Originally Posted by Anonymous
Let me help you on that one...Crabs owner has very efficiently and very effectively alienated a lot of lacrosse people and it is now at a point where he needs help...hence this NLF garbage.

West Coast Starz, Denver Elite, LB3 (never come again), Madlax, Blackwolf (rare), or even the LI Sting/Express/91s (less and less). A prior poster is right, your club can koin the NLF, NXT, Adrenaline or 3D confederations or get shut out.

Parents can relax a little bit though...even if the tournaments are awful Crabs and other clubs can still place kids. The cronyism is such that 9th graders who didn't belong on a public school varsity team last year are committing to major programs in summer or fall of soph year. The number of kids going to top programs who aren't top players is increasing because club owners and coaches control the inventory of kids since recruiting happens so young.

I am on board with the first 2/3 of this post. But this new system of getting players so young is still so new you can not say one way or another if it is working or not. Can anyone name a D1 kid who is a soph. or higher in college who verbaled to that school in his Freshman or sophomore year of high school? I think in 5 years you can start to have numbers to prove early recruiting is a bust or the right way to do it. I am thinking it will prove to be a bust but the numbers are not there yet.