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Not sensitive. Just trying to ease you into the 21st century, insecure low d3 dad. But keep it up with the mom jokes. Says more about you then anything else you’ve said

But if the choice is UCLA+non tryout club vs low D3, im always going to take the former. And if I’m not mistaken many of the top MCLA clubs are actually tryout based. There a couple of feeds on “Reddit” that detail the level of competition (for whatever Reddit’s worth) but one thing I do agree with, Brunswick or Lawrencville high school teams would destroy your low tryout based d3 college team that is so “rigorous”. Hey good for you that kid is playing d3 lacrosse. And good for those kids that go to amazing colleges and play club lacrosse. It’s all good but I think you are mistaking “tryouts” and “rigor” for excellence

Not sensitive. Just trying to ease you into the the 21st century but I’m guessing you don’t get that. Honestly don’t care. Happy for any kid trying to make themselves better whether it be MCLA or low d3

But to get some facts straight, the top MCLA teams are actually tryout based. Not everyone makes the team. And you also seem to be confusing “tryouts” + “rigor” of low d3 = excellence; that is far from the case. The top 10 high schools in the country could probably beat the bottom 1/3rd of d3 schools

Sorry to call out a school but who are you taking: St Anthony’s or St Joseph’s (LI) D3. Please don’t mistake being recruited by a NCAA d3 school as excellence. Happy your kid is playing but you really don’t much about lacrosse, sweetheart.

Disclaimer: my kid played mid d1 and wasn’t a superstar by any means but some of his better high school teammates could have cared less about committing and went on to play at some amazing schools that happened to be MCLA

Nah, he didn’t, but whatever BS you spew on an anonymous website to make yourself feel better is all good. Happy New Year Club guy

My son is a middle school age player, who has been playing on a club team for 3 years. He absolutely loves the game, although I know very little about it. Since high school is right around the corner, I'd like to get a perspective on teams that I should watch out for. What are the anticipated top 10 high school teams on the island for 2024? Much appreciated.

What is the pecking order of lacrosse teams. If you have everyone a year to train and they played each other in a battle Royale I figure it would be something like this

High d1 (# 1-40)
Very high d3 (#1-3)
Mid d1 (41-60)
High d3 (4-30)
High d2 (1-5)
High MCLA (1-10)
Mid d3 (31-200)
Mid d2 (6-60)
High school (1-10)
High NCLL
Mid MCLA (10-20)
Mid high school (11-30)
Low d2 (60-75)
Low d3 (200-275)
Rest of MCLA (21-200) / NCLL
Rest of high school

Totally just speculation

Hahaha. Too dense to see the irony in your post. You can make up 30-3 scores of low d3 schools scrimmaging the best MCLA schools and beating them and you take it as gospel but someone says their kid played mid d1 and it’s totally a lie. You are correct: no one has ever played mid d1 lacrosse before. 30-3 scrimmages much more likely. I guess the old adage is true: those who accuse others of lying the most are most likely to be lying themselves. Way to go low d3 dad. Your son must be proud.

Your boys would be mortified to see you going at each other like this. You should be embarrassed.

Studying for my HS officiating test; reading each page of the NFHS 2024 Boys rule book.
One rule that I was completely wrong with and I believe nearly everyone will be shocked is:

Rule 4, section 8 (page 41)

Goalie, or any player in possession of the ball (while in the crease); a) brings the crosse back through the plane of the goal, or b) brings the crosse back through the plane of the goal and the ball drops to the ground across the goal line

NO GOAL.

It's a little mind blowing that this is not a goal.

Coverage of the LILJ winter league is amazing. Thank you.

With what we pay to play in that league it should be!

Its good to see the public schools vs the privates.

It's not even the real teams yet - believe it or not there still are two sport guys and girls that play winter sports.

No one said that it was the complete teams...

Exactly. Calm down.

Just wondering how LI (or anywhere else) schedules their Boys Varsity and JV games. Do you guys have both games, back to back, at the same location?

My experience is limited to Girls lax and where we live (Sec. 1, HV) both levels play at the same location and you often see the coaching staff at both games.

I have a son now playing JV and another Varsity parent explained that the Boys don't do it that way.

Sure seems that the all the players could benefit from having more coaches on the sideline.

I'm not sure if it's the same for all Long Island schools, but our JV team plays at the same time as the varsity, but at the other school. Friends of ours last year had one kid on each team and had to split up for every game, which they didn't like.

LILJ should focus on creating balanced schedule games. Players (5 stars) tend to perform well against weaker teams, but struggles against stronger opponents .

Pay your bill, accept your 930 Sunday night game, and move on!

see you at 445

Is it true Savage took the North Shore HS lax job ?

you guys are losers. arguing over club, d3, d1. who cares, its over dads. after college your son will some day realize what a hammerhead you were for pushing so hard.

Says the guy scrolling through HS lacrosse forums...

Put all the private, publics, Catholics, and whatever else there is....

Top 5 teams on LI for 2024 season?

1 St A'S
2 Chaminade
3 Shore-Wading River
4 Ward Melville
5 Farmingdale

Coaching change in Farmingdale. Coach left for Cali to run a club program.

WM?

WM 🤔🤔🤔🤔don’t think so

Garden City?

South Side ?

Manhasset ?

Manhasset stinks FO advantage gone

My SoN's HiGh SChoOl ?

Lol, please.

D1 isnt for everyone. You said it the commitment is brutal. There have been many great high school lacrosse players that went D1 and just couldn't do the grind. The schools that have higher academics and top lax programs year in and year out are so tough. The work load is very difficult. I have heard people say that the top D3 programs are also just as demanding. Historically top D1 and D3 programs tend to be top academic programs. Making the lacrosse and academic balance tough.

there are way too many D3 programs for the caliber of play to be good at the lower level. The top 1-10 D3 can play with the lower 20 D1 programs easily. I have seen a few D3 programs hang with some of the better D1 programs in scrimmages. Yet if the 1s played the 1s top 5 D3 teams can hang with a lot of D1 programs. Maybe even win a game here and there. Look at some of the recent D3 transfers to D1 they didnt do that badly.

The Catholic's schedules are stacked - will be interesting to see how they do with their out of state games.

Which scrimmages did you watch between D-1 and D-3?

That is dream talk. Over and Over when there is real coopetition between D1 ( even some mid level ) and D3 ( top level), The results are the same , D3 just cant compete. Very limited Data, but once there is a game ( usually 1st game of season occasionally).. It doesn't go well.

Not the original poster here but i've never heard of or seen D3 scrimmage a D1 program. I have seen club or military bases (not the military academies) scrimmage D1 though.

Uva scrimmaged Lynchburg a few weeks ago at Episcopal HS in Alexandria VA