Men's Lacrosse @ Penn State 6PM Tonight on the U
Flip over to the U to catch the men's lacrosse team take on Penn State at 6PM. It's a pretty big game for Michigan as they need right the ship on a 2022 season that started well but is now reeling. The 2-8 Nittany Lions come at the right time for a Michigan team that has now lost 4 straight.
Penn State is having a rather odd off-year and are coming off an 18-9 beating at the hands of Ohio State. Their only wins are against Lafayette and weirdly #5 Yale. So they're having a down season but they're still dangerous.
Michigan badly needs this one and it's their best chance to get a win with #9 and #4 Rutgers remaining on the schedule. M has struggled since entering the beefier part of its schedule but it gets the chance to turn their season around tonight.
GO BLUE
6-2 Penn State at half, not great.
M coming back, only down one goal with about 6 minutes left 8-7.
Duude, Justin Brown with 4 it 5 goals today....unreal.
Tied up, 4 minds left
Ugh....OT loss 8-9.
Fuck OT this week, really.
What is it going to take to not be the Big Ten’s perennial doormat? Are we back to looking at a coaching change?
If this season ends with seven straight losses and an 0-7 Big Ten record, even though it might seem hard to imagine Kevin Conry lasting another season at Michigan, you have to consider that almost all of Michigan's key players would return next season, including the nation's points leader with 63 before tonight and the Wolverines' top goal scorer junior Josh Zawada (tied for third in the nation with 36 goals before tonight) and faceoff specialists sophomore Justin Wietfeldt (ranked sixth in the NCAA in faceoff winning percentage before tonight) and Nick Rowlett who was first team all conference in 2021 and has a redshirt year and a COVID year of eligibility left if he decides to stay.
Considering Michigan’s 5-33 record in Big Ten games since the first conference season in 2015, the head coaching job at Michigan might be attractive to a young assistant at one of the top programs, but that’s what Michigan thought they had with Conry when he was hired in June 2017 after spending five seasons at Maryland as defensive coordinator, including two as associate head coach.
Would Michigan go after a head coach from one of the currently ranked but lesser D-1 programs like Richmond’s Dan Chemotti or Boston University’s Ryan Polley, both of whom have had some success building their programs as those schools’ first and only head coaches?
Ugh, they came all the way back to tie it...and then lose in OT. Pretty brutal loss. They really laid an egg in the first half and most of the game was defined by poor shooting and bad turnovers. They really cleaned it up late in the game but by then it was too late.
Thread hijack….OT Josh Conerly to Oregon 🤨