Loyola University Lacrosse 2020

[houndace1]

Really excited for this ‘20 class to get on campus, especially on the defensive side. Bean is a bigger, athletic kid who is still pretty raw, and has tons of potential. The kid from hill is very highly regarded, and is seen as one of the most underrated recruits in the class. Saffin should be a very promising ssdm(which you can never have enough nowadays). Lastly, Staudt might be the most exciting guy for us in the class. Top 5 ranked goalie in the country despite limited exposure, and will be walking into maybe the biggest position of need on the roster

Just curious, but where does it say that Staudt is a top 5 goalie in the 2020 class?

I like this group as well, has a great deal of defensive guys along with LSM's. I can't wait to see what Fairey (the hill academy recruit) can do. Also dont sleep on Gunnar Cheuvront (2019 kid) whos described as a quintessential LSM guy, thought he hasn't signed an NLI, yet...

Look at the 2021 class, have two strong middies so far (one is Mark Dixon's son), along with a great LSM recruit in Diego Roman

[Laxfan01]

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Really excited for this ‘20 class to get on campus, especially on the defensive side. Bean is a bigger, athletic kid who is still pretty raw, and has tons of potential. The kid from hill is very highly regarded, and is seen as one of the most underrated recruits in the class. Saffin should be a very promising ssdm(which you can never have enough nowadays). Lastly, Staudt might be the most exciting guy for us in the class. Top 5 ranked goalie in the country despite limited exposure, and will be walking into maybe the biggest position of need on the roster

Just curious, but where does it say that Staudt is a top 5 goalie in the 2020 class?

I like this group as well, has a great deal of defensive guys along with LSM's. I can't wait to see what Fairey (the hill academy recruit) can do. Also dont sleep on Gunnar Cheuvront (2019 kid) whos described as a quintessential LSM guy, thought he hasn't signed an NLI, yet...

Look at the 2021 class, have two strong middies so far (one is Mark Dixon's son), along with a great LSM recruit in Diego Roman
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If you go on inside lacrosse’s 2020 rankings I believe you’ll see him in there. He’s 80 something, which is pretty awesome considering the treatment Loyola kids get with the ranking systems. I’ve seen him play a couple times and he’s the real deal-I’ve heard lots of Galloway
comparisons.

[NovaHound]

I'm just wondering if Peter Brown lost his modem dial up connection to the internet or AOL suspended his service....

[houndace1]

I think he's waiting for the season to just start.


Though i would be mightily impressed if his extremely bold predictions come true about the uva game, winning the PL, and the natty in either 2020 or further down with the classes they have coming in

[10stone5]

Last week,
but good win, good game for Northwestern,
Spencer beating Bradley.

https://nusports.com/sports/mens-basket ... core/16650

[NovaHound]

Thanks for the link to Pat and NU. He got a lot of minutes and was high point man. He just has great court and field vision, coupled with his athleticism, and getting the ball, any ball, to the open man or taking it in himself.

Good point HoundAce. PB has his modem just waiting to spring into action.

Let's go see what they're talking about on the Hop page

[kramerica.inc]

More of the same on the Hop thread. You’re not missing anything. Just more old men who have never played, bashing their favorite team’s players.

[houndace1]

Picked up another 2021 verbal recruit in Joey Anneta, D, from Holly Springs High School in North Carolina

[kramerica.inc]

Anetta certainly looks the part. I always worry about level of competition when kids come from non-hotbed areas, but Toomey seems to usually get it right with those kids.

[houndace1]

I believe Q deemed that the staff has a knack for finding diamonds in the rough. Typically overlooked players with 1-2 studs in every recruiting class. DO you think he recruits for a play style?

[kramerica.inc]

Toomey seems to like:

Long, rangy defensemen,
Slippery attackmen with vision and stickwork.
Middies, regardless of size that can run.
LSMs that can run and thrive in transition.

Of course, most teams like the above types of players too...



But Loyola always seems to get a lot of non-hotbed kids who really blossom.

[NovaHound]

Nice article. Some good video. Can't wait for springtime lacrosse.
https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ ... 2012/55666

[houndace1]

Toomey seems to like:

Long, rangy defensemen,
Slippery attackmen with vision and stickwork.
Middies, regardless of size that can run.
LSMs that can run and thrive in transition.

Of course, most teams like the above types of players too...



But Loyola always seems to get a lot of non-hotbed kids who really blossom.

Looks like we got the answer as to what Coach Toomey and staff look for when they're recruiting. Notice how he doesn't say much about stick skills, athleticism etc etc with what the other top coaches in the article mentioned.

"Obviously athleticism, love of the game and how hard they play. I can remember being a young coach when Top 205 was at Loyola you'd go out to the back field at Butler Field and see who was excited to come out and play. We're just looking for some of those moments to see how kids play in the third game of the day that may mean nothing. The non-negotiables are what kind of athlete they are on the field, how they take coaching — are they palms up guys, do they run to their teammates and celebrate after goals or are they upset that they weren't part of the play? Those are things we certainly all look for when we're out there evaluating.

The biggest thing for us if we've made a decision to bring you to campus, so much rides on that interaction on campus because that's how we start selling our culture, who we are and what makes us different than some of the other programs. You almost have to be a kid that's committed to the type of school and culture that we're asking you to be committed to. This isn't a knock on Loyola, but you're not gonna go to a big-time football game on Saturday — you are the football game when we're playing Johns Hopkins and our students are excited to go watch you play. We need kids that want to be a part of that and we [want to] see the buy-in from the day they step on campus."

[Matnum PI]

For the northeasterners, Northwestern Bball plays UMD at UMD on February 18th at 7 PM. Wouldn't be crazy to think that there may be a lacrosse-fest at this game.

[NovaHound]

You got that right - probably a few lax fans and family Thanks for the heads up.

[Peter Brown]

I'm just wondering if Peter Brown lost his modem dial up connection to the internet or AOL suspended his service....

I'm still here; just got bored of posting. And I am somewhat busy at work these days.

Can not wait to beat UVA...

[Peter Brown]

I think he's waiting for the season to just start.


Though i would be mightily impressed if his extremely bold predictions come true about the uva game, winning the PL, and the natty in either 2020 or further down with the classes they have coming in

Exactly on #1; on #2, I have not retreated from my predictions. Let's do this!!!

[houndace1]

IL and USLAX released their preseason top 20

Hounds come in at #14 and #15 respectively in both sources

[kramerica.inc]

14 sprints for the Hounds in January.

[Cooter]

Loyola preview on LSN:
https://www.ftfnext.com/videos/2020-loy ... am-preview