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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow…..

Would really like to know what’s going on at SSSA.  Biggest drop off I may have ever seen. [/quote]

SSSAS had been buoyed by strong rec programs in the area, specifically Alexandria Lacrosse Club (ALC), and to a lesser extent Fort Hunt. They were always able to attract/ recruit a few top players from NOVA to supplement the roster. As rec lacrosse has died out, kids from Alexandria have largely shifted from playing lacrosse to playing soccer, and the school’s natural attrition well is pretty dry. Blackwolf falling off a cliff has also hurt their recruiting efforts. [/quote]

If Alexandria county/city rec isn't supporting the sport, it's incumbent upon schools to pick up the slack, but pretty sure they won't. Madlax is so mad at Landon for their pricing, they are moving the rest of their operations into Virginia.

Lacrosse as a whole is getting worse and worse in the dc region. Nova rec is slowly dying because the board clutches their roles; Montgomery County and DC rec are essentially non-existent. The local governments are looking at their fields as profit centers instead of trying to grow all sports. People think lacrosse is expensive but it's the soccer clubs driving the market up. The level of lacrosse can be seen in the results. The DMV is substantially lower than the rest of the NE corridor.[/quote]

The real problem is every parent drinking the kool aid and believing their kid belongs in club.  There is no reason anyone should be paying thousands of dollars for a terrible club team that plays HOCO B.  There should be two HOCO divisions, three max, and every other team should be a local rec club that plays in MYLA, NVYLL, SMYLA, ETC.  These greedy clubs are the ones killing the sport by pricing out a large number of kids.  When my DS was playing rec they had two or three teams at every age, now they are lucky to form one team.  His best lacrosse memories are from playing local rec with his neighborhood buddies.  [/quote]

There is less and less rec and what remains is really bad for a number of reasons. If you are refuting pp, you are wrong. [/quote]

You are correct that there is less rec and it’s bad. Shitty club teams are responsible for the decline of rec because many believe that a HOCO B team is better than rec.  Many are paying way more for the same or worse coaching than the rec teams of years back just to say my kid plays club in the HOCO league.  Those kids end up riding the bench on JV teams.  We need to keep lacrosse accessible and fun.

HOCO has 5 divisions at ‘28-‘30 and 4 divisions at ‘31-‘32.  Keep HOCO at 2 divisions and you have over 100 teams or roughly 2000 kids playing rec where they should be.

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The bottom 3 divisions are rec. The counties have given up trying in the dmv. The overall level is in decline not bc clubs exist but bc other options phased out. 
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