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grelch wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:31 pm Completely meaningless pre season rankings.... but Salisbury #1?

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ ... ings/53742

TopShelf585 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:45 am toad
I think you were looking at the 2018 Year End Regional Polls. I haven't seen a 2019 Regional Poll out yet

pcowlax wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:10 pm Who the hell knows with pre-season polls. Looking through the poll's comments, I can't say I disagree with the 21/4 private to public ratio because I believe, for better or worse, most of the very best of the best teams are now privates but it does sadden me a bit. Long live Melville and Darien!
[Putting public schools in the same poll/category as Prep and Private Schools is absolutely ridiculous. I don't care if they have restrictions like the Founders do or not but having PG's changes the game. Not to mention the recruiting that takes place, which with the Prep schools is National and the Private schools it is from larger geographical areas than the borders of a single town.

That being said, am not complaining one bit about each of the above practices, my complaint is that they are viewing local high schools and private school under the same scope. IL and the others who put together these meaningless polls should view the two separate. /quote]

ctbagataway wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 3:36 pm Age old argument. Sure, publish two polls if it makes you feel better to give more teams a chance at being the intergalactic number one. The polls are nonsense in general, and the preseason ones even more so, but at the very least they give us something to talk about while we wait for the season to start. What I like about the single polls is that it has forced programs that consider themselves competitive at the national level to be more aggressive with their OOC scheduling. Consider your team the best? Then play the best. Pretty simple. Also makes your team stronger for post season play (which we don't have here in the NE West, unfortunately).


Not a matter of being number one, in fact, I played in the NE West, before it was called that, and am not arguing against what they do as it works for them and PG's are part of their tradition as is pursuing athletically and academically gifted students, am all for it. But if you are going to go through the process of ranking and comparing teams it should be like for like. They don't rank all the colleges together, do they? Have seen others on this board complaining that some of the Fairfield or LI teams should play the prep schools and I think that is completely ridiculous.

Justafan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:31 pm When does practice start for the schools? Or have they started already? I know scrimmages are already happening in Baltimore.

Justafan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:58 pm Culver doesn't take PG's, but just about every kid that goes there for Lacrosse is a reclass, so to me they are the same as Hill, and the West 1 schools. Not sure why they still include them in this rankings since they want to keep the PG/reclass schools out of it.
[Agreed and would put all the parochial schools and MIAA schools in there as well. Chaminade, St. Anthony's, BL etc all draw kids from a wide geography and not the same as schools that are based solely on their zip code]