BOTC - US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Boys 2020- 9th Grade Fall 2016/Summer 2017

A bunch of Ivies coming. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn getting ready

MD folks, can't you all just get along?

Ok-that was just stupid and is TOTALLY UNTRUE!
And let's review since we haven't done so this week....lacrosse is a grade based system. If a new kid who repeated a grade two years ago shows up for your tryout, would you tell him that he can't even though he's entering the same grade as the other kids on the field?
And if you're not from The Baltimore area, you probably don't fully understand the pre-first phenomenon that makes many kids older for a current grade. Pre-first decisions are not made to gain an athletic advantage; they're made to gain academic ground and psychological maturity. Every single school and every single club team (even the not-so-competitive ones) in the Baltimore area has some of these kids.

committing to an IVY in 9th grade, how do they even know they'll get in? What will the test scores need to be? Isn't it a big risk that your kid might not get a 30+ on the ACT or score super high on the SAT? How do they make it work?

Ty drops new commit for 20s. D to Penn State. Flood gates opening for Fall Ball? Things drying up?

Beware Dartmouth and Cornell verbals... 50% chance both gone by then, 100% chance at least one of them gone by then.

Look at commits from previous years and then check the rosters.

Look at commits from previous years and then check the rosters.

Look at commits from previous years and then check the rosters.

Checked the Brown 2016 commits against the roster and all are there, so they all tracked through admissions. Maybe Ty reconciled the list?Would be more interesting knowing what year of high school each made their verbals to gauge how much academic data was available to work with.

How much leeway in the admissions? I mean under normal circumstances a good student has about a 90+ average and about a 27 ACT, etc, not enough for ivys.....Is there a sliding scale or a little bit of give for those at that threshold, normally you'd be looking at much higher GPAs and test scores, but to be competitive don't you have to have some flexibility???

[quote=Anonymous]My son attended the UVA prospect day this past Sun. It was well run and as expected Coach Tiffany said that he is not going to give verbals to 2020's. In fact he said that most of his recruiting will be done in the Jr year. Very refreshing to hear his recruiting views. Also got a surprising email from the UVA staff on Mon. In the email they mention thst you purchase video from them of all 4 of your sons games for $20. That is anywhere from 1/10 to 1/15 of the cost of the commercial video companies that usually film prospect days and tourneys. Cheers to UVA for doing the right thing and not being greedy, unlike their ACC breathen UNC and Duke. The latter two hire a commercial video company just to make another buck off of us.

And then beat UVA like a drum, both of them.

Another Penn State commit from the Rising Sons

The only Penn State players on the roster not reclassed are from LI, 20 yr old Freshman? 24 years old and still in college? Seems like this is the D1 norm

As much as I'm hater on this site regarding the 'abuse' by holdbacks of the grade based system in lacrosse, which I also think is ruining the youth game, this statement about D1 schools is absolutely true. Look at any 40 man roster of the big lacrosse schools our kids are striving for, and maybe only 4 or 5 are from public schools. The rest are prep school kids, who the majority are older and re-classifieds. It is the new norm. Like it, or not.

The only Penn State players on the roster not reclassed are from LI, 20 yr old Freshman? 24 years old and still in college? Seems like this is the D1 norm

The only Penn State players on the roster not reclassed are from LI, 20 yr old Freshman? 24 years old and still in college? Seems like this is the D1 norm

On the current roster or committed roster? Please clarify

Current. Seems like quite an accomplishment to be recruited on age

Another year, another new disappointment with the results of the Brine tryout. When oh when will I ever learn????

That would be nice to know beforehand. Could have saved some money.

looked at PSU roster. first one is soph from PA born april 97. Normal age for soph. Not going beyond that for research but your post is a generalization that doesn't mean much.

HS True 2021 – 2003 birth year
HS True 2020 – 2002 birth year
HS True 2019 – 2001 birth year
HS True 2018 – 2000 birth year
HS True 2017 – 1999 birth year
HS True 2016 – 1998 birth year (most recent grads, incoming coming college freshmen)

Now, if you go an look at the Syracuse roster, you will see some freshmen and RF's with '95, '96, '97 birthdates.

1995! Really? Culver Academy and Avon Old Farms? 20-21 Year old freshman! Oh, and there's an IMG Academy grad (born in canada) without bio...who knows when he was born. Someone please tell me RF is not 'redshirt freshman' and I did a wrong stat.

2016-17 Syracuse Freshman Stats:

2-3 '95s
5 '96s
3 '97s
10 '98s
0 '99s or single year holdback or reclass
0 '98s or True Grad for incoming freshman

That's the state of the sport folks! 2-5 yrs offset. The single year holdback or 'reclass' as some like to call it is history.

Get good grades and enjoy life!

You guys have an FCA 2020 commit going to UNC born Jan 2000.
that's fair right.

You guys have an FCA 2020 commit going to UNC born Jan 2000.
that's fair right.