Comments on: Is Stevenson Really Leaving The CAC For The MAC?

By: GOMUSTANGS

GOMUSTANGS — Sat, 14 May 2011 02:48:00 +0000

not everything is about lacrosse at stevenson. true lacrosse is the only powerhouse the school has ever had but the other athletic programs are trying to and are growing! this is to better ALL sports at stevenson. womens lacrosse has been nationally ranked for the past 2 years. womens soccer won the CAC conference and made it to the NCAA tournament. mens soccer and mens volleyball both won ecac tournaments. softball made it to their first ever postseason tournament. womens volleyball went over 20 wins for the season. so it is not just lacrosse at stevenson anymore. surely the football team will need years to grow, but come back to stevenson in 10 years and i beat they are a powerhouse athletic program in division III.

By: Swank Lax

Swank Lax — Fri, 06 May 2011 23:55:00 +0000

No. Fucking. Way.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:03:00 +0000

interesting!

Thanks for the comments and all the info… VERY helpful my man! Going to be an interesting year in 2013 for D3 lax!

2011 still looks pretty awesome though!

By: MAClax

MAClax — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:24:00 +0000

I can only think of one sport that is going to combine this conference still after the move and that is going to be football.

PS…I loved the article and liked your observations, my post was mainly to inform people about how this changes the landscape of a conference they probably didn’t know anything about.

By: 412 Lax

412 Lax — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:20:00 +0000

Comment of the year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:18:00 +0000

I didn’t think the move had much to do with lax… but I posted on it because it will have an effect on men’s lax. Agreed it was done for other reasons.

The MAC may be two different conferences in other sports, but for now it is only one conference for lacrosse, right?
So are they going to split it into two conferences officially and the MAC will die? If not, I think they’d still only get one bid to the dance.
It would be interesting, and totally different if the plan were to create TWO conferences… but I didn’t see that in the link above from Stevenson. Is that the plan?

Stevenson always plays a solid OOC schedule, but with 14 league games, that could get very hard. The split would be a good idea.

Now would there an additional bid assigned to Pool A? Or would a Pool C slot become a Pool A slot? I guess that’s the next big question if the split does happen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:21:00 +0000

I think this is good for better d3 lacrosse programs in general. one less crappy d3 team will get a bid to the tournament.

By: MAClax

MAClax — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:16:00 +0000

A couple thoughts
First off, this move has almost nothing to do with lacrosse. The reason Stevenson is moving is because they have added football and the CAC does not have a current football league. They moved to the MAC (which is a strange conference but I’ll address that later) so they can be in a Football conference with an AQ to the NCAA tournament for football. I think right now Stevenson’s big money maker is lacrosse, but I find it hard to believe that football won’t overtake that pretty soon.
Now to the MAC, what many people don’t realize is that the MAC is actually two different conferences (The freedom and commonwealth conference). In probably all but 3 sports those two conferences have 8 teams and they are completely separate. The reason lacrosse is not split up like that, is because of AQ’s, I believe there are currently 12 teams in the MAC and they are split evenly between Freedom and Commonwealth. This move helps the MAC in lacrosse because now they can split into the two conferences and both will get an AQ because the Commonwealth will have 8 (Widener, Lycoming, Elizabethtown, Messiah, Lebanon Valley, Alvernia, HOOD, STEVENSON) and the other side will have 7 (Eastern, FDU, Manhattanville, Desales, Misericordia, King’s, Arcadia (associate member for the Freedom to retain an AQ)). So to say all MAC teams lose out is misleading, now the Freedom conference, who has 1 team that has made the NCAA tournament in recent memory, actually benefit because the conference splits and they won’t have to deal with 4 of the 6 playoff teams in this year’s MAC tournament nor will they have to deal with Stevenson.
I fell like the big losers in all of this is Stevenson’s lacrosse team. This is a pretty clear statement that they are more worried about their football team than the lacrosse team. They have lost a great in conference rivalry in Salisbury and now move to their biggest conference opponent being Widener (who they beat 15-3 last year).
This may seem like a ridiculous move, but it is just us lacrosse fans having a reality check to see that football takes priority over lacrosse.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:07:00 +0000

I don’t think goalies are required to wear them.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:05:00 +0000

In the first picture, check out the pocket of #6! Also, aren’t there rules about wearing elbow pads?