Reply to Inside Lacrosse Experience

Forum Index » Lacrosse

Reply to "Inside Lacrosse Experience"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be interested to know how many of the people with five stars and those receiving these write ups are also members of his first-class lacrosse training classes, camps, and clinics.  There definitely seems to be a bias towards certain New York, New Jersey, Philly and California players because he used to work at USC so has some conenctions there too. Deemer seems to have his fingers in too many things..... Why was he at American Select? Next thing we know he'll be picking the teams for the USA lacrosse![/quote]

That's def a good point. We are in UNCHARTERED territory. Yes, UA150, All America and the now defunct Nike120 were always around. Then came American Select, then Juniors, then BIC, and now all are going after middle school kids to sign up. The sport has jumped the shark. Don't forget about Apex events, Players Series, etc.

There's just no track record of how important or unimportant these things are, but one thing I can say, a select few are getting most of these. Even a top program like UNC cannot build an entire recruiting class around only those 5% of kids.

[/quote]

Most of the coaches and evaluators at events like the IL ID and others do very little evaluation.  As PP has said, seems to be a clique of events all hanging out together and targeting a very small pool of players.  The fomo around doing all of these showcase events with doing pre training like trainings, multiple best in class events, american select, all seem to be more and more money grabs and biased.  Lots of great players out there not being considered or seen and the game isn't growing. [/quote]

This is an interesting conclusion.  There is certainly an insider circuit with the big clubs, and some are better at advocating for their players than others (see eg. Yellow Jackets satellite clubs placing a number of athletes at Best in Class and JO who don't play for highly ranked teams), where others in the top 20 are either not connected or supportive of the showcase circuit.  There also seems to be a bit of a random or luck factor in terms of getting noticed at one of these events.

That said, I would submit that you do increase your player's chances of getting noticed by attending, and the film you obtain, or combine numbers you post, at a BIC or UA 150 aren't biased or insider-driven.

As for the game not growing, I disagree with the statement overall, and with the suggestion that these events are part the problem.  There were dozens of players from outside of the traditional hotbeds at these events last year, including players from Florida, California, Colorado, and the Midwest at BIC and IL, and, if anything, Maryland was underrepresented despite it's connections.  LI, NY, and Connecticut do appear to be a bit overrepresented, however.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics