IAC Lacrosse
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Anonymous
| Using a network including parents and alum to help be successful? I'd say the opposite. Keep the candy ass politics and politicians out of the mix. Isn't everyone's son or nephew a very special boy and player? Landon is heading down the same tubes Prep went down. Coach is old and getting more out of tune with the field and more in tune with the parents whose dollars employ him at a $40K + a year school. At those prices everyone's junior needs to get some love and attention. |
Anonymous
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Landon is not heading down the path that Prep is on. Their entire staff is comprised of fairly young coaches. Bordley, while still the head coach, is more of a figure head. His assistants handle more of the college recruiting.
Perhaps Prep should stop promising kids they will get little Johnny into a top notch D1 program. Once you go down that route, Parents who are paying upwards of $35K a year, will expect some type of return. |
Anonymous
Confused by that post. Pretty much the only reason parents have to put their kid in Landon at $35K a year is for sports and the recruiting for college reasons. At least Prep can also say they are selling religion too. Landon's program is headed in the same direction. Lots of commits meaning the young coaches bang the phones and email to promote and place kids, but the product on the field is better story than fact these days. It would be a reach to say they are better than 3rd or 4th best locally now, and frankly they didn't even give Gonzaga a competitive game last year. Right now the only difference between Landon and Heights or a top public NoVa team is a couple of star players. That is a different thing than a program with 12-18 outstanding players. A decade plus ago there were few competitive club programs and few developed high school programs aside from Landon and Prep. Before Prep improved all the top players went to Landon and the success of the program was driven by just having all the players and rolling a ball out on the field. Bordeley hasn't managed to do well when the talent levels out and it comes down to being a better program. He's the Dom Starsia of prep lacrosse. When you're not the Harlem Globetrotters playing the Generals every night the beard comes off and you are what you are...just another coach and just another program. |
Anonymous
Landon's past success was due to Bordely's attracting and developing Landon's best athletes into lacrosse players. In the late 1980's and early 1990's Landon had 12-18 good athletes with quite good lacrosse stick skills and knowledge. Prep's team --- the second best IAC team --- consisted of some football players trying to stay in shape and a few Mater Dei kids who could catch and throw a little. When GP closed the talent gap by attracting their better athletes to the sport, the league became a two-horse race up until two years ago. Now Bullis and SSSA have figured out the formula. Attracting better athletes, introducing them to the game and stick skills in the middle school years and playing better competition can produce a good team. If public schools were to attract their better athletes, they would be equal. But in too many publics it's kids who can't make the football, basketball and baseball teams who want to get a Letter. No matter how many camps you go to or how many teams you play on, bigger, faster, and more agile generally wins the day. Show me a HS program where the starting QB, RBs and WR's and the BB point guard also play lacrosse, and I'll show you a winning program. |
Anonymous
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Dude you continue to post the same rhetoric on lax power but when you get called out, you hide.
You mentioned there are 3-4 programs better than Landon in the area these days - why don't you actually list them. Why don't you show the breakdown in IAC titles in the past 6 years. Show some data vs throwing out blanket statements. Nova publics aren't even close to private schools in this area. Robinson who has won the past 3 state championships in the largest state classification, gets rocked when they play IAC teams. The heights ? The heights loss to Georgetown Prep team this year who finished 4th in the IAC and the game wasn't even that close. The Heights can't even win whatever conference they are in. Why are you so obsessed with talking about Landon in the majority of your posts on here. What does Landon have anything to do with Georgetown Prep's new lacrosse coach? go take your meds and get back to watching summer youth ball and club circuit. you have a lot of time on your hands. |
Anonymous
First of all, I don't post on or even read Laxpower. I rarely talk about Landon. And your post demonstrates you either haven't read or didn't understand my post. |
Anonymous
| Didn't Heights lose to Prep in overtime? Not sure how that translate to 'not even close'. Heights wasn't a bad team. Landon wasn't competitive with Gonzaga or Bullis this year. They were about on the same level as SSSAS. I don't know why anyone would write Landon wasn't at best 3rd or 4th locally. I don't have a reason to bash but don't really see a point in dodging around those points. Landon used to be better than all comers in an era where few towns had a public high school team, there was no such thing as club lacrosse or year round lacrosse. It was just spring rec league stuff unless your kid went to a prep school. I would not agree Giblin at Prep pioneered much or discovered fire. He just built a program at a middle school that fed into a prep school in a sport that became wildly popular among kids. Bordeley had all of his successes when just being good enough or being around with little company was good enough. |
Anonymous
I think you'll find that a majority of GPs best / impact players did not go to Mater Dei. Mater Dei supplied a lot of players and some were good. |
Anonymous
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For those interested I have compiled the IAC tournament champion since the 2010 season.
2010: Landon. Runner up Prep 2011: Prep. Runner up Landon 2012: Landon. Runner up Bullis 2013: St. Stephens. Runner up Landon 2014: Prep. Runner up Landon 2015: Landon. Runner up Prep 2016: Bullis. Runner up St. Stephens Landon 3 titles. Runner up 3x Prep 2 titles. Runner up 2x St Stephens 1 title. Runner up 2x Bullis 1 title. Runner up 2x |
Anonymous
And how did he get the Cornell gig? Did his dad get him that job too? He started the UDC program from scratch and if you knew anything about the guy you would understand why he went there rather than take a DIII HC gig or a D1 assistant job. He is beyond qualified for the role. Great addition to the Prep lacrosse program. A better coach than his predecessor's predecessor, and it goes without saying, a FAR better human being. Oh, and if you are going to comment on a lacrosse thread, learn how to spell "lacrosse" |
Anonymous
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"Show me a HS program where the starting QB, RB's and WR's and BB point guard also play lacrosse, and I'll show you a winning program."
Maybe at the same time you could show me mediocre to poor football and basketball teams that could not come close to competing with the top 6 WCAC football and hoop teams. |
Anonymous
| Why do some Bullis players do a PG year at another prep school after Bullis? Isn't a four year prep education enough, or is this a sports recruiting thing rather than a need to improve academics? It looks pretty odd. |
Anonymous
| Bullis has a few kids doing a PG year for lacrosse. |
Anonymous
| Lots of schools have kids who do a PG year. Not just Bullis. |
Anonymous
| That's really loving prep school. |