Lax Factor Lacrosse Podcast

The Hobart Statesmen have been as good offensively as anyone over the last three seasons.  In 2019 Hobart averaged 13.94 goals per game, good for 9th in the nation. The covid shortened 2020 season saw Hobart sitting at #1 in scoring offense with 19.6 goals per game. A full goal per game more than the #2 team, Cornell. A huge improvement. A big problem is the loss of Eric Holden. Hobart do...

With the very exciting addition of coveted transfer Chris Gray, the outlook for UNC Lacrosse in 2020 was good, and they proved the hype was real by starting the season 7-0. Their offense jumped from 12 goals per game in 2019 to 17+ goals per game in 2020's shortened season. Good news, they return almost everyone on the offensive side of the ball.  Bad news, the questions about the depth of th...

The Duke Blue Devils had a pretty good squad in the shortened 2020 season. Add Michael Sowers to the mix while also retaining the services of pretty much your entire 2020 roster, and that is a recipe for winning of the likes Duke hasn't seen in a few years. I've always been very up front about the fact that I think Michael Sowers is one of the best college lacrosse players of all time. Now Duke ha...

It's official, Joey Spallina, the #1 ranked player in the 2022 class as ranked by Inside Lacrosse has chosen Syracuse as his college destination.  Also announced by Spallina, he'll be rocking the #22 which was to a degree expected, and welcomed news. Spallina is the real deal and can do it all. He can dodge and create, shoot with space, finish in any manner that is necessary to get the single...

The Chaos were potentially the worst team in the Premier Lacrosse Leagues Championship Series over group play, but after winning in the quarters, and then dropping the Archers in the semi's, they have a good shot of going from worst to first if they can beat the Whipsnakes in the second PLL Championship. The Whipsnakes also pulled out a win in their semifinal game against the Redwoods, and it took...

Everyone is talking about Matt Gaudet's trash talk and Garrett Epple retaliating and jacking Gaudet up. My view, you talk trash in the manner Gaudet was talking trash and you risk getting popped.  That's what happened, nothing more.  Sometimes if you put a bad attitude out into the world, you get a bad attitude back.  I'm not saying that Epple was justified in his actions.  I'm...

The opening weekend of the Premier Lacrosse League went down as expected. We saw a bunch of good games, all pretty close, and last nights Atlas/Archers game is being called by some, the best pro lacrosse game of all time. I don't buy that, but it was pretty exciting. We saw Grant Ament score 3 goals with a dish in his first PLL outing.  Rob Pannell looked good going for a goal and 3 assists i...

We are going to see the Denver Outlaws take on the Boston Cannons in one Major League Lacrosse semi-final on Saturday and then the Connecticut Hammerheads face-off against the Chesapeake Bayhawks in the other semi.  Rematches, revenge, everything you want in lacrosse playoff games. But we also get to watch some Premier Lacrosse League action this weekend as the PLL kicks off it’s covid season...

Pro lacrosse action kicked off this weekend with the Barrage getting dropped by the Bayhawks 16-11. It was a very welcome sight, seeing guys running around on the lacrosse field beating on each other again. The winners of the weekend were definitely the Bayhawks (2-0) and the Outlaws (2-0).  Both teams handled their weekend foes and ended up 2-0 by Sunday evening.  Both teams looked shar...

Lacrosse is finally here!!! Major League Lacrosse is one of the first professional sports to get kicked off this summer through this COVID pandemic and I couldn't be more excited. We get to see Lyle Thompson and the Bayhawks take on Shayne Jackson and the Barrage. We get to see Mark Cockerton and Bryce Wasserman lead the Boston Cannons against the NY Lizards without Rob Pannel. And then in the nig...

We are very close to the return of both Major League Lacrosse and the Premier Lacrosse League. The MLL helps us with our lacrosse jones by kicking off their one week season and playoffs on July 18th with a triple header broadcast between ESPN2 and ESPN+.  The PLL gets rolling the following weekend with all of their games airing their two week season and playoffs between NBC, NBCSN and NBC Spo...

Jeff Teat will be returning to Cornell for his "super senior" season as was announced by numerous outlets yesterday. He will withdraw from school for the fall semester and will rejoin the team in the spring to qualify. Matt Rambo and Tom Schreiber are two of the biggest names in the sport right now and huge draws for the PLL. I'm going to talk about about what makes each player special. *Support t...

Connor Kirst, Villanova standount will be heading to Rutgers. That's probably the biggest news this week, an all american caliber player is ditching Nova for New Jersey. A scoring threat from outside, and an absolute bully of a player. Big news for Notre Dame lacrosse with the announcement that they snagged Will York. Big finisher that will play well within the Notre Dame system. The kid had a big...

