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Anonymous wrote:Speaks is not well respected by area coaches - it's a fact.

The SJC boosters point their fingers to the success of the 2022 campaign and area teams fear SJC / worried about losing etc. etc. One amazing season doesn't equate to a dynasty Landon had fo 25+ years, or what GP accomplished for 20 years, and Gonzaga for the last 10 years.

The SJC 2023 team while still a great team last Spring, wouldn't have won the IAC, they hardly beat Bullis, a team GP smoked by 10+ goals on two separate occasions.

After the 2024 season, area coaches, especially from the IAC, won't be afraid of the Cadets. I don't see anyone on their roster who is even close to the caliber of player like Dunkel or Luke Roa (now at Cuse)

Unfortunately, Speaks has learned the hard way, he has burnt too many bridges with area coaches. You don't poach players already on the opposing team's rosters. I don't expect any IAC coaches to extend the olive branch any time soon.

With Good Counsel also emerging, I suspect you will see more IAC teams, opting to reach out to Dane Smith who is at least respected by his peers.

You don’t poach players? They’re not property - they can go wherever they feel is best for them. That poaching line is right out of the now-dying-NCAA playbook. Couldn’t care less about whatever personal feud you have with some coach but the only decision that matters is the one a kid and his parents make for his/her best interests, consistent with whatever the rules are at any given moment. Rules that are themselves subject to much needed change annually.

I think the complaint people are discussing here is SJC very actively recruiting players on other teams. No one is saying it's illegal but distasteful.

Whether or not that's why SJC isn't playing Bullis, Prep, or Landon, I have no idea, but there is no accusation of rule breaking.

The issue isn't whether you care about how SJC recruits but whether or not area schools care enough to not schedule them.

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Anonymous wrote:Pathetic of the Prep administration for not allowing a game this year between the Lil Hoyas and the Cadets.

You have inside knowledge that SJC was willing and able to play Prep, and Prep could have scheduled the game, but the admins at Prep squashed it? I know you can't burn your sources but please oh please give us a hint who your mole is.

Prep and SJC easily could have found a mutual date to play this week. Its not like SJC has anyone tough for the next week and neither do the Lil Hoyas.

Given how young the Cadets are this Spring / Dunkel being out, Prep would have likely been the favorite this year too.

So much speculation. No one on this board has any idea whether either school reached out to the other, and if they did, that the inability of either to get the game scheduled was on Prep, or on SJC, or mutual. This conversation is beyond pointless.

It's not speculation. The IAC got tired of Speaks directly contacting students and parents and asking them to transfer. The athletic directors of the IAC decided to no longer schedule SJC. Those messages from coach to players/family were shared on this board dozens of pages ago.

There weren't no messages shared on here. You are FOS.

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Anonymous wrote:Pathetic of the Prep administration for not allowing a game this year between the Lil Hoyas and the Cadets.

You have inside knowledge that SJC was willing and able to play Prep, and Prep could have scheduled the game, but the admins at Prep squashed it? I know you can't burn your sources but please oh please give us a hint who your mole is.

Prep and SJC easily could have found a mutual date to play this week. Its not like SJC has anyone tough for the next week and neither do the Lil Hoyas.

Given how young the Cadets are this Spring / Dunkel being out, Prep would have likely been the favorite this year too.

So much speculation. No one on this board has any idea whether either school reached out to the other, and if they did, that the inability of either to get the game scheduled was on Prep, or on SJC, or mutual. This conversation is beyond pointless.

It's not speculation. The IAC got tired of Speaks directly contacting students and parents and asking them to transfer. The athletic directors of the IAC decided to no longer schedule SJC. Those messages from coach to players/family were shared on this board dozens of pages ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaks is not well respected by area coaches - it's a fact.

The SJC boosters point their fingers to the success of the 2022 campaign and area teams fear SJC / worried about losing etc. etc. One amazing season doesn't equate to a dynasty Landon had fo 25+ years, or what GP accomplished for 20 years, and Gonzaga for the last 10 years.

The SJC 2023 team while still a great team last Spring, wouldn't have won the IAC, they hardly beat Bullis, a team GP smoked by 10+ goals on two separate occasions.

