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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok I just can't figure out how to ask any in real life parents this without if sounding offensive like I'm trying to say something about their kid:  Do any kids play D2 lax in college?  Boys/men I mean.  I hear the parents talking about deciding between D1 and D3, and I see only D1 and D3 on this list, but I know there are D2 teams out there.  [/quote]

D2 schools tend to be very small and less heralded colleges -- think places like Limestone.  D3 teams tend to be stronger because there are a lot of good academic schools in D3 -- think Amherst, Bowdoin, etc.    [/quote]

Another poster here with what may sound like a stupid question - but is D1 really more desirable than D3 for lacrosse?  The boys I know who have gone off to D1 schools count there careers in a handful of minutes played, usually in blowout games, and the scholarship money covers a teeny tiny fraction of actual costs.  The D3 commits I've known from this area end up at great SLACs, get a fair amount of playing time even as underclassmen, and can do things like a junior semester abroad.  So for lacrosse, where the end game isn't the pros, why D1?[/quote]

You can't just say, why not go D3.

For example, Salisbury is D3 and Michigan is D1. Which would you choose?

Also, not everybody wants to go to a small liberal arts college.

Some D3 lacrosse programs are much better than some D1 lacrosse programs so it is hard to get recruited... Tufts.

Some D3 programs are just as hard to get into as Ivy, academically and some kids don't have those grades. (NESCAC)

Some kids need money and may want to go to a military academy, or their state school. [/quote]

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