Congratulations to the SR Orange player to be the first commit from Capital! Really good player and student. Great accomplishment for SR and Capital. |
One very common refrain on these boards is parents talking about what they themselves want out of it. Can't help but think that is driving the process to a degree that it shouldn't. Within fiscal means of course, the parents' goal should be to help kids where they can to allow them to find out/discover/choose where THEY want to go. |
NCAA hoops moved to a different quantitative system. They also don't use polls. Neither does lacrosse. Hockey is a straight mathematical formula. The rankings (ratings) they're talking about (wins and losses against, etc.) are the RPI rankings. Not the polls. So you're not well aware. Until now. |
ISL champ to first Cap commit. Pretty good 4 months. Congratulations |
Stone Ridge players will all do well this September. |
Whether a kid commits to Dartmouth or Delaware State say something nice or keep it yourself. These kids have worked hard to get to this point and don't deserve the critical analysis from the middle age fatties. |
I think you are mixing up arguments, I never said RPI was worse than coaches and/or media polls, and I never said anything about polls being used for tournament seeding. And so I was correct, basketball has moved away from RPI, I guess I was aware. |
Any other commits? Anything?? |
Agree. SR had 5 ‘27s that started or got serious time on the ISL champ team. Great program. |
Old heads looking all puffy on the sideline. Have another drink! Haha |
What did you mean by this, then? Be specific: "The NCAA selection committee’s own docs clearly state that they use record against ranked teams, SOS based on how opponents ranked, and significant wins and losses using a given team’s rankings. RPI is used too, but so are rankings. " What did you mean by rankings? NCAA selection committees haven't "all" been moving away from RPI being a main criteria. Where are you hearing this? RPI is used prominently in evaluating lacrosse teams for tournament selection. For everything except head-to-head, where it's not needed. You laughed at the notion of RPI as a rankings tool vs your media and coaches poll faves. Instead of just leaving it. And now you're dug in. Dartmouth was the #22 team in the country last year. |
What I mean is I didn’t write that. I did post the two polls that showed Dartmouth outside of the top 25, but the rest of the RPI vs polls stuff is you and someone else. I concede that the polls aren’t perfect, but obviously the RPI isn’t perfect either, which is why the NCAA is pulling away from it. If you want to go by RPI, cool, Dartmouth is #22. But according to everyone else, they weren’t in the top 25. |
It all depends on why you are doing this. My daughters are younger but will be hoping for D1 spots in the next few years and my primary goal is to get them into the best possible academic institutions to set them up career wise. Once they’re in college I don’t care if they ever win another lacrosse game, their lacrosse careers will end in college and their professional ones will start soon after and go for another 40 years. If one of my girls could go to Dartmouth, which has an excellent reputation and network that helps them professionally, I would send them in a heartbeat. You said it all.. "My goal is" and "I don't care"... Does what your daughter want mean anything to you? Are you going to fill out their application? Go on their job interview. Call their employer? |
OMG, give it a rest, people! Please take this argument elsewhere - no one else cares (or very few do) nor do they want to see post after post about it. Let's focus on 2027 girls commits, please. |
Any actual commits news? |