Anonymous wrote:Wrong. Lacrosse is exploding in popularity. In the south, Midwest, Colorado and California

Exploding? Perhaps relatively speaking. It's gone from 600 kids who can play well to 1300 kids. Look out -- lax and women's roller derby is taking the world by storm!!

``Hardly. Perhaps you are just hyper-sensitive.''

Glad to see the chill pill is kicking in. Breathe, relax, breathe, relax. That's it....good job.

Anonymous wrote:``And, let us just note, Football, Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Cycling, Track & Field, etc... have just as many scandals and nasty stories, more actually, than lax. Quit blaming the sport for your own insecurities about where you or your child fit in the sports world.''

Oh, my. I guess we just proved where the real insecurity lies. What a weird, overly hostile, overly caffeinated response.

Hardly. Perhaps you are just hyper-sensitive.

Being physically fit is something we should all strive for, but I don't get the whole sports mania thing. It all seems regressive and gladiatorial (only in the figurative sense of the word) to me.

``And, let us just note, Football, Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Cycling, Track & Field, etc... have just as many scandals and nasty stories, more actually, than lax. Quit blaming the sport for your own insecurities about where you or your child fit in the sports world.''

Oh, my. I guess we just proved where the real insecurity lies. What a weird, overly hostile, overly caffeinated response.

I thought Baltimore and LAX went hand in hand.

Anonymous wrote:In this area, unfortunately, LAX's reputation, goes hand in hand with the Landon School.

Such BS. If you think that you know very little about the sport. There are many other schools that routinely produce as good and better squads (G'town Prep, Gonzaga, Good Counsel, SSSA, St Albans....). Likewise girls' lax is also huge and certainly not associated with Landon. Lax is one of the fatsest growing sports in the country and in our area. If you dont like it, dont play it and dont come to the games. There are enough of us who do like the sport and are not dissuaded by Landon scandals. Landon and lax are not synonymous.

And, let us just note, Football, Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Cycling, Track & Field, etc... have just as many scandals and nasty stories, more actually, than lax. Quit blaming the sport for your own insecurities about where you or your child fit in the sports world.

In this area, unfortunately, LAX's reputation, goes hand in hand with the Landon School.

Wrong. Lacrosse is exploding in popularity. In the south, Midwest, Colorado and California

lax is a niche game that a tiny handful of people have invested the time to learn and who attempt to create some aura around it that only they and striver wannabees buy into. there's a reason why there's no viable professional league.

Anonymous wrote:The difference is that many of these parents have illusions of their kids playing for a D1 college which in many cases are high level institutions such as Princeton, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins Cornell, Virginia or Duke. All these kids are competing to get to these schools. This is why lacrosse is different than other sports. It adds a high level of anxiety for suburban parent bragging rights.

Agreed. It is also b/c lacrosse is one of the few remaining sports where you average suburban white kid has a fighting chance of playing sports at the college level.

What's with the lacrosse socks I see on all of those prep school boys?

Anonymous wrote:The lacrosse dads, in my opinion are the loudest, most obnoxious group I have come across and I have kids who play football, soccer, baseball and wrestle. (Well, actually, the wrestling dads are pretty bad too.)

There are a lot of dynamics going on in lacrosse - including regional identity, school affiliations and social affinities. Hey Lacrosse Dad with your croakies, sunglasses on your baseball hat, golf course vest, shorts without socks, cell phone on your hip. Personally, I wish you would shut up and just watch the game instead of screaming at your kid and the ref the whole time. Just saying...

I can almost tolerate you lax dads yelling at your kids. It's when you start yelling at my kid that gets my blood boiling.

Why is this thread on the independent school thread? Or are all the loutish and douchebag lax dads only from the private schools?!

Anonymous wrote:The lacrosse dads, in my opinion are the loudest, most obnoxious group I have come across and I have kids who play football, soccer, baseball and wrestle. (Well, actually, the wrestling dads are pretty bad too.)

There are a lot of dynamics going on in lacrosse - including regional identity, school affiliations and social affinities. Hey Lacrosse Dad with your croakies, sunglasses on your baseball hat, golf course vest, shorts without socks, cell phone on your hip. Personally, I wish you would shut up and just watch the game instead of screaming at your kid and the ref the whole time. Just saying...

Lax dads are the ultimate douchebags. It's great people watching.