2024 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

[Anonymous]

If we are speaking of the BEST schools and Division 1 lacrosse, I think we should limit this to the Ivy League schools.

[Anonymous]

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GP has sent more players over the past 5 years and to better academic universities than the others. This is not to say the others don't. For instance, Landon has dropped way off from the Bordley years. Bullis had 6 commits and Gonzaga had 5 while GP had 10 last year. Also, the quality of universities are better by reputation. SJC is good too and sent 5. Probably says more for Speaks' coaching than anything else. Of course, he had the best goalie in the dmv.

GP has sent players to excellent schools lately, however, I have to give Bullis the designation as the local school that places lacrosse players in the best schools. Bullis currently has 4 players at UPenn, 2 players at Harvard, 2 players at Brown, and 1 at Princeton. Bullis also has 2 2025's going Ivy. UPenn and Brown. I don't believe GP has that many in the Ivy's.

Bullis had a great run and certainly the 2021 class with many players from that DCE team bolsters their argument. The surrounding years aren’t nearly as strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Landon
2021 Harvard, Yale,
2022 Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Ohio State, Michigan, Navy
2023 Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Denison x2, Ohio Weslyan, Washington and Lee
2024 Bucknell, Bowdoin, Utah, Tufts, Delaware
2025 Princeton, U-Penn,

This list is incomplete I suspect, but kids are attending some pretty good schools.

The list bolsters the argument the program is down considerably from the Bordley years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we are speaking of the BEST schools and Division 1 lacrosse, I think we should limit this to the Ivy League schools.

Yes because UVA, Duke, and ND are safety schools with mid tier lacrosse programs. 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

GP has sent more players over the past 5 years and to better academic universities than the others. This is not to say the others don't. For instance, Landon has dropped way off from the Bordley years. Bullis had 6 commits and Gonzaga had 5 while GP had 10 last year. Also, the quality of universities are better by reputation. SJC is good too and sent 5. Probably says more for Speaks' coaching than anything else. Of course, he had the best goalie in the dmv.

GP has sent players to excellent schools lately, however, I have to give Bullis the designation as the local school that places lacrosse players in the best schools. Bullis currently has 4 players at UPenn, 2 players at Harvard, 2 players at Brown, and 1 at Princeton. Bullis also has 2 2025's going Ivy. UPenn and Brown. I don't believe GP has that many in the Ivy's.

Bullis had a great run and certainly the 2021 class with many players from that DCE team bolsters their argument. The surrounding years aren’t nearly as strong.

Even with that great team at Bullis, GP had 13 commits from 2021 compared to 8 from Bullis. Like the pp wrote, might speak more to the coaching at GP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Saw a social media post that Prep has a new goalie from South Carolina and a member of the US Lacrosse U16 team.

But I thought Prep's boarding component was for only international students as the Little Hoya faithful love to beat their chests too.

Prep's best football player is a boarding student from southern VA. Prep's best lacrosse player is a boarding student from CT.

Preps best player is most definitely not from CT… I would say they have about 4 players better than that kid

Remind me, what's the excuse for why you won't play SJC again?

[Anonymous]

Never to early for a fall ranking:
1. SJC until a local team beats them
2. Prep: Lost the most with graduation
3. Gonzaga: Could move to #1 most talented
4. Landon: Needs to shine with the 24 class from ML
5. Bullis: will enter #1 in 2025
6. SSSAS: rebound year with strong 24's
7. Dematha: Coaching makes the difference
8. PVI? Not sure can rank without a coach
9. Episcopal
10. STA (lost a lot missed from last year)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never to early for a fall ranking:
1. SJC until a local team beats them
2. Prep: Lost the most with graduation
3. Gonzaga: Could move to #1 most talented
4. Landon: Needs to shine with the 24 class from ML
5. Bullis: will enter #1 in 2025
6. SSSAS: rebound year with strong 24's
7. Dematha: Coaching makes the difference
8. PVI? Not sure can rank without a coach
9. Episcopal
10. STA (lost a lot missed from last year)

STA is done. They had their best senior class in decades with the 2023 class and still ended up tied for last place. They are a good school with a boarding program and are not shy about recruiting or asking kids to reclass so there is no reason they are consistently at the bottom, but they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never to early for a fall ranking:
1. SJC until a local team beats them
2. Prep: Lost the most with graduation
3. Gonzaga: Could move to #1 most talented
4. Landon: Needs to shine with the 24 class from ML
5. Bullis: will enter #1 in 2025
6. SSSAS: rebound year with strong 24's
7. Dematha: Coaching makes the difference
8. PVI? Not sure can rank without a coach
9. Episcopal
10. STA (lost a lot missed from last year)

My take for spring of 2024

1. GP was the best team in the land last spring and is #1 until proven otherwise. Will be hard to replace Kabari at attack as he is already starting at Princeton as a freshman. Still have plenty of players between their 2024 and 2025 class, however don’t expect the Hoyas to light up the scoreboard the way they did last year.

