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How is the great player doing in college?

Screwed up my response:

I don't know him personally, but he seems to be doing well enough. I believe he started most games last year as a freshman.

Agreed well said

Better than you are in life, I would bet.

Moderator, please remove current player's names from ALL RECENT POSTS.

Moderator, please remove current player's names from ALL RECENT POSTS.

Moderator, please remove current player's names from ALL RECENT POSTS.

Chaminade but haapy for pequia!

They are. The only players names are those that have graduated. Cant you read that I have in every post that mentions a current player.

Chaminade is a club team playing PAL teams and they want to beat their chests. It's hysterical!! West Islip, Massapequa, Greenwich, Ward Melville, Manhasset, Yorktown. Those parents have to buy houses in those towns vs deciding when their child is entering 9th grade to pay the Chaminade tuition. Chaminade should be 6-0 against those teams, right?

I hate to harp on this but the kid's name still appears 7 times on page 70 in quotes of the original post.

I hate to harp on this but the kid's name still appears 7 times on page 70 in quotes of the original post.

The player is in college!!!!

Put away your dictionary, we aren't impressed.

Would never bother to even attempt to impress someone who writes something as ignorant as that. Wow.

The logic behind this uninformed missive is borderline unintelligible.

Chaminade is a club team playing PAL teams and they want to beat their chests. It's hysterical!! West Islip, Massapequa, Greenwich, Ward Melville, Manhasset, Yorktown. Those parents have to buy houses in those towns vs deciding when their child is entering 9th grade to pay the Chaminade tuition. Chaminade should be 6-0 against those teams, right?

I don't care what word you use, this "beat their chest" post is idiotic. DISCLOSURE: I do not have a dog in this hunt - my son plays for West Islip. First, I know several Chaminade coaches, players and parents. I rarely (i.e. never) see any "chest-beating". Second, this logic is the same old, tired bashing of Chaminade lacrosse: "you pull from all over Long Island therefore you should dominate all the publics..." To those who buy into this, do you really believe every kid enrolling at Chaminade is a stud lax player? Seriously? 70% of the kids going there head straight to the chess club or the AV club - and that's fine. The pool of lacrosse talent there is strong, yes, but no stronger than a huge school like Ward Melville. WM has a massive amount of young talented athletes who come up the Three Village system and play together for 7-8 years by the time they are on Varsity. Same for many of the other large publics. Schools like WM, WI, Pequa, GC, etc. breed a ton of lax studs who play together forever and then opt to stay public and hang out with chicks. Can you blame them? For every stud athlete at Chammy there are 10 dorks mixing it up in the Science club. Again, that's cool...whatever they're into. Lastly, the quality of coaching cannot be overlooked. I think JM and Pomponio are two of the best coaches on Long Island. They have been turning good players into great players for over 30 years. So please, enough with the crying over Chaminade lacrosse and their supposed "unfair" advantage. It's pathetic.

I don't care what word you use, this "beat their chest" post is idiotic. DISCLOSURE: I do not have a dog in this hunt - my son plays for West Islip. First, I know several Chaminade coaches, players and parents. I rarely (i.e. never) see any "chest-beating". Second, this logic is the same old, tired bashing of Chaminade lacrosse: "you pull from all over Long Island therefore you should dominate all the publics..." To those who buy into this, do you really believe every kid enrolling at Chaminade is a stud lax player? Seriously? 70% of the kids going there head straight to the chess club or the AV club - and that's fine. The pool of lacrosse talent there is strong, yes, but no stronger than a huge school like Ward Melville. WM has a massive amount of young talented athletes who come up the Three Village system and play together for 7-8 years by the time they are on Varsity. Same for many of the other large publics. Schools like WM, WI, Pequa, GC, etc. breed a ton of lax studs who play together forever and then opt to stay public and hang out with chicks. Can you blame them? For every stud athlete at Chammy there are 10 dorks mixing it up in the Science club. Again, that's cool...whatever they're into. Lastly, the quality of coaching cannot be overlooked. I think JM and Pomponio are two of the best coaches on Long Island. They have been turning good players into great players for over 30 years. So please, enough with the crying over Chaminade lacrosse and their supposed "unfair" advantage. It's pathetic.

Kids do go there from all over for the reason to play lacrosse. Why? Who knows, unless they have a weak local program. Their science clubs don't win anything, so I don't know why a kid would flock there for that when publics like WM are blowing up the science fairs?? And they have girls!

Pervert. Just kidding. I agree.

Honestly, you have no idea what you're talking about. Standout lacrosse players at Chaminade represent a tiny fraction of those 1700 boys. Overall, the talent pool is strong (nobody argues that) but does not "dwarf" large publics in lacrosse-centric towns like WM, WI, Smithtown (both) where tons of kids have lacrosse sticks in their hands from the time they are in diapers. Many of these kids grow up together, play together and go to public HS together. You cannot quantify the benefit of this. Ultimately, lacrosse at this level comes down to great coaching and 4-5 standout kids who can make or break a team’s success. For example, how can Boys Latin in Baltimore - with 300 boys in the entire high school - perennially be one of the top teams in the country? By your logic, this could never happen. Can you explain this?

SO IF YOU PLAY LACROSSE and ENROLL AT CHAMINADE YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE PLAYERS IN THE AREAS? WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO CHAMINADE?

What is wrong with making cuts? Kids get cut in other sports like basketball and baseball all the time. Has been that way for decades. I guess everyone needs to get a trophy too. The wussification of America........