Originally Posted by Anonymous
Thie should be regulated like soccer and have cards to prove age. if that happens, a lot of things will change.
The rostering process is much looser in lacrosse than in soccer, that is certainly for sure. There is a major discussion on other threads regarding a "combo" boys team pulled from multiple clubs during the season for an away tournament this weekend. Lacrosse's flexibility gives you this "advantage" of creating "insta-teams" that just does not happen with soccer (save the USYSA vs USCS pass debate on the side for now). Lacrosse also has the ability to enter teams into tournaments during the summer but still have the ability to add players when others normally part of the team opt out for family vacations or similar.

The downside of that flexibility is that outsiders are left to quesion the veracity of the roster, player ages and such. Also, club insiders can be left out when uber-teasms or extra events are held. By and large, we do think that all of the clubs play 99% of the time on the up-and-up; however, the regulations are there for the other 1% of the situations.