2/7 D-Fly & Dixie: Getting Busy with Seth Tierney
The first weekend of the 2025 season went mostly according to script. With more teams making debuts and 32 games on the slate, will this week bring the drama, upsets and stunners we all love? D-Fly and Dixie are back to get you teed up for the weekend. They’ll take a big picture look at the opening weekend, recap mid-week games including Hopkins nail biter with Towson and of course look ahead t...
1hr 1m Feb 07, 2025
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2/5 DIII: New Selection Criteria and CNU's Mikey Thompson
Kap and Caleb return with a pop-up episode, talking early Salisbury scout, explaining the seven-game NPI concept a bit better, and previewing the weekend. Christopher Newport coach Mikey Thompson hits on everything from Coach's all-time CNU 3x team to goals and aspirations for the 2025 season.
1hr 46m Feb 05, 2025
1hr 46m
2/3 The Tailgate: Utah, Hopkins and Week 0 Reactions with Cody Hart
We're almost all the way back! IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello unpack the Week Zero results, starting with Utah's upset of Ohio State, Hopkins Top 10 win over Denver and Syracuse and Duke's impressive performance. Ute senior middie Cody Hart joins to discuss his team's trip to Columbus, their balance between pushing the tempo and being patient offensively and what it means to rep the West Coas...
1hr 10m Feb 03, 2025
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1/31 D-Fly & Dixie: Ready for Face-Off with TD Ierlan
The 2025 season gets officially underway with 17 games on February 1, and D-Fly & Dixie are back in the saddle to help get you acclimated and excited for the new year. Despite two-time defending champ Notre Dame again claiming the top spot in the IL Media Top 20, the main theme of this new season is fresh faces. The historic cohort of experienced, record-breaking household names have departed, ...
1hr 5m Jan 31, 2025
1hr 5m
1/29 DIII: 2025 Season Preview with Tufts Casey D'Annolfo
Kap and Caleb dust off the podcast gear and dive in to DIII 2025 predictions, a breakdown of the Top 20 teams, and a fantasy draft that highlights some of the nation’s top returners. Tufts coach Casey D’Annolfo chats about the defending champions, and then he gives a breakdown of an all-time Tufts attack line.
1hr 52m Jan 29, 2025
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1/27 The Tailgate: Preseason Extravaganza with Larken Kemp
To get you ready for the 2025 college lacrosse season, IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello are back with The Tailgate. They start with an offseason recap, going over rule changes, coaching changes, new teams and the rest of the news. From there, they break down the Preseason Media Poll, look back at their 2024 predictions and pick their Dark Horse, Tewaaraton winner, Final Four teams and champion. ...
1hr 15m Jan 27, 2025
1hr 15m
1/22 ILWomen: Top 50 Players Breakdown
ILWomen's Alyssa Murray Cometti and Emily Considine discuss the best of the best in college lacrosse heading into the 2025 season, explaining the challenges of compiling the Top 50 ranking released in the fall, providing their takes on the strengths of the nation's most premier players, and going position by position for in-depth analysis. Topics include the easy choice of selecting Madison Tay...
47m Jan 22, 2025
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1/7 Catching Up with Pat, Cam Spencer, Keegan O'Connor About Chillshark
One of the coolest sports stories of the young new year was Golden State Warrior Pat Spencer being guarded by his younger brother, Memphis Grizzlies rookie Cam Spencer, in a game on Saturday, Jan. 4. It was the latest crescendo of a pair of incredible athlete journeys that were heavily influenced on the lacrosse fields at Boys' Latin (Md.) and Loyola University Maryland. After winning the Tewa...
24m Jan 07, 2025
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12/23 PLL Happy Hour Podcast: Breaking Down Offseason News
IL's Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown discuss the reporting around Andy Towers and his staff stepping down from the Carolina Chaos, provide takes on the Zed Williams for Matt Brandau and Pat Kavanagh to Denver trades before spinning it forward to look at some key free agents ahead of the next player movement window in March.
