Originally Posted by Anonymous
A maybe better way of putting the above point, on the current teams in elite based on my eye test in seeing lacrosse for a long time as a parent and player, about the following number of kids have D-1 athleticism and potential:

Hawks: 8-10
FCA: 6-8
Crabs: 4-5
Madlax: 5-6
Next Level: 7-9 (problem for them is they are overwhelmingly on the defensive side so they have trouble scoring)
91: 1-2
BLC: 0-2
True: not a stable roster

Outside of these kids, the players in elite are pretty interchangeable among teams in this division and the better AAA teams and mostly are just playing for fun and for playing time in HS on non-power MIAA/WCAC/IAC teams.
Ok Next Level dad. This is classic.
So tell me— who in the top 20 of the national 2028 rankings have NL beaten since the end of HoCo last May. That’s almost a year… waiting…. NOT ONE. Have played 40+ games since the end of HoCo and don’t have a single signature win, other than maybe Dukes. But yeah, they have Hawks-like talent. 🤣