The Syracuse men’s lacrosse team can’t afford the kind of lapses and mistakes it made during its season-opening 16-15 double overtime loss to Albany at the Carrier Dome on Sunday.
Despite the disastrous hire of Greg Robinson weeks later, there is not a whole lot of negatives when it comes to the direction and thought process behind the other coaching hires during the Gross regime.
The 2012 lacrosse team nearly had that dubious distinction this year, as it had a uneven and frustration season before getting knocked out by Duke in the tournament’s first round.
It used to be a rite of passage for each Syracuse team to play until Memorial Day, a spring tradition for us to cheer on the Orange through championship weekend—something we took for granted. We just can’t expect that level of sustained success anymore.
It’s a good thing they packed the white home uniforms in the Syracuse lacrosse equipment truck that was parked outside of Villanova Stadium late Thursday night.