2014-15 Schedule

LU15,
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Good to hear. I assume Canisius is the start of a series, and getting a home game is always a positive. They had some good years recently, largely due to Billy Baron (coach’s son) playing for his dad when his talent probably dictated a spot in a better league. They will be young next year but Jim Baron is a decent coach and hopefully they stay respectable for the duration of the series.

As soon as that’s official, i’m planning a LU weekend trip. Nova on Friday, ‘Gate on Saturday. Perfect.

Few thoughts.

1) It’s only a 28 game schedule, so 1 game short of max allowed
2) Pleasantly surprised to NOT see a D3 game, which sort of negates the point above since we have had one the last few years. We are basically playing 28 D1 games this year vs 28 D1 and 1 D3 in past years
3) The homecoming guarantee games (Depaul for Simelton and ASU for Kempton) continue which is a philosophy I am fine with.
4) Villanova at PPL is fun, but I would still love to see (at least) one of Drexel, LaSalle, St. Joe’s on the schedule every year with one in Philly in front of alums and another in Bethlehem.
5) Columbia has a good chance at being the best team to come through Stabler this year, depending on how the Patriot League plays out. The Lions should be excellent.
6) Canisius will be way down from where they were last year, but still an addition to the schedule that I am fine with

Very little to complain about in this schedule when compared to prior years. No D3 games is a plus and we don’t play 8 NEC teams so we got that going for us. Love nova at ppl, hope we utilize ppl more in future, which leads me to the point that SBum and 65 brought up which is no set scheduled series with a st joes Drexel lasalle school yet, and maybe the ppl is the way we lock up series with some of these schools because we need to have more Philly presence and games to get alimni fired up, and bigger crowds. Also love homecoming games for TK and ms, very cool.

As 65 indicated the Q facility is very very solid. We will be back this winter for that game!!

Quick show of hands, who is going to the Nova game at ppl?

I gotta clear it with the wife, but I’m planning to do that LU weekend as well – ‘Nova, then Colgate.

It looks like based on Lehigh’s schedule and my personal schedule that I’ll almost definitely get to the Wednesday 1/14 game at American and the Saturday 2/7 game at Loyola. (I wish the game at UMBC was scheduled for sometime besides immediately after Christmas when ironically I’ll be in the Lehigh Valley visiting family; had that game been a couple days later, on a weekend, or a 7:30 PM weeknight start I would go to that game too.)