Last time I checked, they don't hand out championships for having (perceived) strong recruiting classes or for having generous financial aid packages.
Not all recruits pan out and for many in the lacrosse world college tuition is not a major concern.
Games are won and lost on the field.
Notre Dame and Boston College are both excellent schools with solid lacrosse programs and are certainly two of the schools with a reasonable chance to win a National Championship in the years to come. However, they are not the end all be all that some believe them to be. The top recruits can pick whatever school they want as long as their academic profile is strong enough.
No school has their pick of the litter. It is the other way around, the top 20 or so recruits are the ones who have their pick. The top recruits choose where they want to go to school.
Schools with the best chance of winning their first National Championship in the next 8 years: (in no particular order)
* Notre Dame, Boston College, Syracuse, Duke, USC, Stanford, Penn and Florida.
Schools who have not won in more than 10 years with the best chance to win again:
* Penn State, Princeton and Virginia.
The obvious schools that will more than likely win:
* Maryland, North Carolina and Northwestern.
I wouldn't put Northwestern in the same group as Maryland and North Carolina...4 years ago yes, last year they lost more games then they did in 4 seasons combined.
BC will not be winning anything, they're not even a top 20 team and have recruited average players, not studs.
are you drunk... yes they are, pre-season ranked #19, beat Syracuse and lost to UNC,SBU and UVA last year after losing a stud(apuzzo) to injury and Rix and Stanwick the year before. Expecting big things out of them this year.
