Originally Posted by Anonymous
Hop and UVA coaches have a lot of latitude with admissions at their respective schools. Lax is the only sport of any real measure at Hop, and If a recruit misses admissions, the academic record would need to be poor. UVA is a big enough university (13.5K undergrads) that sports recruit preferences are pretty material there as well. Bottom line, lax is also a sport wherein the demographic is more toward the prep school strata were kids in the sport tend to be on the higher side of academic quality versus football or men's basketball at big scholarship schools.

The relative blight at Hop and UVA over the last few years is not the fault of these coaches not having all that is asked for. Both programs have plainly recruited too early and too poorly and this is starting to show up. For every Shack or Tinney seems to be half a dozen whiffs. Hop and UVa have less depth and athleticism than any other ACC or B1G program now, with the possible exception of UNC...the 3rd ER horseman.


Maryland seems to do ok and they are one of the most blatant early recruiters. I really dont see ER as the culprit with UVA, they are plenty talented and plenty athletic, I think the game has passed Starsia by and a change needs to be made there. I think the same can be said for UNC who routinely disappoints in the tournament. JHU is a head scratcher, Petro is an excellent coach and they are Hop so they can attract any recruit they want, so I really dont understand whats going on there. ER is some of the issue but not the whole story.