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[quote=Anonymous]Color me guilty. I am a dad posting on this site, and frankly I hope it contributes in some small way to getting this sport back to what it was...my oldest had so much fun playing the game and being teammates and friends to the kids he came up with. Nobody gave a crap about recruiting until junior year of high school, and at that point nobody resented the kids who were plainly top players who deserved college looks and a shot.

I have a 6th grader now, and for Christ sake, everyone is supposed to be thine enemy and rival for "looks" or "spots" or an All-Star roster at some stupid summer club tournament squeezed into a cow field in Bel Aire or Poolesville? Jesus, I am not real sure if it was 2013 or 2014 or...when that happened, but it just happened. This stopped being a sport and is a brothel for compulsive status addicts. Parents of seventh graders really are worried about a lot of recruiting related things and there is a business built around servicing that anxiety. Steve Jobs once wrote that people didn't know what they wanted until he gave it to them. Lacrosse feels a bit like that now...what you are being sold is what you are supposed to be consuming.

I don't know what it will do or how far it will go to push reforms, but I won't go silent on this showcase and club scumbag two step way this sport has gone. The clubs locally here need to be sending a different message: learn the game, supplement summer with box leagues and other opportunities to sling the ball around and catch it from different release points and angles. Wall ball is a waste of time and no kid wants to do that an hour a day anyways. Spend fifty bucks on a couple of mini-soccer goals and take your sons and his buddies to an empty field or tennis court and have them play pick-up 2 on 2 or 3 on 3. Kids can whoop it up flipping it around, flipping it behind the back and between their legs as a goof. And while having fun by accident they will become better lacrosse players. It's all about being able to sling it and catch it from every release point and angle. That's all it really is...the ball moves faster than any kid. [/quote]

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