The difference in hockey and baseball if a very good to great player is to make it into the professional ranks as quickly as possible - monetary gain! In lacrosse the ideal end game is to go to a great school for lax/academics or academics/lax.
I'm sorry that's a bit of lax snobbery. Doesn't Stanford, UNC, Vanderbilt and Virginia have top baseball programs? They are pretty fair schools academically, and they also are all heavy early recruiters.....
