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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn’t BLC 2028 have a similar thing happen too?  A bunch of kids left for Madlax and NL, including the coaches’ kid.  [/quote]

Yes. 2027 and 2028 BLC imploded.

The era of the Dad Coach For Club Lacrosse is coming to a close.  Parents are sick of watching the Professionally coached teams develop faster from year to year.

It also puts parents in a tough spot having to criticize the Fathers of their sons best friends/classmates.

It’s not the Dads fault.  BLC makes them coach for too long.  They should stop after third grade.

BLC needs to decide if they are a rec program or an elite club program and enter tournaments accordingly.  Don’t tell the parents you are an elite program if you are not committed to that type of development or accountability.

If your Clubs mission statement is that winning games is the least important part of youth lacrosse then don’t play at the Elite level.  Maybe just stay as a rec  program as they do that very well.

Are there any other Dad Coached Elite club programs that are also great rec programs?  Is it possible to be great at both?  I would love to hear some examples.  I don’t think it’s possible in today’s world.

Parents are also jockeying earlier and earlier to get into an elite team and don’t want to pay north of $2,500 for sub par development.  There are Tens of thousands of dollars at stake in private school athletic scholarships so being a strong player summer/fall of 7th grade is very important.

There is actually more money at stake in our area  for Private high school scholarships then there are for D1 college dreams.

Don’t expect DC Express to magically fix everything in eighth grade.  That’s too late.

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Interesting. Madlax 24 and 28 are dad coached. And BLC in fact has professional coaches rounding out the teams. [/quote]

Well, Cabell coaches both of those teams, yes?  So he's a parent coach in that he has a kid on each team, but he's also a professional coach in that his salary/job comes from coaching these teams.

BLC & professional coaches, that's hit or miss depending on the age group and Blue/Orange.  Some teams have "pro" coaches help out on an ad-hoc basis.  I know BLC Blue 2026 now has professional coaches who have replaced the dads.  Lower age groups, nothing I'm aware of.[/quote]

Madlax 2022 and Madlax 2023 (DC Dogs) also have dad coaches.

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