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Haus is following in his dad’s footsteps: Great player & Terrible Coach.

Coaching staffs need to do better. You run this kids through a grinder all week at practice and come Game Day they sit during a blowout. Padding a kids stats who's already committed to a D1 school is ridiculous. What happens if that kid tears an ACL during a blowout or gets a concussion that could have been avoided.

The refs for MIAA are fat, lazy and ignorant of the rules.

My predictions for A conference playoff seedings:

1 seed BL
2 seed CH
3 seed McD
4 seed AS
5 seed Gilman
6 seed SP

As soon as #14 and his little are gone the better will be. He’s a selfish player who and his father thinks is the best player in the state!

Haus isn’t the problem, it’s the two @ChillLaxin screaming on their sidelines. Get good coordinators and we’ll be fine.

Wrong about Rubeor. I know him and know the facts.

9,10 & 22 for LB remind me a lot of the Gaits & Rodney Dumpson midfield from ‘Cuse … if the Gaits and Dumpson couldn’t dodge, shoot or feed and loved to turn the ball over.

A Head Coach is only as good as his assistants. Are you saying Haus has some real winners ?

Well at least he did one of two...You wanta bees , do Zero, yet act like you know everything, Get in the area one time... Then get back to me.

My favorite is when they talk to the sidelines or stands about a (missed/blown) call, and totally turn their back on the live action.

You can't make this stuff up.

Incompetent egomaniacs.

There is a shortage, you know. I encourage you to give it try. Parents and coaches are very cordial and you’ll find it a rewarding experience.

First midfield isn't 9, 10, and 22 anymore. Keep up with the line up changes. Do better with your chirps.

Both of you are the reasons there is a ref shortage . Ignorant fat lazy incompetent egomaniacal parents .

Nope, Knows what he is talking about . Heard it myself. Sorry it doesnt fit your narrative of the squeaky clean Don's. They have the potential, just dont have the will to do what they should.

Couldn't agree more. So this guy wants to berate refs from behind their back but when they turn around and respond, the refs are the problem.

Got it.

I'm no fan of the refs, but be real.

You know its bad in Annapolis when the Dalton boys step down!!!! When does the Royal Blue step in and force out Lilly and his son

You can’t dispute the referees in the MIAA are horrible!!!!
Plenty of young guys sign up to ref every year but get pushed aside for the current fat , lazy, rude officials. They collect a substantial pay check per game you would at least know the rules! They try to run but can’t. They are always looking at their feet to insure they don’t fall.

School is a total disaster. President just pushed out. He and his administration destroy the school athletics program. Now he is heading toCalvert Hall as new principal. How long will it take to destroy that school also.

Good first step for STM. Dalton boys were pushing there guys to start instead of the best players. Hopefully Severn will take notes.

Legacy kids at both schools. Some are good and some arent so good. Just FYI lacrosse is supposed to be the fastest game on two feet and these two teams are slow defensively

Wrong. I know Rubeor and know first hand. Whatever - you're free to be wrong.

All of this is smoke, results are all that matters: LB hasn't been a perennial lacrosse power since Steele Stanwick took them to 2 straight titles fifteen years ago. The Dons did win at title in 2013 from the 6th seed in a Cinderella story but haven't finished above 4th since then. Why did they fall back to the back? Its quite simple: They acknowledged too late that the world was actually round not flat. In other words, their then AD and HC failed (whether they tried or not depends on whom you ask) to recruit a critical mass of good enough lacrosse players to compete at the highest level on a regular basis. Then they compounded this mistake by failing to advocate to top college coaches for their better players. Regarding the recruitment topic, both the then AD openly voiced his opposition to then in infancy stage club movement. They compounded this "the world is flat" opinion by failing to match other schools, which began giving partial scholar athlete financial aid awards to 3-6 multi sport athletes per year. So imagine this: you're the parents of an eighth grader who has several acceptance letters some of which may have partial scholarships attached to them. Then you do a little research among some older parents in the lacrosse community and you find Coach X and ABC High School does a much better job marketing his players for scholarship offers and it makes the decision relatively easy assuming your son has comparable academic opportunities. Fast forward to Coach Rubeor, who is a very good recruiter, coach and college admissions advocate: He's a loyal Don Diego who wants to rebuild the Program but isn't given the tools to do so. No partial scholar athletic awards even for top notch academic kids who would be major contributors in multiple sports (2 or 3 for 1 like a Ryan Conrad). Then you have meddling parents who expect you to win consistently when the administration has tied your hands behind your back on the recruiting front. These same parents/Board members go to the Principal who starts meddling with your coaching staff decisions and you say adios, life is too short. Whether this departure happened to coincide with some life event that forced you to move, the fact of the matter was you were coaching at another institution shortly thereafter. Then the Principal hires an old friend from BL who was a decent AC at BL but who never got the LB Administration to buy into the required recruiting changes necessary to rebuild the Loyola program. His W/L progress was tepid at best hence the "unhappy parent" contingent had a voice and forced his departure. The new coach is a long time former AC at Malvern who didn't get the HC job at Malvern when it opened up. His father's family is in the HOF of LB athletic families. Contrary to some of the comments posted on this forum, his dad was a great DC at LB as well as at JHU. He then took WAC to a national championship in D3. Thereafter he was a good but not great HC at JHU whereafter he moved to the HC coaching job at his alma mater, UNC. I wouldn't say that's the background of a horrible coach but maybe of one of didn't keep up the everchanging HC job requirements in this modern age. The $64k question for the LB program is will Coach Haus be given the tools to recruit the best kids in the greater BW area so he can develop them with his staff?

