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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do any of these schools allow their coaches to foster this conflict of interest with their work on outside clubs? Even my DS's private, which is not one of the super strong programs, has staffed most of its coaches with Madlax staff and coaches and all those club players are given much more opportunity. As an example, three freshman played varsity--all three were Madlax. It did not shed a good light on what is supposed to be a well-rounded school. This clearly happens with the girls and the clubs as well. I think the HS leagues should come together and say no outside coaching. Eliminate the favoritism and the pay-to-play.

I couldn’t agree more[/quote]

This happens and I think mainly for 2 reasons-first, the school has committed to have lacrosse be one of the "focus" sports of the school-this can be due to the board of trustees or from a well-funded parent or two of the stronger team players who request the school beef up the sport and second, the coaches, also committed to their sport for obvious reasons, look at their graduating players and then look down the pipeline at their current younger players and see they need to fill in some gaps to create a team that's stronger/more likely to win etc.  They look at coach-ability, work ethic, general athleticism etc and may notice it's not where they want it to be - some of those qualities are innate or not in athletes by high school.  It's not fair but as others have pointed out, since when is life fair? I'm betting most of those Madlax players will go on to play college lacrosse.  [/quote]

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