Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
[quote=Anonymous]No one said overlooked but perhaps overrated. Not saying that these top players did not have many choices but I know many of these highly ranked players that ended up at ND were not as highly recruited by some of the other top schools as they were by ND.


Agree with this post.

The first mistake any person following this sport makes is embracing the "rankings" of these players.

It's an annual hype-machine where Florida and Notre Dame are up there as the top recruiting classes, only to be stopped in big games by other schools that recruited girls from the (if you ask the know-it-alls) middle of the pack.

Quite honestly, the lack of results (from these two schools in particular) leads us to one of these two:

* the players and recruiting classes are / have been completely overrated

or

* the coaching staffs are incompetent

Pick one.

Because (it seems like) every year the lax magazines have the incoming freshmen heading to those campuses as minutes away from revolutionizing the game. With no follow-up when they fall flat over their four years.

Quite honestly, it's a tired tune.



The "tired tune" comes from people like you who sing the song of how the players who are recognized by Inside Lacrosse, Under Armour and the coaches at the top college programs do not do well when they get to college.

The reality is that the Top 40 as ranked by Inside Lacrosse are for the most part the same players who are selected for the Under Armour Senior Game and by in large are the top recruits at the best college programs.

The large majority of these players go on to have very good college careers playing on the top teams.