smoova wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:00 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:30 amWe have ‘24 5 Star lacrosse players that should be class of ‘22.
"If you're a good 2022, you'd be a better 2023 and you'd be a GREAT 2024!"
- Jamie Munro (world's biggest fan of playing down)
Amazing insight from another former coach and "lacrosse consultant."
That thinking is a large part of the reason lacrosse has remained a niche sport and mostly stagnant the past few years.
It's all based on cronyism and small/regional thinking. And much of the lax community wants it that way, to keep the masses away from participating.
The old guys really like their kids being a big fish in a relatively small pond of athleticism. The stuff today's "top" kids are learning are just the things we did in college 15-20 years ago, pushed to a younger and younger crowd, and broken down into smaller chunks.
So many of the guys running club teams/training programs/lacrosse programs ONLY know lacrosse. And lacrosse people. So the same names and the same ideas just swirl and circulate endlessly. There are there are no new ideas, no new ways of thinking, no new ways of organizing, and no ensuring of competitive balance or growing/promoting the sport. If that happened, most of the kids on these lists wouldn't sniff the top 100 or * * * ratings. Want to be better? Just train more! Play against physically smaller/weaker kids! Duh!
And it's sadder still, that US Lacrosse is fine with that continuing to happen.
It's a shame.
I'm actually curious when it comes to US Lacrosse, how they are able to continue to provide insurance for youth programs and kids who may be playing with kids 2 years older.