What Is Wrong With Lacrosse?

[Full_Rebar]

The college lacrosse season should be moved. Since tv has become more important to the sport, it would make more sense to start March 1st and go into June. I know there is tradition with the Memorial Day final, but I think the sport has grown enough to where it would still draw a tv audience on a weekend in June.

The game has slowed tremendously and the subbing and specialization has taken a lot of the excitement away. Having only been exposed to the sport when I arrived in the 90s, I miss the up and down play. It's become so tactical now that it's almost like soccer.

Other than a shot clock and elimination of face-offs, I wonder if you couldn't limit teams to 1 or 2 subs per possession. There could still be offensive/defensive specialists, but it would stop the get the ball in the box and then wait 30 seconds for 3-4 guys to run on and off.

 

[outoftownie]

As Dave Rahme said in the preseason chat, the game has gone from a players sport to a coaches sport. There were fogos and ssdms in the 90s, and those teams still managed to run, make plays in transition and score more than 10 goals a game. Today the game has come to a grinding halt because stick technology does not allow for takeaways/turnovers that stay in bounds and coaches have to have their thumbprint on every pass and move a player makes. As a former goalie, the most frustrating thing is watching today's goalies barely look upfield after a save, now it is almost guaranteed they will pass to a defender on the sideline adjacent instead of throwing it to a middie breaking upfield. Kills transition, slows the game, bores the crowd and loses fans. Every sport in America is trying to increase offense and ncaa lacrosse is doing the opposite.

 

[ForCuseSake]

As Dave Rahme said in the preseason chat, the game has gone from a players sport to a coaches sport. There were fogos and ssdms in the 90s, and those teams still managed to run, make plays in transition and score more than 10 goals a game. Today the game has come to a grinding halt because stick technology does not allow for takeaways/turnovers that stay in bounds and coaches have to have their thumbprint on every pass and move a player makes. As a former goalie, the most frustrating thing is watching today's goalies barely look upfield after a save, now it is almost guaranteed they will pass to a defender on the sideline adjacent instead of throwing it to a middie breaking upfield. Kills transition, slows the game, bores the crowd and loses fans. Every sport in America is trying to increase offense and ncaa lacrosse is doing the opposite.

Nailed it. The hyper specialization of the game from over coaching & the box influence on stick technology have ruined it. It's becoming more like football than basketball because the rules aren't limiting the stranglehold of coaching.

This is a big reason why I prefer SU stay with Desko - he's not as far as Slugger on the laissez faire end of the spectrum but his style is way better than micro managers like Tierney. That free flowing philosophy is what always made SU great & should always be the driving force of the program.

Edit - I remember when Desko took over that many on the team found his style to be overbearing compared to Slugger. Now people would look at him as a "just roll the balls out" coach compared to guys like Petro, Tierney, etc.

 

[CaliCuse]

SU used to own this sport. Now we lose to Bryant. What is going on?

"Whats going on"? I look at Desko and begin there for answers. I don't think he has answers and thats the "going on"

 

[OrangeXtreme]

As Dave Rahme said in the preseason chat, the game has gone from a players sport to a coaches sport. There were fogos and ssdms in the 90s, and those teams still managed to run, make plays in transition and score more than 10 goals a game. Today the game has come to a grinding halt because stick technology does not allow for takeaways/turnovers that stay in bounds and coaches have to have their thumbprint on every pass and move a player makes. As a former goalie, the most frustrating thing is watching today's goalies barely look upfield after a save, now it is almost guaranteed they will pass to a defender on the sideline adjacent instead of throwing it to a middie breaking upfield. Kills transition, slows the game, bores the crowd and loses fans. Every sport in America is trying to increase offense and ncaa lacrosse is doing the opposite.

People used to bash Galloway because he was always looking to make the home run pass.

Silly people.

 

[outoftownie]

People bashed Galloway? Morons. He is the best goalie in the history of Syracuse lacrosse and is possibly the best in the world right now. Morons.

 

[Hoo's That]

The college lacrosse season should be moved. Since tv has become more important to the sport, it would make more sense to start March 1st and go into June. I know there is tradition with the Memorial Day final, but I think the sport has grown enough to where it would still draw a tv audience on a weekend in June.

ESPN has put us where we are with the calendar and doesn't want us going into June because they're showing the baseball championships in Omaha for what seems like 24 hours a day. IMO it would could only get moved away from Memorial Day if Fox or someone else took the MLax tournament away from them and I really have no idea if that's possible or likely.

 

[GoSU96]

People used to bash Galloway because he was always looking to make the home run pass.

Silly people.

That's all Ferrigan tried to do. There is a bunch of risk there.