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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

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I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

The academics are not close to being a wash. That’s part of the problem at one of those schools, there are less athletes and more scholars! The lax star is likely not getting in anyway.

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Another interesting and ironic aspect is that some of the “stars” from previous years at high school lax powerhouses are now at great colleges and in alum support programs (ie the path to jobs) that are run by dads with kids at one of those lesser lax schools mentioned. Why does a dad with a kid at high school x, who is helping a kid who graduated from a different high school and now attends an Ivy keep HIS kid at the school he is in when it underperforms at lax? In other words, if, hypothetically, SJC gets a kid to Yale and Yale kid is now being mentored by a super successful Yale alum (that wants his kid to go to Yale) isnt the Yale dad just going to move his kid to SJC from the bad lax school?

The reason STA sucks at lacrosse is because the music program is too hard to pass up. This has already been settled. No way to reverse this. Bassoons don’t miss.

This joke stopped being funny about 10 pages ago.

Anonymous wrote:St. Albans used to be run the right way. Great academics rock solid sports teams. The sports gave way to an incredible music program though.

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

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I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

The academics are not close to being a wash. That’s part of the problem at one of those schools, there are less athletes and more scholars! The lax star is likely not getting in anyway.

BUT

Another interesting and ironic aspect is that some of the “stars” from previous years at high school lax powerhouses are now at great colleges and in alum support programs (ie the path to jobs) that are run by dads with kids at one of those lesser lax schools mentioned. Why does a dad with a kid at high school x, who is helping a kid who graduated from a different high school and now attends an Ivy keep HIS kid at the school he is in when it underperforms at lax? In other words, if, hypothetically, SJC gets a kid to Yale and Yale kid is now being mentored by a super successful Yale alum (that wants his kid to go to Yale) isnt the Yale dad just going to move his kid to SJC from the bad lax school?

The reason STA sucks at lacrosse is because the music program is too hard to pass up. This has already been settled. No way to reverse this. Bassoons don’t miss.

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Anonymous wrote:Let us know when SJC starts putting kids in IE schools to any degree. If you are going to use a specific school as an example, you should make sure there is a SJC player there. Yale has no SJC player on the roster. Now get your homework done and let the adults talk.

When you say "kids" I assume you only mean boys - because the SJC 23/24 classes have Yale, Harvard (2), UPenn & Northwestern...

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

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I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

The academics are not close to being a wash. That’s part of the problem at one of those schools, there are less athletes and more scholars! The lax star is likely not getting in anyway.

BUT

Another interesting and ironic aspect is that some of the “stars” from previous years at high school lax powerhouses are now at great colleges and in alum support programs (ie the path to jobs) that are run by dads with kids at one of those lesser lax schools mentioned. Why does a dad with a kid at high school x, who is helping a kid who graduated from a different high school and now attends an Ivy keep HIS kid at the school he is in when it underperforms at lax? In other words, if, hypothetically, SJC gets a kid to Yale and Yale kid is now being mentored by a super successful Yale alum (that wants his kid to go to Yale) isnt the Yale dad just going to move his kid to SJC from the bad lax school?

The reason STA sucks at lacrosse is because the music program is too hard to pass up. This has already been settled. No way to reverse this. Bassoons don’t miss.

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Anonymous wrote:Let us know when SJC starts putting kids in IE schools to any degree. If you are going to use a specific school as an example, you should make sure there is a SJC player there. Yale has no SJC player on the roster. Now get your homework done and let the adults talk.

When you say "kids" I assume you only mean boys - because the SJC 23/24 classes have Yale, Harvard (2), UPenn & Northwestern...

Anonymous wrote:Let us know when SJC starts putting kids in IE schools to any degree. If you are going to use a specific school as an example, you should make sure there is a SJC player there. Yale has no SJC player on the roster. Now get your homework done and let the adults talk.

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

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I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

STA has entered the chat

I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

The academics are not close to being a wash. That’s part of the problem at one of those schools, there are less athletes and more scholars! The lax star is likely not getting in anyway.

BUT

Another interesting and ironic aspect is that some of the “stars” from previous years at high school lax powerhouses are now at great colleges and in alum support programs (ie the path to jobs) that are run by dads with kids at one of those lesser lax schools mentioned. Why does a dad with a kid at high school x, who is helping a kid who graduated from a different high school and now attends an Ivy keep HIS kid at the school he is in when it underperforms at lax? In other words, if, hypothetically, SJC gets a kid to Yale and Yale kid is now being mentored by a super successful Yale alum (that wants his kid to go to Yale) isnt the Yale dad just going to move his kid to SJC from the bad lax school?

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

STA has entered the chat

I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

Isnt the real question for all three of those school, given the other DMV options, is the process reversible? I mean why risk your kids lax future at one of these places? Academics are pretty much a wash here or there, but if your kid loves lacrosse aren't you scuttling any of their dreams by taking a chance on SSSAS, EHS or STA? And at $50-60k per year, doesn't that put other options on the table that are either comparable or substantially cheaper?

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Anonymous wrote:Zero chance that SSSA crowd will let boys lax become an IAC bottom feeder if the problem can be fixed by a new HC

This is a joke right? STA and EHS were awful, and they barely beat those two teams and got beat by the top of the IAC by double digits. They have some solid players but coaching is awful, and has been even back to the championship year. The coaching staff needs to be cleaned out and start over. But i thnk the 'bottom feeder' title is already well established over there in Alexandria.

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I don’t think so. I think the point was they already are bottom feeders if they can barely beat the other perennial bottom feeders.

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Anonymous wrote:I also suggest PVI and other schools work hand-in-hand with reputable local clubs, churches and lower schools to provide them with very low cost access to fields and facilities so they don't have to bring in kids, i.e. basketball players, from areas well over an hour away. They can't be proactive if their time is diverted away by dealing with activities which should be club sports and self-supported.

PVI's basketball team would be awful if they could only bring in local kids.