I love and always will love navy sports, but unfortunately i belive the decline of navy lacrosse has begun for many reasons and this is just another dagger. First reason to begin with would be that because of are president the military service required when graduating from any of the academies was just upped to six years starting with this years freshman class. It will be a very tall order to keep recruiting top 200 players with that in their minds. Next lets talk about coaching. Ray finnegan(goalie coach) turned out a great player in matt russel, but failed measurably with his son colin who only held 2 of the 7 top 15 teams they played to single digits that being a greta game vs maryland( those teams being colgatex2,uncX2, hop,g-town. Next rechie meade simply can not contend with the best.