Tonight I got to listen to Dom Starsia, Lacrosse coach, speak at the Crab Feast.  He’s an alright guy - down to earth and all that jazz.  He seems to be (shocker!) excited about the upcoming group of guys we’ve got for our team.  I can’t remember all the details, but one stand-out comment was that we’ve got a pair of twins in the entering class.  This I found interesting.  I wonder if they are both truly that good that they were both recruited for this national championship team (3 in the past 7 years, after all), or if they were really good enough that they were worth recruiting because of marketing and PR.  After all - what’s better than one stand-out player?  TWO stand-out players.  And what’s better than that?  Clearly, twins.

I don’t think our LaX team gets enough credit.  Aside from leading the nation in shots taken, score margins, groundballs, and a whole slew of other categories, we lead the nation in number of academic All-Americans, at 3.  Coach also made a good point - our three All Americans weren’t the bottom-of-the-roster walk-on bench warmers.  They were three of our top players — Matt Ward, Michael Culver, and Matt Poskay.  We’re talkin’ cream of the crop here.

Aside from that Dom was very humble, but wouldn’t say much about next year other than the usual crap coaches say about how they think it’ll be promising and they’ve got a good group of guys and all that stuff.  My thoughts are that either (a) he doesn’t want to jinx it or (b) he’s worried.  I hope it’s (a).

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