Michigan 12, BYU 9 FINAL (Sat, 3/1/08)

[Jeff Harlos]

it's unbelievable !!!


Michigan men's lacrosse team has never beat BYU in Provo,

Utah before.


I root for Michigan. Oh yeah


huge congrats to Wolverines




jeff
lacrosse fan

[Oduck]

so is that the final??

[Jeff Harlos]

yes, final score


Michigan 12 BYU 9







jeff
lacrosse fan

[ineedmorecowbell]

it was a terrible, sloppy game. both teams' defenses looked awful and the offenses just stood around and watched one guy dodge. michigan KILLED byu on face-offs.

[bste_lax]

These announcers get happy pretty easily any time BYU scores or makes a big save.

[Timbalaned]

it was a terrible, sloppy game. both teams' defenses looked awful and the offenses just stood around and watched one guy dodge. michigan KILLED byu on face-offs.

no offense but michigan has always been boring to watch IMO. They love the settled sets and don't really push it. Doesn't sound like a lot has changed

[PigPen]

their not terrible but their not great either-instead of complaining about Michigan jumping on faceoffs time and again, they should've harped on the fact that Hier killed any chance for a comeback with some bad penalties down the stretch.

I really though BYU had a chance to come back until the first Hier penalty-anyone see what he did?

[SDSULAX]

Didn't see that one coming.

[laxdad03]

Just watched the delayed TV broadcast (I thought they did a very nice job overall) -- MANY kudos to Michigan for a great, well-executed game, and a well-earned victory. BYU does have a few things to work on if they want to earn back that #1 spot, there are a lot of very good teams out there lately.

I have one sort of off-the-wall technical question, though, not so much related to the game but to the broadcast itself. It seems to me that somewhere along the line, much too little video bandwidth was allocated, and as a result the images appearing at my end were quite low resolution and low detail, with lots of mpeg blocking (especially when things moved) and other artifacts indicative of simply not having enough data in the pipe, particularly not enough to follow a rapidly moving sporting event, but even on stationary scenes, much of the detail was lost too. This was particularly evident for the first part of the game, somewhere along the way somebody must have kicked it up a notch or two so that later in the game it was better, but still not really what it should be. I'd be interested to know what other viewers in other areas of the country saw; I don't know if the restriction/limitation was on the BYU end, or farther down the chain, perhaps even my local cable company. Perhaps this was related to the last minute switch to the turf field? Anyway, just a hint for next time...

[OldRamAlum83]

No offense but I can't believe anyone would be critical about BYU's broadcast or technology. The rest of the teams through out the MCLA would give anything to have their games on TV. Not even the mighty multi-million dollar endowment Michigan get their games broadcast nationally. Many of the top teams are struggling to find practice fields.

[Ravaging Beast]

My second favorite team is looking good. Going to be a good season.


beast
fan of michigan

[Gvlax]

i watched the game and thought the announcers were great. Camera man could use a bit of practice but for a MCLA game being broadcast i thought it was awesome to see. It was rough watching NCAA D1 all day then switching to this game but I loved watching it.

[laxdad03]

No offense but I can't believe anyone would be critical about BYU's broadcast or technology. The rest of the teams through out the MCLA would give anything to have their games on TV. Not even the mighty multi-million dollar endowment Michigan get their games broadcast nationally. Many of the top teams are struggling to find practice fields.

Touche. I really didn't mean to be critical or complaining at all, just trying to debug and help make things better if possible (I suffer from being hypersensitive in that area, I suppose, I design video processing hardware for a living...). Sorry about that, but I really did just want to see where the overcompression was happening.

[the lax]

Sounds like the BYU announcers are similar to the way Quint covers a Hopkins game

[PigPen]

Actually I think Quint does pretty well doing Hopkins and if anything he's hyper critical-if you didn't do you homework or are an old fart-you'd probably never know that he played at JHU with Petro.