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Clownishness

The hook is set, will anyone bite?

thanks ... I try.

Dowling makes a come back and re-enters into D1.

A-hole parents

how about reopening Dowling as an exclusive lax type school. kind of like IMG in florida.
its working for basketball and football why not lacrosse?

And someone takes the bait, hooked on the line!! Way to respond to a nonsense post by someone trying very hard to get you to do their bidding.

What's the over/under on less than 50 fans at Northeast and Midwest NCAA lacrosse games? Something has to be done to keep the fans warm! This is ridiculous, there is no attendance at these games other than parents.

I was @ a Duke - NC game, and there were no fans! Lacrosse is not a popular spectator sport, especially outside of NY or Maryland.

We are seeing Denver, Florida, and Arizona as starting to "pop" for lacrosse.

its really too bad that attendance is so poor. I guess theres just too much else going on in early to mid spring for the bulk of the students. travel, playing their own sport etc. amazing, kids who played a lot of high school games in front of 250 to 5000 fans (playoffs) on long island really never see the large turnout until the very end of season and that is if they are in final 4. too bad. great sport to watch..

Maybe, much like the new type of "Field turf" someone will come up with a cost effective type of dome? Something like the practice bubbles, just bigger.

Just read Dartmouth cut a whole bunch of dead weight

They also cut some real contributors from last year: starters, highly celebrated recruits, etc.

WHO GIVES A RAT'S A$$

Where is all this Dartmouth news? Can't seem to find it in the NY Times, Newsday, NY Post, or even Inside Lacrosse. It's definitely not on the team web site either.

Can you please elaborate.

Highly Celebrated Recruites?? Ha! ...maybe too much celebrating, and not enough winning.
Dartmouth hired new coach 2 yrs ago and honored previous coaches recruited commitments, but charged with changing Culture... "Shape up or ship out..."

...Sorry, You will not find ANY college lacrosse news in Main stream papers - but you will find lacrosse news, such as the Dartmouth story, in Laxpower and yes, Inside Lacrosse.

Dartmouth Athletic Department is optimistic and fully supportive of Coach Callahan decisions to help turn their Lax program around. Cutting 9 veteran players, is evidence that they are Committed to The process.

Cut celebrated recruits. 100% accurate.
They were Not buying into Callahan's process.
Big time silver spoons, some nice pedigrees, that couldn't make the practices better.

I just phrased it that way to show that it wasn't the coach simply cutting down on friends / walk-ons. These were contributors from last year. This appears to be a real shake-up of the team.

Ty created too much hype for a few of these kids

How about Monmouth, VMI, Hampton, Wagner? Much better than Dartmouth.

...seems right. Spoke w Callahan last summer... clearly a no non-sense coach, looking to fill his roster with hard nosed, team players... not the "me first" players.

Umm...

BINGO
good instincts

Searched Lax power and Inside Lacrosse with absolutely NO news on this Dartmouth shakeup. Where is the article?

Something doesn't make sense. If this Dartmouth Thead is true ,Wow.
That means a coach cut 9 Ivy League students( not dead weight as someone said) right before the season starts . That means he cut 20 percent of HIS team right before start of year, in his 3rd year as head coach ,where he was 1 and 13 last year.

ignorant statement for many reasons...
1 - ... not a kid in the world, would pass up an IVY opportunity, for Lax in Staten Island (given the chance)
2- Does Hampton, monmouth, wagner etc compete every year against Cornell, Brown, UPenn, Harvard, Yale, Princeton?? non league - teams like Carolina, Denver?
3- teams in top conferences such as ACC, IVY, and are subject up/down cycles based on coaches,Administrative support, etc, but will always attract top talent - Carolina missed the final 4 for 25 years, Princeton in 20...
4- IVY offers - now free tuition (not athletic scholarships) if you qualify for financial assistance, to really level the playing field.
5- IVY benefits from Nationwide talent draw from explosive High Schools lax expansion

http://www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-men-s-lacrosse-reduces-roster-7873467 use google moron

Look at the Dartmouth roster and show me the kid who qualifies for aid. Look at every Ivy roster and show me the kid who qualifies for aid. Very few lacrosse kids qualify for financial aid. Lacrosse is the sport of the affluent.

There are very few of the players you refer to. Go to any Club tournament this summer and find me these "hard nosed" team first players. Me first is the way of the sport. If he is going to recruit that way he may have four players a year. I foresee a short tenure at Dartmouth with those recruiting standards.

Wow, moron huh? Ask a question here and the usual BOTC tools speak up. Well, thanks Jerk OFF!

Sorry, but I'm not a regular reader of the Valley News. Thanks for the link though....tool.

Many of the players from Long Island and Upstate can and do qualify for financial aid.

Ha! not too many from LI, but, I assure you, these kids are out there

what makes sense... is how shocked you seem to be, about a coach actually having the courage to making a stand, despite the normal outrage from whiney parents, and maybe some short term losses...