lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

whats the difference between a recruited athlete to an ivy league school vs a kid who gets in due to legacy connections...

Nothing in my opinion...

[Anonymous]

Philly Showcase is good as is Jake Reed's blue chip. Bottom line though you have a kid with big talent, he WILL get the looks. It is not always about what showcases you attend!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just read that St. Albans just had a rising junior commit to Yale. Looks like STA till can produce strong players who have the grades to get into top notch schools. Not sure I can say the same about the rest of the teams in the IAC.

I like STA, its coaching staff, and the school's approach. And although STA does not have the volume of Division I commits of the other IAC schools, they have a good record of sending kids to Ivies. However, it is silly and just counterfactual to suggest that only STA has scholar athletes or Ivy League commits. Every other IAC school has players on Ivy rosters. Don't embarrass St. Albans by denigrating other league schools (and on something so obviously and provably false).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just read that St. Albans just had a rising junior commit to Yale. Looks like STA till can produce strong players who have the grades to get into top notch schools. Not sure I can say the same about the rest of the teams in the IAC.

There are sometimes lots of non-sports reasons for these commit arrangements. The kid is also a legacy and that is a pretty powerful input along with being a strong student of course to make it happen. He didn't even play as a sophomore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just read that St. Albans just had a rising junior commit to Yale. Looks like STA till can produce strong players who have the grades to get into top notch schools. Not sure I can say the same about the rest of the teams in the IAC.

I guess the GP boys playing for Harvard and Princeton, Landon alums currently playing for Princeton and Penn, and Potomac School player at Princeton don't count then?? What are you talking about? Ignorant comment.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure Landon has more kids playing lacrosse in the Ivy League and the NESCAC Conference than any team in the area.

GP has sent a bunch of kids to Georgetown and Notre Dame in recent years too which is also impressive.

I think STA has a fair amount of kids playing in the NESCAC too.

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure Landon has server farm robots auto reply algorithms running to contest anything that reads they don't have the bestest lacrosse prep school in the galaxy. There just isn't any way humans could cover all this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure Landon has server farm robots auto reply algorithms running to contest anything that reads they don't have the bestest lacrosse prep school in the galaxy. There just isn't any way humans could cover all this.

To be fair to them, they are the second best in the galaxy...and that aint bad. I am not a Landon person, but you cant deny that they are hugely successful.

http://www.laxpower.com/update15/binboy/natlccr.php

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read that St. Albans just had a rising junior commit to Yale. Looks like STA till can produce strong players who have the grades to get into top notch schools. Not sure I can say the same about the rest of the teams in the IAC.

There are sometimes lots of non-sports reasons for these commit arrangements. The kid is also a legacy and that is a pretty powerful input along with being a strong student of course to make it happen. He didn't even play as a sophomore.

In most worlds, but not in the DMV it appears, a young man getting into a top college like Yale would be the subject of much applause and kudos. Instead, the miserable poster above tries to undermine the kid's accomplishment by throwing the legacy card and saying he didn't play as a sophomore. Amazingly petty and wholly unnecessary in my view. The fact is that Yale and the other Ivy League lax programs have +/- 10 spots in every class that are open for commitments. To get a spot in the recruiting class at Yale, the player needs to be one of the top players in the country and a very accomplished student. The legacy status does not factor into the mix based upon my experience. If the player could get in on his grades and his legacy status, the coach would not need to use a "spot" for him and he could just walk on. Not the case here. Yale made a commitment to this young man because the program wants him as a player and a student.

Seriously folks, try to fight the urge to make yourselves feel better about the lacrosse recruiting process by urinating on someone else's good fortune. The process is hard and taxing on the athlete and his/her family. Knowing that there are critics looking to minimize the accomplishment is one reason why lacrosse gets a bad reputation for the quality of the parents involved. It just doesn't have to be that way. Every kid from the DMV that gets a chance to play D1 lacrosse is opening doors (hopefully) for other players to get a look. Celebrate the successes and keep the vitriolic BS to yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read that St. Albans just had a rising junior commit to Yale. Looks like STA till can produce strong players who have the grades to get into top notch schools. Not sure I can say the same about the rest of the teams in the IAC.

