Nationals were booted from the FL tournament because they poach (or try to poach) from True, Hawks, ML, NL, Legacy among many others. If you add these clubs together they control many of the tournaments on the East Coast. Blocking them hits their bottom line. If your entire model is to play in big tournaments against the best teams (which are pretty much enumerated above) then you are ticking off the guys that throw said tournaments and are just asking for trouble. It has to be the worst business model ever....and explains the Dukes divorce a ways back. You don't need more proof than this: Nationals charged $2k for 3 fall tournaments this year. A friend on an older Nats team got a letter earlier this week saying it is down to 2 because of FL. Now they want a refund. The club was told months ago they were out and have only alerted paying customers this week? Sketchy.
That's what this lawsuit is about...money. It's not because the clubs named in the lawsuit are part of the Klan. That claim is almost too daft for words.
Some people named in the lawsuit have a well-documented history of saying and doing stuff. If you operate that way for that long, you put a target on your back.
And if you operate among the lowest common denominator- whether it is cheating (or moving kids around) to win your own tournaments OR marketing a subpar lacrosse experience and selling rec lax for club prices to inexperienced families to make money, there's not a lot of sympathy.
I think Madlax and True are learning there are bigger sharks out there in the lax ocean.
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