Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
criticism of bluestar that is not related to fee structure:

I've witnessed summer practices where there are 30 kids to 1 coach at a very young age. While the coach is great with the kids, there is only so much 1 coach can do to keep 30 kids actively engaged in a practice.

On gameday I've seen the single coach completely mismanage the bench. I'm talking kids not getting the game at all and/or routinely running offense and defensive sets accidentally man-down.

Good teams routinely entered into B brackets of tournaments. Crushing other team, but not very challenging to the roster.

I’ve seen a lot of clubs in action. Bluestar HS level practices are probably the worst I’ve seen. And that is for their top teams. Kids are standing around for more than 50% of practice. And if you are not part of Shawnee or Westfield you won’t really get any attention.

My experience has been quite the opposite. Every practice is loaded with coaches who are actively engaged. They also have a lot of college kids on hand as assistant coaches, they interact well on a more personal level with the kids, and they are really helpful if they are a specialist like a FOGO because they work with those kids on the team. As far as the top teams and playing time, welcome to high school club lacrosse, top kids get the most time, this in not just Bluestar. Many clubs will simply boot the underperforming kids off of the team, at least Bluestar gives them a chance. While this may lead to a larger group on the sidelines, it is the choice of the parent and player to be on the team (maybe just the parent in some instances). As far as the B bracket tournaments, this is just wrong, top teams play in top tournaments, but this is easily verifiable on their website where the schedules are located. Since they have more than one team at each age group, you may be mistaken about which team is playing in a tournament. Finally, in case you didn't notice there are a lot of Westfield and Shawnee kids in the program in general, so the odds are that they will make up a large part of a team, but look at some of their top teams, they have kids from all over the State, also easily verifiable. Bottom line, everybody needs to do their own due diligence and see what works best for their kid, every program has its pros and cons, but posts like the above come off as sour grapes.

Let’s have MV and Don exit the conversation so we can go back to talking the merits of BBL vs LE. How did we get so far down the road with This one particular club?

Yup, looks like a personal axe to grind....as for merits of LE vs. BBL, we all know what happened to LE this weekend, not really sure where BBL was playing..so not too many positives to discuss on that front.