Men's Lacrosse 2026

[The Shadow]

How about considering Kevin Unterstein from Shoreham, '08 former all-American, professional, assistant at HU, UNC, and presently at Duke.

[Polito]

100% Shadow, outside of Amplo, I would be ALL IN on Unterstein - that's a home run hire IMO. Local product, HU legend, stud pro career, super coaching resume, lots of connections, great reputation, history of leading defense and face-offs (2 of our glaring needs), and still relatively young - checks a ton of boxes - and he could likely lure a couple of guys not getting enough PT across UNC and Duke to join him and rebuild a once proud program. And I believe firmly he would also ignite excitement in LI among the local talent - he would bring some much needed juice and new energy to a stale program.

If it's at all an option, then bring that man HOME!

[Pbdutch]

Holy cow! Not sure if anyone got the pleasure of watching our D7 men’s lacrosse team play today, but for a D7 men’s lacrosse team they didn’t do that poorly against a real D1 men’s lacrosse team as they played Towson today.

They were able to score 3 goals and only gave up 20. Really not that bad at all!

[joeg1]

For Pete's sake, fire ST. What a disgrace

[UncleVegas]

Since 4/9/2017

1-3
6-8
5-9
4-3
8-6
6-9
5-9
6-9
8-7
4-10

54-73 (.425)

Prior to 2017 we were scheduling Marquette Princeton Georgetown Penn St Cornell Ohio St UNC about 5 or 6 of these schools every year it was a much tougher schedule. Conpare that to this year where Yale, Rutgers and Siena were our most difficult out of conference opponents (of course 0-3). Literally every thing has gone down hill in this program.... record, quality of schedule, quality of recruits. He has destroyed this program. A lot of us saw this coming for many years and here we are. Of he survives a 4-10 season with that schedule after nearly a decade of consistent sub .500 performances with a laughable schedule compared to the majority of this programs existance..Then it just confirms what we have all known for a long time. He is untouchable, he is not going any where, and there is no level thats bad enough for this University to actually make a change. This team is not worthy of anyones support if thats true and it pains me to say that. This used to be the crown jewel of our sports program. Its now complete and utter trash.

He is officially the worst coach this school has ever seen, nobody has done more damage than hin

[Mikey77]

it is hard to argue with Uncle Vegas' analysis. What has happened is a disgrace and yes everyone who follows (or had followed the program) saw this coming. The Tierney/Metzger regime has destroyed the program which as stated was the crown jewel of the athletic department and one of the founding programs of NCAA lacrosse. If they cared at all about the program Tierney would step down tomorrow. I'm not sure that any coach can now put Humpty Dumpty back together. This is malpractice by Cole and the administration. On another post I understand that Cole explained that Tierney does a lot for the community. Huh? If that is the criteria Hofstra should have hired Mother Theresa instead of him 20 years ago. The only way to get Cole/Hofstra to move is to boycott the program and i doubt that will even work.

[triplec2195]

it is hard to argue with Uncle Vegas' analysis. What has happened is a disgrace and yes everyone who follows (or had followed the program) saw this coming. The Tierney/Metzger regime has destroyed the program which as stated was the crown jewel of the athletic department and one of the founding programs of NCAA lacrosse. If they cared at all about the program Tierney would step down tomorrow. I'm not sure that any coach can now put Humpty Dumpty back together. This is malpractice by Cole and the administration. On another post I understand that Cole explained that Tierney does a lot for the community. Huh? If that is the criteria Hofstra should have hired Mother Theresa instead of him 20 years ago. The only way to get Cole/Hofstra to move is to boycott the program and i doubt that will even work.

So the other post you're referring to happened thru Stu setting up a get together with some diehard basketball and other sports fans. This happened on the 16th. Bryan Graff showed up since he lives in the area. His title is Assistant Vice President for Athletics and Chief Operating Officer. He's a very nice guy and quite transparent and answered a lot of our questions mainly concerning the basketball program. I took it upon myself to ask him about the lacrosse program meaning the mens and he answered that they are undefeated referring to the women's. I then asked about the mens program and he said things like he's caring person who gives back to the community and does a lot outside of coaching. I'm paraphrasing just trying to remember but that was the gist of it. He said positive things about the coach but didn't reference their "FALL FROM GRACE".

Obviously at some point the coach will retire but I don't see him being pushed out and being held accountable. If you look at our women's basketball program you would think that change is long overdue and yet status quo just continues there. Read between the lines! I don't believe that they would let our mens basketball program digress to that low ebb!!

[Mikey77]

Thank you triplec. That's what i was referencing. What is going on with the men's lax program is frankly scandalous. The fact that Tierney got his son's jersey number retired ahead of other well-deserving All-Americans just goes to show you what is going on. He's milking the program every which way. When things don't add up there is usually a reason. It makes no sense whatsoever that he's still the head coach of men's lax.

[triplec2195]

We can talk about this ad-nauseam but as long as $$$$$ is the bottom line things here apparently will go unchecked but yes it's sad. I use the women's basketball program as an analogy but the lacrosse program use to be consistently in the top 20 now apparently top 60 is acceptable.

