It is the parents of the kids who are not being recruited that are complaining.
If you had a 9th or 10th grade "Non Athlete" and they were asked to commit to one of the following schools, how many people would say no thanks.
School US News Ranking
Princeton 1 University of Penn 7 Hopkins 12 Cornell 16 Notre Dame 18 Georgetown 20 Virginia 23 Michigan 28 University of North Carolina 30 Penn State 37 Ohio State 52 Maryland 62 Syracuse 62
Liberal Arts Colleges
Army 17 Colgate 20 Air Force 25 Bucknell 32
All of the above listed schools have many committed 2016's and they are now starting on the 2017's.
They are all good schools, good luck to NY kids trying to get into these schools without lacrosse.