The Tufts Lacrosse Team Has The Most Elite Bench Mob In All Of Sports
If you're mostly going to be riding the bench at Tufts, you better get pretty damn creative. Because the Jumbos are 5-0 on the season so far and here's what their scores are looking like.
The fewest goals they've scored in a game so far is 18, and their lowest margin of victory was a nail biter of a 4-goal win over Amherst. The same Amherst that was just playing for a national championship in 2019. The moral of the story is Tufts is loaded this year and they are going to score infinity goals. Which means you're going to need at least half an infinity different celebrations to go through to make sure you don't get bored of doing the same old boring thing on the sideline all game.
Now if I've said it once, I've said it at least several dozen times before. Every great team needs even better locker room guys. You don't become one of the highest ranked teams in the nation just on skill alone. You need guys in the locker room who always have the aux cord going. Guys who are setting up the party already on the bus ride home from away games to make sure everybody knows exactly what they're doing by the time they get back to campus. Guys who are showing up to practice on Monday with some great stories from the weekend. And guys who can get the boys together on the sideline to make sure that your bench mob is always buzzing. Tufts clearly has some quality locker room guys.
They're not afraid to go with some of the classic celebrations like the squat rack. But a couple of my personal favorites are the army soldiers. Takes a ton of choreography and communication to pull this one off effectively.
And then the golf range. Never a bad time to work on the short game. From the looks of some of these strokes, the fellas need to get it dialed in over the next couple months before Memorial Day Weekend.
The starters may get all the honors and accolades as far as production on the field goes. But I'm happy the sideline squad can get a little shine now. They still have 9 regular season games ahead of them before the tournament gets going. Hope they still have a few pages left in the notebook full of celebrations.
P.S. - Tufts rolled out these uniforms this past weekend and it doesn't get much spicier than this.