I can't understand YJ's obsession with winning. The point of club lax is to get your players exposed to college coaches for recruiting purposes. But, it seems YJ is more concerned with winning at all costs, and showcasing player talent secondly. My guess as this attitude is most likely driven by the YJ parents. Win, win, win. I've seen them. They seem to have no problem calling out a player, yelling at refs, yelling at other teams players, etc. It is absolutely no fun to watch your daughter play when her opponent is YJ and their parents. But hey...like Mr YJ Parent stated earlier in this thread...they play in "real" tournaments. I like the comment above...Congrats on winning your stick. It must mean a LOT to Mr and Mrs YJ Parent. Personally for me and my family and daughter (D1 commit), we would rather have the players be showcased to the college of her dreams. It's about the players, Mr and Mrs YJ Parent, not you!
It's also about feeding the yj money machine, hard to get top players (and wanna be's) to play for losing programs - Come to yj and you're elite
Because your daughter plays for any club that calls themselves elite makes her an elite player? Not quite. About half the roster of top team at YJ borders on elite, and a couple/few on second team(yes there are some better players on second teams than on first team). Cut those numbers down 25-50% for top gun teams and other LI elite teams. Some of the players on my daughters top elite team are pretty bad, hard to watch. I see many second team players that would be more deserving, but sometimes a team has a chemistry that is best left alone.
Yep and some coaches get that you might actually need a couple true ride attackmen, a big tall kid or two to pick and cut and, a bunch of athletic defensemen (even if they can't catch a ball) more than they need that 12th scoring option. Most parents equate scoring with being a great player when a team can't really support more than 6 scores.
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