View Full Version : "THE STREAK" is dead.
SDS416
05-15-2005, 02:15 PM
The streak came to a halt at UMASS today, a week later than it should have, 16-15!
Thank god.
wilsontopowell
05-15-2005, 02:16 PM
it was a great game cept that BS call at the end with the kicking of the crosse on the faceoff
SDS416
05-15-2005, 02:22 PM
it was a great game cept that BS call at the end with the kicking of the crosse on the faceoff
Must be an SU fan, complete with orange colored glasses. It was pretty obvious. Even Desko seemed to know it.
liveforlax19
05-15-2005, 02:33 PM
and that crease violation that they DIDNT call on UMass
both of thos could have been game changing...
wait til next year, biznotches
SDS416
05-15-2005, 02:35 PM
HAHAHAHA. The SU excuse makers are out in force today.
JHU43
05-15-2005, 02:43 PM
I love it.
They rally behind Cuse when they beat Brown (not a tournament team) by 1, Hobart (not a tournament team) by 1 and Albany (well, you know how the UVA game went) by 1.
Enjoy a cold winter in upstate NY.
wilsontopowell
05-15-2005, 03:01 PM
HAHAHAHA. The SU excuse makers are out in force today.
hahahaha im an su fan and i gotta say that umass just played a better game than cuse. zywicki was unstoppable and that one black goalie from umass played amazing in the first half. i think peiffer didnt have a great day and thats what seperated umass from cuse
Lax101
05-15-2005, 03:06 PM
Big teams like SU falling corresponds with the growth of lacrosse. It's about time the days are over of SU and Princeton and UNC dominating the scene. Fresh, upstart teams in different area's just further shows that the game is expanding to universities and area's not named "Syracuse".
JHU43
05-15-2005, 03:24 PM
Fresh, upstart teams in different area's just further shows that the game is expanding to universities and area's not named "Syracuse".
I think the development of Denver is important for lax to grow out West.
SU not making it to the Final 4 is probably just a cyclical thing -- they had a string of great players for years, now they're Powell-less and need to rebuild. Maybe they'll be back in the Final 4 next year, I don't know. (Then again, hopefully not)
zizuhyte
05-15-2005, 03:42 PM
im so glad i dont have to put up with cuse in the final four this year.
laxoholic
05-15-2005, 04:31 PM
I really wanted to go and see them play in the final four. that would have been awesome. man hats off to the 23 years in a row of final fours.
Darkness1
05-15-2005, 04:44 PM
my high school lacrosse coach is an su grauduate and three time champion and im a big cuse fan and i am willing to admit this season has been horrible and my coach says the same exact thing
syracuselax3
05-15-2005, 04:50 PM
can someone tell me what happened i didnt get to see the game
camthraxFHK
05-15-2005, 05:26 PM
SU will be good again soon. Leveille is the best freshman I have seen this year. And lets remember how close cuse played with Hopkins and Virginia. UMass is good and beat them. So shut up Cuse haters.
SDS416
05-15-2005, 05:56 PM
ALot of very good freshman out there, and some better than Leveille. Not that he isn't good, there are some freshman out there you apparently aren't giving enough credit to or haven't seen.
They did play Hopkins and UVA close, choked like dogs against Hopkins (no good team blows that big a lead) and let UVA get away too.
No question UMASS is a good squad, that is playing very well right now, with 2 huge wins down the stretch and now a nice win over SU again when it counts the most.
As for the SU "haters" (as you refer to them), deal with it. For 22 years SU fans have run their mouth anywhere and everywhere they could about their superiority and now is the time they have to pay the price for it. What goes around, comes around and so I suggest to SU fans they take it like they've dished it out.
"The Streak" is dead. DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! All the crap about how SU would take care of business once the playoffs rolled around was just crap. For all the times that the many (but not all) classless SU fans have thrown insults at Hopkins, Maryland, Navy, UVA and anyone else, this is payback time.
jmplax31
05-15-2005, 07:15 PM
OH MY GOD THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE FF???
I think it was rather obvious all year that it was not going to happen.
SDS416
05-15-2005, 07:20 PM
OH MY GOD THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE FF???
I think it was rather obvious all year that it was not going to happen.
Try telling that to the more hardcore SU fans....
My favorite was the former SU player who posted at Laxpower that if SU didn't win and win big over UMASS he'd never post there again. I guess he will be missed. :bye:
jmplax31
05-15-2005, 07:24 PM
Not that I am hardcore or anything, but I do like the team. However I just didn't see how it was possible in the begging of this season. Gee I love being right.
