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[quote=Anonymous]This is stupid. Prep teams around here are better because they have more good players. That doesn't lead to any statements about how many outstanding players they have. Bullis and Gonzaga were unquestionably the two to prep teams. Each had 2, possibly 3 future contributors to too D1 programs. Getting committed to a program by way of prep and club connections works. But in my experience as a youth coach for over 25 years the quality of that herd locally has really watered down. PVI has been sending more than half dozen kids per year into D1 lacrosse for several years now. How many have actually started in college? One?

As the sport went from 30 to 75 D1 programs over the past decade, the easy way to plug the gap is to over recruit hotbeds until the growth areas catch up...which they have. There are teams in California and Florida that can (and have) beaten Landon, Gonzaga, etc. Lastly, if paying $50K-$200K+ is a good investment for your family to get a son "committed" to third tier academic colleges like Furman or Siena is the goal, you're on your own with that one. As many have noted to me, there are a lot of average students out there who need average colleges. But if my family were to drop $200K into the till at Georgetown Prep or STA and then the coaches excitedly told me the Quinnipiac, Bryant St Joes and Fairfield coaches called, I'm not sure which emotion would run hotter...rage or sadness.

Let's get real here. Fairfield is a glorified commuter school for homesick Catholic kids. Quinnipiac was a technical college doing radio ads to attract students for computer literacy and IT repair training as recent as the 1990s. There are people who grew up in New England who don't know what city Bryant is in, and those who do think of it as a Rhode Island commuter school that sometimes has a top baseball team. There are people who worked in Manhattan for over 10 years who have no idea where Wagner is and would be shocked it is 5 miles over a bridge from where they work. I used to be one of them. High Point is A sort of cleaned up Trump University recently built on $800mm in junk bonds floated to pensions and insurance companies in the early 2000s. Furman is pre-wed for girls trying to get with Atlanta and Charleston boys whose parents could not get them into Georgia Tech or Emory. But all of these offer the unquestionable prestige of D1 lacrosse!!

Do yourselves a favor and urge your kids to focus on the stronger academic D1 schools. Failing that urge the NESCAC offerings over the window dressed D1 wannabe places. Before letting a kid go nutty for NJIT, remind your kid NJIT's current lacrosse team would get blasted by Trinity College or Union College...and a degree from the later will get them a lot further in the game of life. Lacrosse ends at 21-22 for nearly all of us, and the game you want to be in for is life and career after that. 
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