Take this from a parent with an older kid...the DC lacrosse scene is full of stories about lacrosse club owners or coaches at Madlax and at Blackwolf, VLC, FCA who bully or threaten families over their kid leaving a club. When the kid is a great player, it's all hot air and those club owners just move on to being bitter about the next recruitable kid leaves. Madlax got stung over the same thing other local clubs do as well, and the difference was the family wanting a public spectacle around their kid. Madlax program size has grown larger not smaller since that episode. Why do you think that is? If there was such a thing as an elite lacrosse club run by a saintly well meaning role model for the boys, give is a name and number. I'd love to meet him and sign our sons up. Parents take the bad with the good in lacrosse, and let's all face this fact that lacrosse club owners are scumbags in general and the ones who are not have weak programs.