CU over Whittier, not UCSB

[KnowItAll]

How does everyone feel about CU beating D III Whittier and then going on to get beat by 8 to UCSB?

[DG]

How does everyone feel about CU beating D III Whittier and then going on to get beat by 8 to UCSB?

It seems like that is the deal this year...a team plays great (or doesn't) one game, then falls off (or plays well) in the next.

DG

[AflacLax]

It seems like that is the deal this year...a team plays great (or doesn't) one game, then falls off (or plays well) in the next.

That, and you can never be certain how these NCAA are going to treat their games against USLMDIA teams. Whittier could very well have decided to change their game plan since they had already played two other USLMDIA teams. They may have decided to try new sets on O and D and new players.

Either way, it indicates that CU is still and will remain one of the upper tier USLMDIA teams.

[stillwater killa]

I believe Whittier played their starters for the entire game and used the same game plan they had used against Merchant Marine Academy. They used their first two lines of middies and kept the same goalie in. Perhaps it was only a club team, but they played the game the same way they had played against other NCAA teams. Just a thought......

[x1dschm]

This was talked about in a laxpower forum and a poster that follows Whittier said that they played that game like they would against any NCAA team and that the Buffs just wanted to win a lot more than Whittier.

[Jumbo]

Buffs only lost to D3 Williams by 2 early. They was most likely tired from beating the poets the day before UCSB. Any other MDIA wins over NCAA?

[CATLAX MAN]

They was, huh? It was actually 2 days before, the same day the UCSB played Sonoma in Sonoma, but who's counting.

[byualum]

Buffs only lost to D3 Williams by 2 early. They was most likely tired from beating the poets the day before UCSB. Any other MDIA wins over NCAA?

BYU and CSU both beat Colorado College. FSU beat Mars Hill.

[laxdad03]

Buffs only lost to D3 Williams by 2 early. They was most likely tired from beating the poets the day before UCSB. Any other MDIA wins over NCAA?

BYU and CSU both beat Colorado College (quite lopsidedly); Colorado College beat Whittier; Whittier beat BYU and CSU (and Michigan); and on and on -- more circles...more headaches...let alone the circles entirely within the MDIA. FSU beat Mars hill but lost to CW Post and Bryant. Then there's other MDIA losses (some quite respectably close), including BYU to Wesleyan, Colorado to Williams, CSU and Oregon to NDNU. And then apparently a lot of MDIA teams have handled Dominican (DII), for what little that might be worth. These are all this year, in the past few years there are others (as has been discussed in other threads).

Again, I think (just as within the MDIA, as we've seen in spades this year), "On any given day..." reigns supreme, so individual game results shouldn't be used to argue specifically who is really better than whom (and who played hard or not against the opponent from the other league in which cases, etc.). I think the overall statement, and the only warranted conclusion, is that they're all at least somewhere in the same realm, and they all play respectable lacrosse.