Anonymous
12/02/2015 10:53
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
whats wrong with Commercial Real Estate?
I know plenty of fathers who are making a BOATLOAD in this industry and happen to be very philanthropic in the community as well.
Seems like a rather shallow comment.
I know plenty of fathers who are making a BOATLOAD in this industry and happen to be very philanthropic in the community as well.
Seems like a rather shallow comment.
Anonymous
12/02/2015 10:20
Subject: lax culture from an insider
I call it the Broconomy.
The economy is complex, the broconomy is simple. Club lacrosse with dad's lax bro college buddy, $160,000 prep school tuitions, 15% discount on $250,000 college tuition at a college brah outpost ==> slide back to the DMV for a sahweeettt job selling commercial real estate leases.
The economy is complex, the broconomy is simple. Club lacrosse with dad's lax bro college buddy, $160,000 prep school tuitions, 15% discount on $250,000 college tuition at a college brah outpost ==> slide back to the DMV for a sahweeettt job selling commercial real estate leases.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 19:52
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:"Yup. Happened to me this summer when I ran into a parent (Catholic)"
NOT ALL CATHOLICS THINK ALIKE
Let's be honest. A LOT of Catholics in this area act exactly like the Catholic Mafia stereotype. A lot.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 19:49
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
"Yup. Happened to me this summer when I ran into a parent (Catholic)"
NOT ALL CATHOLICS THINK ALIKE
NOT ALL CATHOLICS THINK ALIKE
Anonymous
12/01/2015 18:46
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Because where you go to college matters for the rest of your life. It becomes a permanent part of who you are - its on every resume, company website, and in every professional article or mention of you for the rest for your life.
After spending $40,000 a year to send your kid to private school and then having them end up with Furman '22 or HighPoint '23 after their name forever into eternity is a huge, HUGE slap in the face and an even HUGER financial mistake when more than 90% of their Furman and HighPoint college classmates came from publics.
If you learned those values from your own college I really feel sorry for you and your children.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 13:25
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Because where you go to college matters for the rest of your life. It becomes a permanent part of who you are - its on every resume, company website, and in every professional article or mention of you for the rest for your life.
After spending $40,000 a year to send your kid to private school and then having them end up with Furman '22 or HighPoint '23 after their name forever into eternity is a huge, HUGE slap in the face and an even HUGER financial mistake when more than 90% of their Furman and HighPoint college classmates came from publics.
What a jerk you are. If a private school kid thinks a school is right for him/her, that's his/her decision. Just because you deem a particular school as "not worthy" doesn't mean everyone feels the same way.
Who are you to say that certain schools must be avoided if one goes to private school? I'd like to give you a HUGE slap in the face.
Well, guess we can make some assumption about where (and maybe if) you went to college. But, seriously.... certain colleges may be the best for one kid (and best they can get in to and no judgement there) but that should be based on the kid's academic ability and test scores, not on his/her skill playing a meaningless game that will take them all-of-no-where in life. College is about getting an education and getting ready for your adult life. It is not about getting in the last 4 years you will ever be able to play some game (not even lax, for all that I love it).
Anonymous
12/01/2015 13:18
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:The Catholic Mafia loves it when one of their sons commits to a school like High Point or Wagner because for some bizarre reason, those families really don't care where their son gets a college diploma. So they get really psyched about being able to brag at Columbia Country Club that their son is going to play D1 lacrosse.
At High Point.
Yup. Happened to me this summer when I ran into a parent (Catholic) who I know through club lax. It was all I could do to keep a smile on my face and say "great for him". Talk about messed up values.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 13:16
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Far from me to judge anyone. Couldn't care less if a kid wants to go to Siena, Wagner, Monmoth, Cleveland State, Furman, Bryant, etc. If those kids are good students at prep schools, all the better for my son or any other kid at a public or private with good grades. The qualified lax bros going the first route make it less cluttered for the kids who want to go to Georgetown, Amherst, Tufts or Notre Dame on merits first and lacrosse second. All the coaches let kids try out. Two unrecruited local kids walked on at Georgetown this year and four walked on at Virginia last year.
I did a college sport with a lot of success at it in my day and found out the hard way that nobody who is somebody with something good to offer in the real world cares one lick about yesterday's D1 college sport All-American. I'd like for my son to not spend the first 3-5 years of his career toiling to catch up like I did. Those All-American certificates make nice framed items for the sock drawer when it is done. I tell my kid don't be the guy in the bar talking about some sport back in the day. Other lacrosse dads should grow a pair and tell their 14 year old the same thing and really mean it. But whatever, good luck to all the Furman '22s and Siena '21s. Coming from someone who knows better, trust me, you'll need it.
Exactly!
Anonymous
12/01/2015 12:13
Subject: lax culture from an insider
The Catholic Mafia loves it when one of their sons commits to a school like High Point or Wagner because for some bizarre reason, those families really don't care where their son gets a college diploma. So they get really psyched about being able to brag at Columbia Country Club that their son is going to play D1 lacrosse.
At High Point.
At High Point.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 11:26
Subject: lax culture from an insider
The only sustainable differentiator I see in kids 14-15 years old that can hold up in a field sport no matter what is speed. All kids will grow some, and will fill out and could lift weights to get stronger and fill out. But a kid who is just plain faster in soccer, football, lacrosse to name three has an advantage you can't coach and the kid can't just get to the gym and work on. In some sports like football size is real critical, but I don't believe that in lacrosse. It didn't shock me when the 2-3 bloody fast kids locally from my son's club lacrosse class got the attention of colleges early. It did shock me that the dozens and dozens more who aren't faster did. I wonder why it is in a sport where speed is so critical that it also isn't measured by the college coaches evaluating. Wouldn't a 40 dash or shuttle run time come in handy? I've never seen a recruit list one. I doubt any college recruiter has that data. Why is that?
