Agreed can't imagine trying to keep up with that kid on a full field rest of the team was good but didn't see anything exceptional
He's too small. Unfortunately he is shut down regularly on the field.
BL has two stud players. A middie and a pole. The rest are average players. Nothing wrong with that since they are still young and there is plenty of time for them to develop into quality players. However, if you take those two exceptional players off of that team you would be left with a middle of the road PA team (LI or Maryland bottom tier). That's just the way it is. To the guy whose kid regularly "bends kids twice his size", that's great. Unless he's the #1 middie or the #1 pole, he's average. Most teams are constructed this way.
You are both idiots....
Agreed. Idiots often fall in love with their own opinions as fact. From what I've observed, the average players aren't on the club teams (even your son's team, guy who called my kid average). Average lacrosse players stick to their community teams and that does it for them. They don't play much outside of practice or the games and they do alright, but they are average. Put them up against most club players and you'll have a different perspective on what average is. Maybe your sons team is the anomaly that has mostly casual lacrosse players on it?
Where I'm from, everyone plays club. Tons of average kids.
I guess that's why some areas are much stronger than others. I know that on LI/Md, kids don't just play club so they can play in college. They need to do it just to play JV and Varsity. Some places are just more committed and competitive than PA. Here, we take all of the top kids and we have one really good team. Elsewhere, there are so many more options that elite kids play for so many different teams because they have more opportunities for playing time, location benefits and travel preferences. We have some talent, but we are still in the infancy stage. We can't compete with the deep rooted areas. That's the reality.
