What Mass people don't understand is :Lacrosse is a religion in Md, LI , part of Westchester/Upstate NY. Therefore the Rec leagues and High schools programs are very competitive with a much larger number of teams/programs that are good to very good. In Md and LI I bet there are 20-30 HS In each regions that are very competitive . NJ has mayber 10-15. Mass I bet 3-4 HS teams and none could run with MD, NY, NJ top teams period. It's called critical mass! Overall Mass is light years behind unless you scrape the whole state for 1 team. Hence Mass Elite. NY ,MD could put 5 ME TOGETHER EACH!
I'm sick of hearing that lax in NE isn't as good as it is in LI or Maryland. It has caught up, The NE region was the best by far in under armour this year. This tournament was for the best players in every region, NE killed teams, the NE team got praise from many college coaches.
No it hasn't, and we all know it. One team, representing a whole region, does not make NE "caught up". You need to compare apples to apples. Take any good NE high school or club team and let them play an equal team from MD or NY. My bet is that 8 times out of 10 the MD or NY team would win, big.
