Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous


You Long Island People are all clueless. Lacrosse is 90% speed and 10% stick skills/field awareness. If a player has the 90% which is speed that player is a much more valuable player. you can train a kid to get the other 10% but let me see most of you train your kids to get even a little speed. it will never happen. You guys have a serious lack of kids with speed and athleticism up there and I would rather a kid with speed than most of your slow kids. Truth is fast or last and I guess that's why you all struggle against teams here in the South. Maryland, UNC, USC, Florida are all teams that recruit solely on speed. so you can cross most of your slow butts off those lists. These Maryland Clubs would love to have her. You all can stay right there, we pass.


Speed is huge, but so is the skill, IQ etc....they need to have it all. Agreed, you can't teach speed, and even more important than speed is agility, quickness. Quickness of direction change, foot movement, hand and stick movement and the the ability to use it to benefit their game. So on some level I agree, speed is great but it certainly doesn't make a player great. Here is where you are wrong... many players can not be taught that 10% that you claim so unimportant. All that IQ, situational awareness, field vision, stick skill, and most important of all, HEART.... this stuff perfected, is much more rare to find than speed. Then lastly... who is stuggling against Southern teams? My daughter's team only has one club that can compete with them, M&D black. LI top teams are dead even with southern top teams, B teams with B teams and so on....

Recruited all to where? Syracuse? A school with barely any speed? I am a Maryland coach and I would love to recruit the girl.