This is nothing more than a $2500 total cost lacrosse tournament. You parents are nuts. It's 6th grade and none of this matters at all. There will not be one College coach taking notes on these kids. It's such a total waste of money. The competition between clubs on LI is more than enough for our kids to compete and get better. This roster far from respresents the best kids. Outside of JS kids who are very good; the other coaches kids don't belong and there were plenty of kids who didn't show up.
I would guarantee if we ran a FREE tryouts for a top team on LI kids and the cost to go to the tournament was free....... we'd compile a team of kids who would kick this teams A$$.
You are wrong. With the exception of a few players, these are the top 6th graders on LI. There are kids that could have or should have made the team instead of a few of the selected players but move on. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter but being selected gives the kids a boost of confidence which is immeasurable.
No they are not the best. Not when tryout was on a holiday week a day before Easter. Many top players simply did not tryout. Because they were away. That day was picked to reduce the numbers at tryout so they can dictate who was on the team. Any other weekend the field would have been larger and more diverse. See what happens next year if they pick a different weekend, many on team would not and should not be in this team.
Absolutely agree with above regarding timing of this "tryout" aka $185 practice. I also find it interesting that it was well after Brine tryouts - maybe to avoid other top kids (that are not on the 2 orgs that dictated this roster) who did not attend this tryout because they had already made or tried out for Brine. Why not make it before Brine or close to? See the best of the best show up to both. They didn't want that because roster was already selected so this made it less obvious (so they thought) because they had less to choose from. Same reason you didn't see a Bandit at Brine - they already knew they would be on this team.
