'21-22' DMV LACROSSE OUTLOOK

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"if you chose SJC for the academics your kid must be dumber than a box of hammers."

you must be a Gonzaga or Prep Dad trying to re-live the "glory days"... you must have some inferiority complex.

SJC academics have improved dramatically in the past decade, just look at their academic facilities and college placement.

Saying SJC academics have improved dramatically is like saying "murders in DC have improved dramatically". You can't stand on improvement and call that good academics. Sure its better than getting worse but I would say that SJC ranks among the lowest in the DC area for private high school academics....maybe not THE lowest but certainly not setting any records academically.

This thread has taken a weird turn.

[Anonymous]

Play great...the rest take cares of itself

[Anonymous]

How can someone claim SJC has poor academics. Their academic programs over the last 5 years is on par with the “Big 3”. Just look at their college matriculation over the last 5 years. Very impressive.

[Anonymous]

Its Prep/Zaga/STA dad....getting bitter that SJC has been beating the doors off them in sports so they want to try and go to academics.....which is laughable but predictable as they want always go to that card.

[Anonymous]

I think the people trying to suggest SJC lacks when it come to academics still think that getting their legacy student into an Ivy means success. That going to Maryland or Penn State or Syracuse means you are not getting any kind of "real" education. My entire departments faculty at my small liberal arts college was made up of Ivy grads except for one from Hopkins. If their degrees were so good.....how did they end up teaching at a small college in New England?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the people trying to suggest SJC lacks when it come to academics still think that getting their legacy student into an Ivy means success. That going to Maryland or Penn State or Syracuse means you are not getting any kind of "real" education. My entire departments faculty at my small liberal arts college was made up of Ivy grads except for one from Hopkins. If their degrees were so good.....how did they end up teaching at a small college in New England?

Several players at SJC said no thanks to Ivy this past recruiting cycle. Ivys wanted them and they could easily get in from SJC. Your just hating that the lax team is better than your kids. It’s ok. They lost 2 players, so maybe you can compete this year. Doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the people trying to suggest SJC lacks when it come to academics still think that getting their legacy student into an Ivy means success. That going to Maryland or Penn State or Syracuse means you are not getting any kind of "real" education. My entire departments faculty at my small liberal arts college was made up of Ivy grads except for one from Hopkins. If their degrees were so good.....how did they end up teaching at a small college in New England?

Several players at SJC said no thanks to Ivy this past recruiting cycle. Ivys wanted them and they could easily get in from SJC. Your just hating that the lax team is better than your kids. It’s ok. They lost 2 players, so maybe you can compete this year. Doubt it.

Several SJC players did not say "no thanks" to Ivy schools, because the SJC players did not get an offer. It is true Ivy schools were interested in a few players, but it never got to a level of an offer.

[Anonymous]

Facts

[Anonymous]

What is this obsession with Ivy League schools? Nobody cares but the ones posting about it

[Anonymous]

I am FLOORED that some yahoo on here is claiming St Johns is an academically strong school and “equal to the Big3.” It’s literally the bottom of the barrel academics-wise. It’s right there alongside Bullis as the school that kids who aren’t able to get into one of the better privates goes to.

[Anonymous]

When was the last time SJC had a player attend an Ivy League school?

[Anonymous]

Ivy League schools are the most prestigious schools in the world. FACT. Not a debate.

[Anonymous]

St Andrews coach just took the job at Good Counsel, maybe they've decided to get serious about lacrosse. Four new coaches in the WCAC at Gonzaga, Dematha, Good Counsel, and The Heights. St Johns still has to be considered the team to beat.

Gonzaga lost to Paul VI, Dematha and St Johns last season. Paul VI lost to Episcopal, St Johns and Landon. Dematha lost to St Johns (twice), Heights lost to all of these teams except GC, and GC lost to everyone listed.

No idea what the 11th/12th grade talent looks like at these programs, but looks pretty tight between Gonzaga/Dematha/Paul VI after St Johns, with GC and the Heights in the third tier. Dematha, GC, and the Heights will be competing for a lot of the same pool DC/MD recruits that are overlooked by SJC (and Gonzaga to a lesser extent) as the new coaches try to build up the programs and get a pipeline going. Should be good competition over the next few years.

[Anonymous]

Last time I checked....MIT & Stanford are not Ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St Andrews coach just took the job at Good Counsel, maybe they've decided to get serious about lacrosse. Four new coaches in the WCAC at Gonzaga, Dematha, Good Counsel, and The Heights. St Johns still has to be considered the team to beat.

Gonzaga lost to Paul VI, Dematha and St Johns last season. Paul VI lost to Episcopal, St Johns and Landon. Dematha lost to St Johns (twice), Heights lost to all of these teams except GC, and GC lost to everyone listed.

No idea what the 11th/12th grade talent looks like at these programs, but looks pretty tight between Gonzaga/Dematha/Paul VI after St Johns, with GC and the Heights in the third tier. Dematha, GC, and the Heights will be competing for a lot of the same pool DC/MD recruits that are overlooked by SJC (and Gonzaga to a lesser extent) as the new coaches try to build up the programs and get a pipeline going. Should be good competition over the next few years.

Ranking of all the new coaches;

1. D. Mitchell - DeMatha
2. H. Mitchell - Heights
3. D. Smith - Good Counsel
4. Jeff King - Gonzaga

Reasoning;

While many consider Boh Mitchell the better coach of the brothers (which he undoubtedly is), the heights is still at loss here because they had both Mitchell’s before hand. D. Smith is an awesome recruiter and got some serious talent to come over to a weak St. Andrew’s, but on the field he is a weak coach. As far as Jeff King, it was a horrible hire. Instead of taking a more experienced and knowledgeable coach, Gonzaga took a former Assistant coach from their inner circle.