2. SJC, the Cadets are the cream of the crop in the Catholic league. Life will be even harder for the Cadets this spring without their dominate FOGO at the X and All American Keeper. Depth might be an issue for the Cadets.

3. Landon, very talented 2024 class and sleepy good 2025 class. If the Bears can’t get it done this Spring, a coaching staff change might be needed.

4. Gonzaga, the Eagles have the talent to play with anybody but GZ has shown the past 2 seasons they lack discipline once the Spring weather shows up. Too many off the field issues since King has taken over this program. Coaching needs a serious change up, especially the offense.

5. Bullis, Bellistri is the best HS coach and does the best with what he has. While Bullis 2024 class is below average, their 2025 class is one of the tops in the country. Bullis will be a much better team in May vs when the season starts in March as their 2025 kids mature.

All in all, expect a ton of parity between the top 5 teams. I don’t see one dominant team this Spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never to early for a fall ranking:
1. SJC until a local team beats them
2. Prep: Lost the most with graduation
3. Gonzaga: Could move to #1 most talented
4. Landon: Needs to shine with the 24 class from ML
5. Bullis: will enter #1 in 2025
6. SSSAS: rebound year with strong 24's
7. Dematha: Coaching makes the difference
8. PVI? Not sure can rank without a coach
9. Episcopal
10. STA (lost a lot missed from last year)

My take for spring of 2024

1. GP was the best team in the land last spring and is #1 until proven otherwise. Will be hard to replace Kabari at attack as he is already starting at Princeton as a freshman. Still have plenty of players between their 2024 and 2025 class, however don’t expect the Hoyas to light up the scoreboard the way they did last year.

2. SJC, the Cadets are the cream of the crop in the Catholic league. Life will be even harder for the Cadets this spring without their dominate FOGO at the X and All American Keeper. Depth might be an issue for the Cadets.

3. Landon, very talented 2024 class and sleepy good 2025 class. If the Bears can’t get it done this Spring, a coaching staff change might be needed.

4. Gonzaga, the Eagles have the talent to play with anybody but GZ has shown the past 2 seasons they lack discipline once the Spring weather shows up. Too many off the field issues since King has taken over this program. Coaching needs a serious change up, especially the offense.

5. Bullis, Bellistri is the best HS coach and does the best with what he has. While Bullis 2024 class is below average, their 2025 class is one of the tops in the country. Bullis will be a much better team in May vs when the season starts in March as their 2025 kids mature.

All in all, expect a ton of parity between the top 5 teams. I don’t see one dominant team this Spring.

So 3 of the top 5 teams are IAC but the Landon coach should be fired if he can't "get it done."
The Gonzaga coach needs to be fired also.
The Bullis coach doesn't need to be fired bc he underperformed last year and next year's team will be like last year's team.
GP is number 1 but they won't be nearly as good on offense even though they have tons of seniors and juniors.
SJC is cream of the crop even though GZ has matching talent. SJC is tops even though they don't have players at the 2 most important positions in high school lacrosse.
This is brilliant analysis.

[Anonymous]

Gonzaga has a discipline problem under King - the past two seasons have been an embarrassment for the school community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga has a discipline problem under King - the past two seasons have been an embarrassment for the school community.

Still I would not be surprised if Gonzaga wins the WCAC and finishes as the top team in the DMV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga has a discipline problem under King - the past two seasons have been an embarrassment for the school community.

Still I would not be surprised if Gonzaga wins the WCAC and finishes as the top team in the DMV

Gonzaga will not win anything….Lax bro culture problem; they will self implode.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga has a discipline problem under King - the past two seasons have been an embarrassment for the school community.

Still I would not be surprised if Gonzaga wins the WCAC and finishes as the top team in the DMV

Gonzaga will not win anything….Lax bro culture problem; they will self implode.

Agree... it's turned into hero ball under this new regime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga has a discipline problem under King - the past two seasons have been an embarrassment for the school community.

Still I would not be surprised if Gonzaga wins the WCAC and finishes as the top team in the DMV

They better find a few more players with offensive skill. Their offense was anemic last year.