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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps, but in basketball a player can actually make money in a profitable league after college![/quote]

It's profitable.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-23/wall-street-job-pipeline-finds-work-for-college-lacrosse-players.html

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So true - much better prospects than an average college BB or FB player, but as the WaPo AD says " if you don't get it, you don't get it."[/quote]

As lacrosse expands its reach -- more high school players, less of a private school influence, more college programs and thus more college athletes -- the "Wall Street secret handshake" aspect of it will probably diminish.  [/quote]

Another mom who knows nothing.  The lax network on Wall Street has little to do with whether a kid went to a public or private high school.  It's about the network at certain colleges (primarily Ivies) that works to help guys get jobs.  The Ivy football and lacrosse network is very strong and active.

That network is not going to die anytime soon.[/quote]

Cool your jets, old laxer.  I went to an Ivy and played varsity lacrosse with the old-time helmets, FYI.  The point that the democratization of lacrosse will, for numerical reasons alone, mean that not every Division I lax grad will get a top finance job is not really controversial.  Will the Cornell/Harvard/Yale/Princeton/UVA/Duke pipelines still exist going forward?  I'm sure they will.  However, the days when playing lacrosse meant you spoke a language others did not are over, and I don't think the "us against the world" mentality will be the same, either.

And try not to keep perpetuating the image of male lacrosse players being rude and dismissive of women.  [/quote]

It will be valid as long as this thread lasts... Hopefully... Not that the pipeline will last but that this thread will die.[/quote]

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