If Naz does not win D3 this year, I quit posting here.........(not really)
SDS416
05-15-2005, 07:25 PM
Man, Naz has to go to Cortland St. next week...thats gonna be a hell of a game.
exile lacrosse
05-15-2005, 07:55 PM
i must say, i am disapointed, yet not surprised.
MontclairLax
05-15-2005, 08:03 PM
Cuse is getting some sick players next year like Pat Perrit and im not sure about Jamie Ireland or whatever his name was. I know they got two other sick offensive players but i forget who they are.
ALABASTERMASTER
05-15-2005, 08:59 PM
what game are you talking about?
JHU43
05-15-2005, 09:07 PM
I think it's time we all recognize that the TRUE streak is Hopkins making it to the tournament every single year since the NCAAs took over (a streak still alive). That streak is now at 34 years I believe. 12 years longer than SU's streak, and likely would be much longer if you counted from before the NCAAs took over. Note that it's the longest tournament qualifying streak in ALL of NCAA D1 team sports.
If you want to talk about a really long-running streaks, that's where you need to look.
RHS attackmen
05-15-2005, 10:20 PM
making it to the final four? or just the tournament? i thought the syracuse streak was making it to the final four?
SDS416
05-16-2005, 05:48 AM
making it to the final four? or just the tournament? i thought the syracuse streak was making it to the final four?
SU had made 22 consecutive final 4's and has made the NCAA's 24 seasons in a row now.
jralax11
05-16-2005, 06:23 AM
Big teams like SU falling corresponds with the growth of lacrosse. It's about time the days are over of SU and Princeton and UNC dominating the scene. Fresh, upstart teams in different area's just further shows that the game is expanding to universities and area's not named "Syracuse".
Let's not get carried away calling UMass upstart. The program is established. New England college lacrosse is legit. On the other hand, I agree that it's a good sign when the elite teams are pushed aside by the highly respectable "second tier" elite.
The game was amazing. UMass held a lead for the entire game, except when Brett Bucktooth (what a sniper!) tied it at 15.
Two comments: (1) the garber field crowd was lame. Seemed like we were a hell of a lot louder when I was a student. (2) Jeff Zywiecki is the real deal. That kid can score a will, I swear.
And one for Syracuse: Seems like they could use some defensive recruits. Their offensive guys are great, but their poles were getting beaten all day.
LaxRef
05-16-2005, 07:41 AM
I think it's time we all recognize that the TRUE streak is Hopkins making it to the tournament every single year since the NCAAs took over (a streak still alive). That streak is now at 34 years I believe. 12 years longer than SU's streak, and likely would be much longer if you counted from before the NCAAs took over. Note that it's the longest tournament qualifying streak in ALL of NCAA D1 team sports.
How can you count years before the NCAA took over in a streak of consecutive years making the NCAA tournament? :thinking: :chuckle:
Anyway, such streaks--Hopkins' streak and the Syracuse streak, now ended--are indicative of a sport that is too small. The reason Hopkins has the longest streak in all DI is that other sports have more parity, and parity, in the long term, is good for the sport because you get more people from more different schools interested in it.
Ghslongpole14
05-16-2005, 08:19 AM
I honestly expected the streak to end this year. A.) The team was lacking many threats from last season, and B.) the streak was matched by the UNC women's soccer team. THe women's soccer team lost to Santa Clara in the quarterfinals, marking the first time the UNC women's team hadn't made the Final Four in 20+ years (it was the same # as 'Cuse). So, it seemed fit for 'Cuse to lose, IMO.
Sanchez
05-16-2005, 09:02 AM
Big teams like SU falling corresponds with the growth of lacrosse. It's about time the days are over of SU and Princeton and UNC dominating the scene. Fresh, upstart teams in different area's just further shows that the game is expanding to universities and area's not named "Syracuse".
I thought you were done posting here.
zizuhyte
05-16-2005, 09:27 AM
well cuse's streak ending managed to make it onto sportscenter :D they said only like 4 people on the team were alive during a year where cuse wasnt in the final four =O
As for the excuces by the SU fans let me ask you this when UMass beat SU by a goal a month ago that was also a fluke??????
JHU43
05-16-2005, 04:47 PM
How can you count years before the NCAA took over in a streak of consecutive years making the NCAA tournament? :thinking: :chuckle:
Whatever the governing body is doesn't matter. The idea I was getting at was that Hopkins has been involved in lacrosse's playoff competition every year for a long time. Whether it's run by the NCAA, ILA or any other organization, it's still the same achievement by the school.
the more important streak for hopkins is how they are without a title since 87'
JHU43
05-16-2005, 08:44 PM
the more important streak for hopkins is how they are without a title since 87'
You are right. I'm sure they'd trade it all for a title.