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been hearing this for years....

While most of that makes sense the problem is generally when people on this site are trying to judge what those wrong reasons are for other peoples kids. Boston College was singled out because some blowhard decided the students graduating from there were automatically better qualified compared to several other universities . There are many variables that go into what school is best for each student .

yes they have had great talent for years, and no they have never gotten it done. Fla had that 7 goal second-half lead in the semis against SYR and just kept going to goal like she likes it. maybe the biggest choke job ever really.

Florida a show-me team. Put 'em in a big game against Md / NC on Memorial Day Weekend??? bet the house against them.

That's BC mindset in a nutshell, snobbish vineyard vines wearing a-holes from LI, CT, NJ, MD & MA

Boston College is a good school with a good lacrosse program. If it is the right place for your daughter then it is a great place. They get some great players and they get some average players (average for a good DI program). Just about all of the girls playing there are pretty darn good and I am sure they are good students as well. That is the same at every school (including Maryland, North Carolina, Florida etc...) not every player at Maryland is better than every player at Boston College.

Many on this site try to justify and or pump up their daughters choice of school by putting down or diminishing other schools or programs. Stony Brook supports trying to tear down Northwestern, Boston College Supporters putting down Maryland, Florida and Penn State. NESCAC supporters touting that they choose DIII because of the academics as if none of the student athletes at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Penn, Duke, Hopkins, Dartmouth, Brown, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Vaderbilt, Georgetown, Virginia, Army, Navy etc.... do not focus on academics.

There seems to be some dialogue as to "what is a better school". The mixture of sports life, class work and your own student's desire is an almost impossible equation that if you hit on all three I applaud you. But to single out a particluiar school, such as Boston College or Northwestern (NW in particular carries a lot of passion on this board) is ignorant.

In years past large schools were able to recruit below their acceptance levels due too scale. You have a 40,000 student body so recruiting 500 students below the acceptance levels was OK--especially in money sports (men's football and basketball). But it carried over to other sports for "prestige".

The Ivies and Little Ivies were the exception. You still needed to meet the acceptance standards. But not long ago that changed--again in the money sports but for the Ivies it was men's basketball. I'm not saying they reduced the standards like other schools (lets face it, Kentucky has no standards for its basketball program; they only stay a year), but they tweaked it just enough to get a qualit's player (Lin). That network money come tournament time was nice!

So you see t his now through all levels of college sports. The Ivies are still tough, don't get me wrong, but they have a bit of flexibility. NESCAC schools on the D3 level are the same way. You still need to in the top 10 percentile, good test scores, etc.

Jobs! That's why we send our students to the same schools, right? I'm a Villanova graduate and in my day went to Haverford down the road for some parties. Became friendly with a Haverford student who said, with a bit of superiority, "You go to Villanova? You'll work for me someday". Funny thing is I did and it worked out for both of us. Friend to this day.

My point is you have a student that wants to be a doctor, engineer, etc they better be extraordinary to make it as a D1 student. That's why you see a lot of Communication majors in D1. Slide over to D3, and the NESCAC (which I know well) and you have pre-law, pre-med, finance, graduate school candidates--it's a different deal. So if you want your student to have a good job maybe a finance degree from Middlebury will get them that Wall Street job better than a communications degree from Northwestern (just using NW because it's such a target on this thread!).

The worst school is not a school by name but when a student picks a school for all the wrong reasons.

Middlebury? You could have used a better example. That school and students are a total disgrace. And those students as our future is killing this once great country. Snowflakes!

What's up with ND3x

I need examples to your reply. I think you are thinking of a different school.

I need examples to your reply. I think you are thinking of a different school.

I need examples to your reply. I think you are thinking of a different school.

I need examples to your reply. I think you are thinking of a different school.

Agree. Great to see so many teams in the mix. Will be good for the sport.

Can a team 3 games under 500still be ranked in the top 20?

its an unwatchable game. They say it gets better, as they get older. Its horrific when they are small , terrible in high school, and bad in college.I guess thats the progress i have heard much about.

its an unwatchable game. They say it gets better, as they get older. Its horrific when they are small , terrible in high school, and bad in college.I guess thats the progress i have heard much about.

BC in a week gains one of the best attackers in the game, Apuzzo's numbers will only go up as the team's offense gets stronger. They will be much better in a week. And no im not this person parent nor a BC parent, i just have an opinion. She has 51 points through 9 games, most in the country

So you're saying that a team that barely beat the #29 team lost to the #33 team, lost to a team that was at that time in the 30's, got blown out by the # 10 team, lost to the # 30 team still somehow deserves to be ranked in the top 20. Sorry that's a B.S. system. That is why girls will flock to those same 5 teams that always win because they only play each other and will remain that way. Even if they lose people like you come up with some way to keep them in the mix when they clearly should not be.

Most in the country is realative. She is the first player off the course and in the club house, the Phils and Tigers are still on the front nine.
BC has played 11 games so far, that is a lot compared to many other programs. For comparisons sake, the SBU player has 50 points in 7 games. 5.2 points per game avg for SA and KO has a 7.1 points per game average. Plus a bunch of others have better point averages, just haven't played as many games. If a season were 20 games , SA on course for a 103 point Season and KO on course for 143 point season. And many others on target for higher than 103.
In the end I am a SA and BC fan. But the T award has only ever gone to top players on championship teams or very near championship teams. BC is not that. Someone made the argument that it should go to the best player, that's what this excercise here is about. SA is a great player, that 51 points in 9 games, now 57 in eleven, is not the best in the country.

They both are really good players, but to use points per game as the barometer for the T award is short sighted. It should be a factor, But there are so many more aspects to the game. I have a tough time giving it to an attacker who only affects one side of the field. Give me the great 2 way middy any day. I t is silly to just look at points. A great defensive middy who can transition,get draw controls and score in my opinion is way more valuable than the kid with the most points, Especially when the schedules are not balanced. Many of those points could be in garbage time against less competitive teams. This isn't a knock on those 2 players, they are great , but there are kids who do way more on both ends.

All you have to do is google it. Student protest shuts down free speech and assaults teacher sending her to the hospital. You must watch CNN and MSNBC where they choose not to report on matters unflatterIng to their view of the world.

Actually a Fox guy. Found an Op Ed from the professor in the New [lacrosse] Times on the matter. He seemed to take the injury in context to the protest better than you did.

All schools are liberal at its base. Yale gave out coloring books and the day off after the election. Princeton brought in puppies. Cal did significant damage during a protest. Don't let the militant minority drive you nuts.

Forbes ranks Middlebury as the 4th best school in terms of tuition cost versus real world earnings.