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Dave Pietramala’s tenure as Johns Hopkins men’s lacrosse coach has come to an end after two decades.
I hope they don’t lookIng for a coach with experience of living and coaching in Baltimore.

 

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How about Scott Marr up at Albany? He's turned them into a powerhouse and he's a Hopkins alum. But he's been there 20 years, so maybe he's not interested in leaving.

 

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How about Scott Marr up at Albany? He's turned them into a powerhouse and he's a Hopkins alum. But he's been there 20 years, so maybe he's not interested in leaving.

Bloomberg as an alum writes big checks to JHU.Has already given $3.5 billion.

Michael Bloomberg gives record $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins for financial aid http://bit.ly/2Fu294W

https://www.ftfnext.com/videos/john...h-dave-pietramala-mutually-agree-to-part-ways

 

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• MIKE PRESTON
• SPORTS ANALYSIS
• SPORTS

In faceoff between Johns Hopkins and men’s lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala, both sides lose | COMMENTARY

By MIKE PRESTON
BALTIMORE SUN |
APR 14, 2020 | 7:12 PM



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The Johns Hopkins players knew that the 2020 season would be important to the school’s lacrosse legacy, but not the end of one.

The Dave Pietramala era came to an end Tuesday when the university announced that the coach of the Blue Jays for the past 20 years and school officials had mutually agreed to part ways. Pietramala was in the final season of a four-year contract.

Some Blue Jays players and opposing coaches were in disbelief, and some thought that the timing was poor, especially with the coronavirus pandemic causing devastation throughout the country.

But there is no perfect time for a legend to leave.

Johns Hopkins parts ways with men’s lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala after 20 seasons, two national titles »
Unless the Blue Jays were going to have a major turnaround in 2020, the dismissal of Pietramala was inevitable. Hopkins’ last appearance in the Final Four was 2015. Since then, the Blue Jays have gone 36-27.

That might be good enough at UMBC or Marist, but some of the old guard at Hopkins still believe that the Blue Jays can be nearly as dominant as they were in the 1960′s and 1970′s.

Sorry, that’s not going to happen.

And the way the Blue Jays were playing this year was ugly. They were 2-4 with blowout losses to North Carolina, Princeton and Syracuse. Hopkins even had to struggle for a 13-12 overtime win against Mount St. Mary’s.

When you watched Hopkins play during the past two or three years, the difference in talent between the Blue Jays and top teams was noticeable. There were no Paul Rabils or Kyle Harrisons in the lineup. The Blue Jays didn’t have a lot of speed, and even rivals like Towson were physically superior.

If you want to point fingers at Pietramala for poor recruiting, go ahead. That’s fair. He is a hard-nosed coach and very demanding. There are some who believe that his demeanor burns out players and doesn’t work for modern day athletes.

But this is so much deeper than just Pietramala.

A lot of Blue Jays fans thought the move to the Big Ten Conference in 2015 was good because it gave an independent school like Hopkins a better chance to make the playoff field if it won the tournament title.

But the Big Ten is an arms race. If a blue-chip recruit visits for a weekend, will he be more buzzed about watching Penn State play Michigan in football on a fall afternoon in the Big House or Hopkins play McDaniel in a Division III game?

If it’s basketball season, does he prefer being caught up in the hoopla of Maryland versus Ohio State or Hopkins versus Gettysburg?

Throw in the weight rooms, the millions of dollars invested in athletics and it’s hard for small schools like Hopkins to play in such large conferences.

“The game has changed a bit,” said ESPN analyst Quint Kessenich, a former Blue Jays teammate of Pietramala. “Joining the Big Ten, I’ve always felt, was not a positive for the program, but they’re in the Big Ten now … Things have changed and made it more difficult to have success.”

Hopkins also failed in the early recruiting race. But so did Virginia and North Carolina, as these teams were eager to beat each other out for those ninth graders who were physically still filling out their baggy lacrosse shorts.

Pietramala might have survived another year or two if his old support system was in place, but they retired. First it was Jerry Schnydman as executive assistant to the president in 2012, and then athletic director Tom Calder in 2016. He no longer had a buffer or security blanket.

Hopkins will have a hard time replacing Pietramala. His teams made 18 NCAA tournament appearances and seven trips to the Final Four. He played in four national championship games and won two. He is the only person to win a national title as a player and coach.

But let’s put the record aside for a moment.

Pietramala and Hopkins were synonymous. That school might never find a player or coach more loyal to the program. He was not only the best defenseman to ever play the game but the winningest coach in the school’s history.

Was he a hot head?

Absolutely, but that’s just the way he coached and played the game. A lot of coaches talk about being dedicated to players, but that’s usually just lip service. Pietramala was real. He’d get in a players’ face one minute and then hug him the next.

He treated his players like they were one of his own sons. His dedication to his school, his players and his sport was genuine. Even during this pandemic, he stayed in daily contact with his players and met with them via video-conferencing service Zoom once a week.

Hopkins will interview a lot of candidates soon, possibly Scott Marr from Albany, Drexel’s Brian Voelker, Hofstra’s Seth Tierney, Hobart’s Greg Raymond and Towson’s Shawn Nadelen, who is considered the favorite.

 

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How about Scott Marr up at Albany? He's turned them into a powerhouse and he's a Hopkins alum. But he's been there 20 years, so maybe he's not interested in leaving.

 

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Twitter scuttlebutt indicating Chemotti and Towson’s Nadelen are both high in the running with mutual interest.

 

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That sports anchor looks like he spent the day walking through the Albany desert without sunscreen.

 

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That sports anchor looks like he spent the day walking through the Albany desert without sunscreen.

Tanning salons with plenty of suntan spray are big in Albany given their northern latitude with plenty of winter darkness.Gotta look good( not cooked) for them local TV cameras.

 

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I imagine a new extension with a raise is coming very soon from the UR Admin then.

 

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I imagine a new extension with a raise is coming very soon from the UR Admin then.

No doubt. They extended him with a five-year deal after the 2017 season, so it was time to be thinking about another extension anyway if they hadn't yet done anything privately.

 

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Coach made the correct decision.The B10 is resource based D1 football/basketball conference with mostly heavy hitters with not so strict entrance requirements-Ohio State,Penn State,Maryland,Michigan and Rutgers.Hopkins is an outliner in that group as an academic powerhouse with D3 athletics.The JHU AD has his work cut in attempting to recalibrate and reallocate resources to compete with those deep pocket Big Boys.

Coach has top notch facilities and academics at UR,a Sugar Daddy,and a conference in which he has been and remains the heavyweight champion with a sprinkling of P5 winnable ACC matches to complement the SoCon.

No offense to MD natives but living in the Richmond area over the Baltimore area is an easy decision as well.

 

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PHOTO BY RICH BARNES


After a search lasting less than two weeks, Johns Hopkins has found the successor to Dave Pietramala.

Multiple sources have told US Lacrosse Magazine that Peter Milliman, who was Cornell's interim coach in 2017 before earning the head coach title in 2018, will be the next men's lacrosse coach at Johns Hopkins.

 

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Pietramala ought to apply for the Cornell job. It would be an interesting scenario.

 

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This decision by Dan speaks volumes. Has to be impactful to tell recruits, "Yeah, I turned down Hopkins to continue to build this. We have a higher ceiling."