Anonymous wrote:No, it cuts across all ages. It is the perfect storm of privilege, athletics, private school, socio-economic striving, college admission anxiety…and of course, the best looking moms in any sport!

Keep in mind that 8th grade is probably the point where lunacy lacrosse is at an all time high. There are lacrosse related reasons for that, plus general reality that adolescence and middle school are a difficult, snarky time for kids, which can make their parents act crazy at times. If you look over at the Back of the Cage board, you will see that the Boards for the 2026 and 2027 classes were very intense through the summer of 8th grade (when everyone was jockeying to get on the right team for HS), but once HS starts, the boards go dark. I know first hand because I have a son in all three of the classes. (by the way, I mean three sons, not one who was held back twice). So if you don't like lunacy of the 2028 parents, just sit tight for a few months and it will settle down.

Landon Bears dominate Mater DEI in the middle school championships shown live on TV

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Anonymous wrote:What is it about this sport that draws out the lunacy? If this thread is any indication, it's a magnet for the tinfoil hat/butterfly net crowd. I recognize this is a provocative framing, but genuinely curious what makes people lose all sense of context and proportion over a game with a stick played by maybe 5% of the continent. I admit I'm not native - never played, but spouse and kids have and do, so I've always been a bit bemused by the parental reactions.

Disagree that lax parents are any different than any other sport parents. In fact, the egregious behavior i have personally witnessed in lax pales in comparison with what I’ve seen in basketball and football. In terms of entitlement and using money to advantage thier kids no one beats baseball parents.

The one thing that lax has that you don’t see in other youth sports is the holdback phenomenon. Most youth sports I am familiar with organize around birth year and not grade. The other issue is the at the elite level lax has relatively few clubs. This allows owners behavior to be slightly worse

The behavior at AAU and Football events is by far the worst. It's amazing kids even get recruited these days with the actions by parents and now players. It's complete anarchy out there.

Ok so it’s not just lax it’s every youth sport. Except it’s just lax. And it’s the club coaches and repeat grades that are lunatics, not the parents. Got it.

Only someone deep in their own dark and angry lax bubble would claim that repeating a year or two (or 3 or more if you include college) of school is a lax-only phenomenon.

And holdbacks are far more likely in basketball than lacrosse. Plenty of 16 year old freshman out there on basketball teams.

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Anonymous wrote:What is it about this sport that draws out the lunacy? If this thread is any indication, it's a magnet for the tinfoil hat/butterfly net crowd. I recognize this is a provocative framing, but genuinely curious what makes people lose all sense of context and proportion over a game with a stick played by maybe 5% of the continent. I admit I'm not native - never played, but spouse and kids have and do, so I've always been a bit bemused by the parental reactions.

Disagree that lax parents are any different than any other sport parents. In fact, the egregious behavior i have personally witnessed in lax pales in comparison with what I’ve seen in basketball and football. In terms of entitlement and using money to advantage thier kids no one beats baseball parents.

The one thing that lax has that you don’t see in other youth sports is the holdback phenomenon. Most youth sports I am familiar with organize around birth year and not grade. The other issue is the at the elite level lax has relatively few clubs. This allows owners behavior to be slightly worse

The behavior at AAU and Football events is by far the worst. It's amazing kids even get recruited these days with the actions by parents and now players. It's complete anarchy out there.

Anonymous wrote:What is it about this sport that draws out the lunacy? If this thread is any indication, it's a magnet for the tinfoil hat/butterfly net crowd. I recognize this is a provocative framing, but genuinely curious what makes people lose all sense of context and proportion over a game with a stick played by maybe 5% of the continent. I admit I'm not native - never played, but spouse and kids have and do, so I've always been a bit bemused by the parental reactions.

Disagree that lax parents are any different than any other sport parents. In fact, the egregious behavior i have personally witnessed in lax pales in comparison with what I’ve seen in basketball and football. In terms of entitlement and using money to advantage thier kids no one beats baseball parents.

The one thing that lax has that you don’t see in other youth sports is the holdback phenomenon. Most youth sports I am familiar with organize around birth year and not grade. The other issue is the at the elite level lax has relatively few clubs. This allows owners behavior to be slightly worse

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Anonymous wrote:No, it cuts across all ages. It is the perfect storm of privilege, athletics, private school, socio-economic striving, college admission anxiety…and of course, the best looking moms in any sport!

Agree on this—lacrosse is basically football for the 1% crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:No, it cuts across all ages. It is the perfect storm of privilege, athletics, private school, socio-economic striving, college admission anxiety…and of course, the best looking moms in any sport!

Agree on this—lacrosse is basically football for the 1% crowd.

And remember there is going to be a live-stream game of a middle school lacrosse game on Wednesday afternoon that will have many men in the commercial real estate offices glued to their computer screens!

No, it cuts across all ages. It is the perfect storm of privilege, athletics, private school, socio-economic striving, college admission anxiety…and of course, the best looking moms in any sport!

Anonymous wrote:What is it about this sport that draws out the lunacy? If this thread is any indication, it's a magnet for the tinfoil hat/butterfly net crowd. I recognize this is a provocative framing, but genuinely curious what makes people lose all sense of context and proportion over a game with a stick played by maybe 5% of the continent. I admit I'm not native - never played, but spouse and kids have and do, so I've always been a bit bemused by the parental reactions.

Hello, have you ever read anything in the dcum soccer forum? Or swimming? All kinds of parents are deranged lunatics when it comes to kids’ sports.

I’m sure there’s probably an ultimate frisbee board out there where parents are trash talking one another and over-analyzing and debating whether the recent eclipse will have an effect on the upcoming season’s disc-throwing.

Anonymous wrote:What is it about this sport that draws out the lunacy? If this thread is any indication, it's a magnet for the tinfoil hat/butterfly net crowd. I recognize this is a provocative framing, but genuinely curious what makes people lose all sense of context and proportion over a game with a stick played by maybe 5% of the continent. I admit I'm not native - never played, but spouse and kids have and do, so I've always been a bit bemused by the parental reactions.

Its really the 2028 parents, they are a very "special" crowd.

Anonymous wrote:Battle of the 16 year olds between the Landon and Mater Delay middle school teams today! I hope Landon’s new parking lot is able to accommodate all of the players’ vehicles

LOLOL! How true. It really makes me laugh to see all of these parents who either have kids dumb as rocks or who make lax their prioroty over academics cheer the fact that their 16yr olds beat a bunch of 14yr olds.

What is it about this sport that draws out the lunacy? If this thread is any indication, it's a magnet for the tinfoil hat/butterfly net crowd. I recognize this is a provocative framing, but genuinely curious what makes people lose all sense of context and proportion over a game with a stick played by maybe 5% of the continent. I admit I'm not native - never played, but spouse and kids have and do, so I've always been a bit bemused by the parental reactions.