And don’t forget the thousands of dollars annually in airfare, hotels, and other travel expenses to play in some of the distant tournaments — which oftentime involve playing against very weak teams for easy wins. Naptown in July appears to be the only real tournament this program will play in all year long. If you live in MD, PA, NY, NJ or some of adjoining states, you may have better local club options where you’ll probably pay a lot less overall, get your uniform and helmet promptly upfront, play on a better team, play in better tournaments and hopefully skip the drama of frequent coach and player turnover. Which by the way, this team is not compatible with any other lacrosse club program — if you have a conflict and don’t play with Duke’s, you’ll get a hostile phone call or email, followed by a depth chart demotion and other forms of retaliation. Like others, we’re leaving when it comes time to renew for the next year. It’s a great idea, but execution and overall experience really fell short of our expectations. If you join, I hope your experience is better than ours and what appears to be almost entirely negative comments across 56 pages here — the majority of which appears to be pretty accurate.