2021 DMV Boys Outlook

[Anonymous]

St. John’s and Gonzaga will play this week.

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Date / time / location

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Anonymous wrote:

Goal differential has never been a tie breaking criteria in the IAC. Since EHS did not play an entire IAC schedule and opted out of the IAC tournament games vs EHS were not considered in the seeding. Landon and SSSA had identical IAC records and the tiebreaker is a coin flip. The IAC followed League criteria,.

I agree with the previous poster, this episode further proves just how lazy and incompetent ADs and headmasters have been this season.

You resort to a coin flip as the absolute latest method to determine rank and seedings.

Clearly the ADs and headmasters had no defined criteria to determine seedings as Landon was ahead of SS/SA in both goals for and goals against.

And while people are suggesting Landon got screwed, don't forget GP is also getting screwed too.

At the end of the day, the kids don't care who they line up against, they just want to play.

Maybe they were making the contingency that the number of games played wouldn't be equal, therefor the goals for/against wouldn't work?

[Anonymous]

Good point

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Anonymous wrote:
All this parental hand wringing about seeding seems absurd, if you want to win you have to beat the best. None of the coaches or players care who they have to play. Win and advance.

In every conference in sport you are rewarded for your body of work. Not with the incompetent IAC - Prep wins the regular season by a WIDE margin - yet Bullis gets a huge GIFT that was actually earned by Prep to play SSSA, the least competitive team of the top 4 IAC teams which Prep dismantled by 20 goals in the last 2 games. After that mauling SSSA will roll over for Bullis. Prep is a better team than both Landon/Bullis this year and will have to go the "hard route" to beat them both back to back. The good news is that Prep has the most talent and is getting better every week.

Body of work - Bullis has a win against every team in the conference this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
All this parental hand wringing about seeding seems absurd, if you want to win you have to beat the best. None of the coaches or players care who they have to play. Win and advance.

In every conference in sport you are rewarded for your body of work. Not with the incompetent IAC - Prep wins the regular season by a WIDE margin - yet Bullis gets a huge GIFT that was actually earned by Prep to play SSSA, the least competitive team of the top 4 IAC teams which Prep dismantled by 20 goals in the last 2 games. After that mauling SSSA will roll over for Bullis. Prep is a better team than both Landon/Bullis this year and will have to go the "hard route" to beat them both back to back. The good news is that Prep has the most talent and is getting better every week.

Body of work - Bullis has a win against every team in the conference this year.

So why so nervous?

[Anonymous]

Prep is the team that is nervous. Prep has lost in the semi-finals every year since 2015. However, I believe this is the year Prep makes it to the championship game in the IAC. I will say, if the game is close expect some nerves by the Prep players and their coaches.

[Anonymous]

Prep is 100% the clear favorite and they should be.

They are the best team in the area this Spring and their depth and overall athleticism have demonstrated this

I'll take Prep over Landon in the semis by 6. Bullis knocks off the Saints in the other semi final game.

Prep over Bullis by 3 in the finals and GP claims their first IAC championship since the Giblin era.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St. John’s and Gonzaga will play this week.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
All this parental hand wringing about seeding seems absurd, if you want to win you have to beat the best. None of the coaches or players care who they have to play. Win and advance.

In every conference in sport you are rewarded for your body of work. Not with the incompetent IAC - Prep wins the regular season by a WIDE margin - yet Bullis gets a huge GIFT that was actually earned by Prep to play SSSA, the least competitive team of the top 4 IAC teams which Prep dismantled by 20 goals in the last 2 games. After that mauling SSSA will roll over for Bullis. Prep is a better team than both Landon/Bullis this year and will have to go the "hard route" to beat them both back to back. The good news is that Prep has the most talent and is getting better every week.

Body of work - Bullis has a win against every team in the conference this year.

So why so nervous?

What'd I say about nervous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. John’s and Gonzaga will play this week.

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Yes they will play but not sure it will be v each other. Gonzaga would rather drive to Leesburg to play better competition

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Anonymous wrote:

Stiil don’t believe PVI wins 4 out of 10 against GZ.

Neutral observer here: PVI athletically was bigger, faster and stronger than GZ in the live stream I watched a few weeks ago.

I have never thought PVI was well coached so YES I do think GZ would win a few games ver them.

I was at game. PVI did seem bigger and more athletic. But the SJC defense was on point. I know the SJC middies get a lot of love but the attack is who dominated. The freshman who will be a college placekicker is really good. 1 and 9 were forcing it a little bit. SJC looks like they can beat anyone when they are executing but they seem vulnerable on an off day as they seem a little small. Last year Landon almost got them because they couldn't stop the big lefty and it's the same crew of poles.

[Anonymous]

seriously is the GZ - SJC game back on for this week?

I could care less if GZ is playing Riverside tomorrow (Gonzaga will win and shut up the public vs private debate)

In all seriousness if the GZ - SJC is not rescheduled, that is an all time low for Casey Oneil

[Anonymous]

For IAC Tournament Games, The Episcopal games were vacated, so it the seeding came down to records of the remaining five teams in their eight games against each other.
Prep 7-1
Bullis 5-3
Landon 4-4 I have put Landon above here because they had the goal advantage over St. Stephens in their two games and they also had a higher Goals for and lower goals against in the rest of their IAC competition.
St. Stephens 4-4
St. Albans 0-8
The AD's were Both, as a previous poster said, for not coming up with better seeding criteria than a coin flip. Honestly, its preposterous they think such a "strategy" is OK. Buffoons.

[Anonymous]

Who cares about goal advantage? All these moms whining about hwo their sons will have to face in the tournament.

Prep is the most talented team. They will cruise to the finals and then choke against Bullis.