Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 23:19     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:A down year is a loser mentality. If you're a winner all you think about is a championship. Any winner on here knows exactly what I mean. But if you're a loser, you console yourself with that attitude.


What a d*ck.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 22:33     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
A down year is a loser mentality. If you're a winner all you think about is a championship. Any winner on here knows exactly what I mean. But if you're a loser, you console yourself with that attitude.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 22:23     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have to get out every digit and then some to count Landon's Championships. Not to mention, they did beat Bullis last year during the regular season. The league is a lot more competitive than it has been, but it may not be very competitive next year. By the transitive property of sports, which isn't always reliable, Landon lost this year in OT to Prep, Bullis Twice this year and once last year, and beat SSSA in OT this year. Pretty Close!

Hat's off to Bullis for putting together a great team. This would be their second or third championship? I hope SSSA wins. I think the Bullis Coach has earned a championship after the Coup attempt last year, but I don't think headmaster of Bullis deserves more than a ....

I think Prep and Bullis graduate a lot. Landon doesn't graduate as much. Landon's attack could be big and nasty next year. Not sure on SSSA. EHS played Landon tough, but I am not sure what they lose next year. Finally, St. Albans is smart and well coached. Do their faceooff kid and #10 come back? Who else?


Agree with PP that Bullis is not a dominant team...a hair's breadth from losing in last year's finals and again yesterday giving up 10 goals to a very young Landon team and narrowly escaping in OT. The model of recruiting in elite players for a year or two is hard to sustain, but give Coach B credit for milking his AA players the last two years to keep the lights on, notwithstanding discord in the school community. It's funny how much better coach is when you have All Americans playing for you.

Prep was very good this year, but likewise not dominant. They looked asleep for the first half vs SSSA, had a nice run in 2H to take the lead but then ran into a face-off buzz saw and never had the ball. The IAC race this year was more or less a coin flip among the top teams...



Bullis, Landon and Prep all have deep Sophomore classes that got a lot of experience/starts this year. Could explain down year with so many schools plying so many young kids. They’ll all get better. What school,has top current junior class?
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 21:58     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:The model of recruiting in elite players for a year or two is hard to sustain, but give Coach B credit for milking his AA players the last two years to keep the lights on, notwithstanding discord in the school community. It's funny how much better coach is when you have All Americans playing for you.



You mean like Landon in 2017 when they had three Under All-Americans plus one more (Epstein) that would be named in 2018?
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 21:39     Subject: IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
First of all, Healy and Bordley are NOT co-coaches. Healy is the head coach, and deserves a lot of credit. This was one of the least talented Landon teams they've had in awhile, and they had a very good season overall.

Bullis does not recruit any harder than Landon, Prep or SSSA does. They do have more mid-HS transfers than others, so I guess you can criticize them for that. Both most of the top kids who transfer to Bullis came because they were interested first, not that Bullis found them under a rock.

Talking to coaches and officials, they all universally agreed this was a down year for the IAC and lacrosse in general in this year. There are no dominant teams, and the talent level overall is down.

Who will take it next year? Who knows? Hoping for a good IAC championship match on Fri.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 21:37     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have to get out every digit and then some to count Landon's Championships. Not to mention, they did beat Bullis last year during the regular season. The league is a lot more competitive than it has been, but it may not be very competitive next year. By the transitive property of sports, which isn't always reliable, Landon lost this year in OT to Prep, Bullis Twice this year and once last year, and beat SSSA in OT this year. Pretty Close!

Hat's off to Bullis for putting together a great team. This would be their second or third championship? I hope SSSA wins. I think the Bullis Coach has earned a championship after the Coup attempt last year, but I don't think headmaster of Bullis deserves more than a ....

I think Prep and Bullis graduate a lot. Landon doesn't graduate as much. Landon's attack could be big and nasty next year. Not sure on SSSA. EHS played Landon tough, but I am not sure what they lose next year. Finally, St. Albans is smart and well coached. Do their faceooff kid and #10 come back? Who else?


Agree with PP that Bullis is not a dominant team...a hair's breadth from losing in last year's finals and again yesterday giving up 10 goals to a very young Landon team and narrowly escaping in OT. The model of recruiting in elite players for a year or two is hard to sustain, but give Coach B credit for milking his AA players the last two years to keep the lights on, notwithstanding discord in the school community. It's funny how much better coach is when you have All Americans playing for you.

Prep was very good this year, but likewise not dominant. They looked asleep for the first half vs SSSA, had a nice run in 2H to take the lead but then ran into a face-off buzz saw and never had the ball. The IAC race this year was more or less a coin flip among the top teams...



