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[quote=Anonymous]Just one opinion: Top players get to choose among dream schools, next tier players get an offer from a dream school.  Next tier decides to play at a non-dream school that they are none the less still very happy about.  Next tier wants to play enough to commit to a school not otherwise on that student's radar from a non-lacrosse perspective.  Then there is a group that does not get an offer that is acceptable so decide to wait it out or try to walk on or play club.  There are a certain number of variables among those tiers such as a badly timed injury, exposure at top tournaments, desire for $$ over prestige, and what different families/players consider a "dream" from an academic vs. pure lacrosse program perspective.  But as for the last group I put a lot of that on the club program as it often results from unrealistic and untamed expectations.

Sure everyone knows those parents who insist that their daughter will play at XYZ school regardless of lack of interest and have been beating that horse since middle school,  But a good club should manage expectations with the hopes that everyone ends up in a happy spot.  If Princeton or Maryland etc. is interested in one player but not another, for example, that should be cleared up with that second family asap so that they can move on. It's like the classic mistake of thinking that if D1 doesn't work out you can always fall back on great NESCAC schools when often that ship has sailed as those school are focusing on the players who have been targeting D3 all along. Good club directors have a top ten to twenty list of schools from every player and if they are not helping the player update this in a realistic way throughout the recruiting process then those families haven't been well served for all of those years of time and money spent.  [/quote]

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