57m Dec 23, 2024
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12/16 The Dojo Decision with Utah Assistant Tim McDermott
Another conversation with a published author, IL's Terry Foy is joined by Utah assistant coach Tim McDermott to discuss his recently released book "The Dojo Decision: A Lacrosse Journey." An avid consumer of performance-focused books, podcasts and videos, McDermott shares his background that led to being part of the Utes' staff, then describes how he synthesized his own thoughts and ideas with...
42m Dec 16, 2024
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12/11 Recruiting: Four Big Recruiting Weekend Events With Greg Gurenlian, Corey Bulken
Winter recruiting was in full effect with four events this past weekend. Kevin Brown and Dan Aburn both ventured west, to Arlington, Texas for the Primetime Lone Star Cup and Henderson, Nev., for the Adrenaline Blackjack Classic. Host Dan Kaplan took a trip up I-95 to Wilmington, Del., for Best In Class Committed. And, we connected with Face-Off Academy Co-Founder Greg Gurenlian and FOA Directo...
1hr 28m Dec 11, 2024
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12/2 Lacrosse Coaches Have Agents?!
In reflection of a changing landscape, IL speaks with John Colan of Coaches, Inc., who discusses how he's come to represent a handful of college lacrosse coaches, including Virginia's Lars Tiffany, Brown's Jon Torpey and Bellarmine's Andy Whitley. Tiffany, Torpey and Whitley then join IL's Terry Foy to discuss why and how they started working with Colan and Coaches, Inc., and what they get out ...
49m Dec 02, 2024
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11/27 Top 50 Players for 2025: IL Staff Roundtable
In what's become an annual tradition, IL's Matt Kinnear, Dan Kaplan, Kevin Brown and Terry Foy discuss their drafts of a Top 50 players list as part of an exercise leading to next week's reveal of IL's final list. No. 1 is unanimous, but from there it gets more interesting.
1hr 1m Nov 27, 2024
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11/25 How Recruiting *Doesn't* Work with Harvard's Gerry Byrne
As yet another evaluation window comes to a close, Harvard lacrosse coach and the sport's contrarian/ombudsman Gerry Byrne joins IL's Terry Foy to lay out the ills that he sees in the recruiting process. Topping his list of complaints: gatekeepers of communication that don't act in the best interest of their players and families. On the other end of the spectrum, Foy asks Byrne about his thou...
51m Nov 25, 2024
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11/22 Catching Up with World Lacrosse's Jim Scherr, Bob DeMarco
On the heels of last weekend's World Lacrosse General Assembly, newly-extended CEO Jim Scherr and newly-elected president Bob DeMarco join IL's Terry Foy to discuss what's been done to get to this point, from Scherr's arrival to Olympic inclusion, as well as what's next, from governance to schedule to sport development and more.
51m Nov 22, 2024
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10/30 Catching Up with FCA's Frank Kelly
A year on from the release of his book "Influence and the Creator's Game," IL's Terry Foy catches up with Frank Kelly III for a unique and wide-ranging conversation that centers on the role that faith played in Kelly's life and the relationship between that and, among other things, the spirituality of the Creator's Game. They also touch on what a unique year this will be four him and his three...
37m Oct 30, 2024
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10/16 Fallball Recap: Notre Dame, Harvard, Virginia, Gtown, Maryland, Penn State, More
About halfway through the college fallball season, IL's Matt Kinnear, Kevin Brown, Christian Swezey and Terry Foy convene to compare their notes on the teams they've seen so far this month. They start with Swezey and Kinnear's breakdown of Georgetown's win over Virginia at the Bob Kemp Classic, then discuss Notre Dame's win over Harvard at "Playing for Peace" in Chicago. From there, they shift...
1hr 13m Oct 16, 2024
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9/30 How Recruiting Works with Dickinson's Webster, Amherst's Woods
IL's Dan Kaplan continues the series of "How Recruiting Works" with a DIII twist. He welcomes Dickinson coach Dave Webster and Amherst coach Sean Woods to answer a bevy of recruiting-related questions. While a lot of the blueprint for most of DIII is pretty similar, the subtle manipulations by staff and program make all the difference. In addition to valuable knowledge about the process, this...
1hr 13m Sep 30, 2024
1hr 13m
9/27 How Recruiting Works with Delaware's Ben DeLuca
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, concluding this year's series with Delaware coach Ben DeLuca. The Blue Hens sit at the intersection of several aspects of college ...
