Originally Posted by Anonymous
You missed the point again. Is this mic on?? My point has nothing to do with Madlax but more to do with showcases in general. The propensity to falsify the college coaches numbers if any exists. Go to all your showcases but I can tell you the likelihood of charlatans running these invitational is high. (just nature of humans and profit seeking) An example of this is the Mount Saint Mary's prospect day. Many kids go but the HC does not know any of them and often does not show up. The assistants drive this as a money maker for the school. The kids are strung along until they wake up. This happens all the colleges. I guess my point is make sure your kid wants to go to these showcases, make sure you can afford nothing coming out of it, make sure you kid knows he may be put on a [lacrosse] team and lose every game, and make sure you going for the experience and not the promise. Just a reality check. Keep the grades up as no money in lax and D1 does not give a full ride. D3 with merit is the best deal. Most hotbed high level kids can walk on. (at least my kid did)

Well the good news is you just got my point. You gave your thoughts and another option. I now know you are not Pro showcase event. I understand your point for sure. But listening to the coaches talk at this last event it really comes down to you picking schools you want to play at and up to you hitting them up to let them know this. Then hoping one of the schools you want, want you. And these play days and showcases are where they can see you play to confirm if they want you or not. But I get for a fact that you can not just show up at these things and hope they find you. Unless you are the best kid at the showcase. I think it comes down to if you are in the top 10% of your class they will find you and do all the work for you. But for the other 90% of each class you have to bug the schools you want to go to until they say they want you or go away.