Originally Posted by Anonymous
[quote=Anonymous]I totally agree with this last statement. Your not getting any different coaching. Half the club coaches were the rec coaches.


Then shame on you for picking that club. There are plenty of clubs out there that have HS Varsity coaches coaching the club teams and not someone's daddy.

The way I see it, the travesty of the current environment is that parents of kids that aren't good enough to play for the top couple clubs, have to pay $1500+ for their kids to play lax with their friends instead of $150 to play rec. For most clubs, you aren't getting anything different then you did from rec. My rec council can no longer field anything above a B team and at Lightning they are only having multiple C teams. The real winners of this landscape are the club owners. [/quote

In Balt area stupid MYLA hooking up with Howard County Recreation and starting the grade base club league two years ago has lead youth lacrosse to this. No reason their league wasnt age base. Crabs and a couple other clubs were salivating to go grade base for a couple of reasons( accommodate MIAA holdbacks, early recruiting, etc) and Howard County Rec Club league was the light to the fuze. Howard County Rec should hold a special place in the hall of shame for Balt youth lacrosse. NPYLL followed suit within a year to keep up. In less than two years all Club teams are grade base and stupid MYLA is going the way of dodo bird for mid to top level competition.