Of course so did Miller Place kids until 1972, but that's before my time.
St. John's Hires Former All- American Duke Lax Player As New Coach
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1970 Grad of Hicksville High School and it was real big then. Just didn’t have mass recognition like Football, Basketball
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Yes they did.
FriendofJohnnie
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Why is the team/program so bad? Been having quite a drop off in recent years. Shame because NJ and LI have alot of talent they cannot keep home?
Exactly, NJ is huge into Lacrosse and LI even more so, keep some of these kids home!
Friend of mine was an ex-captain of lax team and stays in touch. He told me NIL was a concern as well many suburban kids parents want their kids going away from city.
the StJ's men's lacrosse program is underfunded.
My best friend's nephew an excellent HS lacrosse player at Bergen Catholic transferred out to Bryant, because he said that St. John's felt that a total commuter school and everyone went home weekends, he wanted a real on-campus experience.
I am far removed and when I attended we were 99-100% commuters, so I can't comment other than we lost a good player.
I am far removed and when I attended we were 99-100% commuters, so I can't comment other than we lost a good player.
FriendofJohnnie
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On that note- it makes perfect sense from your best friend's nephew's perspective. When I was there 2011-2017(including grad school) it always felt like a commuter school. How do you think they could make the campus so that the whole campus does not go home on the weekends? What are some things that we are missing? If the area was better around campus, would that make a difference? I recall that same issue, weekends it was a ghost town.
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So the bigger schools have a stronger budget I take it, to recruit and now do these NILs?
On that same note, I went to now defunct Staten Island campus in the early to mid 70's 100% commuters, and I think Queens in that timeframe was as well. I went to the Queens campus for Law School in the mid 70-s ending in 1978, it was I think still 100% commuters. The attempt to transform to a residential campus came after a study said it would help academics but I think that was in the 90's, I could be mistaken.
In 2011 when my daughter was looking at the Queens campus for Law School they did not offer housing of any sort. But, when we visited the campus that my wife attended grad school and I attended Law at the same time (we met as undergrads), the campus looked a lot different with housing set out in one corner. Duaghter ended up at a different law school.
However, looking at a sea of different parking lots the campus as a whole still had a majority commuter vibe. Unlike Fordham which went through a similar metamorphosis much earlier, which feels much more like a residential setting. As well as Manhattan College for my two nieces.
I guess the morale of the story is if an athlete is looking for a true residential campus feel ours isn't at the top of that list. Having said that for non-athletes, like my wife and I, who were first generation college students, getting a fine education and commuted it fit the bill and was reasonably priced compared to other private universities. I wouldn't have gone anywhere else.
Now we have to get and keep superb lacrosse players from throughout the tri-State area and our team will improve.
I got offered by Duke, but I went to St. John's sounds good to me.
My daughter went there from the 2014/15 and 2015/16 school years and felt he same way. She brought student basketball tickets but a lot of students would not go. Now she was one of those who went home on the weekends but always said there really wasn’t anything to do on or around campus. She wound up transferring to Binghamton and it was the total opposite. There isn’t much around that campus but there was a lot more student activities and downtown Bing was not that far away (15 minutes tops) with a lot for students to do.
My son went to Penn State's Tech College in Williamsport. It looked like there would be activity on w/e's with over 2,000 living in the dorms. He had a dorm room with 5 roommates but it turned out to be a bummer as they all went home on w/e's along w/ most of the other dorm residents. They couldn't even enough kids to fill the bus for trips to State College for the football games. Nearest movie theater was about 10 miles away and there was no downtown to speak of. My son is a city kid who did not drive (used to subway and buses). He left after the first semester and looked at schools in NYC and ended up going to St. Francis on a scholarship.
PS-maybe it is time to get rid of the LAX team and go back to having a "club" rugby team or men's track and field
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It really depends on what kids want.
Going from zero wins (which was awful for recruiting) to winning some games including a big win over Marquette can only help.
I'm not a lacrosse expert but it seems like they are getting better and St. John's has a legacy of lacrosse. It'd be a shame to see it go.
Going from zero wins (which was awful for recruiting) to winning some games including a big win over Marquette can only help.
I'm not a lacrosse expert but it seems like they are getting better and St. John's has a legacy of lacrosse. It'd be a shame to see it go.