just not say anything about the field. All it does is make the coach and program a punchline to everyone else and gives needless negative attention. These are the things that add up for the fans who are sick of the BS from the coaching staff. These dumb excuses combined with 5 years of failing to address ANY of the same problems makes the fans' patience wear very thin very quick.

What are you so concerned about? No one cares. We've lost to arguably the two best teams in the country and played an absolute stinker of a game and only lost by one in terrible weather on the road. Our RPI speaks for itself. Gait's never going to trash kids or coaches publiclly the way hardos want. People will always troll Syracuse.

I’m gonna take another bite from this apple. I understand your point. But, as a Methodist, ND is just another catholic school. I respect their brand but that’s as far as it goes. As for Duke, if they were located north of the mason dixon line, they’d just be another leafy expensive private northeastern school. No better, no worse. And if I may quote Bruce Hornsby, “some things will never change. That’s just the way it is”.

Have a wonderful Easter

I think the bolded is what you are taking much lighter than lacrosse recruits and their families. Lacrosse is one of two sports dominated by the upper middle class. The hot beds are Long Island, New England prep schools [Metro Boston and Connecticut Gold Coast], Mainline Philly, MIAA, and DC Metro. These are families with wealth, are wealth adjacent, value education, and even more so value the connections that can be made through attending elitist educational institutions.

In no other college sport (maybe hockey) do Ivy's and Military Academies recruit on par with Power 5 type schools. There's a reason the top of D3 is mostly dominated by NESCAC, Liberty, and Centennial school. And that schools from those conferences top to bottom would work over all but a couple/handful of D2 schools.

Syracuse, in addition to just being a worse value proposition, doesnt have the same connections to Wall Street, and the best MBA, Law, and Med Schools as the schools we are losing recruits to.

What does Syracuse offer that other schools can't:

1. We have a real lacrosse culture that does not exist anywhere else. These top recruits going to Duke, Carolina, etc., are going to play glorified high school ball.

2. The program is legendary and coached by a legend. That mattered to Joey Spallina. Maybe it'll matter to others? Seems is '26 and '27 we are pulling more kids from Georgia and Texas where our name recognition probably matters as much as the rich kid stuff cited above.

3. We play a pretty fast and free flowing style where you don't get you ear chewed off for going behind the back (a simple play for kids these days), one handed, etc.