Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:prep fires their lax coach after two seasons?

What makes you think anyone was "fired"?

Laxpower and DCSF are saying the same. Granted, those are the standard rumor mill spots, but this rumor is getting traction.

Anonymous wrote:prep fires their lax coach after two seasons?

What makes you think anyone was "fired"?

prep fires their lax coach after two seasons?

OMG. You post the same thing every week.

NCAA cap is 12.6 scholarships and a cap of 30 receiving athletic GIA on a men's lacrosse team. So by force the last 15-20 kids on each roster get zero GIA. How coaches dispense it, I have no idea. I have known of kids offered as little as $500 and as much as $25,000 at an expensive private school. If a kid is a strong enough student to get merit based money, in MOST instances those amounts have been higher. I know of one recent example of a kid going to UVA for lacrosse with a $5,000 scholarship as out-of-state. He also got into Georgetown and was offered a 80% academic scholarship which he declined. In this instance the kid was from a wealthy family indifferent to costs. I doubt that is rare given lacrosse is a demographic with a lot of families who could afford private high school tuitions. It doesn't shock me that there is a huge percentage of prep school kids on these college rosters. The reasons for that might be economics every bit as much as lacrosse ability and being in those positions to get noticed.

Why do you keep posting this over and over? Nobody thinks they are going to get serious money, let alone a full ride. You are preaching no one.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids's club coach is saying that in addition to the thousands we spend on his godawful club, that we need to spend tens of thousands more on private school tuition to round out my son's lacrosse resume.

Can this possibly be true?

If your kid is that good "you wont need to find us, we will find you". If getting a scholarship is your goal you will fare better in a private top ranked program. However, your kid will be over hyped and likely beaten out in College by a tough lax kid from the Island. Look at Dylan Maltz... no problem finding him in Loudon county. Club lax is a business and they pray on the hopes of parents having a super star athlete in the family. Play for fun and the talent will get noticed.

"If getting a scholarship is your goal you will fare better in a private top ranked program." - only problem with that is basically no one gets anything even resembling close to a full ride for lax. So many club coaches try and dupe parents into thinking their kids need to do X or Y to get a scholarship only to be faced with the reality that they spent tens of thousands on club lacrosse coaches, hotels for tournaments, travel, gear, private lessons and the like only to get 3-4K a year off in college tuition. If your kid loves the game, throw money at it. If you think your kid is going to get a full ride because of lax, think again.

Anonymous wrote:the only program in the area who sends kids to High Point or Furman is Gonzaga and maybe PVI.

you have posted on this website and laxpower several times.

we get it. you hate the IAC Prep schools.

the sad thing is you are some crazy Gonzaga father and your son is not even on the team.

I don think Gonzaga has a single kid on High Point's roster. I know they had (have?) kids from PVI/DJO/SSSA, but not Gonzaga. Am I wrong here? Re: Furman, yeah Meyers is down there, but I dont think there are any other Gonzaga kids on their roster. I know they do have an STA kid and a PVI kid.

Actually a pretty good summary of those colleges. LOL.

Somebody is day (morning) drinking.

Probably that old, fat guy who yells all game long, exhorting every single Gonzaga player's first name. It's impossible to enjoy the game listening to that fat bag of hot air.

the only program in the area who sends kids to High Point or Furman is Gonzaga and maybe PVI.

you have posted on this website and laxpower several times.

we get it. you hate the IAC Prep schools.

the sad thing is you are some crazy Gonzaga father and your son is not even on the team.

This is stupid. Prep teams around here are better because they have more good players. That doesn't lead to any statements about how many outstanding players they have. Bullis and Gonzaga were unquestionably the two to prep teams. Each had 2, possibly 3 future contributors to too D1 programs. Getting committed to a program by way of prep and club connections works. But in my experience as a youth coach for over 25 years the quality of that herd locally has really watered down. PVI has been sending more than half dozen kids per year into D1 lacrosse for several years now. How many have actually started in college? One?

As the sport went from 30 to 75 D1 programs over the past decade, the easy way to plug the gap is to over recruit hotbeds until the growth areas catch up...which they have. There are teams in California and Florida that can (and have) beaten Landon, Gonzaga, etc. Lastly, if paying $50K-$200K+ is a good investment for your family to get a son "committed" to third tier academic colleges like Furman or Siena is the goal, you're on your own with that one. As many have noted to me, there are a lot of average students out there who need average colleges. But if my family were to drop $200K into the till at Georgetown Prep or STA and then the coaches excitedly told me the Quinnipiac, Bryant St Joes and Fairfield coaches called, I'm not sure which emotion would run hotter...rage or sadness.

Let's get real here. Fairfield is a glorified commuter school for homesick Catholic kids. Quinnipiac was a technical college doing radio ads to attract students for computer literacy and IT repair training as recent as the 1990s. There are people who grew up in New England who don't know what city Bryant is in, and those who do think of it as a Rhode Island commuter school that sometimes has a top baseball team. There are people who worked in Manhattan for over 10 years who have no idea where Wagner is and would be shocked it is 5 miles over a bridge from where they work. I used to be one of them. High Point is A sort of cleaned up Trump University recently built on $800mm in junk bonds floated to pensions and insurance companies in the early 2000s. Furman is pre-wed for girls trying to get with Atlanta and Charleston boys whose parents could not get them into Georgia Tech or Emory. But all of these offer the unquestionable prestige of D1 lacrosse!!

Do yourselves a favor and urge your kids to focus on the stronger academic D1 schools. Failing that urge the NESCAC offerings over the window dressed D1 wannabe places. Before letting a kid go nutty for NJIT, remind your kid NJIT's current lacrosse team would get blasted by Trinity College or Union College...and a degree from the later will get them a lot further in the game of life. Lacrosse ends at 21-22 for nearly all of us, and the game you want to be in for is life and career after that.

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Anonymous wrote:The only local kids who played in the national championship game were public school kids. Dubick and Rowlett.

Rowlett is a stud. Playing for the Blue Crabs/VLC is what got him noticed though.....not Robinson public high school.

Dubick is the same. He played for the Baltimore Crabs.

Anonymous wrote:The only local kids who played in the national championship game were public school kids. Dubick and Rowlett.

Rowlett is a stud. Playing for the Blue Crabs/VLC is what got him noticed though.....not Robinson public high school.