I disagree - I believe that kids should develop by skill level - balance teams ends up having top few players getting all of the touches and not sharing the ball well and the weaker players never get any meaningful action and it will drive better players to leave which will in turn push more players out - the attrition rate for lacrosse is probably the same as all sports in all towns - in matter of fact rosters in GC are too large and should be closer to 18 per team - as for politics, go to most club team on LI and you will be in awe of the politics, recruiting and win at all cost attitude that take place for 3rd graders and up - GC is not perfect but it is better then most - Finally, I really doubt that the youth program has anything to do with boys deciding on Chaminade, if so that is pretty sad.