There are sometimes lots of non-sports reasons for these commit arrangements. The kid is also a legacy and that is a pretty powerful input along with being a strong student of course to make it happen. He didn't even play as a sophomore.

In most worlds, but not in the DMV it appears, a young man getting into a top college like Yale would be the subject of much applause and kudos. Instead, the miserable poster above tries to undermine the kid's accomplishment by throwing the legacy card and saying he didn't play as a sophomore. Amazingly petty and wholly unnecessary in my view. The fact is that Yale and the other Ivy League lax programs have +/- 10 spots in every class that are open for commitments. To get a spot in the recruiting class at Yale, the player needs to be one of the top players in the country and a very accomplished student. The legacy status does not factor into the mix based upon my experience. If the player could get in on his grades and his legacy status, the coach would not need to use a "spot" for him and he could just walk on. Not the case here. Yale made a commitment to this young man because the program wants him as a player and a student.

Seriously folks, try to fight the urge to make yourselves feel better about the lacrosse recruiting process by urinating on someone else's good fortune. The process is hard and taxing on the athlete and his/her family. Knowing that there are critics looking to minimize the accomplishment is one reason why lacrosse gets a bad reputation for the quality of the parents involved. It just doesn't have to be that way. Every kid from the DMV that gets a chance to play D1 lacrosse is opening doors (hopefully) for other players to get a look. Celebrate the successes and keep the vitriolic BS to yourself.

Then tell the pp who decided to insult all the other IAC schools that there are other good students and athletes in the DMV besides St Albans

[Anonymous]

Young men get into college December of their senior year. Lacrosse verbal committing as freshmen or sophomores is a self esteem building exercise for white upper lass emotional invalid kids and their status mongering parents. It is impressive to apply and get into a great university, but don't confuse that with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read that St. Albans just had a rising junior commit to Yale. Looks like STA till can produce strong players who have the grades to get into top notch schools. Not sure I can say the same about the rest of the teams in the IAC.

I like STA, its coaching staff, and the school's approach. And although STA does not have the volume of Division I commits of the other IAC schools, they have a good record of sending kids to Ivies. However, it is silly and just counterfactual to suggest that only STA has scholar athletes or Ivy League commits. Every other IAC school has players on Ivy rosters. Don't embarrass St. Albans by denigrating other league schools (and on something so obviously and provably false).

Woah! GDS is number one for ivy-bound lax recruits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young men get into college December of their senior year. Lacrosse verbal committing as freshmen or sophomores is a self esteem building exercise for white upper lass emotional invalid kids and their status mongering parents. It is impressive to apply and get into a great university, but don't confuse that with this.

Out of touch and bitter much? The market for lacrosse players is skewing younger and the Ivy League is moving to a younger recruiting cycle, too. It is not necessarily a good system, but it is the reality. While a commitment in the Ivy League is not a guarantee of admission, it is both a validation of the player's athletic and academic bona fides. If you don't like hearing that lacrosse kids have their college house in order and you believe that it is all about status for the kids and the parents, you need to look in the mirror and figure out why someone else's good news makes you unhappy and/or jealous. The competitive approach to parenting in the DC area is becoming so prevalent that we seem to miss the accomplishments of the young student athletes as we seek to attribute negative motives to player and his parents. Pretty sad.

[Anonymous]

PP. Has an interesting point

I'm familiar with the Washington lacrosse community and the Baltimore lacrosse community. IMHO the problems in the lax culture are some of the DC parents and their extra-special boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP. Has an interesting point

I'm familiar with the Washington lacrosse community and the Baltimore lacrosse community. IMHO the problems in the lax culture are some of the DC parents and their extra-special boys.

It is pervasive in both areas. Quite honestly it now looks to me like these prep school lacrosse programs are running like college programs. Recruiting players, etc. The parents are nuts and don't seem to be able to hold a non-lacrosse conversation with other parents in the same community and the kids just seem off in the distance as a lacrosse peer group. Reminds me of HS football in Texas in terms of the intensity over it.