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Message: [QUOTE="SUlax88-09, post: 5742349, member: 9879"] The ups and downs of sports. So much excitement to start the season (especially because we’ve been waiting for this senior year of our best recruiting class since our last #1 recruiting class repeated with national championships in ‘08 and ‘09), and then we got beaten down at the start of that Princeton game. Then we went on a nice 6 game win streak and built up the excitement again, but we just got deflated again by North Carolina. The close loss to Harvard happens, but to get dominated by Princeton and North Carolina (the 2 best teams in the nation) is a bad sign. We got beat in all phases of the game (offense, defense, goalie play, and face-offs). Just a demoralizing game. Offense- Leo was great and Rhoa had some good shots, but that’s about it. Against the 2 best teams in the country, Spallina has 0 points (which has long been the valid criticism against him). Anderson is now drawing a pole, and he couldn’t do anything. Anderson is drawing a pole because they put a SSDM on Thomson, which should be such an embarrassment to an attackman. Same old story and achilles heel of Gait’s Syracuse teams is that we can’t win a 1 on 1 matchup. Defense- Figueiras was great, but that’s about all. Beck had a rough game. Hahn shouldn’t be playing SSDM. McCool has been great this season but he obviously struggled against North Carolina (and Princeton), but I think his defense let him down. Ip has always been a great back up for us (I feel badly for the kid because he could start on most college teams). Mullen’s violations are very annoying (in addition to his missed ground balls) Misc- Sorry to say this, but the groundskeeper at North Carolina should be fired. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many players slip and fall in a non-wet field… ever Losses happen, but getting dominated by a better team is deflating, especially when we have aspirations for a national championship. This is not our ‘09 team… I think North Carolina is going to win a few chips in these next few years [/QUOTE]

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