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Mittens

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  1. Salisbury lacrosse is the undefeated, defending national champion and one of the most dominant NCAA programs in any sport.  They are the paradoxical blueblood: ALL the wins, but a very hood program - or as hood as a whitebread sport can be.  I think of them as lacrosse's version of Jimmy Johnson's Miami Hurricanes.

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    13-Time NCAA Division III National Champions
    (1994, '95, '99, '03, '04, '05, '07, '08, '11, '12, '16, '17, '23)
    282 All-Americans
    39 NCAA Tournament appearances
    33 Consecutive NCAA bids
    28 NCAA Semifinal appearances
    25 Conference Championships
    (1995, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07, '08, '09, '11, '12, '14, '15, '17, '18, '19, '21, '22, '23)
    12 National Players of the Year
    55 National Position Players of the Year
    5 National Coach of the Year awards
    NCAA Record Winning Streaks
    105-game conference winning streak (3/04/95-04/04/09)
    69 consecutive wins (4/17/03-5/21/06)
    55 consecutive wins (2/17/07-3/28/09)
    47 consecutive wins (2/26/94-5/18/96)
    31 consecutive wins (4/20/11-2/16/13)
    87-game regular-season winning streak (4/17/03-3/28/09)
    80-game home winning streak (4/17/03-03/28/09)
    14 undefeated regular seasons (1991, '93, '94, '95, '96, 2004, '05, '06, '07, '08, '10, '12, '16, '20*)
    4 straight perfect regular seasons (1993-96)
    5 straight perfect regular seasons (2004-08)
    15 Major League Lacrosse/Premier Lacrosse League Draft Picks

    Washington & Lee is a blueblood type university and win a lot of conference championships (13 in the last 33yrs) but mostly 2 and cue in the NCAAs.  Lost to Salisbury last year in the Elite 8.

    Today:

    Bonus:

     

  2. Dominating 4-0 win to close out a glorious season for VfB Stuttgart and Bayern collapse from up 2-0 to lose 4-2 at Hoffenheim.

    2nd in the table
    Champions League
    Beat Bayern at home
    Stadium has been renovated and ready for Euros
    5 players named to Die Mannschaft
    #s 2 and 4 scorers in the BL

    Just an absolute fever dream of a season!
     

  3. 42 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Stand around celtics offense is ridiculously bad...

    I hate it so much. 
     

    Love me some Big Al.

     

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  4. 59 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    Let’s be real here, y’all hate him because he owns Twitter. 

    Am I an Elon hipster because I started hating him back when I figured out he was a huckster playing 3 Card Monte w/ SolarCity and Tesla?  Or when he was blatantly lying about The Boring Company?  I mean, I definitely hate him because of the Twitter purchase/ruination as well, but it's not like it was a new thing.

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  5. Lamar fell off the face of the earth.  They used to be so good.  Usually when a program drops like that, it's because the head coach left (see: Earl Bill leaving St. Mary's Hall and them going from multiple title winners to the gutter), but just googling a bit shows Vollmer was still there up until 2019 at least.  Their neighbor St. John's was an even bigger mystery, dropping from the elite to very meh, when they had the full varsity set up.

  6. Eh, the privates have always been powers.  For the most part (Jesuit excluded), it's their #1 sport for male students, and they are legit varsity programs vs club for the publics.  Kinkaid was terrible for years - I honestly hadn't seen their name in 20+ years until they won last year....although I see they were in the F4 in 2022 as well.  Seems they really benefitted from the playoff restructuring a couple of years back. ESD is a power and always has been.  TMI Episcopal is the real outlier - that's a relatively new program that has gone from cellar to tower pretty quickly.  They were terrible when I was reffing in the 20teens.  I'll say this: the publics have come a LONG way.  In the early 2000's, the privates DOMINATED.  There were years when the publics were lucky to get a team into the F4.

    ESD was the only private in the F4 of AA and there were only 3 in the E8.
    A had 3 privates in the E8, 2 in the F4
    TMI was the only private in the E8 in B

    2023:
    AA: 3 privates in the E8, 1 in the F4, 0 in the CG - public champ
    A: 3 privates in the E8, 2 in the F4, 2 in the CG - private champ
    B: 1 privates in the E8, 1 in the F4, 1 in the CG - public champ

    2022: 
    AA: 3 privates in the E8, 3 in the F4, 2 in the CG - private champ
    A: 4 privates in the E8, 2 in the F4, 0 in the CG - public champ
    B: 0 privates in the E8, 0 in the F4, 0 in the CG - public champ

  7. 11 hours ago, Macklemore said:

    Peacock, which is the worst streamer out there, is going to host most of the games — just watch.

    100% this is the worst part about the whole deal. The fans just lost hundreds of weeknight games.  I'm honestly rooting for this to fail so hard and the viewership numbers to drop like a rock.  

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