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Loyola and Boys Latin struggling today.

Great competition today.
MIAA dominates.
Tons of college coaches in attendance.
JC, MSJ, Spaulding, and St Mary’s all go undefeated, 3-0.
St P, Gilman go 2-1.
McD, Loyola, Severn and BL struggle.

The white bracket is:

Calvert Hall
Culver
Malvern
BL
Lasalle
Spalding

That is a TOUGH bracket! they must be going into the night as the final scores are not up yet

Just fall scrimmages. Left off CH. 1-1-1 McD was missing the football players that were playing in league Championship.

Mcd and Loyola both missing many players to football champiuoinship games.

Football Season! Many teams missing players and many teams just getting kids back from football this past week. You can tell the teams that have been practicing for weeks/months together. Didnt look like many teams used this tournament for what its supposed to be which is a recruitong Tournament. Ego driven coaches playing all comitted kids the entire time.Blind leading the blind on some sidelines. Development of players and team success is out the door.Indivdual success by few players seem to carry and hide how bad the coaching is on some of these teams. Anyone can coach 3,4,5 star players.
High School lax model.
Pay $2500 bucks for club a year from 3rd grade through high school with little to know development
Pay $2000 bucks for personal individual training a year to actually get better so you can compete on your club team
If that fails then Reclass
Pay $ Hundreds of dolllars in High School Recruiting tournaments/onkly to see the already committed play or your on you high school coaches club team
Lack of Development continues in High School/Coaching Egos continue

If I were this salty I would exit the lacrosse scene - immediately.

Thats not bad bang for your buck

9 years x 2500 = 22,500
4 years x 2000 = 8,000
4 years MIAA High School x 30000 = 120,000
peanuts for recruit tournaments = 3000

Total 153,500

Not bad investment to get into an ivy ... if you are one of the 60-70 players in entire country that get invited to play for them each year. The rest of the 100,000 players maybe should have used that money for a tutor .

You forgot adding junior transfer that don’t have eligibility as seniors. Another new trend.

At Troy Park the competition was good and the college coaches were pretty visible.

As far as I could tell from my son and his teammates, and kids we know on other teams, most of the kids playing were uncommitted, or younger. And I know a couple friends of my son who are committed were playing to see if they could up the offers to better programs.

Saw Marquette, Michigan, Denver, AF, Loyola, Lynchburg and a bunch others.

Don’t forgot the Ivy bill. Another 80 a year.

Battle of the public.

Riverside dominates SP. not close

Or fake an injury Soph year, never play a single minute of HS Varsity, yet commit to a D1 early while having to transfer to the Grayhounds to see the field in HS!

Ivy's and other great academic schools have so much endowment that anyone that gets admitted, gets help if needed. If not needed, you can afford it and it may be less than an MIAA school. What is really surprising is the number of kids that could go to a great Ivy, Nescac, or other high level academic school to set them up for life and instead settle for a poorly rated academic school just because it is D1. Sad. Use lacrosse. Don't let lacrosse use you.

If a family can afford all that then mission accomplished if Ivy is result

What was the deal with the fight after one of the Troy Park games? Just some Canadians getting sassy? Wonder if getting involved in that brawl impacts any college commitments.

SP has nothing left.

Loyola has 100+ kids in their lax program.

A few of those kids play B-level football and the team implodes?

😄 😂 😄 😂

+1
Not the best showing for our boys. We were only missing a few guys. We should have done better but the scheme wasn't really tailored to the boys on hand. And we missed too many open shots. We made the goalies look better than they were.
We have more talent than most. We'll be back and at the top of the conference this spring. Bank on it. RDR

They have a national top 5 goalie according to the clown dad who posts his phone number here. Funny he hasn’t committed yet.

Implodes?? B-level Football? Fall ball lacrosse and who cares what level football.

Doubt it. Not much to it.

What school allows that?? Must be in reference to having your son lose his spot ?

Prostart goalie committed to Hofstra

I see the LD conversations have moved there way to the Facebook MIAA discussion page.....Now we know by name who is the quality individual who likes to talk smack about kids, coaches, players, and programs.... Well done...

The Severna Park goalie committed to Hofstra? Well, I guess Phone number dad was right. I stand corrected

no the new prostart goalie who goes to st marys committed to hofstra. the sp goalie plays for mesa now.

Yea it was awful, SP should probably just not field a team this year.

No.... The STM goalie did and will not start a game this season. Another clown dad trying to shine a light on there below average goalie.

Top goalies usually commit first

Why won't he start a game this year?

Why are Anne Arundel County lacrosse people so ill. You bought and brought the MIAA championships to Annapolis, you buy coaches and parents, you sell out to/partner with national "programs", buy facilities to exclude others, run your own tournaments, bash every club and school out there including your own, and then you wonder why so many kids drive to Baltimore privates to play? Its insane. Its youth and high school sports remember. Its for fun.

Gilman picked up a Loyola kid. Loyola landed a young 5-star at the same position and the writing was on the wall. If he had played last year, would have to sit out this season after transferring.

Where are you from? It hasn't been about "fun" since the non-HS clubs proliferated 10 years ago.

Agreed. The fun stopped when parents dupped thermselves by paying the outragous amounts of money to clubs who dont even develop players. Hence al the biterness from thos same parents whch trickles down to the car rude home with little johnny and forums like this.

Spot on! But lets not pretend this all didnt start in Baltimore

So what does your statement mean "the scheme wasn't really tailored to the boys on hand".:. Who was the scheme tailored to if not the boys "on hand", assuming you are talking about the ones that were there.. I saw Loyola's last game of the day, they did not look bad, had a few standout players, a middie and a lefty attack. The problem with Loyola is they lack MIAA level coaching, the head coach and others have no idea how to change a game plan according to how the game is progressing, the last game against BL last spring clearly showed and proved the coaching staff weak. Loyola has talent but without strong coaching, who knows how spring 2022 will play out.

So what does your statement mean "the scheme wasn't really tailored to the boys on hand".:. Who was the scheme tailored to if not the boys "on hand", assuming you are talking about the ones that were there.. I saw Loyola's last game of the day, they did not look bad, had a few standout players, a middie and a lefty attack. The problem with Loyola is they lack MIAA level coaching, the head coach and others have no idea how to change a game plan according to how the game is progressing, the last game against BL last spring clearly showed and proved the coaching staff weak. Loyola has talent but without strong coaching, who knows how spring 2022 will play out.[/quote]

Who comes up with the team's scheme, what the kids run, or how they are prepared?

We agree.

I was just trying to be positive and nice.

I like the Loyola coaching staff. Boys seem to respond well to them. Life long educators with strong coaching resumes. Look for Loyola to be a perennial MIAA semi-finalist once their new athletic facilities are up and running. I see BL, CHC, MCD, SM and Spalding fighting LB next Spring for those four spots.

Been watching the league for years. I think there's more to coaching than being a lifelong educator. Most of these private schools have their own personalities, traditions and styles. Fit is also important.

I think Loyola is doing ok. I cant put my finger on it exactly, but the LB program just seems a little out of whack, maybe superficial and glib these days. They just don't seem themselves. It's like they don't have a consistent team personality that meshes with the school. They underperformed last year when you look at individual talent. Was that the reason? It doesn't make sense- Kids are wearing shooter shirts with "men for others" printed on it but late for the next face off because they are busy doing full-team sideline celly's. It's just weird. I don't know. Are they the classy catholic school or the no-class club?