Inside Lacrosse Podcasts

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 Coast in Salt Lake City.

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, ushering in a new era in college lacrosse. Have your team rosters and game notes ready for early season games.

As seems the case every year, there are some rules changes to understand. Two significant changes center around replays and face-offs. Who better to talk face-offs than TD Ierlan, arguably the greatest face-off athlete of all time? Ierlan and Dixie break down why the rules were needed and how the new face-off mechanics will work. In addition, the guys talk about preparing for a long season, coaching the face-off, TD’s college experience playing for three legendary coaches and which college team gets the most love on spring Saturdays.

GAME PREVIEWS
There are 18 games this weekend, with 17 on Saturday. Are you sitting down, because you aren’t going to believe this. Practically all of the games (13 of the 17 games) are at noon. Ugh. How hard would it be to schedule games spread out from noon to 8 p.m.?

In any case there are some intriguing battles, including two legitimate Top 20 matchups:
No. 20 Richmond at No. 5 Maryland, noon
Navy at High Point, noon
Colgate at No. 14 Penn State, noon
Loyola at No. 11 Georgetown, noon
Jacksonville at No. 2 Syracuse, noon
No. 8 JHU at No. 10 Denver, 2 p.m.

In this week’s winter weather-themed Give & Go, the fellas reminisce about snow days of yore and finding the best sledding hill in the neighborhood.

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.

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.

They then welcome former Brown All-American LSM Larken Kemp (who will be writing a column for IL this season) to cover such topics as DeepSeek's effect on the Tech Bro/Jack power heirarchy, how Virginia will be able to rely on early offense and more.

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 Taylor as the No. 1-ranked player, appreciation for some elite all-around midfielders, describing what makes the top three goalies and defenders in the Top 20 so great.

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 Tewaaraton Award in 2019, Spencer played a year of basketball at Northwestern and has since worked his way through the NBA G-League to sign a two-way contract with the Warriors.

Meanwhile, Cam — who also played lacrosse for the Lakers — started his college basketball career at Loyola, then transferred to Rutgers before finishing his career as a national champion with UConn in April. He was selected with the 53rd overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft and made his debut with the Grizz in November while also logging minutes (and success) with the G-League Hustle.

Though the Spencers' focus is squarely on maximizing their NBA dreams, they also have an eye on life after basketball, which is why they've invested in a startup called Chillshark. Founded by Pat's BL teammate Keegan O'Connor, a 2014 Under Armour All-American who played at Maryland and High Point, Chillshark is a device that can convert any device into a cold plunge.

Recorded on Dec. 3, Pat, Cam and Keegan joined IL's Terry Foy to discuss their journey to that point, as well as the merits of cold therapy and how O'Connor plans to go about building the business.

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.

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 some of the best lessons he's taken in over the years. It culminated in a narrative journey for a young lacrosse player who wants to train like a black belt, mastering his craft and unlocking his potential.

Click here to learn more about "The Dojo Decision."

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 Director of Recruiting Corey Bulken. 

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 of the relationship.