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[quote=Anonymous]Wow. At this point I have heard so many repeated stories like on Madlax, to Blackwolf and VLC. I will be careful with this one but direct, VLC was a great program when the founder owned it. When it sold to the Crabs, it inherited everything foul about Crabs. My sons used to play for VLC and there was one instance where my son had a non-lacrosse prior commitment. He was in a school orchestra that planned a trip to perform out of the country and did fundraisers and it was a great honor they were selected to go. It coincided with a VLC tournament weekend, which I mentioned many months prior to the coach. Three weeks before the trip when we had passports, flights, hotels paid the coach sent an email that simply read -- YOU NEED TO CALL RYAN ASAP.

I called and emailed Ryan McClernan and left messages. He didn't respond at all. One week later the coach emailed me -- DID TOU STRAIGHTEN THIS OUT WITH RYAN? LET ME KNOW ASAP OR I NEED TO ROSTER ANOTHER KID.

I called and emailed the coach and Ryan all day, and finally reached the coach. I told him Ryan never responded. The coach said he spoke to Ryan earlier that day and didn't believe I was having trouble reaching Ryan and noted that this was a big tournament to be missing which I had known about when the kids tried out. He suggested he leave an email with me copied to Ryan to respond back to me. He wanted this to work out for my son to do his trip but also manage Ryan whom the coach said is the boss and while I am with you on this, it is his decision.

After I got the coach's email with Ryan copied I sent a humbled email thanking Ryan for speaking on this, that my son was excited for the season but that this one weekend was the only absence he'd have in three years because of the honor to go on this trip which was once in a lifetime.

Ryan didn't respond for another 10 days. The day before we left on the trip I called the coach and said as much. The coach sounded shocked and said he would call Ryan personally. Ten minutes later I got an email from McClernan that read -- "Your son and your family are no longer welcome in Crabs, and I am sending you a refund for the summer season today."

I still have that email. We left the next day and my son didn't have a summer club team to play on...we returned and he did a few events and was invited to guest play for another team and made the most of it. That fall he tried out for another club and has been much happier since.  [/quote]

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