Anonymous
12/01/2015 10:41
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Far from me to judge anyone. Couldn't care less if a kid wants to go to Siena, Wagner, Monmoth, Cleveland State, Furman, Bryant, etc. If those kids are good students at prep schools, all the better for my son or any other kid at a public or private with good grades. The qualified lax bros going the first route make it less cluttered for the kids who want to go to Georgetown, Amherst, Tufts or Notre Dame on merits first and lacrosse second. All the coaches let kids try out. Two unrecruited local kids walked on at Georgetown this year and four walked on at Virginia last year.
I did a college sport with a lot of success at it in my day and found out the hard way that nobody who is somebody with something good to offer in the real world cares one lick about yesterday's D1 college sport All-American. I'd like for my son to not spend the first 3-5 years of his career toiling to catch up like I did. Those All-American certificates make nice framed items for the sock drawer when it is done. I tell my kid don't be the guy in the bar talking about some sport back in the day. Other lacrosse dads should grow a pair and tell their 14 year old the same thing and really mean it. But whatever, good luck to all the Furman '22s and Siena '21s. Coming from someone who knows better, trust me, you'll need it.
I did a college sport with a lot of success at it in my day and found out the hard way that nobody who is somebody with something good to offer in the real world cares one lick about yesterday's D1 college sport All-American. I'd like for my son to not spend the first 3-5 years of his career toiling to catch up like I did. Those All-American certificates make nice framed items for the sock drawer when it is done. I tell my kid don't be the guy in the bar talking about some sport back in the day. Other lacrosse dads should grow a pair and tell their 14 year old the same thing and really mean it. But whatever, good luck to all the Furman '22s and Siena '21s. Coming from someone who knows better, trust me, you'll need it.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 10:22
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
you will see less and less kids from Prep schools in general committing to D1 schools.
The sport is now nationwide and there is talent everywhere.
When I played in the 90's it was a niche sport played mainly in B-more, New York and in the North East.
I don't think you see many prep school kids going to Wagner for college.
However, even if they do, its their personal choice and not you to judge them.
The sport is now nationwide and there is talent everywhere.
When I played in the 90's it was a niche sport played mainly in B-more, New York and in the North East.
I don't think you see many prep school kids going to Wagner for college.
However, even if they do, its their personal choice and not you to judge them.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 09:50
Subject: lax culture from an insider
There should be a new term called "lacrosse dad IQ"
The posters are correct to tease. If the promised land for their sons are a college with an acceptance rate in the 60%-85% range (and both of the colleges called out by PP are at the high end of that range) then to each his own.
The PP is correct. College is the place a kid spends the final four formative years of youth to learn and mature as preparation for professional life. To sell it short for a college lacrosse roster spot at a school the average adult couldn't guess which state it is on given 3 guesses would be spurious. I worked in NYC for 11 years. Honestly the first time I heard of Wagner College was when their D1 lacrosse coach enquired about our son. I didn't know wherther to just laugh or want to hide in shame considering his club coach knows very well my son is a high level student and wants to go to a selective college, even it it means no lacrosse beyond high school.
Kids don't understand that. The lax bro morons in the club scene don't get it either. If they did, they wouldn't be 20-something club lacrosse guys living with their parents. Unfortunately the last line of defense before the parents, the D1 commit obsessed prep school coaches, don't get it either. Up to the parents now, 100%.
The posters are correct to tease. If the promised land for their sons are a college with an acceptance rate in the 60%-85% range (and both of the colleges called out by PP are at the high end of that range) then to each his own.
The PP is correct. College is the place a kid spends the final four formative years of youth to learn and mature as preparation for professional life. To sell it short for a college lacrosse roster spot at a school the average adult couldn't guess which state it is on given 3 guesses would be spurious. I worked in NYC for 11 years. Honestly the first time I heard of Wagner College was when their D1 lacrosse coach enquired about our son. I didn't know wherther to just laugh or want to hide in shame considering his club coach knows very well my son is a high level student and wants to go to a selective college, even it it means no lacrosse beyond high school.
Kids don't understand that. The lax bro morons in the club scene don't get it either. If they did, they wouldn't be 20-something club lacrosse guys living with their parents. Unfortunately the last line of defense before the parents, the D1 commit obsessed prep school coaches, don't get it either. Up to the parents now, 100%.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 09:30
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Because where you go to college matters for the rest of your life. It becomes a permanent part of who you are - its on every resume, company website, and in every professional article or mention of you for the rest for your life.
After spending $40,000 a year to send your kid to private school and then having them end up with Furman '22 or HighPoint '23 after their name forever into eternity is a huge, HUGE slap in the face and an even HUGER financial mistake when more than 90% of their Furman and HighPoint college classmates came from publics.
What a jerk you are. If a private school kid thinks a school is right for him/her, that's his/her decision. Just because you deem a particular school as "not worthy" doesn't mean everyone feels the same way.
Who are you to say that certain schools must be avoided if one goes to private school? I'd like to give you a HUGE slap in the face.
Anonymous
12/01/2015 09:22
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Because where you go to college matters for the rest of your life. It becomes a permanent part of who you are - its on every resume, company website, and in every professional article or mention of you for the rest for your life.
After spending $40,000 a year to send your kid to private school and then having them end up with Furman '22 or HighPoint '23 after their name forever into eternity is a huge, HUGE slap in the face and an even HUGER financial mistake when more than 90% of their Furman and HighPoint college classmates came from publics.
After spending $40,000 a year to send your kid to private school and then having them end up with Furman '22 or HighPoint '23 after their name forever into eternity is a huge, HUGE slap in the face and an even HUGER financial mistake when more than 90% of their Furman and HighPoint college classmates came from publics.