Duke Lacrosse already landed the top lacrosse player in the land via transfer, Michael Sowers. Now they have nabbed the best goalie in the transfer portal in St Joe's Mike Adler. The terrible news about Furman shutting down their lacrosse program (baseball as well) broke this week and as a result 30 additional players have entered the transfer portal, including a handful of really solid talent. In...

It's official, we can gamble on lacrosse now with the PLL announcing their partnership with Genius Sports Group. The PLL also had their college draft for 2020 and 14 guys were snatched up from the college ranks with a chance to join the PLL officially.  There is also a bunch of college lacrosse transfer news we can rip through, all in this episode of the LaxFactor Lacrosse Podcast (#102). *Su...

LaxFactor Lacrosse Podcast time (#101) and we have a bunch of transfer news to dig into. First up, Bryan Costabile announced he will be leaving Notre Dame Lacrosse and shall be available for the PLL draft. I think he goes quickly, top-five pick. Cole Williams has decided to remain at Johns Hopkins for the 2021 season removing his name from the transfer portal. Other Hopkins news, John Grant Jr. wa...

In this 100th episode of the LaxFactor Lacrosse Podcast, we talk about the huge news out of the Premier Lacrosse League...The PLL is going live starting July 25th 2020 and will be playing a 14 game round robin leading into a 6 game playoff and championship. This will run from July 25th through August 9th and it looks like they are trying to take advantage of the lack of the Olympic Games going dow...

Everyone has heard the news that Mike Sowers is heading to Duke. The biggest name to enter the transfer portal beyond Sowers is Yale's Jackson Morrill. A four-year starter with 220 points over his career, Morrill will be a big get for some lucky team. Teammate Lucas Cotler also entered the portal and is probably the highest rated midfielder. Kyle Gallagher (Fogo, Penn), Mike Adler (Goalie, St. Jos...

It's not official, but it's kind of official, Michael Sowers has reportedly chosen Duke as his landing spot to play lacrosse in 2021 and it makes a lot of sense.  Sowers as I've said over and over is the best player in college lacrosse right now and Duke is now instantly a legit contender again. Michael Sowers is that good and now every time Duke takes the lacrosse field, they will do so know...

Dave Pietramala and Johns Hopkins have agreed to part ways and Petro is out as the head coach for the Bluejays. A national search for a new head coach is now underway at Hopkins. Petro went 207-93 with 18 NCAA Tournament appearances between 2002 and 2019.  He won titles in 2005 and 2007. It's a sad day for all of us lacrosse fans, even those that had been calling for his head the last 4 or 5...

Michael Sowers has entered the NCAA lacrosse transfer portal because Princeton & Yale decide no redshirts for withdrawing from the spring semester, which means, no Michael Sowers at Princeton next season. So there is now a very good chance we get to see Michael Sowers play out his senior year SOMEWHERE ELSE. What a crazy world we live in. Exciting news as we could potentially see some of the Y...

In this weeks LaxFactor Lacrosse Podcast (#95) we are going to play our first ever Lacrosse Trivia to help you all keep the quarantine boredom at bay. In this episode I ask the questions... (1) Who was the first 2-time Tewaaraton Award winner? (2) How many national titles has Bill Tierney won? (3) Who lead the nation (D1) in points per game in 2018? *SidelineSwap* https://sidelineswap.com/?utm_sou...

I got the chance to sit down with Syracuse senior midfielder and USILA All-American Jamie Trimboli Friday night. We talk about how bad it sucks that COVID-19 merked the 2020 college lacrosse season, we talk about what it's been like getting a chance to play for the team he loved growing up, and he refuses to tell us which linemate he would pick to help him bury a dead body. *SidelineSwap* https://...

The college lacrosse season was ended by the coronavirus, aka COVID-19, and the NCAA ruled that all sping athletes will be getting redshirts.  But what does that mean for incoming freshmen?  For the seniors deciding to use them and the parents that have to pay for these kids to go to school?  We'll talk about it in this 93rd episode of The LaxFactor Lacrosse Podcast. *Our SidelineSw...

In the 92nd LaxFactor Lacrosse Podcast, we'll talk a bit about the corona virus and how it nuked our college lacrosse season and more. We'll talk about what's next for the LaxFactor Podcast moving forward without college lacrosse (the horror). We'll be using this extra time to get back into the retail and team apparel game. We'll also talk a bit about Rob Pannell choosing the PLL along with some o...