Posted on 04/14/2020 5:23:17 PM PDT by LRoggy
The Johns Hopkins Blue Jays will be searching for a new head lacrosse coach for the first time this century, the university announced Tuesday a.m.
Two-time national champion head coach Dave Pietramala agreed to mutually and responsibly part ways with his alma mater, according to a press release.
In 2015, Pietramala and then-AD Tom Calder agreed to a contract extension that ran through the 2020
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I liken it to watching old NASCAR races. Which I've been doing a lot of thanks to youtube.
The racing was more exciting when the cars were just a couple of more inches off the ground and you could see the nose rear up when they accelerated and dive when they braked. And the ways the cars yawed in the corners. That was cool. Nowadays they look more like slot cars than stock cars.
What if there is absolutely no one that cares about your opinion regarding this thread? Go make trouble elsewhere copper!
YouTube is a GREAT source for old sports.
You are right.
And thanks for the post - disregard the whiners.
They are probably a couple of ex-baseball coaches who lost their athletes to the sport . . . down here in Florida that trend is in full flight.
A couple of years ago CNBC had Mike Piazza on to ring the bell on the NYSE floor for Opening Day. The interviewer asked him about the problem of getting kids to watch baseball (he lives in Miami) and his answer was ‘where I live all the kids are playing lacrosse’.
Part of the money drain is the (unconstitutional) Title IX requirement that colleges do their best to screw up their sports programs--eliminating men's teams and replacing them with women's teams no one will pay to watch--especially not women.
And colleges got over-priced and over-extended, thinking they could cut real scholarship in favor of selling Communism by the drink, and no one would catch on.
To be honest, that’s kind of in the past right now. The fact is that only football and basketball can generate net profit for a college. The real problem with Title IX these days is that it was designed with a 55-45 male-female ratio but now that’s flipped to 55 female. The inability to change the formula is what hurts to account for those schools where women’s sports are not a big participation rate.
Lacrosse would have a lot more D1 programs if that formula changes, as there are more Women’s D1 programs. Cutting the programs for Title IX compliance was pretty much done 15 years ago. Now it’s about how to add programs while keeping compliant.
A great example is UF in Gainesville, which started a Women’s program that became a Top 10 program in a few years but the AD (Jeremy Foley), who played lacrosse in college, couldn’t figure out how to add the Men’s program. The women actually built their own lacrosse-only stadium (which is becoming more common on D1 college campuses - Notre Dame, Michigan, Denver . . .).
I was saddened by this news. Petro was the best defender of the 80s. My father took me to all of the Hopkins home games growing up and I am a Hop fan to this day, even after playing for another team in college. I went to several summer camps where Pietramala was a coach. He would let anyone try and take him one-on-one and he would strip the ball from everyone that tried to take him on. His hoarse voice yelling at you from across the field and his intensity were unforgettable. Whatever team lands him will have a great coach and lacrosse mind.
That's what I figured. And I appreciate your knowledge of this arena. I was a college trustee for a decade in New York State--although not D1 by any means. The sheer animus against anything that a red-blooded male would be interested in, academically or extra-curricular and God knows in the everyday official rhetoric.
It was a pageant of boring. I'm not surprised that more girls than boys go to college. The boys are irrelevant to what the colleges think is their mission, and the college mission is irrelevant to them. And the colleges are folding here, one by one.
His children are all coaches in the sport.
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So his son that coaches the Pats finds enough time to coach lacrosse too?
“ Sorry, but I’m going to have to agree with those who think this is the dumbest post I’ve seen in a long time, considering the current situation. :)”
We’re trying to return to normal by talking about sports. OK, lacrosse isn’t football, but it’s a good, physical game, and it’s the only truly American game that’s still played.
GO IOWA STATE!!!!
I personally dislike lacrosse but my high school senior son loves it.
The fact that an A-hole senior blind sided my son when he was a sophomore and destroyed my son’s knee might have something to do with it.
Son was long stick middie standing in front of goal when the opponent ran around from back of net and then log rolled him. Ball was on opposite end of field.
Blew his ACL, ripped MCL, punched a hole in meniscus when the two leg boned pinched it. Out of commission for a year. Ruined football and hockey seasons. Ruined chance at a military academy appointment.
But he still practices every day, hoping they will still have a season this year.
Born, raised and currently live in Baltimore. I’m a lax geek. The game has passed Pietramala by. JHU would be better served with Nadelen from Towson, a JHU grad. Nadelen has done more with less and is a better evaluator of talent. Pietramala simply couldn’t recruit the way his predecessors Ciccarone or Tierney did
Hopkins used to get many of their best players from the Baltimore private schools. In recent years I have seen those players go to UNC and play for Breschi. The Ensign Kelly Award winner from Calvert Hall (Cole Herbert 2020) is going to UNC next year. He is the type of kid JHU needs and used to get. Calvert Hall, the number one team in Maryland, is sending three top kids to Maryland next year. In years past they’ve sent many to UNC.
Tambroni at Penn State is a recruiting machine. Not sure if he would want to leave
I’m Hobart ‘80. Which school?
My hobby is running a lacrosse web site and I had a few interactions with him, where he was gracious with his time. I do think that today’s players don’t react as well to brow-beating, which he certainly used at times.
Yeah, I missed on that. That son did have lacrosse coaching in his past. The daughter is a D3 head coach. I should have said all three PLAYED in college. His Dad was an assistant at Navy I believe, so Belichick grew up around the dominant Navy program of the 60’s.
I’m sorry to hear that, that’s as bad as anything I’ve heard given the off ball issue. I hope he gets his wish. Is he in college yet, or a high school senior?
Can’t see Tambroni leaving PSU. My contacts are split between Nadelan and Greg Raymond. I am a Hobart grad and pray Greg stays in Geneva since he’s doing a great job. I think that there’s a dynamic at JHU in the administration that would favor Raymond but either wouldn’t surprise anyone.
Whoever they decide on it’s likely someone who is more offensive minded.
I’ve met and talked to Breschi a few times and love him. He’s a great guy.
He’s a graduating senior this year.
Hoping for at least a few lacrosse games before school is over.
Got accepted to all nine schools he applied to.
He will be attending a “Public Ivy” in Virginia and hopefully play club hockey or walk on to Varsity Football.
Fanlax?
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