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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plus the star rating process says right there on the website you can pay for a rating??!! Nothing smells about that at all.[/quote]

In all fairness, it's paying for an evaluation - not a rating. Still a money grab, but not paying for a rating. [/quote]

It’s a scam that prays on wealthy lax familes. No one who pays for a rating gets less than 3 stars[/quote]

You don't get any stars when you pay. You get an evaluation. They are different things.[/quote]

The IL evaluations/ratings are a bit confusing.

According to IL, the evaluations are a number rating given for a particular event or video, a snapshot in time.  And the star ratings are for a body of work.  So I think of it like an evaluation is a test score and a star rating is the final grade for the semester.  What I don't understand is how IL is giving star ratings without ever evaluating the player.  You mean to tell me they saw a player enough times to give a star rating but that player never stood out enough to warrant an evaluation.     [/quote]

it's not a scam. of course people don't always agree with the rankings and stars (or lack thereof) that their own son or other players get, but the system is genuine and not pay for play.  To get a ranking, the player submits film of one game (or two halves from different games) and pays in the vicinity of $200.  The fee is to cover the costs and time of the evaluator who watches the film.  The end product is a number in the 70's or 80's (or possibly the 90's if your name is Powell or Kavanaugh) and a written evaluation of your strengths as a player.  That number is publicly reported on Inside Lacrosse.  as a Dad of two boys in travel lacrosse, my own humble opinion of my sons and their teammates rankings are pretty accurate.  The stars are a separate system, and I honestly do not know who awards them, but my guess is Inside Lacrosse, and I believe they interview college coaches as part of that process.  You do not apply or pay anything - you simply get the stars based on how you play on your club team, and at showcases.  The only way to rig the system slightly would be to attend certain showcases that weigh more heavily into the rankings.  if you get three stars, you are likely to end up on a top to mid level D1 roster, and if you get four or five, you are likely to be a hot commodity that practically all D1 teams will try to recruit, depending on your grades.   [/quote]

Anyone can see the star system and top 100 is heavily, heavily slanted towards the NE academies and the current hot national programs like Mad Dog and Hilltop with their recruiting services. Slanted means a lot but not totally and your kid better get minutes at a good school as a sophomore. [/quote]

A big part of why they are slanted that way (and why college coaches recruit heavily from the NE boarding schools and national lax programs) is that those kids have already been through a vetting process to get where they are.  It's very hard to make the top Mad Dog, Hilltop and WCS teams. Tons of those kids go to Culver and other elite boarding schools. While you can pay your way into many of the boarding schools, you can't pay your way into getting playing time for their lax teams. [/quote]

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