Which varsity teams are playing MDIA programs this year?

[MackLax]

Are we certain that Bellarmine a varsity team this year (or a club team that will go varsity next season)?

Sonny, they are officially considered DII this season though will be full DI status in 2006. I believe this was necessary due to the remainder of their athletics program being DII and that for you to play up a division in a sport you must first play at the institution's division for a year. I know this for a fact as I only have DII eligibility remaining and back in the summer Bellarmine was one of my options to play this year and I would have been able to play with them in '05 because they were DII.

They are playing 4 DI games this season and aside from Butler, I firmly believe they will be superior to that competition. Coach McGetrick has fielded a great team even for a first year roster, and several of those Canadians are immediate impact players.

[MackLax]

Sonny,

We should somehow submit to Laxpower the games that are not actual games. Like Mizzou vs. Wittenberg and Bellarmine, since most poll voters look at Laxpower to base their polls on.

Also, anyone else who finds some other scrimmages that are actual games should list them as well so we can have legit schedules on the Laxpower site.

Thanks

Not all of the varsity versus MDIA competition is played as a real game by the varsity team. In several instances they do treat it as a game, for example what I hear of last year's Whittier/BYU game was pretty legit. But if one of the teams is treating the contest like a scrimmage, why should it be computed or considered as a real game? And it's tough enough to find parity with the dozens of teams in the MDIA, trying to find parity across divisions is near impossible and the plethora of threads on lax forums have discussed that widely.

[LAX SAMURAI]

Claremont is playing MIT on the 26th of March @ Claremont.

[Bluevelvet]

Claremont is playing MIT on the 26th of March @ Claremont.

Not according to MIT or Laxpower.

[Ken Lovic]

we are also "playing" MIT while out in Cali on March 23. a true battle of the minds

[Sonny]

I don't think we should consider LaxPower an official source of schedule information. As a private web site, they gather their schedule information from a variety of sources.

It is apparent to me that many of the varsity teams that are playing MDIA teams this year are considering this games as unofficial contests or scrimmages, if you will. At the moment, I'm leaning toward not including any varsity/MDIA contests in our new database.

[Bluevelvet]

If the varsity and MDIA teams BOTH consider it a game, then it is a game and should count (eg. UCSB v. Whittier and CSU v. Colorado College).
What is wrong with using laxpower? They seem to list only contests that both teams count as games. (eg. the MIT contests on the west coast are not listed as games on Laxpower but Whittier v. UCLA and UCSB are listed).

[TheLoo]

I don't think we should consider LaxPower an official source of schedule information. As a private web site, they gather their schedule information from a variety of sources.

I thought uslia.com was a private site now too.

[Sonny]

I don't think we should consider LaxPower an official source of schedule information. As a private web site, they gather their schedule information from a variety of sources.

I thought uslia.com was a private site now too.

It is. But at least here on USLIA.com, the MDIA teams involved are directly inputting their data & schedule.

[Kevin Boyle]

Looks like Michigan had a great game against St. Vincent last night, but lost by a goal. The story is posted on mgoblue.com (I'll leave it to a computer literate forum-fan to paste the link).

How 'bout that Michigan face-off guy!?

[strykr11]

Looks like Michigan had a great game against St. Vincent last night, but lost by a goal. The story is posted on mgoblue.com (I'll leave it to a computer literate forum-fan to paste the link).

How 'bout that Michigan face-off guy!?

http://www.umich.edu/~menslax/Articles/ ... 905SVU.htm