Marquette Lacrosse

[Jables1604]

And just as an aside BJ Grill's little brother has committed to play lacrosse at Marquette. He will be a freshman this fall.

[Dawson Rental]

And just as an aside BJ Grill's little brother has committed to play lacrosse at Marquette. He will be a freshman this fall.

Defensive POY for New Jersey

[GGGG]

Cole Blazer might be the lacrossiest name ever.

[warriorchick]

Cole Blazer might be the lacrossiest name ever.

Only to be beaten in 50 years or so by his grandson:  Cole Blazer III.

[hdog1017]

MU Lacrosse should have recruited some JUCOs

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

MU Lacrosse should have recruited some JUCOs

Squirmy. I think they should stick to traditional pogo sticks.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Squirmy. I think they should stick to traditional pogo sticks.

Keep it below 38.5% of our roster and it's good.

[Lennys Tap]

Keep it below 38.5% of our roster and it's good.

After all your rants against quotas! You, sir, are a fraud!

[Jables1604]

Speaking of great lacrosse names, between my junior and senior years at Marquette I played in a summer lacrosse league in New Haven with a kid from Yale.  His name was Clayton Roberts Simmers II.  Great guy. Stud lacrosse player.

[Blackhat]

Looks like Minnesota has become a little bit of the local hotbed for our Lax recruiting. 

[Mr. Nielsen]

Please post when you get them. It would be interesting to know.

NCAA Lacrosse TV Ratings

Saturday
JOHNS HOPKINS/BROWN 4:00 PM 6:15 PM 75K
DUKE/LOYOLA (MD) 11:00 AM 1:16 PM 69K
AIR FORCE/NOTRE DAME 6:30 PM 8:44 PM 61K
NORTH CAROLINA/MARQUETTE 1:30 PM 3:38 PM 52K

Sunday
ALBANY/SYRACUSE 6:30 PM 8:40 PM 204k
NAVY/YALE 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 131k
TOWSON/DENVER 2:00 PM 4:06 PM 99k
QUINNIPIAC/MARYLAND NA

[Herman Cain]

NCAA Lacrosse TV Ratings

Saturday
JOHNS HOPKINS/BROWN 4:00 PM 6:15 PM 75K
DUKE/LOYOLA (MD) 11:00 AM 1:16 PM 69K
AIR FORCE/NOTRE DAME 6:30 PM 8:44 PM 61K
NORTH CAROLINA/MARQUETTE 1:30 PM 3:38 PM 52K

Sunday
ALBANY/SYRACUSE 6:30 PM 8:40 PM 204k
NAVY/YALE 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 131k
TOWSON/DENVER 2:00 PM 4:06 PM 99k
QUINNIPIAC/MARYLAND NA

Thanks for posting. Interesting data. Syracuse has one heck of a fan base.  The nice thing is MU was constantly mentioned on all of these games and during pre post game so we really got a lot of exposure.

[Brewtown Andy]

How do we look for next year?

They said we had 19 seniors or something ridiculous like that (which makes sense, considering our first season as a program was 4 years ago)....are we losing EVERYONE? Will it be a completely different team next year, or do we return some key guys? Would be cool if they actually had some sustained success. I'm sure this year will help Amplo with recruiting but it will probably be a couple years until those recruits come to fruition. Hoping they don't have a down year.

To be totally honest, a lot of the 19 seniors are bit players at most.  Yes, there's All-American defenders and MLL draft picks and the program's two best all-time scorers in there.  But there's still a bunch of guys coming back who can contribute next year.

Look at Tanner Thomson: basically didn't play at all last year or early this year, but when Whitlow got hurt, he stepped in and ended up tied for the 2nd most goals on the team.

[ChicosBailBonds]

After all your rants against quotas! You, sir, are a fraud!

Frog protection

https://www.youtube.com/v/jAY_OhFRxgA



38.5% of our roster Jucos....bad idea.  Glad that Wojo and just about every other major program in the country understands this. 

[Jables1604]

We can agree to disagree on next year's team.. When you lose 2/3 of your starting defense and your team relies on defense for their success there will be a huge gap to fill.

Of course you will have people step up. That happens every year but anyone expecting a run like we had this year needs to temper their expectations.

As Charles Barkley so aptly titled his autobiography..."I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It."

[Brewtown Andy]

We can agree to disagree on next year's team.. When you lose 2/3 of your starting defense and your team relies on defense for their success there will be a huge gap to fill.

Of course you will have people step up. That happens every year but anyone expecting a run like we had this year needs to temper their expectations.

As Charles Barkley so aptly titled his autobiography..."I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It."

Conversely, the run ultimately comes down to beating Denver in the BE tourney and that's it.  Still lost to Notre Dame, still lost to Duke, lost to an ACC power in the NCAA tourney, lost to Denver in the regular season.

[Jables1604]

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/sector-spdrs-madness-marquette-seniors-built-program-that-s-here-to-stay/35280

Great read.

[Carl Spackler]

Conversely, the run ultimately comes down to beating Denver in the BE tourney and that's it.  Still lost to Notre Dame, still lost to Duke, lost to an ACC power in the NCAA tourney, lost to Denver in the regular season.

Except all of those Ls were good, close games (Duke as the exception).  There are no moral victories - except when you are in your 4th year of existence and playing perennial powerhouse teams.  Those close losses proved MU belonged, paved the way for beating Denver, and helped secure a home game in the tournament. 

[Dawson Rental]

Conversely, the run ultimately comes down to beating Denver in the BE tourney and that's it.  Still lost to Notre Dame, still lost to Duke, lost to an ACC power in the NCAA tourney, lost to Denver in the regular season.

I disagree.  For me the run comes down to making the NCAA tournament as a sixth seed with a home game that sold out.  And that also happened to be a one goal loss to a traditional lacrosse power.

That's a program establishing year.

[Herman Cain]

Conversely, the run ultimately comes down to beating Denver in the BE tourney and that's it.  Still lost to Notre Dame, still lost to Duke, lost to an ACC power in the NCAA tourney, lost to Denver in the regular season.

Coach Amplo has built a very strong program that will be very competitive for a long time. Lacrosse is a sport where there are a lot of one to two goal games. So yes it is possible we may be on the short end of a few of those next year but overall the trend in future years is going to continue to be one of a team capable of competing favorably with top 20 teams.

[manny31]

Looking at the article from the link a few posts above. I am sure it has been mentioned but our Valor Blue unis rock.

[Herman Cain]

UNC just beat ND. This is good for MU Lacrosse.

[Dawson Rental]

By three more goals then what they beat MU by.

[Jay Bee]

#crapshoot

[Jables1604]

UVA has decided not to renew the contract of their head lacrosse coach. If (and I stress if) Joe were to leave this would be the perfect landing spot.

Let's hope they decide to promote from within.