2019 IAC records:

Prep 5-1
Bullis 5-1
SSSA 4-3
Landon 4-3
St Albans 1-5
Episcopal 0-6

...from what i have seen and heard Landon and Prep bring back fairly loaded soph and junior classes; Bullis had several sophs start on D this year, O was senior dominant; SSSA was senior dominant; not sure about the rest...
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 21:23     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
played for Giblin in the 1990'a. He built the GP lax program a player at time and a year at time.

These are different times. There's more parity than there was and a much bigger pool of players. Giblin didn't have that luxury and he faced a "rival" that had a 5 or 10 years head start and a captive group of Middle-schools he could develop.

It was Landon and then it was Landon and Prep. Now it appears there is much more competitive balance.


Cut the BS argument that Giblin was at a disadvantage to build a program at GP compared to Bordley at Landon. While Landon had a middle and lower school program, Giblin was at Mater Dei and all throughout the '90s and early 2000's it was very common for 90% of the graduating Mater Dei class if not more were to enroll into GP.


Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 21:17     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:I have to get out every digit and then some to count Landon's Championships. Not to mention, they did beat Bullis last year during the regular season. The league is a lot more competitive than it has been, but it may not be very competitive next year. By the transitive property of sports, which isn't always reliable, Landon lost this year in OT to Prep, Bullis Twice this year and once last year, and beat SSSA in OT this year. Pretty Close!

Hat's off to Bullis for putting together a great team. This would be their second or third championship? I hope SSSA wins. I think the Bullis Coach has earned a championship after the Coup attempt last year, but I don't think headmaster of Bullis deserves more than a ....

I think Prep and Bullis graduate a lot. Landon doesn't graduate as much. Landon's attack could be big and nasty next year. Not sure on SSSA. EHS played Landon tough, but I am not sure what they lose next year. Finally, St. Albans is smart and well coached. Do their faceooff kid and #10 come back? Who else?


Agree with PP that Bullis is not a dominant team...a hair's breadth from losing in last year's finals and again yesterday giving up 10 goals to a very young Landon team and narrowly escaping in OT. The model of recruiting in elite players for a year or two is hard to sustain, but give Coach B credit for milking his AA players the last two years to keep the lights on, notwithstanding discord in the school community. It's funny how much better coach is when you have All Americans playing for you.

Prep was very good this year, but likewise not dominant. They looked asleep for the first half vs SSSA, had a nice run in 2H to take the lead but then ran into a face-off buzz saw and never had the ball. The IAC race this year was more or less a coin flip among the top teams...

Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 21:11     Subject: IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Wrong. It was Episcopal and Landon. Then Landon and STA. Then Landon and Prep. Then long overdue parity.

Giblin got results but was a meathead with a drinking problem who doomed himself with his antics. Prep is better off without him regardless of its record. That guy was an embarrassment.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 18:53     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:Giblin was the best coach ever. It ain't ever coming back.


We'll be treated to some anti-Giblin posters I'm sure generally foaming at the mouth, but who have no idea about him.

I played for Giblin in the 1990'a. He built the GP lax program a player at time and a year at time.

These are different times. There's more parity than there was and a much bigger pool of players. Giblin didn't have that luxury and he faced a "rival" that had a 5 or 10 years head start and a captive group of Middle-schools he could develop.

I was Landon and then it was Landon and Prep. Now it appears there is much more competitive balance.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 17:15     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Giblin was the best coach ever. It ain't ever coming back.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 17:07     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:Prep has 11 IAC championships compared to Bullis who has 2.


Hey the kids of those champions should be coming up the ranks soon. It’s some hope for the program.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 16:55     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:Conversation at Congressional and Columbia the rest of the week...

"We need a new coach..."
"Someone call Mater Dei....we need to figure out how to justify double holdbacks cause single year holdbacks aren't working..."
"At least Landon isn't in final...but that means the public school that masquerades as a private is..."
"Bullis recruits..."
"We still have Kavanaugh..."
"Pass the single malt...tnis one is going to hurt for awhile...."
"We still get a regular season champ trophy, right?? Oh...no...darn....I'll make the boys a banner to put up..."
"Open another bottle..."
"SSSA shouldn't be in IAC...too far away..."
"If only St. Albans was still good...we dominate them..."
"We still have Gorsuch..."
"We are still awesome!"
"Cheers!"


This is really well done...LOL...
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 16:54     Subject: IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Anonymous wrote:We have been hearing about this Prep class for 3 years what happened?


Not much. One regular season title (if that even counts) and zero IAC championship games. I guess they get an A for effort, like my 6 year old...
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2019 16:36     Subject: Re:IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season
Yeah come out to the public school you pay for and watch the defending champs. Free parking! We got a hater section for all of you. They are nosebleeds but hey. Thank you for all you do!