my two cents on a few things commented on here - #1 don't get caught up in evaluating organizations particularly the big ones worry about the individual teams, somebody having a bad experience on the grey team may bad mouth the organization when it was really just the team that was bad experience. #2 the best coach my son has ever had was a dad, but he also was a very good college player so we had dedication and knowledge #3) as someone who played lacrosse 30+ years ago I can tell you the first day of 7th grade lacrosse we had 3 kids, after the first baseball cut we had 12 and when baseball made the final cuts we finally had our full team - unless you grew up in Manhasset or Garden City chances are very good that if you played lacrosse on long island 30 years ago you started the day after you got cut from baseball and it actually still goes on today, I know a kid that had a very nice college lacrosse career and he never picked up a stick until he got cut in seventh grade | 
