That hatched the idea that maybe
[ESPN’s Emerging Technology group] could come up with this device that the officials can click on, and by radio frequency, speak to our computer in the mobile unit at the game and display this thing for the viewer at home. It wouldn’t display the entire 30, just 10 and under.
What makes a good broadcast? A good telecast is when the announcers, the producer/director, the graphics people, the statistical people are all enhancing the telecast to the point where the person at home doesn’t notice anything. They’re just enjoying the game. Odds are if the person at home notices something about the telecast, it means something is out of sync.
What is Selection Sunday like for your team? We’ll begin to talk about how things are shaping up the middle of that week. Then you wait for the conference championships and the AQs to come in. Then we do a call with the NCAA on Sunday afternoon, maybe around 5 o’clock, where we talk about the first- and second-round matchups. At 6:30 this year, we’ll have a pre- selection call with the NCAA committee chair. That’s when the field gets revealed to us. We have about two and a half hours to prepare for the show at 9 p.m. We want the Selection Show, in addition to revealing the field, to show our guys’ opinions. We pay Kessenich and Carcaterra to have an opinion. If Carc has an opinion that one team was left out of an at-large bid and they should have made it, we want him to have that opinion, but we also want him to be fair. We want him to have access to the committee chair to get some of the information the NCAA will give us.
What does winning the Doyle Smith award say about how the college coaches feel about the role of TV? They make our job a lot easier.
We ask them for access, they get us access. Do we have to be editorially tough on them occasionally? Yeah. We’re a news organization as well. But I’ve never worked with a group of people that are so forward thinking.
Anyone in your family play lacrosse? My oldest son, Conrad, 13, plays
with Ryan Flanagan’s 24/7 team. My youngest son, John Angelo, 9, is playing with the StickWithUs group. They’re both big lax guys. — Corey McLaughlin
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Hawkins, Manny, LaPierre sidelined to
start season Three high-profile
starters missed the early part of the 2013 college season. Loyola short-stick midfielder Josh Hawkins was suspended indefinitely for an undisclosed violation of team rules. Hawkins did not play in any of the five games the defending NCAA Division I men’s champion Greyhounds had played at press time. UMass attackman Will Manny, a 2012 Tewaaraton Award finalist, broke his left thumb and was sidelined beginning on Feb. 16 with an undetermined return date. Virginia midfielder and captain Chris LaPierre missed three February games with a sprained right knee.
New D-I programs at UMass-Lowell, VCU
The University of Massachusetts-Lowell announced Feb. 14 it will make the jump to NCAA Division I and join the America East on July 1, adding varsity men’s and women’s lacrosse for the 2014-15 academic year. The school’s athletics programs have competed in Division II since 1975.
On the same day, Virginia Commonwealth University voted to add women’s lacrosse as a varsity sport in 2015-16. The Rams will offer the NCAA- maximum 12 scholarships and compete in the Atlantic 10. Title IX compliance was the primary motivation for the addition. While the Rams have eight men’s varsity teams and eight women’s varsity teams and they do not sponsor football, VCU’s student body skews slightly female.
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In Memoriam Paul Schimoler, a former four-time All-American goalie for Cornell who holds the NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse tournament record for saves, died Feb. 15 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 45. Schimoler led the Big Red to consecutive NCAA championship games in 1987 and 1988, setting a postseason record with 85 saves in the 1988 tournament. After winning gold medals with Team USA in 1990 and 1994, he spent eight seasons as coach of Division II St. Michael’s. Norio Endo, a retired U.S. Navy captain who helped establish lacrosse in Japan, died Jan. 11 in Baltimore after a bout with cancer. He was 78. Capt. Endo and
11th men’s coach in NCAA history to win 300 games Feb. 16, when the Tigers defeated Mary Washington 11-8. Rostan (300-170) is the third-winningest coach in Division III history. Northwestern women’s
coach Kelly Amonte Hiller earned her 200th career victory March 6, when the Wildcats defeated Boston College. Amonte Hiller has coached the Wildcats for 11 years. She leads all active coaches in career winning percentage (.865) and is ninth among active Division I coaches in career wins.
Thul breaks Army
scoring record Senior attackman Garrett Thul scored seven goals
It’s On: Tewaaraton Watch The Tewaaraton Award watch lists — with 147 players named in February — will be narrowed to 25 nominees this month. And in mid-May five men’s and women’s finalists will be named before the Tewaaraton Award ceremony May 30 in Washington, D.C. Follow the race for college lacrosse’s highest honor at
LaxMagazine.com/TewaaratonWatch.
former vice president of Johns Hopkins University, Ross Jones, established the Japanese Lacrosse Association in 1987.
Rostan, Amonte
Hiller hit milestones Hampden-Sydney’s Ray Rostan became just the
in the Black Knights’ 12-1 victory over Michigan on March 2 at the Orange Bowl Lacrosse Classic at Sun Life Stadium, bringing his career goals total to 141 and setting a new program record.
Thul surpassed the
previous mark (140) set by Scott Finlay in 1975-78.
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