2024 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

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Would really like to know what’s going on at SSSA. Biggest drop off I may have ever seen.

SSSAS had been buoyed by strong rec programs in the area, specifically Alexandria Lacrosse Club (ALC), and to a lesser extent Fort Hunt. They were always able to attract/ recruit a few top players from NOVA to supplement the roster. As rec lacrosse has died out, kids from Alexandria have largely shifted from playing lacrosse to playing soccer, and the school’s natural attrition well is pretty dry. Blackwolf falling off a cliff has also hurt their recruiting efforts.

If Alexandria county/city rec isn't supporting the sport, it's incumbent upon schools to pick up the slack, but pretty sure they won't. Madlax is so mad at Landon for their pricing, they are moving the rest of their operations into Virginia.

Lacrosse as a whole is getting worse and worse in the dc region. Nova rec is slowly dying because the board clutches their roles; Montgomery County and DC rec are essentially non-existent. The local governments are looking at their fields as profit centers instead of trying to grow all sports. People think lacrosse is expensive but it's the soccer clubs driving the market up. The level of lacrosse can be seen in the results. The DMV is substantially lower than the rest of the NE corridor.

The real problem is every parent drinking the kool aid and believing their kid belongs in club. There is no reason anyone should be paying thousands of dollars for a terrible club team that plays HOCO B. There should be two HOCO divisions, three max, and every other team should be a local rec club that plays in MYLA, NVYLL, SMYLA, ETC. These greedy clubs are the ones killing the sport by pricing out a large number of kids. When my DS was playing rec they had two or three teams at every age, now they are lucky to form one team. His best lacrosse memories are from playing local rec with his neighborhood buddies.

There is less and less rec and what remains is really bad for a number of reasons. If you are refuting pp, you are wrong.

You are correct that there is less rec and it’s bad. Shitty club teams are responsible for the decline of rec because many believe that a HOCO B team is better than rec. Many are paying way more for the same or worse coaching than the rec teams of years back just to say my kid plays club in the HOCO league. Those kids end up riding the bench on JV teams. We need to keep lacrosse accessible and fun.

HOCO has 5 divisions at ‘28-‘30 and 4 divisions at ‘31-‘32. Keep HOCO at 2 divisions and you have over 100 teams or roughly 2000 kids playing rec where they should be.

The bottom 3 divisions are rec. The counties have given up trying in the dmv. The overall level is in decline not bc clubs exist but bc other options phased out.

Went on the Montgomery county recreation department's and did a search for anything related to lacrosse offerings. In a county of 1 million residents with demographics from poor to rich and facilities like Wheaton Regional and Laytonia - nothing, not a mention. This has nothing to do with club.

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It’s not run by the counties. Silver Spring Warriors and Bethesda Lacrosse Club are non profit rec programs that have been running for many years.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not run by the counties. Silver Spring Warriors and Bethesda Lacrosse Club are non profit rec programs that have been running for many years.

Someone's going to have to define rec for me.

BLC is very successful, has paid employees and charges a lot of money to play in their programs. They then actively try to move good players and enthusiastic families into their more competitive club programs. They are separate but not really. I suppose the volunteer dad coaches makes them rec?

Silver Spring Warriors was started so Draley could build a program around his son. It's more like a couple of get togethers and then begging Next Level for players so they can field a team and blow out rec teams in awful SMYLA.

Talk to either Breslin and Draley and you get the same message. They want more field access for less money from the county and they want zero competition from anyone else remotely interested in growing the sport.

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Anyone else been disappointed in PVI's performance this year? I feel like they scheduled themselves as easily as possible and even then couldn't beat a bad Blue Ridge team. Not to mention when they finally played a real opponent in SJC they got dog walked.

Let me know if you agree? disagree? Hopefully they can turn it around as they really get into WCAC play.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else been disappointed in PVI's performance this year? I feel like they scheduled themselves as easily as possible and even then couldn't beat a bad Blue Ridge team. Not to mention when they finally played a real opponent in SJC they got dog walked.

Let me know if you agree? disagree? Hopefully they can turn it around as they really get into WCAC play.

Don’t they have a completely new coaching staff that they hired late? I think it will take them at least a year to turn things around.

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It seems to me that the funnel that sends all the best club players to Prep, SJC, Landon, Bullis, or Gonzaga is so pronounced now that schools like SSSAS or PVI are having trouble fielding the rosters that they used to. PVI seems better positioned for a turnaround since at least they have a different market in LC than the big five schools. My sense is that for the 27 and 28 classes the concentration of good lacrosse players in those five schools is even more pronounced though, so it could get worse before it gets better. (Obviously 27 and 28 are not impacting things now, but they will in a couple years)

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not run by the counties. Silver Spring Warriors and Bethesda Lacrosse Club are non profit rec programs that have been running for many years.

Someone's going to have to define rec for me.

BLC is very successful, has paid employees and charges a lot of money to play in their programs. They then actively try to move good players and enthusiastic families into their more competitive club programs. They are separate but not really. I suppose the volunteer dad coaches makes them rec?

Silver Spring Warriors was started so Draley could build a program around his son. It's more like a couple of get togethers and then begging Next Level for players so they can field a team and blow out rec teams in awful SMYLA.

Talk to either Breslin and Draley and you get the same message. They want more field access for less money from the county and they want zero competition from anyone else remotely interested in growing the sport.

Rec lacrosse is low pressure and developmental usually within your home area so they play with their school and neighborhood friends. Typically with a dad coach. Younger ages often play with smaller numbers to increase touches for the kids. Everybody plays, everybody has to take a turn in goal.

Montgomery County has never run a rec lacrosse league. In fact the only county that I'm aware of running any league is HOCO. I may be wrong but I don't think MYLA, NVYLL, SMYLA, etc are run by a county. \

And I don't think Draley started the Warriors just took command of a floundering lacrosse organization and propped it up. There are quite a few of the Warriors kids that play for Next Level but I think that's more a factor of geography.

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Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

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Teenagers have taken over the forum! Good for them. Showing the parents how asinine they act here.

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Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

This is ☝️way too funny…

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Anonymous wrote:Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

This is ☝️way too funny…

Funny because it's true? Landon has been lackluster the entire year. Obviously they have had a terrible start to the year, but even as they has slightly improved I just don't expect much from them. That being said they have a chance to prove me wrong on Wednesday against a loaded Gonzaga squad.

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Anonymous wrote:Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

This is ☝️way too funny…

Funny because it's true? Landon has been lackluster the entire year. Obviously they have had a terrible start to the year, but even as they has slightly improved I just don't expect much from them. That being said they have a chance to prove me wrong on Wednesday against a loaded Gonzaga squad.

Another outrageous Gonzaga parent here. You actually cannot be serious with this take, Landon has beat teams Gonzaga lost too and won games handily that Gonzaga barely won. That being said you are right on Wednesday we will see no point in arguing too much until then.

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Anonymous wrote:Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

This is ☝️way too funny…

Funny because it's true? Landon has been lackluster the entire year. Obviously they have had a terrible start to the year, but even as they has slightly improved I just don't expect much from them. That being said they have a chance to prove me wrong on Wednesday against a loaded Gonzaga squad.

Not top 10 in the dmv? They are #10 national. Not sure what pp is taking about.

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Parents on here are not very bright. No clue that they are getting trolled by kids.

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We shall see what happens on Wednesday. All questions will be answered and all doubters will be put to rest….