There are much better options having tryouts right now.

What are the other options?

Anonymous wrote:Nobody - white or otherwise - is going for the lax "scholarship" since the money is pretty minuscule. It's about either a kid who really wants to play the sport in college and/or someone who is using lax to assist in getting into a college. You can tone down your self-righteous act now.

That's true. Since money isn't a big deal for most kids who play it, it is more often used as a college hook, or a way to to get into a better college. But again, more often than not it gives an edge to privileged kids who have had much handed to them already. See George Hugely V.

Some of the best lacrosse players are taken from Football programs in high school.

Nobody - white or otherwise - is going for the lax "scholarship" since the money is pretty minuscule. It's about either a kid who really wants to play the sport in college and/or someone who is using lax to assist in getting into a college. You can tone down your self-righteous act now.

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Anonymous wrote:To have your kid be a top D1 recruit for lax, you basically have to have him be a nationally known superstar by 9th grade now. BEFORE high school lax even starts. It's ridiculous, all the coaches say they'd like to change it, and nothing changes. D3 is a lot different; no scholarships but maybe still the prospect of an admissions bump.

it's comical to me to see schools like Duke and Notre Dame taking commitments from 9th graders with no high school grades or SAT scores.

The early recruiting is ridiculous and is an epidemic. There are plenty of kids, however, that get recruited and commit after their freshman year at the D1 level.

Well, yeah, to schools that aren't very good. Duke, Hopkins, Notre Dame, UVA, it seems like their classes are full by sophomore year of high school. Even Ivies have sophomore "commits" which seems completely against everything those schools are supposed to stand for.

You don't know what you're talking about. Many kids are being recruited/committing before their freshman year ends. That is a bad thing, for sure. But there are many top schools (academically and/or for lacrosse) that get kids who are Juniors, etc.

This is so pathetic. tb to a time when you could walk on to ND's lacrosse team. Now that parents of rich white kids have now ID'd it as their last, best hope for a college scholarship (since potentially better athletes aren't able to afford private coaching for their kids from a young age), it's become ridiculous.

If you're even thinking about putting your soon in Madlax (or re-enrolling), please think about what this monster represents and what you are saying to your son about looking the other way while others are threatened.

There are much better options having tryouts right now.

http://deadspin.com/hey-ungrateful-quitter-emails-from-an-angry-lacrosse-660703941

My son recently committed to a D1 program as a rising sophomore. He played with madlax for years and left this year before the summer recruiting season started. His last year with madlax we saw that his coach was aggressively pushing a select few players on college coaches and leaving the rest of the boys (equally talented) with little exposure/playing time at the recruiting tournaments. As a result, it became a stressful and frustrating experience and he just wasn't having fun. Madlax did nothing --as far as we are aware -- to help him with recruiting, and leaving madlax did not have a negative affect on him. the D1 coaches we talked with during the process told us that they didn't like dealing with Cabell. My son has a great high school coach who is highly regarded in the lacrosse community and I think he helped us more than madlax ever did.

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Anonymous wrote:To have your kid be a top D1 recruit for lax, you basically have to have him be a nationally known superstar by 9th grade now. BEFORE high school lax even starts. It's ridiculous, all the coaches say they'd like to change it, and nothing changes. D3 is a lot different; no scholarships but maybe still the prospect of an admissions bump.

it's comical to me to see schools like Duke and Notre Dame taking commitments from 9th graders with no high school grades or SAT scores.

The early recruiting is ridiculous and is an epidemic. There are plenty of kids, however, that get recruited and commit after their freshman year at the D1 level.

Well, yeah, to schools that aren't very good. Duke, Hopkins, Notre Dame, UVA, it seems like their classes are full by sophomore year of high school. Even Ivies have sophomore "commits" which seems completely against everything those schools are supposed to stand for.

You don't know what you're talking about. Many kids are being recruited/committing before their freshman year ends. That is a bad thing, for sure. But there are many top schools (academically and/or for lacrosse) that get kids who are Juniors, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:To have your kid be a top D1 recruit for lax, you basically have to have him be a nationally known superstar by 9th grade now. BEFORE high school lax even starts. It's ridiculous, all the coaches say they'd like to change it, and nothing changes. D3 is a lot different; no scholarships but maybe still the prospect of an admissions bump.

it's comical to me to see schools like Duke and Notre Dame taking commitments from 9th graders with no high school grades or SAT scores.

