Only 47% of Clemson team are ranked (blue chip) recruits. More facts that support late bloomers. Now in lacrosse, UNC was loaded with UA All Americans. they were not great team throughout season but pulled it all together for NCAAs. But looking at Brown and Navy they were stacked with " unknown "kids. Simply put...who cares about 8th grade Club lacrosse. Most of these kids aren't playing at next level.
But what this does say that in a sport like football where they overall do not recruit early they still do not hit on all the Kids. Recruiting is not a fool proof science. Its like picking stocks. You have to hedge your bets by adding up all the current details and hope it works out. But what I think lacrosse does that hurts them the most is they over value kids from the top private high schools. Kids playing at these schools do correctly have a higher lacrosse IQ. Which in turn makes them look better then what there body can really do. If lacrosse coaches switch to a more football mind set and recruit to a body type and look at the parents for a possible growth pattern they would be better off.
