I completely concur. Winning (even a few) games is more fruitful for the Kent students than playing in the top league in the country (although MIAA-A fans will differ...).SlingtheRock7 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 8:01 pmAs an alum, I could not agree more. It's humiliating for anyone associated with the program, especially for the players. It already happened last year, but there will now be multiple Kent classes with 4-year varsity players who will graduate high school having never won a lacrosse game. If the administration doesn't want to support the sport any longer, fine. But don't then go require these kids to go out and try and compete against teams with at least 7+ college commits while you have, at most, 1. It's not fair to the players, nor is it fair to the other Founders League teams, who have to travel over an hour for a game that's realistically nothing more than a pre-game warm-up for the starters.pcowlax wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 5:39 pm12-7 Albany, the beatings go on. I have been banging the Kent to West-2 drum for years. They play several games vs those schools every year already. I know tradition holds them in Founders but it is almost abusive to the players at this point. It looks like alums sacrificing them to satisfy their own ego as to who their alma mater plays. They would be an upper mid-pack West-2 team but lose competitive games to the 3 or 4 teams who would usually be better. A sad state of affairs.SlingtheRock7 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 11:38 am The game of the weekend has to be Kent vs. Albany Academy. It has now been 1,435 days since Kent last won a lacrosse game (5/11/19: 9-8 over Westy). I'm not even talking about a Founder's League game, but ANY actual regular-season lacrosse game. They had three potentially winnable games on their schedule this year: Evergreen (CO), NMH, and Albany. They got killed 9-1 against Evergreen and fell to NMH 11-7. If they lose to Albany it's basically guaranteed that they lose out the rest of the schedule for their 3rd winless season in a row (2020 Covid season not included). The school should probably consider just disbanding the program at this point.
West 2 is the perfect league for them, and it's in the same geographic footprint as West-I. If Kent wants to stay in West-I, they need to make the commitment. Taft went from so-so to West-I midpack to national top 5 or 10 in a couple of years, and Kent needs to either spit or get away from the spittoon.
