Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Saturday, March 5, 2005

CSU 23 D.U. CLUB - 3 - Partly cloud and 60ish. Maybe 250 people there

STICKY FINGERS

A man, I think he said he was somebody's (player) father, came up and introduced himself to me today right after the rah rahs that take place after your basic lacrosse game had died down. He hadn't seen us play before this particular game. We had just finished a 23-3 drubbing of the DU Club team. It was a game that was 11-0 after just one quarter.

He (the man) could have probably used many adjectives to describe what he just had seen, but what he said fascinated me far more than many of the things that I have heard at these kind of moments. He might have talked about our talent or how dominant we were, blah, blah, or whatever, but no, he said that what he saw out there and liked about us was that we were cohesive. Physically we had just beaten the tar out of a team in the already rough game of lacrosse, but what he saw was this totally non-violent notion of togetherness. It is no big deal, I just grabbed onto what the man said for some reason, and I find it interesting. I'm glad that he sees us that way. Heck, I'm the coach, and that (sticking together) might be my #1 goal for every single day.

GOT 57 CHANNELS AND NOTHIN’ ON (Bruce Springsteen)

When we went out for the face-off, and then for about a minute after that I thought we might have a challenge on our hands today. When the two teams lined up before that first face-off, I counted seven DU players in the starting line up that were wearing D.U. Pioneer helmets that were the kind you cannot buy because they must be issued. In other words these seven players were refugees of some sort from the Division I program at D.U., and had at one time or another played for the varsity team.

They did have a few talented players, but the Denvers also had obviously not practiced much or at all. In my view of the world this makes all the difference. It certainly did today, but we had way more talent as well.

IT’S ALL GOOD

We got far more out of our practices for the past week than a game like that can ever give us, but a lot of guys had fun, so that's good, right? Actually, games like the one today can be somewhat a pain for me in some ways, especially when long poles do things like attempt to live out their little offensive wet dreams. First they take it (ball) toward the cage of glory (trying to score goals) and then they go on to let other "non-cohesive", non-team building thoughts wander into their brain area, and they do things like stay in the game long after they should have come out.

We had a bit too much WHACKING going on out there today as well, come to thimk of it. Thou shalt not whack. Oh well, I'll fix it all on Monday, won't I?.

We did have one long pole goal today, scored unassisted by Ian Wilson (#35 plays many positions, but he does carry a big stick). I love addressing him as, "Wilson" while I'm pretending to be Tom Hanks. Anyway, he scored as a result of doing all the right things. The ocean somehow parted and it ended up being a goal, but I'm not sure that's what he had in mind when he got the ball into his stick coming in from the wing on a face off. Wilson read the situation, knew what to do, did it. For me, that's the big three.

Statistics from a game like this are fairly meaningless. Tyler Bue (#19 M) did somehow manage to lay out his long and lanky Texas body into some kind of a California dive where he soared (?) above the crease, shot and scored, and then managed to somehow not land inside that crease area (illegal if you do). I’ve got to see the film on that one, because I don’t believe what I think I saw. The goal gave the boy his first CSU hat trick. Bird (#1 M), Cunningham (#39 A) and Chorey (#16 M) all had three goals, too, in limited playing minutes, although I eventually had to leash up Tim Chorey to keep him from going back into the game. Often if I don’t make them take off some or all of their pads they will try to find ways to jump back in the fray.

We had 15 assists on the 23 goals. I like that, although I would have preferred to have 20 of them.

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