[The Shadow]

HU 2026 lacrosse in the latest RPI is not even in the top 60! The RPI I just looked up is an eye opening 61 out of 76 total D1 teams. My Dad cannot remember an HU team with such a low ranking. Also, as asked on the FanLax board, when was the last time an HU lacrosse team lost a D1 game by 17 goals? Remember the Bill Parcells famous quote, "You are what your record says you are." A serious evaluation must be done for this once very proud program dating back to 1949.

[stuball888]

I want to give you some figures about the mens lax program and how we are losing fan support
2020-only four home games because of Covid
pre Covid avg attendance 1,086
2021- No attendance due to Covid
2022 10 home games avg attendance 812
2023 8 home games avg attendance 754
2024 9 home games avg attendance 739
2025 7 home games avg attendance 815
2026 5 home games avg attendance 542
this played in a stadium that holds over 12,000 fannies

[UncleVegas]

I want to give you some figures about the mens lax program and how we are losing fan support
2020-only four home games because of Covid
pre Covid avg attendance 1,086
2021- No attendance due to Covid
2022 10 home games avg attendance 812
2023 8 home games avg attendance 754
2024 9 home games avg attendance 739
2025 7 home games avg attendance 815
2026 5 home games avg attendance 542
this played in a stadium that holds over 12,000 fannies

There could be 6 people in the stands and this suck ass still wouldnt get fired. Theres very obviously some shady ulterior motivations to have this man be employed as Mens Head lacrosse coach. We know damn sure it has nothing to do with attendance, team success or ANYTHING to do with actual lacrosse

[joeg1]

ST was class of 87 at MacArthur HS, so he's about 57. He could conceivably be here another 10+ years

[HUSID74]

100% Shadow, outside of Amplo, I would be ALL IN on Unterstein - that's a home run hire IMO. Local product, HU legend, stud pro career, super coaching resume, lots of connections, great reputation, history of leading defense and face-offs (2 of our glaring needs), and still relatively young - checks a ton of boxes - and he could likely lure a couple of guys not getting enough PT across UNC and Duke to join him and rebuild a once proud program. And I believe firmly he would also ignite excitement in LI among the local talent - he would bring some much needed juice and new energy to a stale program.

If it's at all an option, then bring that man HOME!

How about the coach from Sacred Heart? He has his team in the top 20 with a program that is only a couple of years old.

[Captain]

If The Head coach is changed, no doubt there will be a search committee and a pool of potential candidates.
If and when it will be a very important and potentially program saving hire.

[HofstraPride1]

If The Head coach is changed, no doubt there will be a search committee and a pool of potential candidates.
If and when it will be a very important and potentially program saving hire.

Seth is Team USA coach for next year's world championships so am guessing nothing happens before then.

[UncleVegas]

If The Head coach is changed, no doubt there will be a search committee and a pool of potential candidates.
If and when it will be a very important and potentially program saving hire.

Seth is Team USA coach for next year's world championships so am guessing nothing happens before then.

1 hes not going anywhere, ever
2 why would that matter? A real organization and or school thats trying to have a winning team does not give a rats ass if their coach is coaching an international tournament that year, that month, that day if they are a failure and need to be removed. We just aren't a school that falls into that category

[HofstraPride1]

If The Head coach is changed, no doubt there will be a search committee and a pool of potential candidates.
If and when it will be a very important and potentially program saving hire.

Seth is Team USA coach for next year's world championships so am guessing nothing happens before then.

1 hes not going anywhere, ever
2 why would that matter? A real organization and or school thats trying to have a winning team does not give a rats ass if their coach is coaching an international tournament that year, that month, that day if they are a failure and need to be removed. We just aren't a school that falls into that category

I just meant more in terms of him deciding to leave.

[HUSID74]

Brutal season punctuated by that horrendous showing against CAA leader Towson. Something needs to be done with this program...we're going down the toilet.

[Chandy]

Apparently Hofstra’s LAX W/L record, its fan retention and steady decline in attendance, their diminished ability to effectively recruit, etc have had no impact on the AD to even consider a change that is so evident. Those who have reached out to Cole have been ignored, unless it’s a request to support Hofstra athletics, or have been told that ST has done a lot of “good” things off the playing field. My question is what is the real reason for his retention and their protectionism. There has to be quid pro quo scenario that is of real significance. It just can’t be the explanation Cole provided.

This leads me to the question whether there anything that can be done to effect a change? Would a formal petition to both the AD and University President be helpful?. Does anyone know how former Hofstra lax players feel about state of the affairs, particularly pre ST era and could they be approached? Can and should this be organized and more importantly would it make a difference? I have followed Hofstra lacrosse for nearly 50 years and it saddens me to core to see the depths this program has sunk to. I have seen new start D1 programs exceed Hofstra level of play in short order in remote area like WI, UT and NC. Things can be turned around but the product Hofstra offers now would respectfully be challenged against top D3 teams like Tufts and Salisbury.