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All of this is smoke, results are all that matters: LB hasn't been a perennial lacrosse power since Steele Stanwick took them to 2 straight titles fifteen years ago. The Dons did win at title in 2013 from the 6th seed in a Cinderella story but haven't finished above 4th since then. Why did they fall back to the back? Its quite simple: They acknowledged too late that the world was actually round not flat. In other words, their then AD and HC failed (whether they tried or not depends on whom you ask) to recruit a critical mass of good enough lacrosse players to compete at the highest level on a regular basis. Then they compounded this mistake by failing to advocate to top college coaches for their better players. Regarding the recruitment topic, both the then AD openly voiced his opposition to then in infancy stage club movement. They compounded this "the world is flat" opinion by failing to match other schools, which began giving partial scholar athlete financial aid awards to 3-6 multi sport athletes per year. So imagine this: you're the parents of an eighth grader who has several acceptance letters some of which may have partial scholarships attached to them. Then you do a little research among some older parents in the lacrosse community and you find Coach X and ABC High School does a much better job marketing his players for scholarship offers and it makes the decision relatively easy assuming your son has comparable academic opportunities. Fast forward to Coach Rubeor, who is a very good recruiter, coach and college admissions advocate: He's a loyal Don Diego who wants to rebuild the Program but isn't given the tools to do so. No partial scholar athletic awards even for top notch academic kids who would be major contributors in multiple sports (2 or 3 for 1 like a Ryan Conrad). Then you have meddling parents who expect you to win consistently when the administration has tied your hands behind your back on the recruiting front. These same parents/Board members go to the Principal who starts meddling with your coaching staff decisions and you say adios, life is too short. Whether this departure happened to coincide with some life event that forced you to move, the fact of the matter was you were coaching at another institution shortly thereafter. Then the Principal hires an old friend from BL who was a decent AC at BL but who never got the LB Administration to buy into the required recruiting changes necessary to rebuild the Loyola program. His W/L progress was tepid at best hence the "unhappy parent" contingent had a voice and forced his departure. The new coach is a long time former AC at Malvern who didn't get the HC job at Malvern when it opened up. His father's family is in the HOF of LB athletic families. Contrary to some of the comments posted on this forum, his dad was a great DC at LB as well as at JHU. He then took WAC to a national championship in D3. Thereafter he was a good but not great HC at JHU whereafter he moved to the HC coaching job at his alma mater, UNC. I wouldn't say that's the background of a horrible coach but maybe of one of didn't keep up the everchanging HC job requirements in this modern age. The $64k question for the LB program is will Coach Haus be given the tools to recruit the best kids in the greater BW area so he can develop them with his staff?

I don't think anybody at Loyola can make the representation.....yet....that an elite multi-sport athlete within 60 minutes of Baltimore is best suited for Loyola, unless the campus culture (least liberal private school between Laurel and the DE/PA border) is a huge win for Mom and Dad. There are relatively few exceptional athletes in the 2024-2027 classes, and most of those excel in some other sport and are "capable" at lacrosse.

That's where St. Paul's is different, Settembrino is building something that "appears to be" headed in the right direction over there, and there's lots of excitement about it. And no - definitely not talking about his ownership of Predators. He - also - has a couple years left to really deliver at SP, and this week's game against Loyola will be a test of how close he is.

With all due respect to coach Sett, SP is 3-5 in the league and has losses to Severn and MSJ. There wasn’t much excitement about either of those losses.

STP, Severn, MSJ and Loyola all have a couple of things in common - slow, small and not athletic compared to the top 4-5 of the MIAA

Playing Aloha tournaments and B brackets!!!!!!!! Such a great program

With regards to the Loyola goalie situation, the whole thing is absurd. The senior who started is by far the superior goalie and he should be playing the whole game. This is the MIAA A Conference, the toughest conference in the country. No team varsity should be splitting goalie time. This isn’t HoCo Sunday lacrosse. The only reason this has been going on is that the junior dad is buddies with Ford and threw a hissy fit when his son wasn’t playing. It’s a complete joke that Haus lets this happen. Not only
is Ford responsible for the clown show offense, but he also has his tentacles on the goalie situation.

