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Date Posted: 10:58:50 05/27/26 Wed
Part of the answer is what you mentioned. In the women's game, you have one coach in particular, Amonte Hiller at Northwestern, who is a once-in-a-generation talent. There was a reason why Yale and Cornell were not also winning Ivy championships when Tierney was down in Tigertown.
North Carolina is also a program which has invested the money and resources to reload, not rebuild. Just with NU and NC, it's crowded at the top. Add BC and the job gets harder still.
But I think the real reason is what I mentioned earlier in this thread. Lacrosse is mostly played by white, suburban, upper middle class to 1%-type families, often coming out of private schools. These are the families to whom an Ivy League degree is most valuable.
If you don't have Michigan and Florida offering seven-figure paydays, the economically rational strategy is to stay and get your Ivy degree. You're welcome to tack on a post-grad year elsewhere if you've got the eligibility.
Women in general are less pointed to working on Wall Street, where the Ivy degree and old boys network is most valuable. If you get offered by Northwestern or North Carolina and, say, Princeton, Yale or Penn, the opportunity to win multiple national championships in Evanston or Chapel Hill is going to be something that the Ivies can't offer, without the Wall Street payday on the other side.
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