The state of youth lacrosse is a joke. Kids and whole teams playing down to look good against younger competition? Sad, really. Why?

Governing body is weak. "Grow the game" is a nice sound bite, but reality is "Grow the kid at any cost and get a scholarship" USLacrosse stands by, whistling next to the hopkins and crabs graveyard of youth lacrosse, also known as Cordish center.

UNC, UVA and Hopkins coaches point fingers at each other, say they hate it, but do nothing. They win nothing either. Karma has a way of catching up with you

What can we, the concerned parents do? Write USLacrosse? Maybe...

What about the administrators of these colleges? They act high and mighty, with noble speeches of character, integrity and honesty when it comes to non-athletes, but their schools are destroying youth lacrosse by recruiting at an age when half the kids haven't gone through puberty. Why can't they do something?

The pursuit of $$ in football and basketball partially justifies recruiting wars, but non-revenue sports, like lacrosse? No $$, drag on athletic department, and giving school a black eye! Just say no to crazy recruiting of 8th graders and make recruiting happen after sophmore year.

I think these administrators and university presidents need to see what a joke their schools are becoming to the large section of non-recruits to make this insanity stop.