"Conference champs, rings every year, top 3 academic school, sunny Cali. LOL haters! Pretty sure what you say can also be said for Duke, Virginia and ND. Stanford on par with them. None of them winning the natty, but have lots to offer outside lax. Everyone wants to be a critic!"
Sorry but not on par with any of those teams when speaking about womens lacrosse.
Why not? What have Notre Dame and Duke or even Virginia done in the past 5 or 6 years?
These are the facts Stanford is something like 1-7 when playing ACC teams over the last 5-6 years. They have gone 0-4 against UVA being outscored 61-38 ( Did the math in my head so may be wrong but close) , Saying they are on par with teams that when they play against them have a winning percentage of 14 % seems like a bit of a stetch.
Boston College is 2 - 14 vs Maryland and 6 - 21 vs North Carolina...
Syracuse is 2 - 23 vs Maryland and 6 - 11 vs North Carolina...
Syracuse and Boston College are not on par with the top programs...
:-)
Your pathetic attempt to go back to wooden sticks is as transparent as to who you are . Again it was in response to the poster specifically stating the past 5-6 years . If you want to go back that far than one of those teams you put Stanford on the same level as has won as many national championships as UNC and BC . So strange how you skipped the past 5-6 year comment in your other Stanford buddies post .
What is strange and pathetic is your obsession with Stanford and your foolish attempts to bash them. We all know why you do it, it would be funny if it were not so sad.
Maybe this will help ease the pain: the players who are fortunate enough to receive and accept an offer from a school like Stanford prioritize academics above lacrosse. Obviously the parents have different priorities than you as well. I'm sure the majority of players at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Hopkins, Brown, Dartmouth etc... could have all elected to attend a different school... Maybe they did not receive an offer from Maryland but I am pretty sure that they're okay with that.
Your comments and repeated attempts to knock Stanford idiotic at best.
Have not been bashing Stanford at all other than to say their top 10 ranking in a preseason poll was in my opinion too high . Then you and your Stanford friends got your panties in a bunch and make statements with no facts to back them up. " Please give it a rest, as 99.9% of kids who had the top grades and athletics to play at Stanford would jump at the chance. " Typical Stanford dad post, there are plenty of players who could have gone to Stanford but elected not to , who knows maybe there are actual players who enjoy their families enough that they prefer to stay closer to home. Your kids decision makes sense .
Yes, you are correct. It does make a lot of sense to pick a school ranked 3 in the country over one ranked 20-50. It also makes sense to pick a school where you will play on a top 20 team who wins their conference every year while playing lacrosse In beautiful weather for the most part. Come to think about it, a degree from Stanford turns heads. It’s just not the same as graduating from BC, NC, MD, Cuse. Those schools are ranked higher in lacrosse yes, but you trade off the academics for that. There is no future in lacrosse. It’s a fun sport to play for 4 years, but then life goes on. There is really only one school that is perennially ranked a top lax and academic school and that is Northwestern. Everyone else needs to consider the pros and cons of choosing a top academic good lacrosse vs. good academic great lacrosse. If a girl has these choices she is very lucky. But also remember you do need the grades to even get the opportunity to consider choosing a school like Stanford, Duke, Princeton, Penn where you get top 20 lacrosse paired with elite academics.
There is a fit for everyone, many great opportunities for our daughters.
Schools that combine Top 20 academic & Top 20 Lacrosse:
Lacrosse Ranking below...
University - year.....2015.......2016.......2017.....2018.....2019....2021.....2022
Looks like even when Duke, Stanford, Hopkins, Notre Dame are not ranked in the Top 20 they are pretty competitive and close. Maybe "others receiving votes"...
Average Ranking - used a rank of 25 for the years not ranked...
Obviously there are other Top 20 academic schools as well as Top 20 lacrosse schools but the ones listed above seem to be the ones that are most consistently Top 20 Lacrosse that are also Top 20 academic.
If Stanford is so overrated, please tell us the schools / lacrosse programs that Stanford is "overrated" ahead of.
Sorry, just don't see it. Stanford is a great academic school with a very good lacrosse program. What lacrosse programs does Stanford get ranked ahead of that they should not be ranked ahead of?
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