Serious question. In recruiting terms - Is it worth sending a kid to a top private school if he has an opportunity to go to a top public school? Looking at the colleges that a lot of the mid-tier private players go to there seems to be lot of overlap with the colleges that the top public players go to (eg W&L CNU RIT etc). So if you have a kid who could be elite public or midtier private what’s the advantage to private.
Being entirely serious here...trying to put fair numbers to it. Even if you combine D1, D2, D3, and other options like JuCo, Comm College, more lax players from any given private school (from DC to Philly) will continue playing at the next level than any county's entire list of college commits from EVERY public school in the county you chose. You can set the statistical filters however you want, when it comes to college lax recruitment, it's very simple (note...this does not mean the success translates to the rest of life....plenty of private school grads are maintenance alcoholics managing the Self Storage facility where they bought 10% ownership, 20 years ago).
Back to prospecting for lax....... not to be a Debbie Downer, but at some point (really, 9th grade) if your son is not truly an elite prospect playing on one of the top 4-5 teams in DC/MD (ML, NL, FCA, Crabs, maybe Team MD if you're in the mountains), it's time to help him figure out how lax fits into the rest of his life. By that I mean that schools like Christopher Newport are NOT good schools and do NOT have solid alumni networks that will help your son succeed in life. Canisius does.....but it is only good for business majors. Manhattan College is not a good school and costs $50K, insane cost of living off campus, and offers weak scholarships, and who wants to take bus rides repeatedly over the GW Bridge just to play ball every week. Mt. St. Mary's is really cool, but not a school that will help your son if he ever wants to leave Frederick, Carroll, or Baltimore Counties. And of course 28% of MSM students fail to return for their second year at MSM.....sounds like fun? These are all D1 lax schools. And unless your son is so good that he'll attend for free (true for 25-30 kids, nationally, per grad class), they might be bad investments for your family.
You really put ML in your top 4-5 teams in the DMV for 2028? I honestly would like to know why?
If this guy had any idea what he was talking about, he would not have listed ML. They are barely AAA at this point. They have kids on their team who didn’t make DCE Orange and NL Red teams. It’s a joke.
Due to fact every year they compete with best and win . They have top talent this year. Sorry your son didnt make ML and you had to run with your tail between your legs in a huff.
According to the ML website they are having try-outs starting the 24th. So you might want to make sure your kid is still hitting the wall before you continue with your comments...
Madlax has “revolutionary” and “flex” tryouts about every other month throughout the year… they will take anyone they can get. Hoping they might find an unsuspecting AA player from Leesburg
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