After the 2024 season, area coaches, especially from the IAC, won't be afraid of the Cadets. I don't see anyone on their roster who is even close to the caliber of player like Dunkel or Luke Roa (now at Cuse)

Unfortunately, Speaks has learned the hard way, he has burnt too many bridges with area coaches. You don't poach players already on the opposing team's rosters. I don't expect any IAC coaches to extend the olive branch any time soon.

With Good Counsel also emerging, I suspect you will see more IAC teams, opting to reach out to Dane Smith who is at least respected by his peers.

You don’t poach players? They’re not property - they can go wherever they feel is best for them. That poaching line is right out of the now-dying-NCAA playbook. Couldn’t care less about whatever personal feud you have with some coach but the only decision that matters is the one a kid and his parents make for his/her best interests, consistent with whatever the rules are at any given moment. Rules that are themselves subject to much needed change annually.

Anonymous wrote:Speaks is not well respected by area coaches - it's a fact.

The SJC boosters point their fingers to the success of the 2022 campaign and area teams fear SJC / worried about losing etc. etc. One amazing season doesn't equate to a dynasty Landon had fo 25+ years, or what GP accomplished for 20 years, and Gonzaga for the last 10 years.

The SJC 2023 team while still a great team last Spring, wouldn't have won the IAC, they hardly beat Bullis, a team GP smoked by 10+ goals on two separate occasions.

After the 2024 season, area coaches, especially from the IAC, won't be afraid of the Cadets. I don't see anyone on their roster who is even close to the caliber of player like Dunkel or Luke Roa (now at Cuse)

Unfortunately, Speaks has learned the hard way, he has burnt too many bridges with area coaches. You don't poach players already on the opposing team's rosters. I don't expect any IAC coaches to extend the olive branch any time soon.

With Good Counsel also emerging, I suspect you will see more IAC teams, opting to reach out to Dane Smith who is at least respected by his peers.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a score of the STA vs DeMatha game?

Thanks

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Anonymous wrote:Pathetic of the Prep administration for not allowing a game this year between the Lil Hoyas and the Cadets.

You have inside knowledge that SJC was willing and able to play Prep, and Prep could have scheduled the game, but the admins at Prep squashed it? I know you can't burn your sources but please oh please give us a hint who your mole is.

Prep and SJC easily could have found a mutual date to play this week. Its not like SJC has anyone tough for the next week and neither do the Lil Hoyas.

Given how young the Cadets are this Spring / Dunkel being out, Prep would have likely been the favorite this year too.

So much speculation. No one on this board has any idea whether either school reached out to the other, and if they did, that the inability of either to get the game scheduled was on Prep, or on SJC, or mutual. This conversation is beyond pointless.

It's not speculation. The IAC got tired of Speaks directly contacting students and parents and asking them to transfer. The athletic directors of the IAC decided to no longer schedule SJC. Those messages from coach to players/family were shared on this board dozens of pages ago.

Bullis played SJC last year and would have this year if Speaks wanted the game but he didn't want to play back to back games with the dates offered to him by Bullis. Prep on the other hand is another issue that has been shared here forever. IAC schools are free to schedule whoever they want out of conference.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic of the Prep administration for not allowing a game this year between the Lil Hoyas and the Cadets.

You have inside knowledge that SJC was willing and able to play Prep, and Prep could have scheduled the game, but the admins at Prep squashed it? I know you can't burn your sources but please oh please give us a hint who your mole is.

Prep and SJC easily could have found a mutual date to play this week. Its not like SJC has anyone tough for the next week and neither do the Lil Hoyas.

Given how young the Cadets are this Spring / Dunkel being out, Prep would have likely been the favorite this year too.

So much speculation. No one on this board has any idea whether either school reached out to the other, and if they did, that the inability of either to get the game scheduled was on Prep, or on SJC, or mutual. This conversation is beyond pointless.

It's not speculation. The IAC got tired of Speaks directly contacting students and parents and asking them to transfer. The athletic directors of the IAC decided to no longer schedule SJC. Those messages from coach to players/family were shared on this board dozens of pages ago.