Originally Posted by Anonymous
how does one feel pressured to play summer lax or spend $1000 doing so


Because they think the coach will remember years later when their kid is on the bubble of making varsity. The fiction is the coach will be loyal and reward those who have supported his summer program over the years. Conversely, if your kid doesn't support the coach's program he will be "blackballed" and unable to play varsity. Having been through this in a major lacrosse town, all I can say is we did not find that to be true. In our town the best kids play. Period. Nobody remembers all the checks you wrote when some other kid comes along, having never played in the summer program, and is just flat-out better. And as you might have guessed, I am in the category of someone who wrote lots of checks and then saw my son passed over for a new kid that was objectively better. It is what it is.....just be an educated consumer.