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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Using the number of "Commits" as a guage of the strength of the various IAC teams.

It's probably not a bad overall measure, but it's got a lot of flaws. The major problem is that recruiting is a very inexact science that contains a huge number of misses on the potential of kids.

Since the DIII schools don't give scholarships and even the DI's have only 15 and a fraction to give, recruiting and even admission doesn't mean all that much. If someone gets a basketball full-free ride it means something different.

When I look at the list of Prep "commits" above, I don't think it provides as much information as some think it does.

All of these Commit Lists:

1. Include lots of kids that really aren't going to see the field in games, except maybe at "garbage time" in games. College squads have 35 guys. Not everyone plays. Some of this is due to mis-judgements by the recruiters as to how good (fast, skilled, tough) the kid is. Some of it is the college coaches saying, "We don't really know who is going to pan out, so lets bring in the max. number of kids we can and see who can play and who wants to play when they get here".

2. Include kids that will quit the college squad pretty quickly once they see how tough the competitions is, what the demands of the program are and how relatively unimportant the sport is on many college campuses.

3. Includes schools that really don't recruit that hard and where the kid is academically good enough so that the coach doesn't have to use one of his admission "Chits" to get him in.

[/quote]. This is a stupid post.  We don’t need to use the list of commits to gauge the strength of the IAC program.  The win loss record speaks for itself.  St. Albans parents says they don’t mind being crappy athletes on crappy teams because they are so academically strong.  I call BS.  I think the kids do care.   And I think the parents should be mad if they pay 45k just so their kid can go to someplace like Dickenson and not play sports.  What a waste.  And I can assure you that the Prep boys going on to play college lax are no dummies.  And they will contribute to their teams.  You don’t know anything about college lax recruiting if you think the college coach gave them the spot for no reason. Notre Dame, UNC, Villanova, Navy, Dartmouth?   Are you kidding?  Either they are amazing lax players or they are very good lax players who bring the academic average of the team up.   That’s how it works.  So they can’t, as you suggest, be dumb, bad lacrosse players.  That’s NOT how it works.

These kids know exactly what the demands are for their college sport.  They have many peers, older brothers, cousins, family friends, who play at that level.  You just don’t know any one who plays at that level because you are probably an STa parent who never played anything but tennis and has to justify why you send your kid to that school. 
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This thread is nauseating.  Crappy athletes on crappy teams?  Seriously?  Grow up.  "And I think the parents should be mad if they pay 45k just so their kid can go to someplace like Dickenson".  That's none of your f*cking business.  What a complete *sswipe.[/quote]

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