2025 IAC and WCAC Playoffs Results and Commentary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prep should poach a boarding school coach who'd rather be in a more metropolitan area and support with their boarding. Also someone N. ot already tied to their family and alumni base.

Posted by someone who doesn’t understand Prep.

Not being tied to or at a minimum acceptable to the Alumni base is a recipe for a short career at Prep. Ask Scott Urick.

He was totally acceptable on paper and won some games. His lack of control and unwillingness to communicate with current and prospective parents sunk him.

[Anonymous]

Finalist
Hilgardner- McDonogh
Rosner- Taft
Ball- Loomis
Page- Hill School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prep should poach a boarding school coach who'd rather be in a more metropolitan area and support with their boarding. Also someone N. ot already tied to their family and alumni base.

Posted by someone who doesn’t understand Prep.

Not being tied to or at a minimum acceptable to the Alumni base is a recipe for a short career at Prep. Ask Scott Urick.

He was totally acceptable on paper and won some games. His lack of control and unwillingness to communicate with current and prospective parents sunk him.

Something I heard at GP years ago reflects the school’s thinking on parents and their opinions and input.

“Parents come and parents go. They are here for a couple of years. But the Alumni are with us forever!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prep email to families says they are going to be conducting a nationwide search. So doesn’t look like they have landed on someone.

Maybe they will get someone from another elite boarding school.

“Nationwide search”?

Hilarious. How’s that going to work? Who is going to do that? Danny Paro? With football about to start (which is his #1 priority.)?

I guess “nationwide search” sounds good in a letter to anxious parents.

Coach Paro will not put any effort into the boys lacrosse search.
Glennon is going to hire whoever is in his ear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finalist
Hilgardner- McDonogh
Rosner- Taft
Ball- Loomis
Page- Hill School

How is Prep job a significant promotion for any of these guys. Where’s the Catholic/ Jesuit school connection?

Why would they opt to come into a situation where expectations might be significantly at odds with what is possible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prep email to families says they are going to be conducting a nationwide search. So doesn’t look like they have landed on someone.

Maybe they will get someone from another elite boarding school.

“Nationwide search”?

Hilarious. How’s that going to work? Who is going to do that? Danny Paro? With football about to start (which is his #1 priority.)?

I guess “nationwide search” sounds good in a letter to anxious parents.

Coach Paro will not put any effort into the boys lacrosse search.
Glennon is going to hire whoever is in his ear.

Bingo!! We have a winner. Someone who understands Prep and the personalities involved.

[Anonymous]

Any chance Giblin is on the short list? It has been a long time and even his critics should agree it is time to move on and forgive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any chance Giblin is on the short list? It has been a long time and even his critics should agree it is time to move on and forgive.

Best suggestion I have heard in a long time. I have no clue if it’s realistic, but boy that would be a good choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any chance Giblin is on the short list? It has been a long time and even his critics should agree it is time to move on and forgive.

He’s got to be mentioned as a possibility. He has always had some great strengths, especially as a program builder. But there have got to be choices with less baggage.

I’d like to see it if only for the entertainment value!

In his zeal to build a program Giblin offended many on Campus. An incident off campus gave them the club they needed to end his tenure.

[Anonymous]

But in a true Jesuit tradition, time to
Forgive and let Giblin redeem himself.

Don’t even know the man, so don’t accuse me of being him or a friend.

[Anonymous]

No chance they're going to Giblin.

That ship has long since left the harbor.

[Anonymous]

Giblin's 62 years old. Regardless of anything and bc of all other things, that alone disqualifies a candidate unless it's an interim like GP did with Horning after Giblin was fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prep email to families says they are going to be conducting a nationwide search. So doesn’t look like they have landed on someone.

Maybe they will get someone from another elite boarding school.

“Nationwide search”?

Hilarious. How’s that going to work? Who is going to do that? Danny Paro? With football about to start (which is his #1 priority.)?

I guess “nationwide search” sounds good in a letter to anxious parents.

Coach Paro will not put any effort into the boys lacrosse search.
Glennon is going to hire whoever is in his ear.

Glennon doesn't make this decision. Fr. Van Dyke is in charge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finalist
Hilgardner- McDonogh
Rosner- Taft
Ball- Loomis
Page- Hill School

How is Prep job a significant promotion for any of these guys. Where’s the Catholic/ Jesuit school connection?

Why would they opt to come into a situation where expectations might be significantly at odds with what is possible?

Hilgartner is actively being spoken to. Don't know why he would take a step backward for GP in IAC from MIAA. He's also very busy with outside projects like NHSLS which he'd have to give up or be allowed to pursue and that's not the GP way.
Rosner - he's about 4 years removed from being a NL 3rd grade coach. He's not very good.
Ball and Page - A hire like this moves GP towards their goal of leaving the IAC and joining the ranks of the academies. The IAC is almost gone so these are more likely. Another choice would be a college assistant to follow in the NE academy way. They go after those types to provide stability and a career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finalist
Hilgardner- McDonogh
Rosner- Taft
Ball- Loomis
Page- Hill School

How is Prep job a significant promotion for any of these guys. Where’s the Catholic/ Jesuit school connection?

Why would they opt to come into a situation where expectations might be significantly at odds with what is possible?

Hilgartner is actively being spoken to. Don't know why he would take a step backward for GP in IAC from MIAA. He's also very busy with outside projects like NHSLS which he'd have to give up or be allowed to pursue and that's not the GP way.
Rosner - he's about 4 years removed from being a NL 3rd grade coach. He's not very good.
Ball and Page - A hire like this moves GP towards their goal of leaving the IAC and joining the ranks of the academies. The IAC is almost gone so these are more likely. Another choice would be a college assistant to follow in the NE academy way. They go after those types to provide stability and a career.

Word is McDonogh is making a major push to deemphasize athletics across the board and won't be giving out the scholarships the way school has been operating for the past decade. I have heard Hilgartner wants out of McDonogh and is looking around.

Rosner has been at Taft for 2 seasons now and the program is not nearly as good at it once was under Nic Bell era. Unless he has ties to the area, I don't know if he is the right answer for Prep.

Ball at Loomis has done an excellent job in his 4 years there. Not sure why he'd be interested in the GP job as Loomis has 10x the money as Prep. The New England West in my eyes is a better lacrosse conference than the IAC and maybe even better than the MIAA A division. Its an incredible deep conference with each school offering mega endowments and resources to recruit nationally. As someone pointed out, the IAC is really starting to fade as an athletic conference. While Landon, GP and Bullis will remain very good, the rest of the league is becoming a joke on the lacrosse stage.

Dave Page from the Hill School is also an interesting canididate but again he hasn't really moved the needle at Hill School since he has been there.

I have to believe GP will go after some local coaches: the head Coach at Good Counsel, Dane Smith has done a great job. Even the Head Coach at Landon, McGettigan, is an Episcopal Alum, he doesn't have deep ties to Landon. Boh Mitchell from the Heights School has made the Cavs rather competitive for a tiny school which has rather limited resources. Kubick at Landon, who is a GP alum, is also another attractive candidate too.

I doubt GP would seriously bring back Giblin as it would be very shortsighted and really be an attempt to appease the alums from the 80's and 90's who have been pushing to bring him back for nearly a decade now.