Originally Posted by Anonymous
You can talk about all the speaking up that you want but let's be realistic on how the system works. Let's imagine that your son is good enough that he should be able to play in college. You have external sources telling you this who have coached or played at that level.

You research the list of clubs in the DMV/Baltimore area for the best fit if you are willing to travel - meaning continued development as well as putting your son on the field at the correct moment. It turns out that you have to put up with some morally questionable behavior for this potential college coach stage. You must decide where that line is and you can still teach your son the morality of the decisions being made. Is one weekend of sitting on the bench worth denying your son the opportunity?

Are you telling me that you have never choked down a question of morality at some point in your life - family, work, school? If you have never let your boss or client get away with something that you would never allow for yourself/son?

If you are so pure, then we need your name for sainthood and to hold up for ourselves.


Hey Joe Hardy, this you have summed up everything wrong with the Crabs without realizing it.
I heard the sales pitch a few years in a row and decided it was better to teach my son that he was not just a commodity, that it was ridiculous to assemble an all star team and be forced to commute 30 miles to play lacrosse when he was 11. He has learned those lessons through some of his friends who were the hot young thing and then were tossed to the curb by King Crab once the new hot young thing showed up and by watching some of the additional antics that go along with the circus.
Kids that don't play for the blue and yellow actually go to college and actually play lacrosse. Your following of the status quo and just drinking the kool aid and repeating the mantra "crabs are great, crabs are great, crabs are great, must play crabs, must play crabs, must play crabs" is actually sad and a little pathetic. To compare the work force to youth lacrosse is a bit of a stretch also. How very sad that they have convinced so many this is the only way to go.
Perhaps you should toss your name out there for sainthood or for martyrdom.