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Anonymous wrote:Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

This is ☝️way too funny…

Funny because it's true? Landon has been lackluster the entire year. Obviously they have had a terrible start to the year, but even as they has slightly improved I just don't expect much from them. That being said they have a chance to prove me wrong on Wednesday against a loaded Gonzaga squad.

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Anonymous wrote:Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

This is ☝️way too funny…

Funny because it's true? Landon has been lackluster the entire year. Obviously they have had a terrible start to the year, but even as they has slightly improved I just don't expect much from them. That being said they have a chance to prove me wrong on Wednesday against a loaded Gonzaga squad.

Anonymous wrote:Landon is not a good team this year, they play low level teams and lack talent. It would be nice to see a team that is considered to be good to actually face some real competition. Even in their own conference they play bad teams and they don't play many out-of-conference games against any elite squads. I think if they actually played a good team they would be exposed for the team that they really are. But oh well...This is why Landon isn't even in the top 10 of schools in the DMV. I could arguably name a few public schools that are better too.

This is ☝️way too funny…

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not run by the counties. Silver Spring Warriors and Bethesda Lacrosse Club are non profit rec programs that have been running for many years.

Someone's going to have to define rec for me.

BLC is very successful, has paid employees and charges a lot of money to play in their programs. They then actively try to move good players and enthusiastic families into their more competitive club programs. They are separate but not really. I suppose the volunteer dad coaches makes them rec?

Silver Spring Warriors was started so Draley could build a program around his son. It's more like a couple of get togethers and then begging Next Level for players so they can field a team and blow out rec teams in awful SMYLA.

Talk to either Breslin and Draley and you get the same message. They want more field access for less money from the county and they want zero competition from anyone else remotely interested in growing the sport.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else been disappointed in PVI's performance this year? I feel like they scheduled themselves as easily as possible and even then couldn't beat a bad Blue Ridge team. Not to mention when they finally played a real opponent in SJC they got dog walked.

Let me know if you agree? disagree? Hopefully they can turn it around as they really get into WCAC play.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not run by the counties. Silver Spring Warriors and Bethesda Lacrosse Club are non profit rec programs that have been running for many years.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow…..

Would really like to know what’s going on at SSSA. Biggest drop off I may have ever seen.

SSSAS had been buoyed by strong rec programs in the area, specifically Alexandria Lacrosse Club (ALC), and to a lesser extent Fort Hunt. They were always able to attract/ recruit a few top players from NOVA to supplement the roster. As rec lacrosse has died out, kids from Alexandria have largely shifted from playing lacrosse to playing soccer, and the school’s natural attrition well is pretty dry. Blackwolf falling off a cliff has also hurt their recruiting efforts.

If Alexandria county/city rec isn't supporting the sport, it's incumbent upon schools to pick up the slack, but pretty sure they won't. Madlax is so mad at Landon for their pricing, they are moving the rest of their operations into Virginia.

Lacrosse as a whole is getting worse and worse in the dc region. Nova rec is slowly dying because the board clutches their roles; Montgomery County and DC rec are essentially non-existent. The local governments are looking at their fields as profit centers instead of trying to grow all sports. People think lacrosse is expensive but it's the soccer clubs driving the market up. The level of lacrosse can be seen in the results. The DMV is substantially lower than the rest of the NE corridor.

The real problem is every parent drinking the kool aid and believing their kid belongs in club. There is no reason anyone should be paying thousands of dollars for a terrible club team that plays HOCO B. There should be two HOCO divisions, three max, and every other team should be a local rec club that plays in MYLA, NVYLL, SMYLA, ETC. These greedy clubs are the ones killing the sport by pricing out a large number of kids. When my DS was playing rec they had two or three teams at every age, now they are lucky to form one team. His best lacrosse memories are from playing local rec with his neighborhood buddies.

There is less and less rec and what remains is really bad for a number of reasons. If you are refuting pp, you are wrong.

You are correct that there is less rec and it’s bad. Shitty club teams are responsible for the decline of rec because many believe that a HOCO B team is better than rec. Many are paying way more for the same or worse coaching than the rec teams of years back just to say my kid plays club in the HOCO league. Those kids end up riding the bench on JV teams. We need to keep lacrosse accessible and fun.

HOCO has 5 divisions at ‘28-‘30 and 4 divisions at ‘31-‘32. Keep HOCO at 2 divisions and you have over 100 teams or roughly 2000 kids playing rec where they should be.

The bottom 3 divisions are rec. The counties have given up trying in the dmv. The overall level is in decline not bc clubs exist but bc other options phased out.