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?
Just looked quickly at last years final Top 20 Rankings and it looks like approximately 40% of the players on the rosters graduated from Private Schools including the so called "wealthy prep schools". Below is the breakdown (forgive me if i'm off by a little, looked quickly):
First number is Roster count second number is Private School kids
1 - North Carolina - 40 - 16 2 - Boston College - 30 - 14 3 - Maryland - 30 - 14 4 - Northwestern 36 - 14 5 - Stony Brook (N/A roster / recruiting not in line with other power programs) 6 - Syracuse 35 - 13 7 - Loyola 33 - 13 8 - Florida 42 - 12 9 - Princeton 33 - 15 10 - Denver 36 - 15
Average roster size is 35, average number of private school kids 14.
