Agreed. The hate needs to stop. What is sad is that the same club directors, coaches, and parents that spoke out against early recruiting by colleges, are now are completely complicit with their clubs aggressively recruiting 6-9th graders, the bashing of other clubs and coaches, all with promise of future stardom and recognition on their clubs for the purpose of being noticed at the HS level. Flat out sad... flat out sad.
The sad part for many club directors is money and ego/bragging rights. More focus needs to be placed on the development of their players, regardless of the age level, develop your players. If you don't have the coaches that can do it, find ones who will or just keep quite and hope for the best.
Enlighten us. Who are the coaches who continue to develop their players vs. just collecting talented players?
. Ask around, see what clubs work with their players and which ones just recruit a player(s) for the short term. You need to enlighten yourself. You seem to have an attitude.
It appeared that only the Crabs and API from last year did a poor job developing their players.(not to say they are not very good teams) Being around the club scene for a while now I would say all the clubs do a good job developing players. It is very clear to see which teams get better year to year and even from start to finish in a season. EVERY single club does some sort of recruiting every year to better their overall team. This is perfectly normal behavior for any level of any sport. If a player doesn't feel he is being developed than most likely they will leave which is also perfectly ok. This also happens at the REC level across the country. I don't get how people come on here bashing clubs , coaches, leagues that you signed up for. Signed up knowing exactly what the rules and guidelines are. If you want your kid to play at the ELITE or AA level then this is the landscape for now.(until USL changes their age dates again or USL and club come to some unified agreement for all to play by) Until then there is at least a dozen of grade or age base teams to play on this year. HOCO has Elite,AA,A,B,C and also has age group teams for those so sensitive to the cause. The majority of Clubs including the 2 mentioned before have some of the best coaching and staff in all of lacrosse.(at least on paper) All clubs have ALL American , Pro, High School, College coaches working with their players. Thus the business side of this , if you want to coach your kid still and feel he is being treated unfairly and as a Parent you didn't really know what you signed up for then there is a ton of Rec organizations that do a great job with young players. If you only want to spew negativity along with all the other parents on here that feel slighted or cheated because they signed up for something they shouldn't have,this site should set up a cry baby page and leave this one to those that do care or don't care about holdbacks, ego,bragging rights,club bashing, coach bashing, smart [lacrosse] parents that comment anonymously like tough guys. What is sad is parents complaining about something they know full well and still signed up for. Do you expect sympathy or to actually take your comments seriously when you clearly are not smart enough to know what you signed up for.