And, no, not related to the senior goalie. My kid graduated last year where we had 3 senior goalies, each one could have started, but we only played one.

I've played and coached in total for 20? years and the Daltons' club coaches are the first I have ever, EVER seen to actively coach kids with the ball in their stick to theatrically flop for the penalty when they feel *any* pressure from behind/rear shoulder. Coaches literally jumping up and down and kids cheering when the flag comes. Pure softness. And the parents who fell for this sales pitch, wow. They dress like they are from Annapolis, but have the lax knowledge of the average Glen Burnie/Perry Hall/Jessup/True parent. Saw a ProStart player cross check a kid in the face mask, wide hands, +5 yard approach, and all, maybe 6 feet from a ref, and hard head dads were screaming after the flag, "WHAT" "LET THEM PLAY" "NOT A SLASH!" "CMON REF!" Yeah. Cutting a wide berth around that crowd for the next few years.

I don't think anybody at Loyola can make the representation.....yet....that an elite multi-sport athlete within 60 minutes of Baltimore is best suited for Loyola, unless the campus culture (least liberal private school between Laurel and the DE/PA border) is a huge win for Mom and Dad. There are relatively few exceptional athletes in the 2024-2027 classes, and most of those excel in some other sport and are "capable" at lacrosse.

That's where St. Paul's is different, Settembrino is building something that "appears to be" headed in the right direction over there, and there's lots of excitement about it. And no - definitely not talking about his ownership of Predators. He - also - has a couple years left to really deliver at SP, and this week's game against Loyola will be a test of how close he is.

It is called winning . You do what it takes, sorry you cant understand that. No wonder Baltimore has so many soft players

With regards to the Loyola goalie situation, the whole thing is absurd. The senior who started is by far the superior goalie and he should be playing the whole game. This is the MIAA A Conference, the toughest conference in the country. No team varsity should be splitting goalie time. This isn’t HoCo Sunday lacrosse. The only reason this has been going on is that the junior dad is buddies with Ford and threw a hissy fit when his son wasn’t playing. It’s a complete joke that Haus lets this happen. Not only
is Ford responsible for the clown show offense, but he also has his tentacles on the goalie situation.

And, no, not related to the senior goalie. My kid graduated last year where we had 3 senior goalies, each one could have started, but we only played one.

Yeah that is not called winning. Whining, maybe.

First, ProStart is like the Only F@ns of Maryland Lax. Even if you've heard of it, you wouldn't want to admit it publicly.

Second, I am zero percent surprised that the runts of the Anne Arundel litter think that players literally laying down on the turf for a fake penalty is some kind of flex ****that should be coached by adults**** . Textbook softness.

With that in mind...free of charge.....here's a Pro Start social media suggested pitch: "Are you looking to play at the next level, but are too slow for Hawks, too smart to pay True, too few IG followers to play for Clippers, and the possibility of getting bruised at Next Level or Cannons practices before your next Hardees shift, really scares you? COME PLAY WITH US, coaching as hardcore as a Target bag full of marshmellows!" Tryouts next week at the Glen Burnie Tractor Supply parking lot, because True already rented all the fields at the Moose, and the API guys just automatically tell us their turf is rented out, and I guess Clippers is having some kind of photo shoot at Bell Branch with supermodels and the Blue Angels, billed directly to the Clippers parents."

Spalding has been rolling every one in their path surprised more people aren’t talking about them.

beat a now shuttered vandermont academy by 1, lost to BL, lost to Gilman by 7, beat Loyola in OT - maybe you are referring to a Spalding in another state?

Why does Calvert Hall think they are special? Charging for Friday night games! No other MIAA school charges admission.