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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the top club teams have more public school team members than priavte school players, none.  Its still largely a private school sport.[/quote]

Check back in 10 years. This post will be laughable (and inaccurate) by then.  The rise of Loudon public school lax is noticeable, and soon MoCo will be able to compete with the lower ranked WCAC and IAC teams.[/quote]

Pleazzzzze.  Public school lacrosse has one or two goods.players per team and the rest are football players trying to knock peoples heads off.  The level of team play pales in comparison, and always will.  [/quote]

But it doesn't pale in comparison because there are better athletes in private.   It pales right now because Lacrosse, like hockey, like golf, are very very expensive sports to play.  Most publics dont have lacrosse as a result.  It is just beginning to get funded at schools in DC and NYC.  If the funding and interest continues, which it looks like it will given the college scholarships and hooks available, you can be sure that more and more non white, non private school kids will be winning championships and taking spots in college from white private school kids.  i think it will take at least 10 years for it to become an established sport in all major urban areas with dominant public school teams but I have no doubt it will happen.   If I had a 6year old and I was grooming him for a lax scholarship in college I may reconsider putting much effort into it.  But I guess my white private school kid is ok for now.  [/quote]

And to the people looking to shoot down my argument, lacrosse is very expensive but not prohibitive if the equipment can be provided.  Hockey and golf do need specific arenas to play that are expensive in and of themselves to maintain and access. [/quote]

The larger p[roblem is the parents.  Lacrosse has a long history in certain circles and parents are critocal to success in lacrosse.  To truly improve stick work and skills takes a lot of extra work - coaching, clinincs, priavtes. 
Parents who themsleves arent from a background that "get" lacrosse will (and do, I see it in DC area all the time) will not pay for all the extra lessons and time it takes to make a superioir lax player.  Lacrosse is not like football or basketball.  Advanced stick skills are very specific and not intuitive.  [/quote]

But a kid who is a very good basketball player can throw against a wall every day with either hand and still be a good enough lacrosse player to beat out a non basketball playing rich white kid on a middle school team or club team tryout and then get the skills needed through coaching to be recruited.  There were not special instructional places like Next Level 15 years ago that catered to rich people getting their kids stick skills early.   Nor were there those places in Long Island.  Kids just played and were coached by knowledgeable people.  The industry that has become specialized instruction in this sport is fairly recent and mirrors the businesses of special instruction in other sports.  Just becaus your kid does one on one basketball at age 7 doesn't mean he will beat out a kid who does his ball handling drills every day at home in his living room.   Sorry, but your argument does not hold water.  I understand why you want to make it but there are plenty of lacrosse coaches who will volunteer their time for the underprivileged to play.  And there are clinics for those people.   Their will be more  can assure you.  But you are right in that the payoff for coaches or businesses to volunteer their services is not as great as for something like basketball where the money from college trickles down to 7 year olds playing for shoe companies, I mean AAU teams.  [/quote]

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