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[QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 5511641, member: 396"]
This guy gets it.  It's a bunch of upper middle class to upper class families from LI, Fairfield County, Metro Boston, DC, etc., sending their kids (after holding them back for a year to gain an athletic advantage) to well-connected prep schools and then on to well-connected colleges.  Wall Street, private equity, hedge funds, and to a lesser extent med school or law school are the objective.  It's not what you know but who you know (I'm sure these kids are plenty bright too, but Princeton rejects 1600 4.4. kids all the time - these lax recruits are somehow more qualified?).

Syracuse is not as well situated as Notre Dame, Duke, UNC, UVA, and Ivies in this regard (surprise Michigan hasnt made more of a jump).  We're not losing kids to "peers." Moe Sobel wants a career in sports, and we have a good program for that.  If these kids wanted to be journalist or media moguls, we'd be all over it.  There is no other way we lose recruits.  Syracuse lacrosse is Texas football - biggest fanbase (it's not really close); best facilities; most accomplished former players athletically.  We lose recruits because of the above.  Not because Gait is a "ceo type" and not because of the weather.  I've heard we are very well positioned from a scholly and NIL standpoint. Unfortunately, we have the best "program" in a sport that doesnt yield highly profitable professional athletes.  These kids arent going to school to play lacrosse in the same way a football recruit or basketball recruit is choosing a school.
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