2024 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how the scholarship experiment will work out for SJC?

SJC has turned into a renegade program.

The school operates vastly different than its rival Gonzaga.

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I also suggest PVI and other schools work hand-in-hand with reputable local clubs, churches and lower schools to provide them with very low cost access to fields and facilities so they don't have to bring in kids, i.e. basketball players, from areas well over an hour away. They can't be proactive if their time is diverted away by dealing with activities which should be club sports and self-supported.

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Anonymous wrote:I also suggest PVI and other schools work hand-in-hand with reputable local clubs, churches and lower schools to provide them with very low cost access to fields and facilities so they don't have to bring in kids, i.e. basketball players, from areas well over an hour away. They can't be proactive if their time is diverted away by dealing with activities which should be club sports and self-supported.

PVI's basketball team would be awful if they could only bring in local kids.

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Some big games on deck for tomorrow:

WCAC Semi-Finals:

DM @ SJC

GC @ GZ

IAC Championship:

Prep @ Landon

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I know it’s not the biggest contest on the slate, but St. James and St. Andrews are also playing for the MAC title tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:I also suggest PVI and other schools work hand-in-hand with reputable local clubs, churches and lower schools to provide them with very low cost access to fields and facilities so they don't have to bring in kids, i.e. basketball players, from areas well over an hour away. They can't be proactive if their time is diverted away by dealing with activities which should be club sports and self-supported.

PVI's basketball team would be awful if they could only bring in local kids.

That's the trade off. A very, very low number of those basketball players will ever contribute back to the school. Once they are gone, they are gone and feel as though the school owed it to them and not the other way around. It's cool they are really good but it doesn't do much for the school. It's not increasing enrollment or donations or gpa. Shellenberger is a great example. He hasn't been seen or heard from since. It kind of looks good guys are going to Duke but those hoops players are actually taking away consideration for the regular student. Duke and IE are not taking a bunch of kids from one Catholic school. For the op, basketball isn't the issue towards participation in JV lacrosse.

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

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I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

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Yes

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

STA has entered the chat

I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

The academics are not close to being a wash. That’s part of the problem at one of those schools, there are less athletes and more scholars! The lax star is likely not getting in anyway.

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Another interesting and ironic aspect is that some of the “stars” from previous years at high school lax powerhouses are now at great colleges and in alum support programs (ie the path to jobs) that are run by dads with kids at one of those lesser lax schools mentioned. Why does a dad with a kid at high school x, who is helping a kid who graduated from a different high school and now attends an Ivy keep HIS kid at the school he is in when it underperforms at lax? In other words, if, hypothetically, SJC gets a kid to Yale and Yale kid is now being mentored by a super successful Yale alum (that wants his kid to go to Yale) isnt the Yale dad just going to move his kid to SJC from the bad lax school?

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Let us know when SJC starts putting kids in IE schools to any degree. If you are going to use a specific school as an example, you should make sure there is a SJC player there. Yale has no SJC player on the roster. Now get your homework done and let the adults talk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

STA has entered the chat

I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

The academics are not close to being a wash. That’s part of the problem at one of those schools, there are less athletes and more scholars! The lax star is likely not getting in anyway.

BUT

Another interesting and ironic aspect is that some of the “stars” from previous years at high school lax powerhouses are now at great colleges and in alum support programs (ie the path to jobs) that are run by dads with kids at one of those lesser lax schools mentioned. Why does a dad with a kid at high school x, who is helping a kid who graduated from a different high school and now attends an Ivy keep HIS kid at the school he is in when it underperforms at lax? In other words, if, hypothetically, SJC gets a kid to Yale and Yale kid is now being mentored by a super successful Yale alum (that wants his kid to go to Yale) isnt the Yale dad just going to move his kid to SJC from the bad lax school?

The reason STA sucks at lacrosse is because the music program is too hard to pass up. This has already been settled. No way to reverse this. Bassoons don’t miss.

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

STA has entered the chat

I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

Because you aren't putting your kids lax future at risk at these schools. Recruiting is far more driven by club than it is by high school. All three of them have plenty of examples of quality D1 and D3 commits (STA being the least successful in this regard.)

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Anonymous wrote:Let us know when SJC starts putting kids in IE schools to any degree. If you are going to use a specific school as an example, you should make sure there is a SJC player there. Yale has no SJC player on the roster. Now get your homework done and let the adults talk.

When you say "kids" I assume you only mean boys - because the SJC 23/24 classes have Yale, Harvard (2), UPenn & Northwestern...

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Anonymous wrote:Let us know when SJC starts putting kids in IE schools to any degree. If you are going to use a specific school as an example, you should make sure there is a SJC player there. Yale has no SJC player on the roster. Now get your homework done and let the adults talk.

When you say "kids" I assume you only mean boys - because the SJC 23/24 classes have Yale, Harvard (2), UPenn & Northwestern...

*SJC Girl's 23/24 classes

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

STA has entered the chat

I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

The academics are not close to being a wash. That’s part of the problem at one of those schools, there are less athletes and more scholars! The lax star is likely not getting in anyway.

BUT

Another interesting and ironic aspect is that some of the “stars” from previous years at high school lax powerhouses are now at great colleges and in alum support programs (ie the path to jobs) that are run by dads with kids at one of those lesser lax schools mentioned. Why does a dad with a kid at high school x, who is helping a kid who graduated from a different high school and now attends an Ivy keep HIS kid at the school he is in when it underperforms at lax? In other words, if, hypothetically, SJC gets a kid to Yale and Yale kid is now being mentored by a super successful Yale alum (that wants his kid to go to Yale) isnt the Yale dad just going to move his kid to SJC from the bad lax school?

The reason STA sucks at lacrosse is because the music program is too hard to pass up. This has already been settled. No way to reverse this. Bassoons don’t miss.

Totally. But they are more successful and financially well off than you are. Can’t play music and play a game where there is no payoff and end up relying on STA dads/grads for jobs. I hope those wins do a lot for you because those losses really suck. And they last forever.