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[quote=Anonymous]Early in my son's lacrosse career he played for Madlax.  At that time he wasn't good enough to play on the "capital" team so he played on the MD VA team.  I had no issues with that at all, he wasn't good enough to play on the A team.  I didn't even have an issue with the cost being the same.  What I had an issue with is that if you weren't on the A team, you were being coached by dudes who showed up to practice late, rarely came with enough lacrosse balls to have a practice and typically it was one guy trying to coach the entire team while that capital team routinely had 2 and 3 heavily engaged coaches at everything.  The A team didn't even practice at the same place as the B team so there was no way for them to ever look at kids who were improving or help lift the skills of the lesser squad.  That was frustrating but the last straw was going to tournaments and having the bro coaches spend more time hanging out talking to their friends, I witnessed them drinking beer in the MadLax staff tent between games and about 5 minutes before game time they'd roll up and say "let's go."  It was too much and most of the players scattered from that team shortly thereafter.  I wanted it to work, I wanted to give my son something to strive for (playing for the capital team), but in the end it was clearly just a money grab to have a B team that you had no real intention of developing.  My son has since moved onto another team and is playing at a high level and getting great coaching.  So, no hate for Madlax at all, their top teams are truly talented and they get good coaching.  Their other teams are just a waste and parents are clinging to the brand name rather than evaluating what their son is getting out of the experience.[/quote]

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