IAC Lacrosse

[Anonymous]

Safe. Boring. Easy.

Very Prep.

[Anonymous]

10 + years as a D1 Offensive coordinator, 9 years in MLL, and connections to all college programs. A+ hire. nice to see a search commitee land a strong candidate.

[Anonymous]

A+ hire? Uh, no.

[Anonymous]

There was a reason he was coaching at UDC prior.

Seriously this is who Prep thought was the best caninidate ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10 + years as a D1 Offensive coordinator, 9 years in MLL, and connections to all college programs. A+ hire. nice to see a search commitee land a strong candidate.

His sad gave him an assistant coaching position for income to keep playing MLL lacrosee. Let's face it, the MLL is the equivalent of semi pro arena football income wise. Then he coached at UDC. So, UDC has a lacrosse team? This is an A+ Catholic version of a security blanket.

[Anonymous]

Urick is a credible selection. He certainly knows the game and many people within it through his own experiences and his dad's connections.

Given the apparent trajectory of his career to date, he should be highly-incented to do well.

Managing the game won't be a problem. Managing the parents and there sometimes over-blown expectations would be a challenge for anyone. But the biggest obstacle will be getting the support and agreement of the other internal campus factions like Admissions, FInancial Aid, Facilities, Budget, etc., etc.

Giblin had control over the largest feeder school of lacrosse players and and the support of many ex-players and alumni parents and players. And all he had to do was beat Landon. Urick has to compete in a much stronger IAC without many of the advantages the previous coach had.

His father, at Hobart and Georgetown was a highly-respected and well-liked figure based upon his success and reasonableness.

Urick will need some help. This isn't going to be easy.

[Anonymous]

You people are such A-holes. Beyond the stereotype.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are such A-holes. Beyond the stereotype.

Not as bad as the parents Urick is going to be dealing with ...

[Anonymous]

good luck to him.

Prep parents are pretty delusional.

I don't blame Charlie for wanting to hang it up after this season.

[Anonymous]

Prep community, especially the alums, don't seem too happy about the new hire.

G Preps lacrosse Twitter account hasn't even recognized the new coach.

Time for the AD to go - he already fucked this one up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prep community, especially the alums, don't seem too happy about the new hire.

G Preps lacrosse Twitter account hasn't even recognized the new coach.

Time for the AD to go - he already fucked this one up

Fat chance of that happening. Paro will be there forever. Fegan is still there drawing a paycheck after 50 years+. Prep won the IAC Founders Cup last year as the best overall athletic program in the IAC.

Just like in the Govt. this was a group decision. Whether Urick succeeds or fails won't matter because everyone got to participate and no one was singularly responsible.

[Anonymous]

You're funny. He's not keeping the assistants, nor should he. Why would they want "continuity"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're funny. He's not keeping the assistants, nor should he. Why would they want "continuity"?

Because it is the easy and comfortable thing to do. The parents are needier and less mature than the kids at Prep and keeping the assistants around makes sense. It's like the zoo...the staff has been trained to not feed or patronize the animals on the sidelines. New guy will need as many buffers as he can get considering Prep doesn't have the money to just let the garden hose run to admit and financially aid kids en masse. Under Giblin and the old regime all Lrep did was raid the endowment principal for sports and the school finally came to some senses that wasn't tenable. Prep alums sure are proud when the teams win, but in the end they are still cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're funny. He's not keeping the assistants, nor should he. Why would they want "continuity"?

Because it is the easy and comfortable thing to do. The parents are needier and less mature than the kids at Prep and keeping the assistants around makes sense. It's like the zoo...the staff has been trained to not feed or patronize the animals on the sidelines. New guy will need as many buffers as he can get considering Prep doesn't have the money to just let the garden hose run to admit and financially aid kids en masse. Under Giblin and the old regime all Lrep did was raid the endowment principal for sports and the school finally came to some senses that wasn't tenable. Prep alums sure are proud when the teams win, but in the end they are still cheap.

Where do you get this stuff? "Raiding the endowment principal for sports"?

Bizarre!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're funny. He's not keeping the assistants, nor should he. Why would they want "continuity"?

So you don't understand why "continuity" is important.

To understand it you have to have some idea of how these IAC programs work or at least those at Landon and Prep.

If Urick were to come i and not understand how to use the network of players, alumni, ex-player parents and other supporters, he will be on an island and his tenure will be short, indeed. That doesn't have to include keeping the current assistants.

But he has to get Varsity, JV and Freshman coaches from somewhere. And if he brings in a whole bunch of non-Prep associated assistants, he'd better be successful quickly. You can bring in some outsiders, but he better stay connected.

His high school experience is not like what he will see at Prep. If he doesn't understand it he won't know how to leverage it.