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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools seem prevalent on these commitment lists.  Do they feed to the schools  through prior relationships or do the better players just gravitate to the private schools?[/quote]

I think it is both. Since the privates(at least here)  have the reputations of having better lacrosse programs, kids with that interest tend to be with coaches and/or teammates that are at area privates. Public School programs and schools outside of the Northeast  are getting better so there may be some changes coming down the road. [/quote]

There is some gravitation of private school laxers to the better private school programs.

But the real reason for the private school superiority over the publics and many privates is "who" plays.

If you were to take the top 10 athletes at any public school (speed, size, agility, etc., etc), how many of them are playing lacrosse? The answer is almost none of them. These programs have been a place second or third tier athletes have gone to get a varsity letter. And stick skills have isolated them from better athletes who might want to pick the game up in high school.

Now ask that question about Landon or Prep. How many of their best athletes play lacrosse? The answer is a lot of them.

GP caught Landon by steadily improving the quality of players it got from it's own applicant pool / student body. In year's past GP didn't have the FB QB or WR's or LBs playing lacrosse. Nor were there any basketball players. When that started to change in the mid-1990's, it all changed for GP.[/quote]

So does the school provide for exposure for their players to be recruited?  I thought that was done at the club level, in which case the public school players could still get noticed.[/quote]

Public school player, unless they are truly outstanding, are at a disadvantage given how recruiting really works.

The large Summer camps --- which are extremely profitable for those that run them --- are a place someone might get noticed. But, they tend to favor certain types of players.

The real grist of recruiting includes:

1. Input from established coaches --- Colleges talking to and working with high school coaches with whom they have a history and where mutual credibility has been built up over a period of years. The HS coaches who see their players everyday and who scout their opponents have a much better understanding and the colleges depend upon them. When guy's like Landon's Bordley speak, UVA and others listen.  Colleges, of course, are wary of new HS coaches who want to see their players recruited. so a sales effort by these coaches doesn't have much impact.

2. College scouting of league games --- schools want to see how players perform in actual games, whether in person or on film. In person opportunities are limited because of the in-season schedule. But you are more likely to see college coaches at a Landon v. GP game than you are at a public school match.

3. The college camps are the best place for a school to see a prospect. Not the "meat markets", but the camp that is run by the college coach and his school.

4. The Tale of the Tape --- size, strength, athleticism will have a significant role to play. The college game is faster and rougher. Some schools seem to recruit primarily physical specimens (Duke?)[/quote]

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