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What “absurd” or “ridiculous” arguments do you think I am making? Maryland plays by different rules than Cornell and other Ivies, and Maryland had 24 and 25 year olds on their roster. Those are just facts.[/quote]

[b]The arguments that Maryland won because they had older players, and that Maryland's championship is somehow discredited because they had older players, are absurd, ridiculous, and childish.[/b]

Maryland won because they played better lacrosse. Get over it.

[quote=Anonymous] As to your continued HoCo comparison—I understand that with your HoCo laxdad background, your perspective is limited and so you keep falling back on that even though it is completely different. And I don’t know how you define and draw the line between “physically superior” vs “playing better lacrosse.” [/quote]

:roll: If you watch lacrosse games where one team has physically bigger and more athletic players than the other, you can easily see when they're using physical superiority rather than stick skills and teamwork to win. Maryland did not do that versus Cornell or Princeton.

Frankly the way you keep falling back on "but older players!" reveals your limited perspective, lack of lacrosse background, and infantile desire to find a reason for Maryland's wins that isn't "they played better lacrosse".

I personally don't care. I have no connection to any of the teams that played in the championship. Cope and seethe all you want, the fact remains that Maryland is the undefeated champion because they played better lacrosse not due to some "unfair advantage".[/quote]

You can keep falsely inferring that I am arguing this, but I never have. As I said before, congrats to the Terps and their 24 and 25 year old players. For sure they outplayed Cornell in the championship game.

As to your attempted distinction between "physical superiority" and "playing better lacrosse" though, that just shows your limited laxdad perspective. Physical superiority in athletics is not limited to outmuscling or outrunning the other guy, even in lacrosse. So again, Maryland played better. Is the fact that they had an older roster with 24 and 25 year olds who were at or closer to their athletic prime a reason why they had such a dominant season? Who knows? I have never argued that it did.[/quote]

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