lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what the academic requirements are at places like Duke and Notre Dame (and UVA and Hopkins) for laxers. These kids are committing as 15 years olds without any PSAT's or even many high school grades. When these schools sign these kids, do they care about academics at all? Do these kids have to keep grades up? It's pretty obvious in the Ivies that they do, but at these other "highly academic" schools, I wonder.

Recruits have to get a certain SAT score and maintain a certain GPA or they will not be admitted. Kids are verbally committed as freshmen or sophomores, but still do not officially get accepted to fall of senior year.

[Anonymous]

Time for someone to take her meds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time for someone to take her meds.

There should be a Hunger Games for lacrosse parents.

[Anonymous]

I am a lacrosse parent (but I like to think a relatively mellow one), and 12:06, your comment made my howl with laughter! thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Time for someone to take her meds.

There should be a Hunger Games for lacrosse parents.

We will have a Duke commit very soon. We will have a Duke commit shortly. Trust me, we will have a kid commited to Duke very very soon. We will...oh, never mind. Was that in Hunger Games two or three?

[Anonymous]

WTF?

lacrosse parents are NUTS on this board!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: WTF?

lacrosse parents are NUTS on this board!

Yes. Just like when at the zoo, don't try to pet or feed the MadLax, VLC, Landon, etc., etc. animals.

[Anonymous]

Animals yes...of the spineless (no backbone variety)

[Anonymous]

more like savages

[Anonymous]

All parents are nightmares, not just the lax ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: WTF?

lacrosse parents are NUTS on this board!

Assume that is true - what do you say about someone who comes on to a LAX parent thread to post about LAX parents, but is not a LAX parent?

[Anonymous]

AAU basketball parents are pretty nuts too.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps, but in basketball a player can actually make money in a profitable league after college!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps, but in basketball a player can actually make money in a profitable league after college!

It's profitable.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-23/wall-street-job-pipeline-finds-work-for-college-lacrosse-players.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Landon supporter -- let's get that straight. To keep dredging up the UVA lacrosse murder as somehow emblematic of Landon's lacrosse program is just irresponsible. Landon attracts many good young lacrosse players and has a nice track record of getting those players into top programs. Schools in the Ivy League and other top programs would not take these kids if they thought there was any kind of institutional "problem" at the school. Over the years, lacrosse, like football or any other sport, has "black eyes" from the behaviors of its players. Landon, STA, SSSA, Prep and other programs have lax alumni who have squandered opportunities due to behavioral missteps when at college. It is not a Landon-only issue. Bigger picture: Compared to the rest of college-age young men, I am not ready to agree that lacrosse players have a greater propensity to engage in illegal or even irresponsible conduct. I think there is a rush to paint bad behavior as having a "lax bro" component. That is a problem for the sport as it is for football and basketball as far as I am concerned. Perhaps football and basketball get a pass because stories of misbehavior go back for generations. With the relatively recent popularity of lacrosse (and its perceived "elite" status), I submit that the sport is a fresh target for criticism.

This makes sense to me. When I was in college in the Northeast the hockey players were the baddest of bad boys. The "tribal" culture of physical team sports, with drinking added (ubiquitous on college campus), results in men's teams and women's teams getting into trouble (although add testosterone to the mix and the men's stuff is often more violent). I would argue that there is a bit of a "party-on dude" culture in lacrosse, and maybe smaller coaching staffs for supervision, that results in institutions like UVA's "Sunday Funday" drunkfest every week. I think maybe in-season football/basketball might be more supervised on stuff like that?

I'd love to hear about the women's teams who got in trouble.