To be blunt, the reason we're huge underdogs is because we suck.
To be more tactful and truthful, it's our first season, and you know how "expansion teams" are. OSU is not great, not bad, but we're huge underdogs against 90% of teams. If you only paid attention to basketball until the Elite 8 or even Sweet 16, you'd miss out on a lot of good teams; it's no different in lacrosse, of course.
Both Ohio and us are Div. 1. The difference is that Ohio has had a Div. 1 program for longer than we have. Before this season, the lacrosse team for Michigan was simply a club team that used the block M and the name of Michigan. Now it's officially a sport that they can recruit in and gain more experienced players. I believe most if not all of the Michigan players are carried over from the club team.
Man that pissed me off -- mimicking the eating.
About 40-45 players, with a scholarship limit of 12.6.
I think there's about 40 guys on the U-M squad, but I have no idea how much scholarship money they get. It's obviously not full rides for the whole team.
Start shooting away, lads -- the guy's a punk. Oh how I hate Ohio (State)
Yeah, that Vasileff goal was a carbon copy of his first one. At some point they'll realize he can do that.
How big is the field/pitch in lacross?
110 yards from end to end, and I forget how wide but ten yards wider than a football field.
It's 110 yards long by 60 yards, it has lines similar to hockey where the offense/defense is not allowed to cross but the midfielders are. The goal crease is off limits to all of the attackmen (name for offense in lacrosse)
Lemme add some clarification to that. "Attackmen" is a position, so really the crease is off limits to all opposing players. Plus it'll confuse people if you say "the defense can't cross the midfield line" because they do all the time; the rule is no more than six non-goalies on either side of the line at any time.
I'm just going to stop trying to explain things, I'll leave that to you
Sorry, didn't mean to come off like an ass there.
as I'm sure MaizeAndBlueWahoo knows, the rule is you have to have at least three players on your offensive half and and at least four players on your defensive half. Generally this is the three attackmen on the offensive half and the three defenders plus the goalie on the defensive half.
The exceptions are if you don't gain an advantage by having too few players on the field. In other words, if you only have 9 players on the field then no one cares that you only have two attackmen on the offensive half. This happens whenever you do a sub on the fly for a fleeting moment. Also, if you happen to have, I think, three guys or more serving penalties then I think the rules get a little funky, but that's pretty rare.
Great look to the goal, but a better save by Buckeye keeper.
So far, so good -- I'm hopeful that we can pull this out. Break Logan Schuss' legs, please (or just enough so they will heal by OSU's next game).
Our next opponent - Rutgers - lost 19-6 today. We'll still be underdogs next week, but Rutgers is quite beatable.
He had a clear lane to curl around the crease there before that stupid turnover.
Cool Story Bro Moment:
I played against Greg Bice (BTN Announcer) when he was at Ohio State as a freshman. I played for Mercyhurst a DII program from PA in a scrimmage. I was a long pole and had a catastrophic head to head collision on a faceoff. That hit put me and the OSU player in the cat scan machine at Wexner Medical Center. I don't even remember waking up that morning but I remember really being jacked up during warm-ups and salivating at the thought of laying someone out.
/end of cool story bro
So are you allowed to just whack people with your stick when they have the ball?
Yes. On the arms and on the stick, though these are interpreted very liberally. In real life anywhere between the neck and the waist is OK 90% of the time.
You can hammer the guy with the ball on his stick, hands and arms. You have to be careful because if you nail him in the body, they'll call slashing.
Meh, I always tried to lay a little alloy on the attackmans hip a few times in the first quarter. Accidentally of course.
We're in decent shape. If we can stop turnovers and get ground balls, we'll have a chance to win.
Three, four goals isn't insurmountable at all. We really do have to get the next one, though.
Great save, and great attempt by Schuss, who landed in the crease, which is a no-no
It looks insanely hard to be a lacrosse goalie. I feel like both of them have done well today.
It is very hard. They are all nuts. They hardly have any pads on other than the chest, neck and balls. They have nerves of steel to stand on front of a rubber ball moving 80 mph.
That's sort of what they wear on their chest. I think it has a lot to do with tradition. Lacrosse hurts a lot and they want to keep it that way.
Haha, not a grammar nazi here. Or is it hear?
They have pads that stretch down to maybe the belly button if not a tiny bit lower. They don't wear any arm pads, however.
Yeah. I played goalie in hockey, which was bad enough. It barely seems possible to make a save in this sport unless it is shot right at you. It's like telling a hockey goalie that you are going to take away his pads and he can only make saves with his stick.
I used to cringe when I saw goalies in college make kick saves with bare legs. No thank you.
Very impressive effort by team one today. No matter what happens they should hold their heads high. The talent and size difference out there is very noticable, yet they keep fighting admirably.
Great goal by Vasileff
Greiner must not have a left hand. Roll and it was a goal there buddy!
Would've loved to see Greiner get the hat trick. You don't see that much from your FOGOs.
Now THAT was a beautiful play.
That sure was. Nice to see them moving the ball. BTW did you grow up in VA?
No, in Michigan. Went to school at UVA.