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Anonymous wrote:Public schools on Long Island are at a different level for lax than schools in Northern VA.

Exactly. Appears that went over PP's head. The conversation is about NoVa, not LINY.

No, it was about the stupid mentality that private school parents have or "most" have. Plenty of big time D1 players from Nova public schools.

No doubt but the NOVA public school teams (or any DMV publics) themselves aren't "big time" so if you are one of the parents joining in on the conversation about nationally ranked teams and you start thrwoing NOVA public schools into the mix its clear you are in the wrong place (aka a wannabee).

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools on Long Island are at a different level for lax than schools in Northern VA.

Exactly. Appears that went over PP's head. The conversation is about NoVa, not LINY.

No, it was about the stupid mentality that private school parents have or "most" have. Plenty of big time D1 players from Nova public schools.

Anonymous wrote:Public schools on Long Island are at a different level for lax than schools in Northern VA.

Exactly. Appears that went over PP's head. The conversation is about NoVa, not LINY.

Public schools on Long Island are at a different level for lax than schools in Northern VA.

This is comical and a joke (no surprise though based on most of the parents of private school kids).

Just a small example, but Ortega, Hoeg and Moreno on UNC all went to Public High schools on LI.

Time to come up with some other nonsense to prop up your private school mentality.

This isn't about great players, it's about teams. Of course there are great players at publics and privates. In certain parts of the country (LI and NJ) the publics have some great teams and can hang with anyone, in other areas (Balt and DC) The privates dominate from a team perspective. It makes sense when schools can recruit and take kids from multiple school districts that they can end up with better teams, while at the same time weakening the public schools that they drew those very kids from. In Nova there are some very good public school teams but this year they wouldn't be able to compete with SR, Visi or Saints - I do think this year they would have good games with BI and Flint Hill and some others. The bottom line is, barring a huge change in the landscape in the area the Top level privates will be better teams than the top publics.

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Anonymous wrote:US Lacrosse rankings:
#1 Visi
#4 SSSAS
#13 SR
#20 GC

Also considered: BI

- SR beat Visi twice by multiple goals - how far up will SR move - how far down will Visi drop?
- SR and SSSAS play twice this week

*SR lost to McDonogh (in OT). Will voters move SR above McDonogh who currently has 3 losses? SR will say the loss was their first game - but most voters also know the team was playing all winter together and full-field in March - how much will this factor in?

SR just needs to win 2 this week and they will be top 3 next week (probably should be this week). That's what matters. Lose this week and they won't be either way.

Anonymous wrote:US Lacrosse rankings:
#1 Visi
#4 SSSAS
#13 SR
#20 GC

Also considered: BI

- SR beat Visi twice by multiple goals - how far up will SR move - how far down will Visi drop?
- SR and SSSAS play twice this week

*SR lost to McDonogh (in OT). Will voters move SR above McDonogh who currently has 3 losses? SR will say the loss was their first game - but most voters also know the team was playing all winter together and full-field in March - how much will this factor in?

Anonymous wrote:Public school lacrosse parents are such wannabes. It’s pathetic. If you care about high school lacrosse so much, try sending your kid to a school that’s legitimately good at it (hint: not a public).

This is comical and a joke (no surprise though based on most of the parents of private school kids).

Just a small example, but Ortega, Hoeg and Moreno on UNC all went to Public High schools on LI.

Time to come up with some other nonsense to prop up your private school mentality.

Trying to look at this public vs private from both sides. At the end of the day, if you had a kid that is going to (for example) Upenn for lacrosse and played for a private school, then you have a kid going to Upenn as well, that played for a public school. What's the difference??? They both are at Upenn playing lax and getting a top notch education. I agree that the lax is at a higher level overall within private schools, not arguing that, I'm just looking at the big picture. You also have to look at the players aspirations and goals when it comes to sport and education, perhaps they are different from a private school player, perhaps not. Or, perhaps parents can't all afford to send their kids to private schools. Lots of factors when it comes to lax via public or private. But like i said in the end, if kids are going to the same school to play lax from public and private, what's the difference. I see plenty of public school kids go onto play lax at some fantastic D1, D2 and D3 schools. If a player from public school finds a great match for lax and academics and is HAPPY (key word here), then i would consider that a successful HS run.

The best public’s would be a good match for the lower division of the ISL.

It's just amazing to me how awful some people can be. Really horrific and shameful.

Public school lacrosse parents are such wannabes. It’s pathetic. If you care about high school lacrosse so much, try sending your kid to a school that’s legitimately good at it (hint: not a public).

Jumping in on the comment about Fall Brawl. Generally this tournament is taken fairly seriously by all, especially in the elite division. Teams will actually limit rosters or create multiple teams to isolate their best players on a single team. Not all teams, but many. So not completely buying it's not a good test of "talent". Will buy its a different format where the small-sided games tend to reward the more talented smaller teams.

Anonymous wrote:Fall Brawl should never be anyone's benchmark for a team's talent.

Its a better benchmark to use compared to blindly stating publics can't beat the worst privates. Don't understand why the one poster who has an issue with the publics keeps avoiding the OPs question. You clearly have a strong opinion about the topic, so are you going to continue knocking publics or provide your list. That's fine if don't want to, but if not there's no need to keep finding fault in another's opinion.

Anonymous wrote:Would Langley and Dominion beat top private schools like SR, GV, SSSAS, most likely not. Would they beat middle tier and cellar dwellar private schools, definitely. As an example ask O'Connel and PVI how Fall Brawl turned out for them. Fall Brawl is not full field, but it's the one event they get to compete together, disproving your point. Getting back to the OPs point who from Nova would you put in front of these two schools.

Don't even need to look at 7v7. O'Connell got beat by top publics in St James full field this March, as did some middle tier privates as well. The top privates are above everybody else, but those that know their lacrosse know that the top 5-6 publics can usually beat or hang with most mid and lower level privates.