lax culture from an insider
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Anonymous
| Fall high school lacrosse teams and leagues are pretty disturbing to me. Kids used to play other fall sport and lightly supplement it with some club fall ball. Now it seems to be a season on top of trying to do soccer or football for your school. There's also winter box leagues with high schools entering teams. All of the local preps have summer teams as well on top of clubs. I don't see where the benefits are to make high school lacrosse a four season 11 months a year venture. |
Anonymous
| St. John's must be desperate to WIN or build a lacrosse program if they hired Kevin Giblin. The guy is a freaking lunatic. |
Anonymous
| Giblin hasn't burned any bridges everywhere he's been. He's napalmed them. It got to a point where overqualified applicants were not admitted to GP because they were lacrosse players and they hated him that much. |
Anonymous
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that is a total lie.
Prep brought in several lacrosse players this year. |
Anonymous
Now that he's gone. Last couple of years they made it hard on him which was bad for some kids who applied and were caught in the anti lacrosse cross hairs. It's all good now that Prep has a daddy coach and the program is less intimidating toward administrators. It will be a long time before Prep gets back to the Giblin era excellence. |
Anonymous
| What a peculiar way to define "excellence". A person destroys a program and leaves a wake that will take years to recover, and that was considered "excellence"? |
Anonymous
| Well, two different terms. Their teams and performances were excellent. The destruction you speak of -- alienating administrators, bullying admissions people to the point where they had hostility toward lacrosse players who were good students / kids applying, I agree that is not good at all. He was scorched earth. Having the best lacrosse team in the DMV wasn't worth the means the way he did it. I'd expect their lacrosse program to fall away from the top of the IAC, which is likely just fine by the 95% of GP that isn't lacrosse. |
Anonymous
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Giblin will do good things at a St John's
Look out gonzaga and Prep. |
Anonymous
| He can coach lacrosse no doubt. So long as the administrators and the other lacrosse coach at St. John's stand down and let him rule the roost, he will win a lot of games. Everything has a cycle. The GP cycle is over. The Gonzaga cycle is in full force, and the St. John's cycle will come in the next 2-3 years. The admissions director at STJ had best be a lamb and not a lion or it will get very ugly very fast. |
Anonymous
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I don't see why people think the GP cycle is over......
Prep has knocked off gonzaga 2 straight years and 4 out of the past 6 meetings in lacrosse. St. John's has never been known as a lacrosse school. If anything, I think Giblin going to SJC hurts a Gonzaga more than Prep as I do think SJC ansd a Gonzaga have more of a cross over in applicants. The majority of graduating Mater Dei class last spring, chose Prep over gonzaga. Something tells me, several Mater Dei parents and now Prep parents are happy to see Giblin finally gone. |
Anonymous
| Did Horsey lose his job? |
Anonymous
| Horsey still there. Give it a few months. Giblin will eat him for breakfast. |
Anonymous
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Horsey will step down in a year.
No chance his personality will mesh with Giblins. |
Anonymous
| Pretty classless of St. John's. Obviously bringing in Giblin means the end of Horsey at some point. St. John's has been interested in Giblin for a long time, so the marriage is not a shock. Although Horsey has not done much at St. John's, it's pretty lame to show him the door after just a couple of seasons. |
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