46m Sep 27, 2024
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9/25 ILPreps: Duke's Incredible Sprint, Breaking Down the Top 10 Classes
More than 200 players in the Class of 2026 have announced their commitment, including more than 100 since IL's Dan Kaplan and Terry Foy last recorded. In light of that, the Top 10 Class Rankings have started to take form, most notably Duke's No. 2 group, which rocketed up the charts with four huge commitments on Sept. 16. After unpacking what the Blue Devils did (including an analysis of the vi...
42m Sep 25, 2024
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9/23 How Recruiting Works with Saint Joseph's Taylor Wray
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Saint Joseph's coach Taylor Wray. Entering his 14th season at the Hawks' helm, Wray describes how his path from Ed...
43m Sep 23, 2024
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9/20 How Recruiting Works with Sacred Heart's Jon Basti
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Sacred Heart coach Jon Basti. Coming off a MAAC Championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance, Basti discusses th...
55m Sep 20, 2024
55m
9/18 PLL Happy Hour Podcast: Utah Archers Defend PLL Title
The Archers have successfully defended their crown, so Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown are back for a final time this season to discuss how they got the job done, put Brett Dobson's repeat Championship MVP honors in perspective, describe how impressive their offensive depth really is and double down on why defense wins championships. After a thorough game recap, Rosie and Kevin discuss way to...
1hr 19m Sep 18, 2024
1hr 19m
9/14 PLL Happy Hour Championship Preview Mega-Pod
Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown bring on PLL stats analyst Joe Keegan to preview the 2024 title game matchup between the fourth-seeded Maryland Whipsnakes against the second-seeded Utah Archers (0:00-40:58). Then, Rosie and Kevin travel  to Philadelphia for the PLL Championship Media Day and interview Archers captain Ryan Ambler (40:59-48:16), coach Chris Bates (48:16-1:01:02), goalie Brett D...
1hr 40m Sep 14, 2024
1hr 40m
9/13 ILPreps: Breaking Down the Rankings, Analyzing Two Weeks of ’26 Commitments
What up Prep Nation! IL's Dan Kaplan and Terry Foy are back for the first time in more than a month to discuss the process behind ranking the Class of 2026 and assigning the 5-, 4- and 3-Star recruits, then discuss the early movers in the first 11 days since Sept. 1, notably North Carolina, Duke, Harvard, Notre Dame, Maryland, Penn State and Syracuse.
41m Sep 13, 2024
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9/11 How Recruiting Works with Denver's Matt Brown
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Denver coach Matt Brown. Now in his second fall since taking over for Bill Tierney, Brown relates his experience o...
45m Sep 11, 2024
45m
9/9 How Recruiting Works with Bryant's Brad Ross
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Bryant coach Brad Ross. As one of the youngest coaches to be featured in this podcast series and entering his thir...
40m Sep 09, 2024
40m
9/6 How Recruiting Works: DIII Recruiting With CNU's Thompson, McDaniel's DiBartolo
IL’s Dan Kaplan hosts the first DIII edition of the "How Recruiting Works" series. Christopher Newport coach Mikey Thompson and McDaniel coach TC Dibartolo join to answer a bevy of questions to shed light on the process for families and recruits. DII programs do things a variety of ways, and with no scholarships, and less strict regulations the recruiting process can look different depending on...
1hr 5m Sep 06, 2024
1hr 5m
8/31 PLL Happy Hour Podcast: Season Superlatives and Playoff Predictions
Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown wrap up the 2024 PLL regular season with their takes on the end of season award finalists before giving their own superlatives from the summer that was. Then, Rosie and Kevin end the pod with their postseason predictions so stay til the end for their picks for this year's title winners!
1hr 22m Aug 31, 2024
1hr 22m
8/30 How Recruiting Works with Penn's Mike Murphy
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Penn coach Mike Murphy. Murphy's conversation is one of the most wide-ranging in the series. With respect to Penn ...
57m Aug 30, 2024
57m
8/28 How Recruiting Works with Notre Dame's Kevin Corrigan
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Notre Dame coach Kevin Corrigan. One of the longest tenured coaches in Division I, Corrigan has overseen the devel...
