Behind the scenes with Michigan Lacrosse

Submitted by laxalum on

Every year Mike O'Leary, who played for the club lacrosse team, produces a video about the current year's team that they debut at the banquet.  Mike worked for NFL Films at one point and has a bunch of emmys for sports shows and documentaries.  His NFL Films experience is pretty evident in his lacrosse videos.  He did a bunch of stuff for the University of Miami's athletic department too that won some awards.  He comes up with a different theme every year.  This year's version is called The Will.  Be warned, it's about 12 minutes long.

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/michigan-lacrosse-the-will-/28526

APBlue

May 6th, 2014 at 4:13 PM ^

Great video.  Thanks for posting.  I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.  I looked around on the IL website and couldn't find much information about recruiting rankings (I'm sure it's there, I just couldn't find it).  

I know the program still has a lot of building to do, but is there any word on where Michigan's most recent and/or upcoming LAX classes rank?  

WolvinLA2

May 6th, 2014 at 7:00 PM ^

The 2013 class (the guys who are currently frosh) were ranked #18 in the country, which is interesting because it's 4th in the Big Ten, ahead of OSU and Rutgers.  I can't find any rankings for the 2014 class, but the IL 2013 class rankings were posted Nov of 2013, so they clearly do that differently than football.  Maybe they wait until guys arrive on campus before they rank them.

laxalum

May 6th, 2014 at 5:56 PM ^

First two classes were ranked about 20.  Not sure where the 2014 or 2015 classes are ranked, but they crushed it with their 2016 class which is in the top 5 right now along with the usual suspects like Duke, Virginia and Hopkins.  

mlax27

May 6th, 2014 at 6:06 PM ^

I loved this video and look forward to his videos each year, ever since being in his first ever team video. Those videos were good, but his new ones just blow me away. Hopefully recruits see these videos because they are amazing and I doubt any other program in the country has videos like this (at least with this much production value). The 2016 class will be great. 2 of the top 15 players in the country, including an attackman (which we need) and the grandson of Gerald Ford.