Originally Posted by Anonymous
Most Clubs are very transient on their second and lower teams, Tops Guns has become very transient on the black teams. They attract many malcontents (mixed in with good people) who club hop, and have unrealistic expectations. Those are the ones who get on here with all anger (the ones who are on the team, and the ones who leave), so you have the influx and outflux of some of the worst elements of Long Island lacrosse now flowing through the TG program, making really difficult for the good people who used to make up the majority to want to stay. The program has really lost the feel of a family run, family first organization. I must say it all began to change when end of the season picnics stopped, there seemed a shift in attitude from the family. Very sad that my youngests experience (and my families current) is so much different from my eldest. And please do not tell me to talk to them, because that no longer happens. I am sorry to say.



My daughter plays on the 2023 Black team, and I haven't experienced any of this. Most of the same girls have been together now for several few years now. I have seen a few go who were not playing as much, and a few new girls come on from YJ who seem to be happy and stayed. The parents all get along, we never had a picnic, but BS does throw a couple BBQs at invitational scrimmages that we generally have in the spring. From the friends I have on other teams, TG doesn't seem much different from what goes on there.