Where are the Dalton's going? I'm gonna guess this isn't gonna be good for business....

Such a great club program too!

Daltons step down effective immediately? or they announced that they would step down at end of year?

not sure why - but it seems like a big difference one way or the other.....

Playing Aloha tournaments and B brackets!!!!!!!! Such a great program

I've played and coached in total for 20? years and the Daltons' club coaches are the first I have ever, EVER seen to actively coach kids with the ball in their stick to theatrically flop for the penalty when they feel *any* pressure from behind/rear shoulder. Coaches literally jumping up and down and kids cheering when the flag comes. Pure softness. And the parents who fell for this sales pitch, wow. They dress like they are from Annapolis, but have the lax knowledge of the average Glen Burnie/Perry Hall/Jessup/True parent. Saw a ProStart player cross check a kid in the face mask, wide hands, +5 yard approach, and all, maybe 6 feet from a ref, and hard head dads were screaming after the flag, "WHAT" "LET THEM PLAY" "NOT A SLASH!" "CMON REF!" Yeah. Cutting a wide berth around that crowd for the next few years.

Snappers Pro Start and AYLA - whatever they've touched has lost- See St Marys now

This LB-Severn game is like watching paint dry

Is the dress code at St Paul’s pastel colors and popped colors?

Best concession stand food hands down is Spalding

Has been at many MIAA schools for years. Nice look for males in the modern MIAA era.

How bad is Severn? Well, it takes special skill to win 25/27 faceoffs, dunk 9 on the LB 2nd half goalie, and still lose.

Loyola won on the backs of their 1st half goalie (gave up 2) and their top 2 scorers who accounted for 9-10 of their 12 points.

Also explains why the Loyola HC has been giving campus tours to current 2028 and 2029 FOGOs currently enrolled at McDonogh and St. Pauls.

I mean, the modern alternative is public schools full of kids wearing pajama pants and tank tops to school.

Let me guess, bad goalie play by Severn. Another 3 save performance?

Why would you trust Haus to recruit kids when he’s shown no ability to properly evaluate the current kids on his roster?

1. Revolving door at goalie - the 2 goalies have failed to claim the spot and the 3rd goalie has gotten no opportunity to show what he can do.

2. Fogo is a mess. Kid who hasn’t seen the field all year finally gets a shot after Loyola loses the 1st 20 faceoffs and the kid wins one. Gets a shot against maybe the best fogo in the country but he can’t get an opportunity vs anyone else?

3. Why play with only 2 attackmen? The 3rd guy never even looks at the goal. A traffic cone could guard him.

4. 1st midfield has one guy who’s a threat. 2nd line has none.
There’s how many guys on the roster? Close to 50 and Haus can’t find a 3rd attackman or 3 midfielders?

Just look at the record - No wins vs any solid team.

Haus is the HC, it’s on him. The season is over and he’s hasn’t addressed any of the holes on the team that were apparent from day one. Maybe they should have practiced in the fall and winter - like every other MIAA team.

If St.Paul’s has watched any LB film they will win. Shut down 14 and LB will only be able to score 6 goals max.

Didn't seem horrible. Gave up 4 in 1st half, 8 in 2nd half.

In a very un-Loyola-like manner (historically speaking), Loyola coaching actually made successful adjustments at halftime (maybe this is where Haus breaks the curse). At the end of the 1st half, Cook started getting free from defenders for well-screened (if predictable) long shots, and Severn close guarded and doubled him in 2nd half, letting the Dons senior Bleach get free for crease shots repeatedly. I think 3 of Bleach's goals in a row were the same play, Severn made no obvious adjustment.

All that said, Severn almost came away with the win, as they should have statistically, winning 90% of FOs.

Ok, you made a good case for the cupboard being bare. LB and SP are a shadow of their former glory days. That's not the first year HC's fault. You can't coach a drastic shortage of talent in the A Conference and based on the film, there's not enough of it on Chestnut Avenue. How many top flight multi-sport athletes does LB lax have on the roster? Remember Ryan Conrad? Steele Stanwick? A handful of their teammates who were athletes first, lacrosse players second? No critical mass of high impact lacrosse players/multi sport athletic contributors since 2015. You have to give Haus at least 3 years for his recruits to begin making an impact. If he doesn't win the recruiting battle next Spring (when he's had time to assess the Area's talent), then it's probably time to worry. Until then relax and re-direct your energy towards the School's Administration who created this mess with their ill-advised strategies.

I don't think anybody at Loyola can make the representation.....yet....that an elite multi-sport athlete within 60 minutes of Baltimore is best suited for Loyola, unless the campus culture (least liberal private school between Laurel and the DE/PA border) is a huge win for Mom and Dad. There are relatively few exceptional athletes in the 2024-2027 classes, and most of those excel in some other sport and are "capable" at lacrosse.

That's where St. Paul's is different, Settembrino is building something that "appears to be" headed in the right direction over there, and there's lots of excitement about it. And no - definitely not talking about his ownership of Predators. He - also - has a couple years left to really deliver at SP, and this week's game against Loyola will be a test of how close he is.

If Sett doesn’t beat Loyola he should step down. Loyola’s offense is hot @ChillLaxin. They have ONE guy who is good. If you can’t stop one kid you don’t deserve to win.