Will the excuses ever end? It starts in elementary school, continues through high school and even goes on during the recruiting process.
College coaches, especially at the most competitive college programs offer spots to players that they believe can help their program compete. The majority of programs bring in 7-9 players per year (average per year), coaches do not hand out spots because the family has a lot of money or because the father was a recognizable professional athlete. The rubber meets the road during the recruiting process and all of the parents and players will know exactly where the player stands based on the caliber of program that offers a spot.
Facts, not excuses. Please explain the disproportionate amount of wealthy prep school kids on college rosters at certain schools. Why is that? Are rich kids better at lacrosse, have more opportunities?
Facts? No, not really.
Maybe it is because Lacrosse / Girls Lacrosse is more prevalent in affluent areas so naturally there will be a high percentage of athletes from well off families on college rosters at the more prestigious schools/universities. As the original post points out, "coaches do not hand out spots because the family has a lot of money or because the father was a recognizable professional athlete."
Coaches want the best athletes/players that they can get, they do not care if the player comes from an affluent family or not. How long do you think Maryland, North Carolina, Boston College, Northwestern, Syracuse, Princeton, Florida, Virginia, Penn, Duke, Loyola, James Madison, Notre Dame, Stanford, USC etc... would be competitive if they were prioritizing wealthy athletes over the best athletes?
Duke, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Northwestern etc... could easily fill their rosters with "Full Pay" kids and have the players family donate $$$ to the university and the women's lacrosse program as well but they would not remain competitive for very long.
If a college coach does not offer a player a spot it is not because of the families financial situation. Coaches offer spots to players they want.