The early recruiting is ridiculous and is an epidemic. There are plenty of kids, however, that get recruited and commit after their freshman year at the D1 level.

Well, yeah, to schools that aren't very good. Duke, Hopkins, Notre Dame, UVA, it seems like their classes are full by sophomore year of high school. Even Ivies have sophomore "commits" which seems completely against everything those schools are supposed to stand for.

Anonymous wrote:To have your kid be a top D1 recruit for lax, you basically have to have him be a nationally known superstar by 9th grade now. BEFORE high school lax even starts. It's ridiculous, all the coaches say they'd like to change it, and nothing changes. D3 is a lot different; no scholarships but maybe still the prospect of an admissions bump.

it's comical to me to see schools like Duke and Notre Dame taking commitments from 9th graders with no high school grades or SAT scores.

The early recruiting is ridiculous and is an epidemic. There are plenty of kids, however, that get recruited and commit after their freshman year at the D1 level.

Anonymous wrote:To have your kid be a top D1 recruit for lax, you basically have to have him be a nationally known superstar by 9th grade now. BEFORE high school lax even starts. It's ridiculous, all the coaches say they'd like to change it, and nothing changes. D3 is a lot different; no scholarships but maybe still the prospect of an admissions bump.

it's comical to me to see schools like Duke and Notre Dame taking commitments from 9th graders with no high school grades or SAT scores.

Is it because lacrosse players tend to be rich suburbanites whose parents are well-educated and won't have trouble paying for SAT prep or staring down any teacher who dares challenge little Trevor?

To have your kid be a top D1 recruit for lax, you basically have to have him be a nationally known superstar by 9th grade now. BEFORE high school lax even starts. It's ridiculous, all the coaches say they'd like to change it, and nothing changes. D3 is a lot different; no scholarships but maybe still the prospect of an admissions bump.

it's comical to me to see schools like Duke and Notre Dame taking commitments from 9th graders with no high school grades or SAT scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to all for the reminder that we shouldn't play lacrosse.

"Hey, come spend a lot of money so this incredibly unprofessional dude can scream at you, and by the time you're in ninth grade, you can commit to have a college pay 1/10th of your college costs!"

(OK, maybe 1/4. Men's lacrosse average roster size: 45. Scholarship limit: 12.6. But hey -- you'll get to be a big man on campus playing a sport your fellow students ignore and one that plays its national championship a month after everyone has gone for the summer.)

My kids doesn't play madlax he play Cavaliers and we've been happy with their program.

However my child loves lacrosse. We are not looking for a scolarship or the glory you are sneering about. when I see that my child has a passion for anything, I support it.

Do you only support their endeavors if it will somehow payoff for you?

Not at all. If you love lacrosse, great. That said, I wonder if most HS environments are better than most club environments, and I wonder if the latter is worth it.

If you're not getting caught up in all the nonsense and having a good experience, great.

If you're trash-talking about 13-year-olds' athletic endeavors that only a handful of people can afford, all in the name of getting some of that money back, that's a different story entirely.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to all for the reminder that we shouldn't play lacrosse.

"Hey, come spend a lot of money so this incredibly unprofessional dude can scream at you, and by the time you're in ninth grade, you can commit to have a college pay 1/10th of your college costs!"

(OK, maybe 1/4. Men's lacrosse average roster size: 45. Scholarship limit: 12.6. But hey -- you'll get to be a big man on campus playing a sport your fellow students ignore and one that plays its national championship a month after everyone has gone for the summer.)

My kids doesn't play madlax he play Cavaliers and we've been happy with their program.

However my child loves lacrosse. We are not looking for a scolarship or the glory you are sneering about. when I see that my child has a passion for anything, I support it.

Do you only support their endeavors if it will somehow payoff for you?

From reading all this, I can only say it's probably best to skip all this club nonsense. If you really like lacrosse, just play in high school. If you're good enough to play in college, the college will find you.