"As far as education goes, lacrosse should be used to get into the best school possible and possibly help to make education more affordable. "
Agree with most of your post except this. Just because you can get into Vanderbilt does not mean you should go there , school needs to be a good academic and social fit etc. Have heard from several players and parents that if their kid had it to do again they would pick another school for many different reasons, sometimes just being in a different time zone ie the west coast is just too far from home etc. | 
