Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
My oldest is in 7th grade on a top club team. In your experience, how much of the recruiting is due to your son's HS team vs his club team. We are on the fence on private vs public.

Private without any doubt if you are looking to go D1. You can make it in Public, but it is so much harder. Look at MIAA commitments, many arent even that good besides playing in college rule MIAA league. But look how many are committed. And the majority will not see the field in D1.

With Lacrosse becoming popular in FL, GA, CA, TX ,NC the MIAA is slowly losing out to these states in Recruitment and actually playing in D1 . Looking over last years rosters of Final 8 in NCAA playoffs, ND has 1, UVA a 2, Duke 0, NC 6 , Georgetown 4, Rutgers 1 , Loyola 5 and MD has a bunch 7. A few actually start and play but majority ride the bench. MIAA aint what it used to be.

You realize the MIAA is a league, right? 11 teams in the A conference. 26 kids in the final 8 NCAA D1 tourney from one league, not state, is impressive.

Best players in state gravitate to the MIAA schools, DMV to IAC. Most college teams have less and less MIAA players. Besides a few 3 or 4 they all rode the bench last year and some have for years. Having 3 or 4 play out of 8 final college teams from the supposed best HS conference in country is not that great. 11 MIAA teams must have 250-350 players. 8 college teams have 450 players ... 3/4 play..

All these fuss in Baltimore over getting D1 this and that, holding back, best club , hit the wall, pay entire team to transfer, arent getting great results. Maybe I am missing something.

Sounds like someone’s kid didn’t make it in the miaa.

Playing in the MIAA isnt that hard if you are willing to put in the work, obviously you need some decent ability, its the next level that is where more than work comes into play.