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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaks is not well respected by area coaches - it's a fact.

The SJC boosters point their fingers to the success of the 2022 campaign and area teams fear SJC / worried about losing etc. etc. One amazing season doesn't equate to a dynasty Landon had fo 25+ years, or what GP accomplished for 20 years, and Gonzaga for the last 10 years.

The SJC 2023 team while still a great team last Spring, wouldn't have won the IAC, they hardly beat Bullis, a team GP smoked by 10+ goals on two separate occasions.

After the 2024 season, area coaches, especially from the IAC, won't be afraid of the Cadets. I don't see anyone on their roster who is even close to the caliber of player like Dunkel or Luke Roa (now at Cuse)

Unfortunately, Speaks has learned the hard way, he has burnt too many bridges with area coaches. You don't poach players already on the opposing team's rosters. I don't expect any IAC coaches to extend the olive branch any time soon.

With Good Counsel also emerging, I suspect you will see more IAC teams, opting to reach out to Dane Smith who is at least respected by his peers.

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You don’t poach players? They’re not property - they can go wherever they feel is best for them. That poaching line is right out of the now-dying-NCAA playbook. Couldn’t care less about whatever personal feud you have with some coach but the only decision that matters is the one a kid and his parents make for his/her best interests, consistent with whatever the rules are at any given moment. Rules that are themselves subject to much needed change annually. [/quote]

I think the complaint people are discussing here is SJC very actively recruiting players on other teams. No one is saying it's illegal but distasteful.

Whether or not that's why SJC isn't playing Bullis, Prep, or Landon, I have no idea, but there is no accusation of rule breaking.

The issue isn't whether you care about how SJC recruits but whether or not area schools care enough to not schedule them. [/quote]

That’s fine. Also couldn’t care less about scheduling. But it’s only distasteful if you feel some semblance of ownership over a kid on a particular roster, and if that is the case I couldn’t disagree more strongly. [/quote]

People thinking that SJC shouldn't commit a lot of time to recruiting players from other high school rosters doesn't necessitate feelings of ownership.

Could it? Possibly, but the general sentiment seems to be it just feels slimy to coaches who aren't doing that to SJC players.

I don't think anyone in this discussion has said that kids shouldn't be able to change schools or are property.

"It's a crappy move by coaches" is not the same as "players are property."

The SJC recruiting allegations and IAC teams not scheduling them because of it idea could also be more of a conspiracy theory than reality. [/quote]

So this is a thoughtful response, and I agree with everything in here except as it relates to a kid’s right to go wherever they please/works best for them/will take them. Any aspect of the current system that acts to reduce or impact the exercise of that right that in any way reinforces a culture that exploits kids and their parents to wring potential value from them without fair return. The same allegations of distastefulness have been lodged against players in the pros and college for decades and those systems are dead or dying, thankfully.

There’s a laughably small amount of money and value in HS lax when compared with basketball or football or even soccer. But there is enough that some see a chance to make a living off of it. Nothing wrong with that, either, unless they rig it so nothing jeopardizes those revenue flows. Which they do with either rules restricting player movement (that are dying) or soft power (like discouraging the free movement of talent through social shaming).

Teams and schools and coaches (and other parents and alumni boosters) have been taking advantage of athletes forever. Saw it firsthand as a player and now as a parent. Kids promised the moon and pressured to stay in situations that aren’t in their short or long term best interests and then once no longer useful tossed aside. Anyone who has played high level or even mid level sports has anecdata about teammates who were exploited and then chucked aside and absent a strong advocate or safety net ended up in a bad way.  The collapse of any system that doesn’t allow the athletes to capture full return for abilities and efforts that others leverage to benefit themselves over the athlete is long overdue.  [/quote]

We're talking about private school high school lacrosse; your position is hysterically out of touch.

This is not a venue where exploiting athletes is a major concern. Coaches and school admins aren't making money off sponsorships, shoe deals, and TV contracts.

Are there examples of coaches misleading or mistreating players? Absolutely.

Should families be able to change schools? Yes, and they can with way less barriers than college.

Is private school DC lacrosse fundamentally exploitative of athletes? Laughably no.

If SJC is doing slimy recruiting that other schools don't like, they aren't breaking down an exploitative system, they're just doing what they can to win. [/quote]

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