Thanks! Over the years with three boys involved in Lax, I admit to becoming a little obsessed. I like to know what people are saying,stay up to date on commitments and lax news, and occasionally comment. Although my one son is committed, my other two are up and coming in the next few years. This holdback thing is something that has gotten out of control and might hurt my other kids chances of being recruited. After my son was recruited, and I started to look at D1 rosters of top schools, it became very clear what was going on. That is why I advocate for fairness. I would tell you who my committed son is, but then everyone would know who I was, and I prefer to remain anonymous.
Anonymous? There are only 3 or 4 known 2017 commits and none of them are true freshmen. Try again.............
Not directly related to above post. With the 2017 commit announced today, I believe there are now 7 known public commits that have been announced so far. Michigan - Brian Townsend/Blackwolf (M), UNC - Ara Atayan/LI Express (M), Colin Munro/3D (A), Joe Carrington/3D (D), UVA - Griffin Harris/3D (A), John Fox/Brunswick School (M), Air Force - Christian Marshall/West Coast Starz (M). Does anyone know of anyone else. Also, with a little googling, many of these kids are a year older. Lastly, 3D is cleaning up. Have nothing to do with 3D, but find it interesting.
I am a 3d parent and had a meeting with a college coach a couple of weeks ago and he told me he can tell a 3d kid (offensive player) just about immediately, and I know 3d strives for consistency in their training in all of its programs. I imagine as they continue to grow that may be more difficult and is probably one of their biggest challenges and opportunities if they can pull it off and continue to have quality coaches across the country.
We were just out East for two events and it didn't really sink in until I saw some of the better East Coast players to really understand what the coach was saying, but I saw his point. Not that 3d players are better, but the style of play is just different. You'll see fewer middies initiating and rarely see the middie shooting the 12-15 yard shot, and a 3d team really excels in unsettled situations. They don't do a lot of outside shooting. In fact in over two years I have never seen them work on outside shooting. The offense can tend to bog down if they have to play too much 6 vs 6, and in those situations you'll see them maybe force a few passes to get those shots on the doorstep while another team might try to crank the hard shot from outside.
