lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is Madlax's 2022 roster SO WEAK. They barely have enough players to field a team and the roster isn't very strong. What is going on with that?

Many have left for other clubs.

[Anonymous]

Mad lax 2022 team is in the top 5 teams at this age group.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anybody NOT heard from Next Level? I realize at this point he should just expect a rejection, but surprised to have not heard anything.

I think everybody has heard. You should email. Maybe they got your email address wrong, maybe it is in your Junk mail.

Or maybe they just blew off getting back to some families like ours a couple years ago. NL is third rate and third class. [/quote


+1 we also haven't heard anything back either. They have the right email since they emailed about the tryouts. Not in junk mail. Just a lack of class not to let families know.

[Anonymous]

If other families have heard and you haven't, it's one of two things:

1. They are going through the list and if they get declines, they go to the next person on the list

2. Your son isn't going to be selected and they haven't gotten around to telling you or they aren't going to tell you for whatever reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If other families have heard and you haven't, it's one of two things:

1. They are going through the list and if they get declines, they go to the next person on the list

2. Your son isn't going to be selected and they haven't gotten around to telling you or they aren't going to tell you for whatever reason.[/quote]

Tryouts ended Sunday. Practices started this week. If you want to be seen as a good organization, you should respond back to people who tried out and did not make it. To say they haven't gotten around to it or don't want to bother telling families that haven't made it does not show a well run organization.

Not sure what it is about lacrosse that people are so ready to make excuses for poor behavior of coaches and clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mad lax 2022 team is in the top 5 teams at this age group.

Top five at this age

Diamondbacks
Cannons
Hawks
Mad lax
Breakers

Next level is at the bottom of this age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If other families have heard and you haven't, it's one of two things:

1. They are going through the list and if they get declines, they go to the next person on the list

2. Your son isn't going to be selected and they haven't gotten around to telling you or they aren't going to tell you for whatever reason.[/quote]

Tryouts ended Sunday. Practices started this week. If you want to be seen as a good organization, you should respond back to people who tried out and did not make it. To say they haven't gotten around to it or don't want to bother telling families that haven't made it does not show a well run organization.

Not sure what it is about lacrosse that people are so ready to make excuses for poor behavior of coaches and clubs.

I am 08:26. Do you know how to read? Where in my post did I say such behavior is fine? I was explaining what it meant when you haven't heard any news so far. Nowhere did I say it was fine to leave a family out to dry this long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If other families have heard and you haven't, it's one of two things:

1. They are going through the list and if they get declines, they go to the next person on the list

2. Your son isn't going to be selected and they haven't gotten around to telling you or they aren't going to tell you for whatever reason.[/quote]

Tryouts ended Sunday. Practices started this week. If you want to be seen as a good organization, you should respond back to people who tried out and did not make it. To say they haven't gotten around to it or don't want to bother telling families that haven't made it does not show a well run organization.

Not sure what it is about lacrosse that people are so ready to make excuses for poor behavior of coaches and clubs.

I am 08:26. Do you know how to read? Where in my post did I say such behavior is fine? I was explaining what it meant when you haven't heard any news so far. Nowhere did I say it was fine to leave a family out to dry this long.

You are just proving my point about lacrosse behavior. Rudeness at every level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If other families have heard and you haven't, it's one of two things:

1. They are going through the list and if they get declines, they go to the next person on the list

2. Your son isn't going to be selected and they haven't gotten around to telling you or they aren't going to tell you for whatever reason.[/quote]

Tryouts ended Sunday. Practices started this week. If you want to be seen as a good organization, you should respond back to people who tried out and did not make it. To say they haven't gotten around to it or don't want to bother telling families that haven't made it does not show a well run organization.

Not sure what it is about lacrosse that people are so ready to make excuses for poor behavior of coaches and clubs.

I am 08:26. Do you know how to read? Where in my post did I say such behavior is fine? I was explaining what it meant when you haven't heard any news so far. Nowhere did I say it was fine to leave a family out to dry this long.

You are just proving my point about lacrosse behavior. Rudeness at every level.

Sorry you have reading comprehension issues. If you didn't, you'd realize that I wasn't condoning their lack of communication. Sorry that you're so sensitive about your son not being selected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If other families have heard and you haven't, it's one of two things:

1. They are going through the list and if they get declines, they go to the next person on the list

2. Your son isn't going to be selected and they haven't gotten around to telling you or they aren't going to tell you for whatever reason.[/quote]

Tryouts ended Sunday. Practices started this week. If you want to be seen as a good organization, you should respond back to people who tried out and did not make it. To say they haven't gotten around to it or don't want to bother telling families that haven't made it does not show a well run organization.

Not sure what it is about lacrosse that people are so ready to make excuses for poor behavior of coaches and clubs.

I am 08:26. Do you know how to read? Where in my post did I say such behavior is fine? I was explaining what it meant when you haven't heard any news so far. Nowhere did I say it was fine to leave a family out to dry this long.

You are just proving my point about lacrosse behavior. Rudeness at every level.

Sorry you have reading comprehension issues. If you didn't, you'd realize that I wasn't condoning their lack of communication. Sorry that you're so sensitive about your son not being selected.

Your continued insults reflect poorly on you and how you conduct yourself. I have not insulted you at all. Hope you can stop being so angry.

[Anonymous]

I can see why NL didn't bother to contact that family back. Unless the kid is an absolute stud, no reason to deal with a headache like that mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can see why NL didn't bother to contact that family back. Unless the kid is an absolute stud, no reason to deal with a headache like that mom.

This is funny. I asked the original question but was not the one following up. My son did get his rejection later that evening (which I was fully expecting, though in fact he is a total stud and I am the complete opposite of a headache).

[Anonymous]

The knuckleheads and glorified PE teachers who manage lacrosse clubs should appreciate that these are kids. When they see adult figures who have no common decency toward players to inform them of a tryout result, and consider parents who take offense to that to be headaches, well, that about puts them in a gutter where they belong. Insulting customers isn't the best way to run a business either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see why NL didn't bother to contact that family back. Unless the kid is an absolute stud, no reason to deal with a headache like that mom.

This is funny. I asked the original question but was not the one following up. My son did get his rejection later that evening (which I was fully expecting, though in fact he is a total stud and I am the complete opposite of a headache).

I'm sure he is a complete stud. In your own mind.

[Anonymous]

I just looked at the original post in this thread and it started out (years ago) around the time of the George Hugely/Yeardly Love murder as a discussion of how the "lacrosse culture" (so-called "laxbros" who are entitled, spoiled, party a lot, get special treatment from teachers and coaches, etc.) at local prep schools (particularly Landon) and at UVA, may or may not have contributed to the tragedy. I am wondering if anyone thinks this laxbro culture has changed in the years since the murder? My son attends another area prep school and plays lacrosse. I haven't seen a lot of the laxbro culture there. Any thoughts?