Times are a changin' in the lax world. In years past, Chaminade never had to face the pressure of their paying customers being recruited earlier and earlier. Their "system" worked in the world when the best kids were recruited in 11th and 12th grade. What's unbelievably ironic is that it was Chaminade's own coaches who started the Express summer club and ignited the ascent of the entire club lax scene to eventually leapfrog their own high school program in terms of recruiting importance and likewise fueling the environment for early recruiting to catch fire. The early recruiting that they themselves helped to orchestrate has now come back to haunt their varsity program to the point where they will have to cave to the pressure of their paying customers not to have Express D1 commits playing against other 15 year olds.
No Chaminade (or other LI "powerhouse") players are being punished for playing freshman/JV lacrosse, at least not when it comes to recruiting. Chaminade still sends more players to the D1 ranks than just about any school in the country.
While players are now committing to schools in their freshman year, they haven't gotten any better when compared to the school's juniors. Why would Chaminade want to move them up to varsity?
But is a good for a kid's development to be forced to play against average kids if he' s good enough to be recruited by a D1 program as a Freshman?
He would be recruited as freshman based on playing against kids in his own grade. Just because a kids is an early recruit does not mean he's better than an upperclassman that wasn't
Let's be honest besides StA and Chaminade the Catholic league to say at best is week.. If they didn't play any outside games it would be no challenge at all.. They play 2 league games a year and the rest are preparing for teams outside of the league. Just wish some of those kids would go to other schools and make it competitive
Your right but it is what it is. Not our fault the other teams aren't competitive
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