Sad to say but true. More a matter of resting on laurels. Our MD club has such a laisse-faire attitude towards practicing that has stung.
If there’s bad weather or scheduling conflicts then practice is cancelled and not made up or no practice skills are sent to work on our own.
I know that the owner/ head of JetBlue (Neepier) lived and raised his family for a time up in CT and built the lacrosse program a new stadium up there( they didn’t need a Utahian to do this but it made it nicer).
As for GA there are a lot of transplants down there that make sure the girls are playing at the speed they play up here. Stick skills can be taught.