All this nonsense will be done and gone in less than 5 years, when every HS coach on the island has a summer/town program. West Islip and Ward Melville do it, and Garden City just got into the summer lax business in a big way. All those programs have already drawn players off the big club teams.
Not all towns do it, and not all the best players have jumped ship yet. But it is inevitable ... the school coaches will want to get on the summer fee bandwagon (call it a bonus), the boys will want to play with their friends, and the parents will want the boys to get exposure to the middle school and high school coaches that they will eventually (hopefully) play for. And the bottom line -- it's less expensive.
In the meantime, if you want to pay premium dollars for someone else's kid to get an A team experience at one of the "elite" clubs, it's your money.
And this is a MAJOR conflict of interest for these HS coaches. It has been discussed in other threads here. These aren't "club" teams with players from all over, these are town teams with parents feeling the "leverage" of having the HS coach run the program and feel "obligated" to play or risk retribution.
There are already too many political angles in these lax towns and to add in the HS coach now running the summer program I think is unethical.
