lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty classless of St. John's. Obviously bringing in Giblin means the end of Horsey at some point. St. John's has been interested in Giblin for a long time, so the marriage is not a shock. Although Horsey has not done much at St. John's, it's pretty lame to show him the door after just a couple of seasons.

That is the nature of crazed schools over lacrosse in the IAC and WCAC. Why not stop pretenses and just make PVI, Gonzaga, Landon, Bullis, etc. on-line high school equivalency curriculums in the mornings and go all out with the sports 4-6 hours a day. The difference between IMG Academy or Hill Academy and these DMV preps is just location on a map and trying to fake it well.

Horsey won't make it to July 1st. Giblin is a freight train and Horsey is in the way.

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[Anonymous]

That is the nature of crazed schools over lacrosse in the IAC and WCAC. Why not stop pretenses and just make PVI, Gonzaga, Landon, Bullis, etc. on-line high school equivalency curriculums in the mornings and go all out with the sports 4-6 hours a day. The difference between IMG Academy or Hill Academy and these DMV preps is just location on a map and trying to fake it well.

Horsey won't make it to July 1st. Giblin is a freight train and Horsey is in the way.

I wouldn't compare any of the schools you mentioned above to IMG Academy down in Florida.

None of the schools you mentioned above have sports 4 -6 hours a day. Most start at 8AM and end at 3:15PM. Sports typically go from 3:30 - 5:30 or even 6PM

You sound like a crazed mother who knows absolutely nothing about athletics.

[Anonymous]

Any St John's parents who can shed light on what is going on with Horsey. Seems like a good guy. Would hate to see him get the shaft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any St John's parents who can shed light on what is going on with Horsey. Seems like a good guy. Would hate to see him get the shaft.

It is lame what they are doing but I'm sure they see it as their only chance to get Giblin, whom they've coveted for a long time. Horsey also doesn't have a great track record as a coach, which probably made the decision easy for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any St John's parents who can shed light on what is going on with Horsey. Seems like a good guy. Would hate to see him get the shaft.

It is lame what they are doing but I'm sure they see it as their only chance to get Giblin, whom they've coveted for a long time. Horsey also doesn't have a great track record as a coach, which probably made the decision easy for them.

Any chance Gilbin will be plucking any of his old players or coaches from Prep?

[Anonymous]

Don't know how it is down in DC, but in the MIAA, if you switch schools you can't resume your previous varsity sport(s) at the new school for a year.

[Anonymous]

Where on St Johns website do they list Gilbin as their Lax coach?

[Anonymous]

They don't. But Giblin is coaching their t3am in a fall league.

[Anonymous]

As a family looking at St John for their son to play lax next year should we keep looking? We got an email to do a clinic next month would this be a strong indication on how their program is being operated?

[Anonymous]

St. John's program is light years behind Landon and Prep and gonzaga.

With UA money, SJC will soon are aggressively start recruiting for lacrosse. I suspect they will close the gap over the next 5-6 years.

[Anonymous]

I think the reasons for him stepping down from Prep HIS BAR FIGHT speaks volumes about the kind of guy he is...I mean seriously what man his age gets in a bar fight? Really?

[Anonymous]

St John's could easily put a lot of resources into sports if the UA guy gets behind it, and if they let Giblin run the show and run out anyone in the way. It isn't a hard thing to do. People who write they are "light years" behind Landon, Prep aren't experts. Wasn't Madlax the only game in town 6 years ago on the Virginia side? Next Level THE club team at one point years ago, then the Green Turtle spin off, then the Blackwolf and the Crabs spin offs and so on and on. The sport itself is a hot mess and always in flux on the club level. Preps it makes sense to see the same thing. Heights is recruiting lacrosse players. Heights?!?!? Yes, Heights. If St. John's puts the right candy in front of eager lax parents and kids, everybody will load right up into the white van headed for St. John's. It's an easy thing to do.

[Anonymous]

SJC needs to improve its academic perception.

Lacrosse families tend to come from affluent backgrounds (I know I am making a generalization) and generally leverage lacrosse to get their son into a school he could not have go into on his own. I can't imagine there are lacrosse families at IAC schools who are biting at the bit to get their son into Towson or High Point to play lacrosse.

If you look at SJC college lacrosse placement over the years, its BAD and is LIGHT YEARS behind what you would see at Prep or Landon and probably even Gonzaga.

SJC will need to improve its academic perception if it wants to get kids into Ivy League schools, NESCAC, and the Georgetown and the Notre Dame's of the world. Until the academic component is addressed, I think it will be play catch up to the IAC schools and Gonzaga for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SJC needs to improve its academic perception.

Lacrosse families tend to come from affluent backgrounds (I know I am making a generalization) and generally leverage lacrosse to get their son into a school he could not have go into on his own. I can't imagine there are lacrosse families at IAC schools who are biting at the bit to get their son into Towson or High Point to play lacrosse.

If you look at SJC college lacrosse placement over the years, its BAD and is LIGHT YEARS behind what you would see at Prep or Landon and probably even Gonzaga.

SJC will need to improve its academic perception if it wants to get kids into Ivy League schools, NESCAC, and the Georgetown and the Notre Dame's of the world. Until the academic component is addressed, I think it will be play catch up to the IAC schools and Gonzaga for a long time.

That is a very misinformed post. Families at IAC schools are biting at the big to get their sons to colleges like Furman and High Point or even a Cleveland State when the first tier lacrosse opportunities shrink away. Look it up. If STJ college is light years away from Landon or Bullis academically, it must then be a remedial vocational school which I don't see as the case. Now of course those places aren't Sidwell or Maret, but we aren't talking about the same preps or the same focus of the schools by the families there. At Landon or Bullis, if sports don't passport you into Notre Dame, then you aren't going to Notre Dame's of this world. Look that up too...the matriculation from Landon and Bullis over the last decade with the lacrosse hooks kids scrubbed out is a laugher.