Wheels wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 5:22 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 4:20 pm
44WeWantMore wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 4:03 pm
Daniels developed Ryan Brown into the best shooter in all of college lacrosse.
To the poster who was wondering whether Hopkins had changed its admissions standards, having heard that complaint for D3 coaches, yes, that's true for the D3 programs. No evidence that I know of that such is true of lax.
ER may not have been in its full distasteful nadir back in 2010, but the chasing of younger and younger players had already begun.
ER picked up some winners, but not a greater % than Hopkins had historically attracted pre-ER. And it's fair to say that it was a bust at goal and with poles and potential SSDM's.
And, yes, Hopkins developed a reputation as a difficult place to play. Screaming coach, and the most critical fans in the sport. Tough combination.
As we've seen with the Aunt Becky admissions scandal, every university holds aside a certain number of application spots to help get athletes admitted to universities who would otherwise not meet regular admission standards. Typically, even at D3 schools, coaches in each sport will send a request to the athletic director for the number of "special admits" that the program will need for the upcoming year or two. For every Ben Reeves at Yale, there's probably 5 or 6 "good but not deserving of admittance to Yale unless they played lacrosse" students on the team. Obviously, the expectations or rigorousness of the academic standards once a student is there don't change, but that's why all of the athletic programs have study hall, tutors, and academic support units.
Of course there are lacrosse players who could get into any school just based on their grades/test scores/etc, but there are probably a lot more that only got into schools because lacrosse helped them get in.
Actually, I don't think Reeves could have been admitted to Yale, either, absent a sports slot. He unexpectedly blossomed as a student late in his HS career and at Yale, just as he did in lacrosse. Great story!
Only a small handful, at most, of the players on most any Ivy team would have likely gained admittance to their chosen school absent a bump from the sport. Gotta remember how many perfect SAT, valedictorian kids these schools turn away. Whether it's sports or something else, everyone else has to have something that makes them stand out from the rest of the very smart, accomplished applicants. The difference is that all the athletes as a whole need to to be at a target AI which is measured based on the median of the school as a whole (each school has it's own median). And each team has its own AI target, contributing to the overall. For instance, football and hockey tend to have lower AI targets and wider acceptable ranges than, say, the squash team.
Most D1 programs do not have remotely the same required academic target nor minimum requirements.
That said, it's true that at all sorts of competitive schools other than the Ivies, ie out of state at places like UVA or Michigan, much less a Hopkins, etc, the sports bump is the key to admission for most players. It's just that the bar is lower. Not "low", just "lower".
Hopkins is an usual situation in that the D3 requirements are way higher than for the D1 sports. For instance, it's why you see so many STEM majors even on the football team, but very rare on the lax team.