Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 21:22     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:cross country probably the worst example of this - most nescacs are fielding 30 men and 30 women when only 5 score most of the year. terrible way to bring in full pay white kids. The house settlement reduced the SEC to 10 runners per x country team. Joke that Wesleyan Bates Bowdoin have 60 kids on these teams


You do realize that only 2-4 kids each year have coach support through recruiting for the sport don’t you?


Also, this doesn't account for the big numbers, but at least in high school, though only five runners "score," the next two also count as they can lower the points of the opposing teams (kind of confusing, but it makes sense if you look at scoring for a cross country meet). Plus runners get hurt, etc. You don't need 30, but it isn't like you can just have five (or seven) runners.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 21:16     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:cross country probably the worst example of this - most nescacs are fielding 30 men and 30 women when only 5 score most of the year. terrible way to bring in full pay white kids. The house settlement reduced the SEC to 10 runners per x country team. Joke that Wesleyan Bates Bowdoin have 60 kids on these teams


You do realize that only 2-4 kids each year have coach support through recruiting for the sport don’t you?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 20:11     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Football and baseball are much better as these sports are actually played by most Americans, unlike the highly prep-school specific sports of lacrosse, ice hockey, sailing, squash, fencing etc.

As affirmative action for white dudes goes, however, lacrosse and ice hockey are by far the worst offenders given the large size of the teams and their extreme whiteness and economic exclusivity.


Don't forget about rowing/crew. Only white and/or rich need apply here.

https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-rowing/roster


What is amazing about crew is that there are about 50 on the roster - that is a lot of people.


Crew has been an intercollegiate sport since 1852.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:41     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:cross country probably the worst example of this - most nescacs are fielding 30 men and 30 women when only 5 score most of the year. terrible way to bring in full pay white kids. The house settlement reduced the SEC to 10 runners per x country team. Joke that Wesleyan Bates Bowdoin have 60 kids on these teams


malnourished white privilege
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:34     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
cross country probably the worst example of this - most nescacs are fielding 30 men and 30 women when only 5 score most of the year. terrible way to bring in full pay white kids. The house settlement reduced the SEC to 10 runners per x country team. Joke that Wesleyan Bates Bowdoin have 60 kids on these teams
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:10     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what would happen to elite college admissions without lacrosse? This bizarre activity- as egregious an example of Native American cultural appropriation as you'll find anywhere- appears to have become the sole means by which good looking, athletic young white men are admitted to selective colleges these days. 60 years ago, America's top colleges and universities were filled with WASPs....now it seems only the lacrosse teams are. Why not complete the ongoing transformation of America's "elite" institutions of higher education by killing off lacrosse altogether? Then top colleges will just be a desert of high SAT aspies, STEM nerds, billionaire kids, FGLI strivers, and foreign students as far as the eye can see. That's what the admissions offers really want, after all.


The guys at my DD's HS who play lacrosse are indeed athletic and male, but not at necessarily good-looking in her humble opinion.

We are talking about college. Looks are part of the pre-read.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:09     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:LAX is a rapey sport full of toxically masculine bros.


+1
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 16:09     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, what would happen to elite college admissions without lacrosse? This bizarre activity- as egregious an example of Native American cultural appropriation as you'll find anywhere- appears to have become the sole means by which good looking, athletic young white men are admitted to selective colleges these days. 60 years ago, America's top colleges and universities were filled with WASPs....now it seems only the lacrosse teams are. Why not complete the ongoing transformation of America's "elite" institutions of higher education by killing off lacrosse altogether? Then top colleges will just be a desert of high SAT aspies, STEM nerds, billionaire kids, FGLI strivers, and foreign students as far as the eye can see. That's what the admissions offers really want, after all.


The guys at my DD's HS who play lacrosse are indeed athletic and male, but not at necessarily good-looking in her humble opinion.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 15:54     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Football and baseball are much better as these sports are actually played by most Americans, unlike the highly prep-school specific sports of lacrosse, ice hockey, sailing, squash, fencing etc.

As affirmative action for white dudes goes, however, lacrosse and ice hockey are by far the worst offenders given the large size of the teams and their extreme whiteness and economic exclusivity.


Don't forget about rowing/crew. Only white and/or rich need apply here.

https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-rowing/roster


What is amazing about crew is that there are about 50 on the roster - that is a lot of people.


Very rich and elite from Europe (for example, Eton) and Australia take up many of the recruited spots on the Ivy+ crew teams.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 15:25     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
You are mostly correct except that there is a prevalence of Catholic Italian and Irish American Long Island boys in the sport.

also, give it up with the cultural appropriation. Are we not supposed to play a sport because it was started by another culture?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 15:09     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
No interest in reading this thread but well done you for this thread’s title.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 14:55     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:Some of these Ivy/ elite college sports team rosters are just hilarious. Do you notice anything curious about the Harvard golf team?

https://gocrimson.com/sports/mens-golf/roster/2024-25


But...but unqualified blacks take up most of the athletic slots?
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 14:53     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
LAX is a rapey sport full of toxically masculine bros.
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 14:14     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
order of difficulty from hardest to easiest: sewing, knitting, basket weaving, lacrosse, crew
Anonymous
Post 08/26/2025 14:01     Subject: You can't spell "lacrosse" without SLACs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Football and baseball are much better as these sports are actually played by most Americans, unlike the highly prep-school specific sports of lacrosse, ice hockey, sailing, squash, fencing etc.

As affirmative action for white dudes goes, however, lacrosse and ice hockey are by far the worst offenders given the large size of the teams and their extreme whiteness and economic exclusivity.


Don't forget about rowing/crew. Only white and/or rich need apply here.

https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-rowing/roster


What is amazing about crew is that there are about 50 on the roster - that is a lot of people.