46m Aug 28, 2024
46m
8/22 PLL Happy Hour Podcast with TJ Malone, Jack VanOverbeke
With the top play on SportsCenter and a game-winning goal all in his debut, Jack VanOverbeke stole the show in Utah in the Archers' first of two wins to end the regular season as Western Conference Champions. Co-hosts Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown catch up with VanOverbeke (1:01-21:37) to talk about his dream weekend, playing at High Point and learning from Jon Torpey and Asher Nolting, gro...
1hr 11m Aug 22, 2024
1hr 11m
8/20 How Recruiting Works with Utah's Drew McMinn
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Utah coach Drew McMinn. After playing goalie at Providence, McMinn spent seven years as an assistant at Robert Morr...
48m Aug 20, 2024
48m
8/16 How Recruiting Works with Maryland's John Tillman
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, continuing with Maryland coach John Tillman. Reputed among his peers as one of — in not the — hardest working evaluator in terms o...
1hr 1m Aug 16, 2024
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8/14 PLL Happy Hour: Gavin Adler
The No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft Gavin Adler join the show (25:48-1:04:00) to describe the Atlas' defensive turnaround this season, his personal lacrosse story that includes a determined road to getting recruited to Cornell, why he started playing defense, why he wears 77, and now how he trains and prepares himself during the PLL season now fully healthy. Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown finish...
1hr 24m Aug 14, 2024
1hr 24m
8/12 How Recruiting Works with Army's Joe Alberici
Around this time every year, dozens of parents of high school prospects ask IL's Terry Foy some version of the question, "How does recruiting work?" In an effort to round out that answer, he's interviewing a series of DI men's lacrosse coaches about their process, starting with Army head coach Joe Alberici. Given the service academies' ability to begin contacting prospective student-athletes o...
57m Aug 12, 2024
57m
8/9 ILPreps: NB All-America, Adrenaline All-America, Future Phenoms, Underclass Tournament
What up Prep Nation! We're back for the final evaluation update of the summer, covering everything since mid July. IL's Dan Kaplan, Matt Kinnear, Kevin Brown and Terry Foy start with the All-American Senior Game, then identify the standout performances from the Adrenaline All-America Game, ML8's Future Phenoms and conclude with the All-America Underclass Tournament, covering the Highlight, Burn...
53m Aug 09, 2024
53m
8/7 PLL Happy Hour Podcast: Losses, Lessons & Beatings
IL's Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown return to recap the action from Maryland's homecoming weekend sweep at Homewood Field, unpack the deal that sent Waterdogs midfielder Ryan Conrad to the Whipsnakes, provide an initial eulogy on Philly's season and hype up the races to the coveted Eastern and Western Conference top seeds for a chance at those first-round byes in the playoffs.
57m Aug 07, 2024
57m
7/31 PLL Happy Hour: California Love, Waterdogs Worries
Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown return to recap the action from San Diego in Week 8 of the PLL season including discussions on whether or not we'd like to face the Waterdogs in the playoffs if they turned their season around, are they what their record says they are and what needs to change? Also, the two discuss the Redwoods splitting their two homecoming games, Rob Pannell reaching the 600-p...
50m Jul 31, 2024
50m
7/24 PLL Happy Hour: Graham Bundy Jr
Coming off a five-point (1G, 2T) display against the Waterdogs, Graham Bundy joins the show at the 53-minute mark to discuss a range of topics including using his backup stick since his last breakout performance against the Redwoods, the jump from the college game to the PLL ranks, the Outlaws team dynamic in the locker room, playing alongside Brennan O'Neill, Sam Handley and more. Also, Kevin ...
1hr 31m Jul 24, 2024
1hr 31m
7/19 ILPreps: NLF, ALL, Nation All-Star Games, Main Stage, IL Summer Cup & Countdown
What up Prep Nation! We're back to cover everything since the NCAA Dead Period, and IL's Dan Kaplan, Matt Kinnear and Terry Foy start with the NLF Summer Club Championships, then identify the standout performances from the Alliance Lacrosse League, National All-Star Games, Main Stage, IL Summer Cup the Countdown.
57m Jul 19, 2024
57m
7/8 PLL Happy Hour Podcast: Home-Field Advantage?
