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So far everything is chalk except Simsbury (5) beating New Miford (4) and Brookfied (5) beating RHAM (4). People may not like chalk but this is soooooo much better than the seeds they used to assign a few years ago

Does anyone know the criteria? There were some bad teams that got multiple nods and some decent teams only got 0 or 1. Seems strange or is this one of those weird political back door deals...

Part Deux of East v West: looking at any any Eastern Mass/NH/RI v Western Mass / CT / East NY results Regarding Tabor beating AOF (which is one my "home" teams along with Westy, Loomis, Taft and Choate), AOF was mixing and matching their goalies with different defensive personnel and would...

My thoughts: For years NEWest1 had a big 3. 'wick, DA, and 'bury. Recently, Taft rose above DA, but DA didn't fall out of favor. Maybe Taft replaced DA last year in the Big 3. Last season there were either the big 3 or the Big 4, but DA was doing what they do every year and getting better and bette...

A curious observation: As stated before the 40 D1 commits were for "rising seniors" but looking the numbers, they have quite a bit of ways to catch the 76 D1 that are graduating this year. Does this represent a downturn in the decrease of D1 quality players in the region for next year? Wi...

The Pelicans must be shaking their heads and channeling Rodney "I don't get no respect" Dangerfield. They win the FL for the first time in 16 years, beat Salisbury for the first time in 17 years, beat DA for the first time in nine years, only lost two games and beat all comers save for 'w...

Man. The last few posts have cited Monty Python, Ricky Ricardo and Rodney Dangerfield. People, I think we may be aging ourselves at this point. I cant argue the DA > Loomis logic. If you actually look at common opponents, DA had bigger margins in all but 2 games (I was kind of surprised by the sque...

You do have a valid argument. It will never happen but like other states, maybe a "parochial" division needs to be formed with -Prep -St Joes -East Catholic -ND West Haven -St Pauls -Northwest Catholic -ND Fairfield -Xavier -St Bernard -Holy Cross -Immaculate Add in Canterbury and St Lukes...

Man. The last few posts have cited Monty Python, Ricky Ricardo and Rodney Dangerfield. People, I think we may be aging ourselves at this point. I cant argue the DA > Loomis logic. If you actually look at common opponents, DA had bigger margins in all but 2 games (I was kind of surprised by the squea...

Not going to start a "Coaching Carousel" thread for NEW1 but Kent School apparently is looking for a Head Coach. Very curious the direction they are going in and what kind of support they will get.

Ok enough posts. Back to work...

JAP, thank you for that detailed summary. The only error is Taft isn't ranked #1, but I'm still formulating my argument for that case. IMO, Brunswick is a school bound and determined to win a National championship. They're located well to achieve that, and they apparently have committed the resourc...

To paraphrase Monty Python, the 2024 season is 'Not quite dead yet" but I figure its never too early to start talking lacrosse for 2025 :lol: Maybe its too early to make projections for next year, however, I wanted to throw out there, the # of graduating seniors and rising seniors (with commits...

As a small defense of hometown Hand, that recent stretch of losing in state finals multiple times were almost all to New Canaan in generally competitive (though not close) games. The top 3-4 FCIAC teams these days are top 10 nationally public schools, NY is down across the board. With that as the s...

Agreed. Both King and Greens Farms Academy are producing decent D3 / D2 players but not necessarily high level D1 players. King has done a good job and won the FAA this year and GFA has been a perennial contender, GCDS literally just established their lacrosse in the last few years and has done so ...

FINAL NOT SO ACCURATE NEW1-2-3 rankings -Congrats to the Pels for a great game and a great season. If only we could play one more game and have a rematch of Loomis v Wick with everyone healthy -I think the teams that were expected to win, won (with maybe the exception of Harvey) but congrats to 'Wi...

As for rosters, a decent backdoor approach for a school like Wick where almost everyone is playing in college is looking at IL recruits list. For Wick, it lists 14 seniors, with commitments for 9 of them (Virginia x2, Brown x2, Syracuse, Georgetown, Colgate, BU, Holy Cross). TP has 15 seniors with ...

So when is the big press release for the all NE West I team???? :roll: :roll: :D :lol: i suspect you are a fan as much as I am of these lists as I tend to look at these as popularity contests and who got the most press with some legitimate truths sprinkled in but in my small sample size of games th...

Loomis v Taft is the rematch we deserve. Same for Wick v LVille Chippiness all around the region. Swung by a meaningless AOF Westy consolation game which was also very chippy mostly due to Westy - very poor sports in their loss. Result: AOF backups 14 beat the Westy starters 13 What made you think ...

So when is the big press release for the all NE West I team???? :roll: :roll: :D :lol: i suspect you are a fan as much as I am of these lists as I tend to look at these as popularity contests and who got the most press with some legitimate truths sprinkled in but in my small sample size of games th...

AOF definitely played their starters. Regardless, very shocked that the WINged beavers finish 2 games below .500 this year. Will they be able to rise back to the top of NEWEST1 anytime soon? Same goes for Salisbury. I think they finish outside the top 5 in NEWEST1 for first time in 10-15 years! Top...