Re: Recruiting
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 1:00 am
On that note, how much does the admissions standards of schools like Northwestern and Johns Hopkins affect recruiting? They're not exactly easy schools to get into.610Lax wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:28 pmNo they wouldn't.laxdadpat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:11 pm If the overriding decisions in women's lacrosse are mostly based on academic prestige, then Duke and the Ivies would be regulars winning lacrosse games over Memorial Day weekend.
I would not be surprised if Duke is second to last in ACC this year, even though it has it's pick of top players every year.
Northwestern is the best combo of winning and academic prestige, but I give all the credit to KAH. If she leaves, so do the championship runs.
I commend any women going to an Ivy league program, just never had the FOMO about the Ivies. I always liked to play my music a little too loud and use more colorful language when the Ivies came to play us on fall Saturdays back in college.
You're underestimating the difficulty in gaining admittance to these schools and being able to maintain the expected academic standards of these schools and other high academic schools, like those in the Patriot league. Great lacrosse players with a 2.8 GPA aren't getting into Duke, an Ivy or a Patriot league school as well as some others, regardless of how good they are. But in all honesty, do girls with a 2.8 GPA really have the desire to go to those type of schools anyway? Probably not, and there is nothing wrong with that. Everyone has their own path and a lot goes into which school a player chooses.
I think you're also underestimating the importance of the coaches role, both in how they identify talent and how they develop that talent. Duke's classes are never short on top ranked players, neither are Princeton, Penn or Dartmouth's. It's how much better that player gets once they get to these schools that has more of an impact on who wins games on Memorial Day weekend, as you stated.