Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Pretty simple - GCHS coach makes(strongly recommends) his players play for the GC club program. The teams never play the best Express or 91 teams or other top clubs for that matter. The GC teams typically have a decent first 10 but no depth. The best players are not fighting for playing time. They are not playing against the top players. GC has been doing this for 5 or so years and the GCHS program has faltered. It is similar to W. Islip. Both schools remain competitive but clearly not as dominate as they have been. Both schools will always compete at the high school level due to the strong youth programs but can't compete at the club level. Early recruiting makes this model pretty difficult to succeed as clubs will continue to grab the best players and the early commits leaving the town kids out to hang.


The only folks that care more about club ball are the ones who do not have a strong high school program. Will anyone care how many t-shirts they won during the bloated summer season 10 years from now? Or will they remember for the rest of their lives the County, Island and possibly State championship they won with their classmates representing their town and high school. As for recruiting, there are quite a few early commits coming out of GC for this group.

Move along.


Dude, the travel programs make the kids better because they see and play against the best regularly. The kids may value the HS achievements more, but travel makes them better!


Says the guy whose HS team is terrible!! Go to a great HS game on Long Island and then tell me all about club.


Nobody cares more about Club Ball than they do about HS ball. Club is played in addition to not in place of HS lacrosse.

In just about any good HS game on the Island you will see that the top kids all compete with and against each other in club ball during the off season.

Just about all of the top kids from CSH, Manhasset, Syosset, Massapequa, Ward Melville, Smithtown, Chaminade, St, Anthony's etc... All play for the top club teams during the off season. They compete against the best while practicing/training and they are challenged when they compete against the best kids from other parts of the country and Canada (Crabs, FCA, Madlax. Sweetlax, Laxachussets, Edge, HHH, Mesa Fresh etc...)

The level of competition in every conference on long island is very week. It is the same teams year in and year out who compete for championships. The catholic schools have more flexibility in terms of scheduling so they have a slight advantage regarding in season competition.

Just about all recruiting is done on the club circuit. For the players who are fortunate enough to play on a top tier club team the advantages are many.