IL's Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown dive in on the Week 5 games from Boston, discuss the impact of the home crowd, the potential goal of the season, Atlas' dominant bounce back and the Redwoods getting in the win column. Chris and Kevin also talk midseason award frontrunners and nominees if the season ended at the halfway point.
1hr 11m Jul 08, 2024
1hr 11m
7/3 ILPreps: USA U20 Tryouts, Sweetlax, Crabfeast, NHSLS and NAL
Checking in now the NCAA Recruiting Dead Period has officially arrived, IL's Dan Kaplan, Kevin Brown and Terry Foy rundown the events they've attended and talent they've evaluated over the last two weeks, starting with USA Men's U20 Tryouts, Sweetlax Summer Showcase and Showdown, Crabfeast, NHSLS and NAL.
1hr 1m Jul 03, 2024
1hr 1m
7/1 PLL Happy Hour Podcast: Week 4 Concerns & Our All-Star Game Ballots
IL's Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown catch up to recap the Week 4 action from Minnesota, provide a status update on the Atlas, note why Redwoods and Chaos fans should be worried and talk about Bill Tierney's first win as the Waterdogs' head coach. Then, the two go over the interesting choices in filling out the All-Star Game ballots before setting the stage for the clash of the top two overall...
55m Jul 01, 2024
55m
6/28 The Future of College Sports with Extra Point's Matt Brown
There is no disputing that this is an unprecedented moment in the history of college athletics. Given how important college lacrosse is to the sport more broadly (and specifically Division I men's lacrosse), understanding the future of college sports — in an incredibly uncertain time — is exceptionally important. To try to understand better, IL CEO Terry Foy brings on Extra Points' Matt Brown t...
33m Jun 28, 2024
33m
6/26 The Source: Coach Carousel Recap, 'Most Impactful Transfer' Draft
Back together for the first time in a long time, IL's Terry Foy and Matt Kinnear recap the last month of coaching news, from Jon Torpey taking the Brown job, John Crawley taking over High Point, Jake Richard and Charlie Hayes getting promoted at Marquette and Detroit Mercy, respectively, and Michael Sciamanna getting the Merrimack job. From there, they each pick 10 players who they expect to b...
1hr 12m Jun 26, 2024
1hr 12m
6/24 PLL Happy Hour: Bye Bye, Bye Week
The PLL Bye Week brings an overdue return for the PLL Happy Hour Podcast as Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown catch you up on the biggest storylines from the first three weeks of the season. From Atlas' resurgence into an undefeated hot start out of the gates and wondering how to slow down Jeff Teat's record scoring pace to enjoying the superstar rookie class as well as addressing the Waterdogs'...
1hr 6m Jun 24, 2024
1hr 6m
6/21 IL Preps: Maverik Showtime, Platinum Cup, Best in Class, Prime Time, Great VIII
It's Summa, summa, summatime and IL's Terry Foy, Dan Aburn and — most importantly — ILPreps Director Dan Kaplan are back to recap the first 12 days of the summer recruiting circuit. An incredibly dense 80 minutes starts by discussing the standouts from Maverik Showtime, which — if history is any indicator — will have an outsized impact on informing the market for players on Sept. 1 (and, by ext...
1hr 21m Jun 21, 2024
1hr 21m
6/17 The Tailgate Superlatives, Part 2: Off the Field
For the final episode of the 2024 season, IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello look inward, reflecting on their best and, more importantly, worst takes of the season, the funniest moments of the year, their best listener interactions and so much more. But first, hear what it's like to break news in real time as Nick gets word of who's taking over as Merrimack's head coach. Onto 2025!
55m Jun 17, 2024
55m
6/14 ILPreps: DCD's Garland, Urbana's Donahue and Summer Recruiting Has Started!
As spring transitions to summer, Director of ILPreps Dan Kaplan brings on Detroit Country Day (Mich.) coach Chris Garland and Urbana (Md.) coach Gavin Donahue to discuss their teams run to state titles, and to kick things off, he and and Terry Foy look back at the first week of summer recruiting and look ahead to the big upcoming second weekend.
1hr 11m Jun 14, 2024
1hr 11m