Reply to lax culture from an insider

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "lax culture from an insider"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are involved in both and the travel soccer parents are the worst I've ever seen.  Especially the one or two 'top 9 year olds' whose parents think Bc their kid is early to develop as a player, they are entitled to say and do whatever they want to subvert the coach and the entire club. [/quote]

I, too, have been involved in both, though my kids are older.  I find the  rabid parents in travel soccer to be truly laughable, as there is no real "payoff" for 99 percent of the kids.  If your end goal is to play HS varsity soccer I suppose, although many of the clubs in town prevent their kids from doing even that.  Otherwise, the odds of playing at the college level,  not to mention the Olympic and pro levels, are slim to none.

At least the lax parents have a fighting chance that their phenoms will get a chance at getting recruited to play by colleges. Of course even after getting the brass ring, don't count on any substantial scholarship money, and be prepared for your little snowflakes to be riding the bench for his college career.[/quote]

Your statement does not make sense you imply kids don't attend college for soccer- as many kids get recruited for soccer as they do lacrosse so what's behind that statement?[/quote]

College soccer players are recruited from all over the country.  The world actually.  College lacrosse players come mainly from the hotbeds of the NE and mid-Atlantic.  So it is a much smaller pool from which to draw, and hence a disproportionate number of kids from the area get recruited to play lacrosse at the college level.[/quote]

To the extent that lacrosse continues to spread in other parts of the country, and the DMV region is not as heavily represented on college rosters, probably there will be less delusional behavior by parents. But currently people believe it is reasonable to assume anything early gifted lacrosse player can  Play Division I.  That view in itself is dated by about 15 to 20 years, but even now this area is still a lacrosse hotbed and is overrepresented geographically on college rosters. So people see the stakes as being very high  and it feeds the unpleasant behavior. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics