BL uses lacrosse to fill admissions seats. Don't discount their approach because it's worked extremely well for them. St. Mary's is a parish school which has a similar (lacrosse wise) niche (to BL) in AA County. McD's model is different. They try and recruit the best multi-sport athletes available and are super competitive in almost all of the A Conference sports. Since they are filling so few male slots in 9th grade, they suffer from an ongoing lack of depth across most sports. CHC and MSJ are perennial juggernauts in the A Conference across almost every sport with exception being the Gael Lacrosse Program. For whatever reason MSJ has had issues attracting enough great lacrosse players to be a playoff contender. Loyola just re-joined the A Conference in football and is looking to re-gain its once held prominence in lacrosse.