They can have a keg party afterwards… legal age |
Who won Bullis vs Hill? |
No defense, just calling out hypocrisy. Taking your points to their illogical conclusion, no private should schedule a public team. Or any team not rated within 5 points of them on laxnumbers.com. Stop whining about a reality that DMV schools helped foster. It is what it is. |
Hill 13-11 |
"How is what still a thing?" Answers the question. |
This is not the best place for information. Everyone posting here trashes teams other than their own. The kids likes Ince, he’s a great coach. He will move the program forward and it will be a contender. Dodds leaving was announced came before contracts were due in June because they hadn’t named a new coach. They lost kids due to that and are rebuilding and the school is committed to that. I’m looking forward to my son being a part of a rebuild with a great coach to learn from. |
Obviously DMV schools do it, but even the worst of a lot of these teams (IMG) had like 18 PGs. |
Trying to tie together a full team of 18-20 year olds playing against a team of 16-19 year olds isn't even in the realm of public v privates. The publics have any number of kids born prior to September 1. You are correct in that publics and privates should choose to play each other in specific matchups to try and make the game more competitive or with the understanding the game is more of a scrimmage to get bench players significant playing time. |
Prep had a 5th-year player this year, Wyatt Bowman, the Cuse football signee. Played 2 seasons in Darien CT, transferred to Prep, and re-classified, and played 3 more seasons for the Lil Hoyas. I was amazed the incompetent IAC athletic directors let this slide, but Prep still had a mediocre season.
You see a lot of re-classification with schools that offer boarding programs, as it's easier to hide. Episcopal reclassifies kids from time to time, but the program still stinks. The cut-off date for age eligibility for Maryland and VA schools is that you can't turn 19 before 9/1, going into your senior season. Agree with a previous poster, don't see why any IAC or WCAC schools should waste their time playing a Loomis, Deerfield, Salisbury, Lawrenceville etc. etc. when they are bringing in on average 5 - 9 PG's a year. |
If he only played 4 years of varsity, it’s allowed. |
So prep uses fifth year players, leverages it’s dorm capabilities to recruit kids from all across the country but still ducks St John’s.
Pathetic by their administration |
For the 1000th time…no one is ducking St. John’s…that’s almost comical. Trust me, my son was a 24 at Landon and he would have loved to have played the cadets. He’s still salivating at the missed opportunity to crush them by double digits. Would have been another great game to get the younger Bears more experience in the 3rd and 4th qtrs. |
While there probably are parents and kids who will do anything to say they get to play D1 lax, its the colleges that are pushing families to these schools to reclass. Yes, you typically get kids who are bigger, stronger, faster, but the colleges also get a chance to see the kids playing national schedules against elite competition like what they will play in college and they get to see how the kids handle living away from home, too. Get its not a normal path, but there can be a lot of benefits for kids choosing this path. |
Go ahead and have the reclass academies. It's just not realistic to expect traditional high schools to play against them fairly or without undue risk of injury. |
+1 |