What is the perception of a lacrosse player?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-19/lacrosse-players-used-drugs-most-among-athletes-ncaa-reports.html

While college lacrosse players may be the best students of college athletes, they also have the most drug use.

+1 Lots of pot smokers and dealers on teams, both high school and travel, and more powerful drugs as the level of affluence goes up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Entitled little shits.

Lots of threads already on this.

+1

That kid at UVA who killed his girlfriend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Entitled little shits.

Lots of threads already on this.

+1

That kid at UVA who killed his girlfriend.

His name was George Huguely V, complete douchbag. Got 23 years and they apeal it every chance they get.

That is what I think of when I hear the word Lacrosse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My perception is this-

they are typically good looking, confident young men, good athletes, ambitious and driven. Most are smart and know with a good academic record it could help them get into school I feel up until about 5 years ago yes it was mostly rich white kids, but the game has changed A LOT. It is now being played across all racial and cultural lines, no exceptions.

Talent and a love for the game being the only common denominator.

True.

Over the last 10 or so years, I've noticed an increasing phenomenon - the Blue Collar Lax Player. You'll see that if your travel team plays tournaments outside of the DC area. From what I gather from the parents, they're all quite successful money-wise, owners of plumbing companies and the like, but Blue Collar through and through.

I know a plumber whose son played.

[Anonymous]

Lacrosse players are, with few exceptions, douche bags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse players are, with few exceptions, douche bags.

And you are a total biotch

[Anonymous]

I agree with13:53 but who resurrects these old threads???

[Anonymous]

Kobe bryant
Michael phelps
Ray rice
Hope solo
Mike tyson
Jameis winston
Michael vick
Barry bonds
Manti teo
Tonya harding
Oj simpson
Riley cooper

Guys, the above list took 90 seconds. Are we seriously going to talk about the perception of athletes and one sport? You have to be kidding me. Get over your obsession, regardless of the reason you have it. Anything you say about the average lacrosse player can be said about the average athlete and can be said about society at large. Aholes, check. Dbags, check. Snobs, check.
Funny, check. Kind, check. Arrogant, check...

[Anonymous]

Obnoxious entitled kids and loudmouth parents especially the Dads who are trying to relive the HS athletic experiences.

[Anonymous]

Worrying about "perception" is as shallow as it gets.

Good parents do this - they make decisions based on what actually goes on in their community.

[Anonymous]

I go to a school and play lacrosse. The stereotypes are mostly true. Rich, white, cocky and heavy partiers. The program I am in cost upwards of 800$ for spring season. Everyone on the team is white and we are all cocky to some degree. Plus there is a degree if racism against black players of the game. In terms of partying, lax is probably the biggest. On our yearly retreat there was a binge drink contest which freshman were a part of. A lot of these kids identities are hidden from parents but not to other students.

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of bullshit. Rich, white, cocky and heavy partiers....that can be applied as a description for almost all colleges and universities. The kids on that Duke lax team were royally screw by a political DA, a rush to judgement, the media, and a powerful group of 80 teachers that still run that school, They were all victims, as was the coach, whom lost his job, and, I know one of them. You would be proud to have any and all 3 of them as sons. Were they perfect? No. Show me one kid, in or out of lax, that is perfect. As for racism on lax, does some exist, I am sure. Meanwhile, does racism exist in society, or does it all originate from lax players? Does excess drinking occur by lax players? Yup, but same is true for bball players, football players, baseball players, and I would imagin even occasionally by member of the Thespian Group. Oh my. Or possibly, even, college kids NOT on any organized sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of bullshit. Rich, white, cocky and heavy partiers....that can be applied as a description for almost all colleges and universities. The kids on that Duke lax team were royally screw by a political DA, a rush to judgement, the media, and a powerful group of 80 teachers that still run that school, They were all victims, as was the coach, whom lost his job, and, I know one of them. You would be proud to have any and all 3 of them as sons. Were they perfect? No. Show me one kid, in or out of lax, that is perfect. As for racism on lax, does some exist, I am sure. Meanwhile, does racism exist in society, or does it all originate from lax players? Does excess drinking occur by lax players? Yup, but same is true for bball players, football players, baseball players, and I would imagin even occasionally by member of the Thespian Group. Oh my. Or possibly, even, college kids NOT on any organized sport.

Hyperbole much?

Yes, those kids at Duke were not guilty of rape and the prosecutor was punished for being overzealous. But that program and many of those kids were out of control. Maybe you don't think hiring strippers is a big deal, but that is far from a common practice on college campuses.

Pressler was run out partly because those kids were out on control for years.

[Anonymous]

Define "out of control"? Did you ever see the GPAs of the entire team? Arrest records? Did they all violate the school's own conduct code? Ya don't really know, do you. I actually don't think hiring strippers is a big deal. I also didn't know you keep abreast of ongoing current events at college campuses across the US. How do you find the time? And, if Pressler was run out "partly because those kids were out of control for years", what were the other parts? He was run out of the school because of the Group of 80, a liberal academic leadership, both of which still are in place, and the overall rush to judgement, by the media and folks like you. The prosecutor was not punished for being "overzealous" - he was DISBARRED permanently for not actively investigating the case, and, withholding evidence. Do you know 1 lax kid failed African American studies, simply because he was white, on lacrosse, and the professor, like you, decided he was out of control, and clearly guilty, simply by guilt of association. Is that what a college education should be?

Hyperbole much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Define "out of control"? Did you ever see the GPAs of the entire team? Arrest records? Did they all violate the school's own conduct code? Ya don't really know, do you. I actually don't think hiring strippers is a big deal. I also didn't know you keep abreast of ongoing current events at college campuses across the US. How do you find the time? And, if Pressler was run out "partly because those kids were out of control for years", what were the other parts? He was run out of the school because of the Group of 80, a liberal academic leadership, both of which still are in place, and the overall rush to judgement, by the media and folks like you. The prosecutor was not punished for being "overzealous" - he was DISBARRED permanently for not actively investigating the case, and, withholding evidence. Do you know 1 lax kid failed African American studies, simply because he was white, on lacrosse, and the professor, like you, decided he was out of control, and clearly guilty, simply by guilt of association. Is that what a college education should be?

Hyperbole much?

I went to Duke, and I know one of that "Group." They've been pilloried by some self-serving jerks trying to further their own careers, all of whom look at the lacrosse team's misbehavior as just boys being boys.

Meanwhile, locally, the police blotter is often full of recent lacrosse players.

No, not every lacrosse player is awful. But take a look at these stats:

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ncaa-survey-lacrosse-among-highest-of-alcohol-drug-use/29280

Cocaine use among men's lacrosse players: 10.3%. Among basketball players: 1.0%

Pot in basketball: 19.0%. Among lacrosse players: 46.3%

There's a problem. And no political wingnuts hijacking prosecutorial malfeasance in Durham can make it go away.