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Message: [QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 3387732, member: 229"] Not a chance I compared OCC to D1s and if I did I was drunk. I do think there's a misconception that when people talk D1 though they're referring to Syracuse, Duke, UVA, Maryland, Yale etc. but they forget or don't realize there are 74 division 1 playing lacrosse schools. There are a lot of front end D2/D3 kids who can assuredly play at many of them - schools like Cleveland St, Detroit Mercy, Canisus, Wagner, Holy Cross, Drexel, Hampton, now Merrimack etc etc etc. (in fact Merrimack is a good example that the top D2 school isn't far off from D1. They beat Michigan and only lost their other games to established D1 schools by literally 1 and 2 goals , in just their first year.) That says a lot. [URL unfurl="true"]https://merrimackathletics.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/schedule/2020[/URL] Charlie Bertrand was recruited by Division 1 schools out of high school. But playing for Merrimack was > than playing for Siena or Fairfield. (that's fairly common) Cortland St has high school All Americans on their team. A kid like Dante Yacavone - a HS AA - 6-2 200 could have played at a much higher level if he had wanted to. The biggest difference imo between levels are the size of the kids. It's not talent or even speed, it's pure size. There are a lot of 5-8, 5-9 155 kids who can ball out and if they were 5-11 / 6-0 they'd be on a D1 roster. The exceptional ones obviously do play D1. What separates the teams however is what Townie said and that's the depth. The back of a Syracuse roster can play any level. The backend of a Cansisus roster might get off into the weeds a little though. Overall it's not like college football. By and large the "front ends" of the top D2/D3 schools can play at any level, and if they couldn't play on the back end of a team like Syracuse they could play on the bottom half of D1. Heck, Syracuse has had kids drop down to LeMoyne. Syracuse wouldn't take this kid if they didn't think he'd compete for a starting spot. Kid is 6-2 205 3X All American and can run like a deer. Lacrosse coaches know who's who. [/QUOTE]

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