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Message: [QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 5742866, member: 396"] I've got to assume you went to SU. Maybe it was awhile ago. I can assure you that we haven't gotten close to spring yet in upstate new york and schools are using grass fields sparingly if at all. At this point, they'd be more of an injury risk for the team than something that actually helps them prepare for a game. And regardless, the grass is completely different up here than it is in the Carolinas. I can only speak for Section 2, but pretty much all of the high level schools/programs are playing on turf right now. Ballston Spa and Averill Park are the only two high schools I know of without a turf field that play lacrosse at a decent level. What are you so concerned about? No one cares. We've lost to arguably the two best teams in the country and played an absolute stinker of a game and only lost by one in terrible weather on the road. Our RPI speaks for itself. Gait's never going to trash kids or coaches publiclly the way hardos want. People will always troll Syracuse. I think the bolded is what you are taking much lighter than lacrosse recruits and their families. Lacrosse is one of two sports dominated by the upper middle class. The hot beds are Long Island, New England prep schools [Metro Boston and Connecticut Gold Coast], Mainline Philly, MIAA, and DC Metro. These are families with wealth, are wealth adjacent, value education, and even more so value the connections that can be made through attending elitist educational institutions. In no other college sport (maybe hockey) do Ivy's and Military Academies recruit on par with Power 5 type schools. There's a reason the top of D3 is mostly dominated by NESCAC, Liberty, and Centennial school. And that schools from those conferences top to bottom would work over all but a couple/handful of D2 schools. Syracuse, in addition to just being a worse value proposition, doesnt have the same connections to Wall Street, and the best MBA, Law, and Med Schools as the schools we are losing recruits to. What does Syracuse offer that other schools can't: 1. We have a real lacrosse culture that does not exist anywhere else. These top recruits going to Duke, Carolina, etc., are going to play glorified high school ball. 2. The program is legendary and coached by a legend. That mattered to Joey Spallina. Maybe it'll matter to others? Seems is '26 and '27 we are pulling more kids from Georgia and Texas where our name recognition probably matters as much as the rich kid stuff cited above. 3. We play a pretty fast and free flowing style where you don't get you ear chewed off for going behind the back (a simple play for kids these days), one handed, etc. [/QUOTE]

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