All this back and forth is entertaining. End of the day, lacrosse ends after college. The AU “professional” league is a joke and will soon fold. Nobody cares and why would you want to share a room for weeks for barely any money when you could have a real job. I know we all love lacrosse, but c’mon, use it to go to the best possible school and get a great job. The smartest girls use lacrosse for this purpose. Selling your soul to these top 5 lacrosse programs where the coach could basically care less about you 90% of the time when you could have gotten a much better degree elsewhere is just silly. They are using you! Be smart and use them to get into a school you would never had a chance to attend. This opens doors. Those girls are the real winners!
Why do you assume that the players at the Top programs are not going to get a great job or a degree from a great school?
Why do you assume that the coaches at less competitive programs care more about their players?
Why do you say "sell your soul" when talking about the players at the competitive programs?
Why do you assume that players from less competitive programs will earn a much better degree?
Why do you assume that the players at the most competitive programs did not use lacrosse to get into the best school possible?
Why do you assume that all of the players from the strongest programs all choose to play in the AU Pro League?
In no particular order: Best Programs over the past 5 - 10 years.
Top 5 Caliber Programs - Maryland - Northwestern - North Carolina - Boston College - Syracuse
Top 10 Caliber Programs - JMU - Folrida - Stony Brook - Virginia - Princeton - Notre Dame - Penn - Loyola
Top 20 Caliber Programs - Denver - Stanford - Duke - Penn State - USC - Umass - Colorado - Navy - Hopkins
I'm sure there are 2 or 3 other programs that could be listed as well but the above programs seem to be the programs that consistently finish the season ranked in the Top 20 in the past 5 - 10 years.
The above are all good schools. It is possible to have both a good academic school as well as a good lacrosse program.
The views expressed in your post are one sided and narrow.
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