2025 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

[Anonymous]

Any of the MAC schools rolling out good teams this year? I know St James St Andrews and Potomac have occasionally knocked off bottom of the IAC schools in years past. Anyone going to fill that roll this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Episcopal has an identity problem.

It used to attract several families from the South who wanted their boys to receive a good education and have connections to "the Hill"

Don't think it's attracting nearly as many Southern families as it once was a decade ago.

The school has gone pretty "woke" so that certainly doesn't help its cause either.

what do they say about going "woke"?

[Anonymous]

Next Level (from MadLax) to Dartmouth (M, Culver)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any of the MAC schools rolling out good teams this year? I know St James St Andrews and Potomac have occasionally knocked off bottom of the IAC schools in years past. Anyone going to fill that roll this year?

SAES is done. After Coach Smith left, new coach Severns has 0 recruits. I think there's one, possibly two kids left in the program but they will never see another MAC championship as long as Severns in the coach.

[Anonymous]

The SAES goalie is going to Brown so not zero? That is a tough program to handle - expensive school with a pretty niche (not overly sporty) student body. Not as tough as STA which has the added twist of being really difficult academically but pretty tough.

[Anonymous]

Potomac all the way!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SAES goalie is going to Brown so not zero? That is a tough program to handle - expensive school with a pretty niche (not overly sporty) student body. Not as tough as STA which has the added twist of being really difficult academically but pretty tough.

Wrong school. Kid attends St. Andrews-DE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SAES goalie is going to Brown so not zero? That is a tough program to handle - expensive school with a pretty niche (not overly sporty) student body. Not as tough as STA which has the added twist of being really difficult academically but pretty tough.

Wrong school. Kid attends St. Andrews-DE

^^ Twin brother committed to Navy. Both reclasses. Google SAS coach-interesting background.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any of the MAC schools rolling out good teams this year? I know St James St Andrews and Potomac have occasionally knocked off bottom of the IAC schools in years past. Anyone going to fill that roll this year?

SAES is done. After Coach Smith left, new coach Severns has 0 recruits. I think there's one, possibly two kids left in the program but they will never see another MAC championship as long as Severns in the coach.

I'm not sure why schools continue to pursue the club director as the head coach. There might be an exception here or there but they seem to fail far more often than they succeed. Severns is failing at both DCE and SAS because he can't be fully invested in either. The school will pursue athletes as evidenced by their basketball program but he should be made to make a choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any of the MAC schools rolling out good teams this year? I know St James St Andrews and Potomac have occasionally knocked off bottom of the IAC schools in years past. Anyone going to fill that roll this year?

SAES is done. After Coach Smith left, new coach Severns has 0 recruits. I think there's one, possibly two kids left in the program but they will never see another MAC championship as long as Severns in the coach.

I'm not sure why schools continue to pursue the club director as the head coach. There might be an exception here or there but they seem to fail far more often than they succeed. Severns is failing at both DCE and SAS because he can't be fully invested in either. The school will pursue athletes as evidenced by their basketball program but he should be made to make a choice.

Basketball is different at SAES. Coach is the AD and admin supports the basketball program in a different way. Even under Smith, most of the lax kids came to the school organically with a couple exceptions. Lax will never have the same support.

[Anonymous]

Is SAES not offering those exceptions anymore? It only takes a couple of players in the MAC to make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is SAES not offering those exceptions anymore? It only takes a couple of players in the MAC to make a difference.

No player who with the type of talent to get an "exception" would play for Severns, even if he was capable of identifying that talent.

[Anonymous]

All of the schools outside the Prep/Landon/Gonzaga/SJC/Bullis tier have been struggling to get players. The price point and coach combination at Good Counsel has pushed them up close to that tier. But there are not a lot of players at schools like SSSAS or the better MAC schools. Even STA has been struggling to get more than a couple each year. Frankly, after the 25 and 26 classes, Bullis is in this situation too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the schools outside the Prep/Landon/Gonzaga/SJC/Bullis tier have been struggling to get players. The price point and coach combination at Good Counsel has pushed them up close to that tier. But there are not a lot of players at schools like SSSAS or the better MAC schools. Even STA has been struggling to get more than a couple each year. Frankly, after the 25 and 26 classes, Bullis is in this situation too.

I wonder if you could get some better talent if financial assistance was given?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the schools outside the Prep/Landon/Gonzaga/SJC/Bullis tier have been struggling to get players. The price point and coach combination at Good Counsel has pushed them up close to that tier. But there are not a lot of players at schools like SSSAS or the better MAC schools. Even STA has been struggling to get more than a couple each year. Frankly, after the 25 and 26 classes, Bullis is in this situation too.

Chickens are coming home to roost on the push to start club lax as early as 3rd grade. This has decreased numbers of good athletes who in recent past would try rec lax as late as MS and then become good HS or even college players. That doesn’t happen anymore so there just aren’t enough kids playing high level lacrosse. Let’s be honest - many of the local club teams are no better than rec lax was a decade ago, they just cost more. Add in the impact that a handful of area private schools get the vast majority of top players. The only way this changes is if some of these talented club players start choosing to go to other private schools where they can actually start and play significantly roles for 2-3 years. There are a ton of good to very good players at top schools that never see the field