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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As club lacrosse owners and coaches, we want you to make informed decisions. It's easy for anonymous naysayers to post whatever they want to further an agenda to trash spending thousands of dollars on new recruiting events we literally spend hours and sometimes up to hundreds of dollars to put together websites with credit card payment links added to them.

Have you noticed how many 9th graders committed last year, and how many more have committed already this year? I mean, NOBODY HERE is trying to pressure you and the decision to spend thousands of dollars or zero is yours. The best thing you can do now is to talk to parents who have about 5-8 months and sometimes more experience with this process before their 14 year old verbaled to Hopkins to understand the complex choices you are now facing. And remember, until college coaches who recruited early start getting fired for being this stupid in the next 12-36 months before your son even arrives to play for the school he committed to early recruiting is here to stay!

Sincerely,
[fill in name of Crabs, Madlax, etc. coach or owner]

p.s. Did you get the NLF invite? The registration is due with a $600 payment. Just making sure you got the NLF Showcase invite if you didn't get the invite, let me know ASAP. Not trying to be a pest or pressure you at all. But if you haven't registered for the NLF Showcase or didn't get the NLF invite just let me know. If I don't hear from you in about an hour, I'll just give you a call then. Or call me anytime. Just want to make sure you got the NLF invite and got registered. It's $600. So just let me know please. On the other hand, just calling is way easier than all these emails. So I'm calling you right now, ok? Speak soon![/quote]

+this is awesome and scary.  I for one thank you for the perspective!  I definitely get the impression you learned all this the hard way and appreciate your input.  Those of us with kids just approaching the hard-sell period are easy pickings for the club salesmen.  The only defense we have is information.  Are there any stats on how early commits fare once they actually hit college (assuming they do)?  Seems like the colleges need to get burned by the process before anything might change.  Solve the problem on the demand side rather than the supply side.  
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