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[QUOTE="relaxer, post: 5039000, member: 7852"]
It's kind of astounding considering that their arch rival churns out a D1 level FOGO at least every other year. I'd say that over the past 20 years that Darien has been a national power, it has had one truly great FOGO, during the 2014-2015 seasons. From 2021-2022 they had an above average FOGO who could scrap it up and often get to 40-50% against the better guys, and from 2016-2018 they had an average FOGO who could at least win a few against top competition.

The other dozen or so years they have been so utterly helpless and if they get to 20% against a D1 FOGO they'd call that a win. I remember in 2019 they played back to back days on ESPNU against top 10 ranked St. Anthony's and Seton Hall Prep. They lost probably 45 out of 50 FOs combined across two games and held the lead late in the fourth quarter in both. I remember watching a game live in 2008 against Greenwich that cost them a national championship, where they not only lost every face-off, but gave up 4 out of 8 goals overall directly off of FO fast breaks.

If they had consistently good FOGO play (which the privates can always get by recruiting to fill the gap) they'd have been unstoppable this past decade; as it stands, when they had even average play from 2016-2018 they went on the third longest winning streak in the history of high school lacrosse.
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