Georgetown isnāt that good. Honestly the Hoos look like they all went on a collective bender last night and are playing with hangovers. This oneās over.
Three goals in 40 minutes because we started turning it over in 2Q. Iām more than might be willing to let go of Tiffany after this one.
Getting our asses kicked at home by an inferior team weāve absolutely owned.
Fuck it, fire him.
Awful
Bummer, just didnāt play well tonight. Great turnaround to get here though. Will suck to have championship weekend in Cville and the players watching rather than playing.
Yeah, Tiffanyās future with the program is such a tough decision to make. Lars has got two Nattys and two additional Final Fours, but, damn, the team has just been so inconsistent the last few seasons underneath his leadership.
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We need to start playing better in the beginning of the season and earning top 2 or 3 seeds like we used to pretty much every year. It would guarantee us a cupcake in 1st round game.
Georgetown is not very good but capable of beating us if we play poorly like we did, whereas weād still easily beat teams like Marist or Jacksonville with a bad game, which is possible after a conference tournament run and with playing the Sunday night game, etc.
With travel restrictions for this tournament and the current national landscape, itās likely that teams like Richmond, Hopkins, Gtown, and Maryland will be our first round opponents moving forward unless we get a top 2 or 3 seed.
We canāt afford all these early season losses anymore.
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Anyone know whatās happening with Lars? Lot of smoke on the Sabre saying heās out
The last post I saw from the source of it all said Lars might be stepping down. That would make sense to me. Heās probably being asked to commit to a certain amount of fundraising responsibilities and doesnāt want to
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Word is spreading around town that itās done. I havenāt heard whether itās the school pushing him away or if itās Lars stepping away. I see some parallels with Tony Bennett honestly. In many ways this is not the same job he signed up for when he joined. The constant fundraising and NIL dance has to be grating on him.
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Hopefully if itās a friendly departure, we can keep the roster intact. We have so much talent for next season if we can keep them around
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My understanding, which may or may not be accurate, is our Lacrosse funding has taken a nosedive relative to every other program in the ACC since NIL became a thing.
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This seems insane to me given the programās success and wealthy alumni base.
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The same person that shared the rumor on thesabre of Lars potentially leaving also said there was plans of a major fundraising push this offseason by our top Lacrosse donors in hopes of getting more scholarships endowed.
But Iām pretty sure weāve been operating at a disadvantage the past couple years compared to the rest of the ACC. If thereās someone closer to the program on this board please feel free to correct me if Iām wrong.
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To be clear, Iām not doubting you. Just feels like a fixable problem.
Is this just every offseason for us now? A storied coach departing the program because theyāre burnt out or weāre behind on the new way of doing things?
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Donāt know how legit this guy is, but heās saying itās over.
https://twitter.com/mnestler40/status/2054282089432744431?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
Heās a lax influencer of sorts. Not something to take to the bank but not nothing either
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If Lars is leaving of his own accord, I wouldnāt say itās because UVA is or has been slow to adapt to the NIL era. Itās very likely more that the landscape has changed so much and along with it, the coaching job itself. Think Tony Bennett here. Despite what some kooks would have you believe, he didnāt leave because he didnāt see eye to eye with Carla or couldnāt get the support he needed. He left because he was sick of agents coming to his practices, sick of the hierarchy on the team that was salary dependent, the lack of loyalty, development, and trust he fostered in his program for years.
Lars was very likely sick of the fundraising he had to do for support of his program. That includes NIL deals they needed to support. Coaching is a very hard profession and when thereās a sea change like the past few years, it leads to some simply breaking. UVA canāt operate in the same way anymore and THAT is why you see guys like Tony and potentially Lars (if true), move away from it.
If it comes out that he wanted to come back and UVA wanted to move in a different direction, Iād be deeply disappointed in the entire operation and organization.
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The survival of all the nonrevenue sports comes down to getting scholarships endowed. Thatās a big fundraising pull and a lot of people might not want to deal with that (to be clear, I have no knowledge of whatās going on with Lars).
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Thatās very likely accurate in Larsā case. Again, if he is calling it quits. Just the latest canary in the coal mine for non-revs.
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