Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!

2019 A Year in Review

Looking back on the year year to create this blog was an amazing and fun exercise!  As usual, I added a lot to my plate and as usual it was a lot of lacrosse!  I hope you enjoy checking this out!

2019 By The Numbers

• 4 Virtual Lacrosse Summits
• 19 Division I Lacrosse schools visited to learn, share, and talk lacrosse!
• 40 Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcasts with the biggest names in the game!
• 17 "In Season" Edition of the Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast w/ PLL Chaos HC Andy Towers
• 165K Podcast "Listens"
• 1 pair of Nike Cortez
• 5 Incredible concerts: Elton John, Eric Church, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Billy Joel
• 55 days of Pick-up Games: I have dialed up the Free Play and it's off the charts!
• 10 Office Hours Sessions with JM3 Coaches Training Program Subscribers
• 118 Webinars Performed: all go into...

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Lacrosse season is around the corner and...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!

Podcast with Penn Head Coach, Mike Murphy

I've known Murph since the early '90's and this podcast was particularly fun because in many ways, Mike and I came up through the ranks together.   Mike is very thoughtful and honest as he dives into details about how he collaborates to create team culture, his philosophies on playing fast on both sides of the ball, and his thoughts on Division I recruiting.  Click here to listen!

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One of the most dangerous cuts in women's lacrosse is the Elbow Cut.  I...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!

Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast with BU Head Coach Ryan Polley

This week I had a great conversation with BU Head Men's Coach, Ryan Polley.  Ryan was a terrific interview and shared his unlikely path to being a Division I Head Coach.  Ryan started playing lacrosse late!  Polley was a QB and point guard at Malverne Prep in Philly and switched over from baseball in his sophomore year.  Recruited and offered by Notre Dame and other schools, he chose Merrimack College in New Hampshire to play basketball.  After two years of hoops, he switched over to lacrosse to finish out his college career.  

Just out of college, Polley was an accountant and had the option of being the JV coach at Andover HS or the Head Coach of the girls team of a first year program.  For three years he coached girls HS...

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Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast UMass Head Coach Greg Cannella

One of my favorite activities is talking lacrosse with coaches.  I've been doing this regularly for my whole adult life, but it's only been the last 18 months that I've been recording them on my Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast!  This week's pod with Coach Cannella was awesome! We talk about Greg's mentors:

• Starts with Greg's Dad!
• Tony Seaman, Lynboork HS
• Dick Edell, University of Maryland
• Rich Speckmann, Nassau Communitey College
• Dick Garber, UMass
• John Espey, Stony Brook University
• Ted Garber, UMass

Coach Cannella and I chat about playing games at UMass and the "Hill" and how wild games were back in the late 80's.  We also talk about the many UMass greats at that time: Tommy Carmean, Scotty Hiller, Gerry Byrne, Sal Locasio, The Carr brothers, Jimmy...

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Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast with Hofstra Head Coach, Seth Tierney

I had a great conversation with Seth Tierney, head coach of Hofstra Men’s Lacrosse, touching on topics ranging from the Hopkins/Syracuse greats of the late 80’s, to his mentors, Coaching Team USA to his philosophies on offense, player development and recruiting.  Seth is incredibly insightful and articulate with a great sense of humor!  Click here to enjoy this podcast!  

College Lacrosse Recruiting Part 2 

This week I recorded a second podcast with Colleen Magarity on Women’s College Lacrosse Recruiting.  Colleen is simply, one of the most liked and respected coaches in the sport.  Colleen was a 3x National Champion at Northwestern, an All-American, a pro in the WPLL, a former Division 1 assistant at Colorado, and...

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Podcast on Women's Lacrosse Recruiting

Colleen Magarity is the best!  She's cutting edge as a coach, has a resume that includes 3x National...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!

College Lacrosse Recruiting

This week I did a Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast with Ty Xanders, Director of Recruiting and HS content for Inside Lacrosse and one of the foremost experts on college lacrosse recruiting.

It was an incredibly interesting conversation about how the pristine, unadulterated class of 2021 has become the most under-evaluated class in the history of college lacrosse recruiting.  Why? There are simply SO man players and SO many events, it was not possible for coaches to know all the talent over the course of June and July.  Unlike in years past, coaches really didn't start paying attention to the 21's until last fall (which is .  

Even more challenging is the fact that many programs actually try to see everyone!  Watching first half on this field, 2nd half on that field and check the boxes...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!

Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast

I had the pleasure of chatting with UMBC Head Coach Ryan Moran this week on my podcast and it was awesome!  He is an amazing guy with incredible experiences, mentors and vision.  Ryan is a classic "Coach's son" (and nephew) and is building the Retrievers into something special!  Listen to Ryan talk about his coaching journey, the ways he teaches decision making, offensive philosophies and much more!  This is an awesome listen!

Coaching Defense

Last week I had an amazing conversations with Ed Glazener and Matt Landis, formerly of Notre Dame Lacrosse and current defenders on the PLL Redwoods.  These guys along with Garret Epple trained under Gerry Byrne, current Harvard Head Coach and are defensive geniuses!  I am a self proclaimed "Disciple" of Gerry Byrne and I was super...

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