Wrestling and Lacrosse
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Actually lacrosse has a pretty national roster. only 14/53 kids are from NJ. I think lacrosse is about getting NY/NJ Eastern PA, and Baltimore kids to come home and then continue to recruit nationally.
Disagree. We need to be willing to look nationally for our players.
When your program gets strong you try to lock down your base and let the program attract top talent nationwide. I'd say the wrestling base of NJ and Eastern Pa. is stronger than the NJ lacrosse base. But some of the best lacrosse recruiting areas are less than a day trip away from campus. However, you'd be nuts to ignore Canada in lacrosse.
We have contributing lacrosse players from Utah and some odd places. there are some posters here that are dialed in to the h.s. lacrosse scene in NJ that could provide a better response, but it seems that a lot of the big name lacrosse players are still leaving the state although we obviously have some serious studs on the roster.
Absolutely. Whoever found Charlambedes from Ontario deserves a big bonus.
He wasn't hard to find. He went to Hill Academy which is one of the top 5 lacrosse preps programs you can play in.
NJ lacrosse is excellent but players are coming from everywhere now. Our recruiting is going to reflect that.
I think the geographical roster make up is very much what Coach Brecht likes.
NJ lacrosse is excellent but players are coming from everywhere now. Our recruiting is going to reflect that.
I think the geographical roster make up is very much what Coach Brecht likes.
There are a lot of NJ kids that will not come to Rutgers. It is not necessarily the environment some of the elite lax kids look for. I think that is the best way to put that.
But as we get better we will get more of the elite kids we want.
Agree. NJ is a women's soccer hot bed. Did you see the roster for the women's national team that won the World Cup, like 6 of the 20 players were from just NJ.
There's also a historical angle. As far back as the early 70's Maryland was coming and scooping up some of the top players in the state. UNC was starting to do it as well. The Ivies also have been recruiting in state since at least the late 60's. I played some summer lax for a group based in Fair Lawn in '72. Included players from the top programs back then, Fair Lawn, Montclair, Maplewood (Columbia) along with some prep school kids. There were about 4 Maryland players, 2 UNC players including a future captain and some Ivy schools represented.
I think the point can be made regarding what would happen if the best kids stayed home, look at Duke they have a whole midfield line of NJ kids plus a freshman pole who starts. Denver's face off guy is a NJ kid as is Cornell's. There are AA candidates at Yale and St. Joe's both from the same school in NJ. I believe what the other poster is saying is that these kids no longer have to look outside of NJ to find championship caliber lacrosse.
The team would be a contender for sure. Unfortunately from your other posts, there isn't buy in across the board. And that's ok, more than one way to skin this cat, as we are seeing. I don't expect that we will ever get all the best players in NJ. Even Maryland loses big time recruits from the state on the reg.
With LI right around the corner and the amount of Jersey kids we have access to, combined with emerging areas where we have found a lot of success recruiting, I am not too worried about it. Would love if all of Jersey's best stayed home, but we are getting some. Really happy what we have gotten from NJ and that what is coming.
It's more proof of when you get the RIGHT person in charge, give them some time and a few $$$. This is what happened in: Wrestling, MLAX, WSOC and until recently WBB.
And don't forget this is all being done BEFORE the B1G moolah.
It doesn't matter where they come from if they're good and coached the right way like the above mentioned programs.
Hopefully Pike and Ash are the guys in their respective sports.
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Pike seems like the right guy. I'm not sold on Ash yet. I pretty much love everything Ash does off the field. He's a great guy and a hard worker. He cleaned the program up with regard to off the field incidents. But he gets a pass because of the terribly depleted roster he had to roll out there last season. However, during games, a lot of coaching decisions were questionable. Mehringer was a disaster. But I have no ill will toward Mehringer. He was in over his head and was not ready to be a B1G offensive coordinator. Maybe 10 years from now he will be but now he's probably where he should be.
A lot of our LAX players are form out of state. A better example is Women's soccer.
Women's soccer is getting blue chip & quality players from NJ, however they are recruiting from all over the country, & getting very good quality players as well. Our starting Freshman D back last yr was a HS All-American from Connecticut.
Suburban white boys playing with sticks do not want Piscataway and New Brunswick.
Silly. You should look at the roster and delete your post.
Recruiting at home starts at a young age. Not necessarily directly recruiting any individual but building relationships with schools and clubs.
