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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is that there are now fewer football players picking up lacrosse and being able to play at the top college level.  This actually was more prevalent 10-20 years ago.  I went to an Ivy League school (did not play lax but did play football).  There were a number of kids that came from New England Prep Schools who played both sports in college.  Today this is happening less frequently.  Why?  Because the sports are becoming more specialized.

While there will always be exceptions (Duke had some kids play Saturday that were also on the football team), lax is a sport that takes many years to develop.  Most of the kids at D1 schools have been playing lax since they were 7 years old.  It is difficult for a football player, even being a great athlete, to walk onto a lacrosse field late in his career, and have the stick skills to compete at this level.[/quote]

What we are talking about here is not football players who first pick up lacrosse in high school to stay in shape. Or athletes that play both sports in college.

The threat is from kids who are good enough athletes to be both very good football players AND very good lacrosse players. And high school players with outstanding stick skills can pick the sport up in 6th or 7th grade. Increasingly stick skills aren't going to be enough.

If the very best athletes from the big Virginia high schools were also to play lacrosse, how good do you think those teams would be?

GPrep became competitive with Landon when their lacrosse team started to include the nose tackles, wide receivers and QBs from the football team.[/quote]

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