<p>Please don't take me the wrong way, I mean goon in the nicest sense:) Football players can be great athletes. The two sports just have totally different skill sets.</p>
<p>If I had to raid a team from another sport to fill a lacrosse roster, I'd go to the basketball team. The footwork and body positioning are the same. Passing lanes -- finding them and closing them -- are the same. Clearing the ball and moving the ball past midcourt are the same. The game flows in a similar fashion, too.</p>
<p>I liken lacrosse to basketball -- the other North American sport -- and hockey. Not football. But, yes, one of the all-time greatest football players was also one of the all-time greatest laxers. I'm sure, if he put his mind to it, he could have been one of the all-time greatest tiddly-winkers and all-time greatest hop-scotchers and all-time greatest cricket players. Alas, he was too soft and gave all of it up for a movie career that ended when he got shot by those darned Nazis. I still cry when I think of that. Why?! He was so close to pulling it off.</p>
<p>He did pull it off -- he got every one of those grenades into those vents before those dirty Nazees shot him in the back! I thought "100 Rifles" was his best role, but then again he was paired with Raquel Welch. Ummmm, Raquel Welch.</p>
<p>Best former football player turned actor, college or pro? Toss up between the double murderer and the late, great Marion Morrison.</p>
<p>iherculz- yo bi<em>ch i picket that s</em>*t up in a year, im playing for exeter nowa.</p>
<p>yankees-Great for you. Win all-american yet? learn to check other people when you have the ball? Learn to shoot 100+ yet? It's not that easy. know how to do front-flip and shoot? (i don't know how to do a flip either) Took me a year to be good at lax too, I'm not saying it takes a fricken decade. I'm top scorer in Mass league and in the top ranked team in one season. As for football, I've been the best in state in 1 season. I thought i broke state record in 1 game rushing yards (but thought wrong because i tired the dam record- 759 yds in one game =]). </p>
<p>It took so much more practice for me in lax for make mad dope fakes and to check with the ball, then to run a football down the field. It doesn't matter, I'm a swimmer, which usually translates into a person who can't play ball sports and doesn't like sweating so they swim. Swimmings defiantly harder then any sport I've played- Lax and football is a piece of cake compared to swimming.</p>
<p>Pssssh. I rushed for 6000 dopin yards v. the Ohio State JV one dayo. That afternoon I pitched two no hittys. In the dark time I broke Us record in the 225 yd medlay. Now I'm in prison, which be a piece o' cake.</p>
<p>wowowowowowowow</p>
<p>maurice clarett?</p>
<p>Boston Magazine's Sept 2006 The Rankings: How the area's best private (& public schools) measure up: (I've not put in the public schools).</p>
<p>Philips Academy, Andover
Middlesex (ISL)
Nobles (ISL)
Roxbury Latin (ISL)
BB&N (ISL)
The Winsor School
Commonwealth School
Groton (ISL)
Boston Latin
Newton Country Day
Brooks School (ISL)
Milton (ISL)
BU Academy
Concord Academy
Belmont Hill (ISL)
Brimmer & May
Worcester Academy
Thayer Academy (ISL)
St. Mark's (ISL)</p>
<p>For last year's rankings, the article (in tiny print) went on to say that they were trying to identify the area's most well-rounded schools...offering something for every type of student...and providing them all a top-notch education. At first, I thought the question about ISL rankings wasn't relevant to me, but the inclusion of favorite schools in the ISL was important to my DD! Now that I've posted this list, I have to say, from one year to the next, one school went from #33 to almost top of the list.</p>
<p>jg0339, which one went from 33 to almost top of the list? Any idea why there was such a sudden movement?</p>
<p>Hard to believe that a school would jump from 33 to high on the list considering there's nothing arbitrary or capricious about ranking prep schools. And to compare single-sex day schools to co-ed boarding schools...it all makes perfect sense and it's easily quantifiable...if they're playing football!</p>
<p>The Boston Magazine rankings are designed to sell magazines, that's all. It's not exactly a credible source.</p>
<p>Middlesex went from #33 to #2. MDX administration initially refused to submit any data to Boston Magazine. So Boston Magazine made a very rough estimate, based on lack of data, resulting in a very low ranking. There was a huge hue & cry among Middlesex parents and administration. Low & behold, next time around, Middlesex cooperated with Boston Magazine and rose in the rankings.</p>