Comments on: The Most Violent Crosscheck Ever

By: TheCreole

TheCreole — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:13:00 +0000

Cross checking, in general, as a middie? Let’s say having a wider grip on the stick and putting it in their upper arm? Not a big deal.

Leaving your feet to cross check a guy in the face who doesn’t even have the ball? That’s an issue.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:00 +0000

If you aren’t cross checking on a dodging middie or attackman what are you doing? Letting him run by you…… I’m with you on the cross check. That’s the only way I play defense! I give it out and take it, but if I got cross checked high, late, and to the head I would have done the same thing, only I wouldn’t have got my ass beat like the UNC player. Will I know you’re with me on that!

By: thehaole

thehaole — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:30:00 +0000

Having played the game half a decade I know the feeling and I am guilty of cross checking every now and again too. It doesn’t make it right though with a hit like this. Retaliation like this could seriously injure someone, especially with the force that these college players put behind it. Just because cross checking happens doesn’t mean its needed especially in this instance. All this does is put a poor image on some of the players in the D1 program

By: Will DeSiervo

Will DeSiervo — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:18:00 +0000

Brutal hit but it’s one in 10,000. Every sports has injuries from over aggression, look at how Blake Griffin got hit like a running back, it doesn’t mean cross checking isn’t part of the game. As a dodging middie I give out and take cross checks multiple times a game. Having a good top dodger running at you full speed you need a wider surface than the 15 or so inches with your hands together to make that contact to bump them off their route to stay with them, especially in the rain. Maybe three years of mens league and summer tourneys has me too far away from organized games but sometimes you have to cross check to not get beat.

By: Sam Elkind

Sam Elkind — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:55:00 +0000

love how the back up goalie was the first person to rush the field, clearly the enforcer

…. but yeah, dumb play

By: bhsvideodad

bhsvideodad — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:13:00 +0000

Not to mention as Copper was pounding the UNC player in the face, #45 came in push him off and to protect the UNC player and he was penalized.

By: bh_bro_17

bh_bro_17 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:18:00 +0000

clean hit in my opinion

By: bh_bro_17

bh_bro_17 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:20:00 +0000

I say a little payback there!

By: wcllrepn

wcllrepn — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:42:00 +0000

boys will be boys

By: Longstick33

Longstick33 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:37:00 +0000

I agree with you guys. The announcers definatly downplayed the cross-check. That hit itself should have been enough for an ejection but I guess we’ll never know. Also did anyone else think Cummings check prior to the cross-check should have been called a slash? It looked like he wound up and came down right on the shoulder and didn’t get any stick at all.

By: Will Hemsley

Will Hemsley — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:01:00 +0000

What are your thoughts on the fact that cross checking is legal in the MLL?

By: ilstatelax19

ilstatelax19 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:54:00 +0000

Anyone see the Virginia hit on Rob Guida in the UVA/JHU game? It is up there with this hit to me it may have been a more violent and direct definition of helmet to helmet contact, or that could be just because Guida’s helmet literally came flying off. I have not been able to find a link to the video yet.

I think to eliminate this all together besides getting rid of crosschecking and just keeping that for the indoor game the officials need to take more control of the violent hits and really convey the message that garbage hits and malicious intent will not be allowed. I think the officials did a great job in the UMD/UNC game but then again I did not see the whole game. The UVA/JHU game the officials should have given UVA a longer non-releasable penalty to send a message.

I see it throughout the ranks of the sport of lacrosse, especially at the high school level a majority of the officials just do not have the training and experience hours to keep many games under control. At least that is my experience with midwest lacrosse.

By: Reg Hartner

Reg Hartner — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:04:00 +0000

Didn’t see McBride’s earlier slash. I admit the only reason I saw this
play was because it was on the DVR at the start of the Hop/UVA game I
sat down to watch that night. I didn’t know that this might have been a pay back for an earlier cheap shot.

I’m not a UNC or MD fan. Just thought that this was an ugly hit and
targeting the head and was shocked that the announcers should have been
talking about that hit, not the retaliation were talking about the
retaliation, not the actual hit.

By: Tom Huppmann

Tom Huppmann — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:09:00 +0000

I thought the same thing when Greg McBride slashed Shakespeare in the gut after his goal in the 3rd. That play drew an unsportsmanlike on McBride, but didn’t seem to draw the ire of the announcers like I thought it might have. More than likely it did draw the attention of Shakespeare’s teammates.

By: connorwilson

connorwilson — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:27:00 +0000

we’ve always been told it’s the retaliator who gets the most attention, and this is another good example of that.

It did seem like they minimized the crosscheck a bit, which I found weird considering it clearly targeted the head, which is still a big issue in college lacrosse.

An ugly incident all around.