Georgetown coach Dave Urick stood in the center of a crowd of five Saturday afternoon after the Hoyas fell 15-10 to Duke.
The discussion took him back 24 hours earlier, when the group at the Multi-Sport Field was three --- Urick and his two assistant coaches --- but the topic was the same: Georgetown's goalie situation.
Senior Jack Davis' balky back created a bit of a guessing game for the Hoyas (4-3). Could he play, or would Georgetown turn back to C.T. Fisher, who started three of the first six games.
It turned out Davis was good to go against Duke, making 14 saves in the setback.
"We talked about playing halves, but we didn't want to commit ourselves to that," Urick said. "Playing as well as he did the first half, it didn't seem to make sense to make a change. But I wouldn't rule that out down the road. They're both playing well. If we can rest Jack a little bit from time to time, maybe we can get more out of him."
The Hoyas do what they can during the week. Davis' conditioning is a little lighter than the rest of his teammates, though most goalies aren't going to shed tears about doing less running. He still sees shots each day, but is careful to avoid doing greater damage to himself during the week.
"I think I can play through it if need be," Davis said. "And C.T. is a great goalie, and if he needs to step up we know he will. We never considered medical redshirting."
While Urick considered playing both, his past experience with such shuffling didn't go well. It's created more than a little reluctance to get into goalie guessing games this year, even though the nature of Davis' back injury limits some of the options to start with.
"Once he starts playing, he's got to keep going as long as he's loose," said Urick, whose team visits Navy on Friday. "Once he tightens up, he can't. So it doesn't make sense to go one half. Playing him the second half wouldn't be the way to go. We started him with the thought we might play halves, but we didn't want to commit ourselves to that. I've done that before. It's a bad idea, because the moment you commit yourself to guys playing halves, the kid playing the first half plays out of his head. Then you've committed to taking him out, and then you look like an idiot. I learned that the hard way. Long time ago."
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