Anonymous
Post 02/14/2012 06:16     Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Well, we've learned plenty about the UVA teams this week.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-whitney-houston-and-yeardley-love-stories-substance-abuse-an-unfortunate-theme/2012/02/13/gIQAxfQwBR_story.html?hpid=z3

Unfortunately we've learned how much alcohol plays into the culture of Lacrosse at UVA and how deadly that mixture can become. I don't buy for a second that the men's and possibly the women's lacrosse coach did not see the amount of drinking these kids were doing, the problems that were coming up from it and did nothing to stop it.

Why the men's lacrosse coach hasn't been fired is hard to understand. He lets the culture continue.


Anonymous
Post 02/13/2012 21:03     Subject: lax culture from an insider
We learned the elite level of partying, the excuses, the covering up, the hesitancy to step in and help others; we previously learned the coach knew about GH attacking a teammate WHILE HE SLEPT and did nothing about it. Need I go on?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2012 14:46     Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well, we've learned plenty about the UVA teams this week.


What did we learn?


Well, for one thing, it was a UNC player, not a UVA player that pulled Huguely off of YL during a public beating.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2012 14:40     Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Well, we've learned plenty about the UVA teams this week.


What did we learn?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2012 12:54     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Has the issue of "lacrosse culture" come up in the Huguely trial?


why would it? Did "private school culture" come up? Or perhaps "Washington, DC culture"? Not sure where you were going with this question.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2012 12:49     Subject: lax culture from an insider
Lacrosse did indeed originate as a native American game, called Baggataway. Fun fact: during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763, a group of Ottawa Indians captured a fort by getting inside its walls through pretending to chase an errant lacrosse ball.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2012 12:43     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have to say: I don't really see what makes an exciting sport to watch or play. So, you cradle a ball in some old scottish designed net/stick, throw it to someone who catches it and try to get it into a goal. wipty doo. How does that compare to a 80 yard touch down running past 5 potential tackles or a end of game touch down pass. By comparison it seems silly. Perhaps these guys are legends in their own mind? I don't see lacrosse on TV every sunday. Even if it is a small east coast prep school / Ivy thing, who cares. Your so- called phenomenon involves what , maybe 1000 people. Who cares.


The Scots have nothing to do with lacrosse, let alone "designed" the stick. Your post is unbelievably ignorant.



I believe it originated as a native American game.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2012 12:40     Subject: lax culture from an insider
Well, we've learned plenty about the UVA teams this week.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2012 11:27     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Has the issue of "lacrosse culture" come up in the Huguely trial?
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2011 00:25     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:I have to say: I don't really see what makes an exciting sport to watch or play. So, you cradle a ball in some old scottish designed net/stick, throw it to someone who catches it and try to get it into a goal. wipty doo. How does that compare to a 80 yard touch down running past 5 potential tackles or a end of game touch down pass. By comparison it seems silly. Perhaps these guys are legends in their own mind? I don't see lacrosse on TV every sunday. Even if it is a small east coast prep school / Ivy thing, who cares. Your so- called phenomenon involves what , maybe 1000 people. Who cares.


The Scots have nothing to do with lacrosse, let alone "designed" the stick. Your post is unbelievably ignorant.
Anonymous
Post 10/23/2011 23:12     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
I have to say: I don't really see what makes an exciting sport to watch or play. So, you cradle a ball in some old scottish designed net/stick, throw it to someone who catches it and try to get it into a goal. wipty doo. How does that compare to a 80 yard touch down running past 5 potential tackles or a end of game touch down pass. By comparison it seems silly. Perhaps these guys are legends in their own mind? I don't see lacrosse on TV every sunday. Even if it is a small east coast prep school / Ivy thing, who cares. Your so- called phenomenon involves what , maybe 1000 people. Who cares.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2011 21:22     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:We talking about athletes and athleticism -- not manners. But, on that subject many non athletic lacrosse enthusiasts have poor manners to boot.


"Loutish" is the word that comes to mind when I think of the typical lax dad.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2011 21:01     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
We talking about athletes and athleticism -- not manners. But, on that subject many non athletic lacrosse enthusiasts have poor manners to boot.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2011 19:33     Subject: lax culture from an insider
Doesn't golf have the same aspect --- preppy, country club, etc.? How about swimming? Fencing? There are a lot of sports that aren't perceived as drawing from the same player pool as others, but that doesn't meant they are associated with bad manners.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2011 18:25     Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Yeah, but the guys at Miami make no pretense about the business they are in. Have you ever heard them brag about their school? It's about real athletics and they are headed for the Pros.
The lax bros I know in the mid-Atlantic State schools are wimpy and elitist non athletes for whom the rides ends abruptly if and when they graduate from college ... if they get that far.