After the selection show (both immediately and the next day), the Loyola AD (forget her name) said the room was very tense, which is corporate-speak for folks were arguing big-time.

Do we know who was on what side of that divide? Would there be a chance, given his ACC connections, that Breschi was supportive of the ACC teams? Who else would (should) carry the flag?

Or would capitulation without a minority report be damning enough?

Thanks.

BTW, I agree with thoughts on the weekend:
- Princeton played well,but didn't have enough guns.
- Cornell needed a few more minutes, because Maryland was gassed.
- Tillman is like a driver on a Roger Penske-backed racing team: Has what he needs to make it work and he does. And will.

where coach/AD from that conference has to abstain when deciding on teams from the conference.

The biggest problem is having people on the committee who are ignorant of the sport. Why not use all the various sites who actually watch the sport and rank the teams?

Even ESPN - who televises the games and has knowledgeable lacrosse people as commentators should have input (they seem to by pushing UConn a home team every year in women's basketball)

I don't doubt that he argued for the ACC. I imagine someone else did as well so the final vote was 3-2. He probably called Tiffany, Danowski, and Corrigan after and said he did the best he could. And that would probably fly if the issue was:

UVA unseeded and in same bracket as Maryland (absurd but maybe they wanted that match-up)

5 seeded Ivy league teams (mind-boggling but maybe they wanted to reward them after Covid)

Selecting Priceton (should have been DQd after failing to make Ivy League Tourney but maybe they liked Ws over Rutgers and GTown - those were good)

Ohio State over Duke and Notre Dame (circular reasoning because if you value head-to-head than ND gets in over Duke and if OSU's biggest win was over ND and Carolina and you believe the ACC sucks than those aren't big Ws)

Even if you held firm with the above as weird as that rationale was - and then looked at RPI, head-to-head and top-20 wins - you're left with Duke, Notre Dame and Harvard. And if you're on the committee and you are part of selecting Harvard over ND and Duke you have to walk out of the room and not be part of the process. At that point, actually watching lacrosse doesn't matter. You should just leave it to a computer to spit out some sort of formula. The human process has no bearing on the outcome. So - yes - capitulation absent some minority report is enough.

I can't imagine a bigger screw job than what the committee did. Breschi wanted to be part of the committee. He knew what he was getting into.

I don't think anything nefarious will happen. Corrigan, Danowski, and Tiffany are class acts. But I'm not sure they let up on the gas next year if any are up on Carolina. I imagine each will be more apt to exchange notes on UNC tendencies.

What's worse is that Corrigan can't publicly denounce the decision because his long-time mentee and friend Gerry Byrne - and son Will - coach Harvard.

Completely agree on the Harvard conundrum: That was the team we should've swapped with and I think the Irish could've made a very long run from that starting position (Gosh knows I would've been in the crowd at Yurcak Field at Rutgers).

That next Lax coaches meeting should be very interesting.