Virginia 2025

[Hooz123]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

[MDlaxfan76]

Bill Hooper died recently. I referred to it on thesabre, where most of the posters seem to be to young to remember his generation.
Little known fact is that Jay Connor is Fred Smith’s nephew. Think Hopkins could have used him?

My dad '54 played with Bill and Gordon. Though Pop was a freshman so just scrub squad with Bill, they became lifelong friends.

Gordon was Uncle Gordon to me, my dad's longtime hunting partner and real estate business parter.
Gordon was severely dyslexic and really couldn't read or do math, so was abused by his dad as 'lazy', but pushed through school because of his athletic prowess...graduated from UVA still not being able to do either...but very smart and creative guy. He was probably the most important mover and shaker at creating the Odyssey School move and expansion to the St. Tim's property.

I was in Florida, so didn't make the reception at the Hall of Fame for Bill Hooper but my mom did and said it was wonderful.

[OCanada]

Bill Hooper died recently. I referred to it on thesabre, where most of the posters seem to be to young to remember his generation.
Little known fact is that Jay Connor is Fred Smith’s nephew. Think Hopkins could have used him?

Fred Smith was a coaching God. Hop players loved him but then so did players on other teams.

[MDlaxfan76]

Bill Hooper died recently. I referred to it on thesabre, where most of the posters seem to be to young to remember his generation.
Little known fact is that Jay Connor is Fred Smith’s nephew. Think Hopkins could have used him?

Fred Smith was a coaching God. Hop players loved him but then so did players on other teams.

Definitely correct.

[molo]

Kudos to anyone who made it through the U with a reading problem. I’m a decent reader and barely graduated. I know not all majors require the amount of reading that English and history do, but back then there were general education requirements that required a fair amount of reading. Congratulations to him on plugging away.

[Laxter]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

About time.

[slumdogmillionaire]

Just wanted to enter this thread and say Johnny Hackett is a certified baller. He's gonna be freaking awesome

[blue angels]

Just wanted to enter this thread and say Johnny Hackett is a certified baller. He's gonna be freaking awesome

It's early to say, but he has a good chance at being short sticked until proven differently on a Line with Schutz, Colsey and Boyden if he returns. Of course, we don't know what attack will look like yet, besides Millon, so some one there might get shorted instead.

[MDlaxfan76]

Just wanted to enter this thread and say Johnny Hackett is a certified baller. He's gonna be freaking awesome

It's early to say, but he has a good chance at being short sticked until proven differently on a Line with Schutz, Colsey and Boyden if he returns. Of course, we don't know what attack will look like yet, besides Millon, so some one there might get shorted instead.

And if so, he's proven to be a scorer, right?

[Devil4Life]

5 5 stars and 4 4 stars-crazy recruiting

[pcowlax]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

Will it be fully operational?

[Late Slide]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

Will it be fully operational?

Does UVA actually have trouble recruiting? Nice facilities are special, but it's not as if they don't already capture a healthy percentage of elite recruits.

[PulpExposure]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

Will it be fully operational?

Does UVA actually have trouble recruiting? Nice facilities are special, but it's not as if they don't already capture a healthy percentage of elite recruits.

Now they'll get 5 5 stars and 5 4 stars instead of 5 5 stars and 4 4 stars....

[bearlaxfan]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

Will it be fully operational?

Does UVA actually have trouble recruiting? Nice facilities are special, but it's not as if they don't already capture a healthy percentage of elite recruits.

Now they'll get 5 5 stars and 5 4 stars instead of 5 5 stars and 4 4 stars....

Remember the old The Onion article: "Yankees Insure 2003 Pennant by Signing Every Player in Baseball"?

[coda]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

Will it be fully operational?

Does UVA actually have trouble recruiting? Nice facilities are special, but it's not as if they don't already capture a healthy percentage of elite recruits.

Now they'll get 5 5 stars and 5 4 stars instead of 5 5 stars and 4 4 stars....

Very nice. Recruiting is the least of UVA's issues.

[blue angels]

Virginia’s new Olympic Sports complex. Topping ceremony: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fHT9WvZuw.

Becomes operational next year. UVA will undoubtedly have the most elite lacrosse facilities in the country. Lars was quoted as saying it’s a recruiting game changer.

Will it be fully operational?

Does UVA actually have trouble recruiting? Nice facilities are special, but it's not as if they don't already capture a healthy percentage of elite recruits.

Now they'll get 5 5 stars and 5 4 stars instead of 5 5 stars and 4 4 stars....

Very nice. Recruiting is the least of UVA's issues.

The recruiting landscape is changing with NIL and the jury is still out on its impact. UNC continues to underperform on the field, but recruits very well. Yes, it's a great college destination, but NIL has made them a potent recruiting force. There are some schools with pretty good Football and basketball tradition who already know how to play that game and have a leg up on others. It will be interesting to see the impact as NIL deals in the non revenue sports are still in the early stages of what they might become..

[GaitsRightHand]

Virginia got a good one coming... I can see why all the Brown alum's were mad when he flipped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPWerY8Lxc

[blue angels]

Virginia got a good one coming... I can see why all the Brown alum's were mad when he flipped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPWerY8Lxc

The anger was absurd and one of Lars former Brown teammates finally said as much on that thread on this site. The kid should go where he is happy. Virginia has flipped players and had them flipped from them. The kids ultimately need to go where they are happy and the fit is right.