Well thats fair. My reaction is one that comes from Seeing our sport go down the tubes. A non team event (distraction) right before the season is absolutely a money grab. Most of the time it’s some parent who grabs who they think is the best of the best (often creating drama) to go play in this is the last thing a team needs. Pair that with the reality that they just did one at the end of the fall and it’s clearly a money maker. Reading your response it felt you wanted to defend it, but maybe ugh just wanted to understand it.
Good for you if your bucking the select/national stuff. It’s diluting our sport with kids who think they are actually special but really they are just the first kid to say yes who’s parents are willing to drop major money for you to feel like your on the best team. Their is no loyalty on those teams, they aren’t the same event to event. But they still get ranked.
Parents are the problem. Someone tells them little Johnny is special and bam, here’s 4K. Whatever. It’s is what it is. Sucker parents everywhere.
Sorry your son got cut from Nationals.
What's crazy talk is thinking that the MD club lacrosse scene is somehow really doing favors for young athletes. Or that it's not a money grab. Or that HoCo is the most important thing ever.
Nobody at 9th grade tryouts will ask how your son did in HoCo the previous year or the previous five years. HoCo is lots of fun but it is a manufactured priority for youth lax.
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