Lets face it....9th grade varsity players are from weak lacrosse schools.
I can only talk about the one town that I know, Syosset. They have been consistently in the top 5 teams in Nassau for the last 10 - 15 years and Syosset has a long history of 8th and 9th graders playing varsity, it is always part ability of the kids and part needs of the team but it has worked well.
Dan Loftus - Started varsity goal as an 8th grader - became starter at Duke, Jeff Cohen started as an 8th grader and is the all time leading goal scorer at Harvard, Ryan lukacovic started as an 8th grader before going to Chaminade now starting attack at Virginia - Alirio DeMeireles stared as a 9th grader on Syosset team that went to State Championship game and is now playing at Yale. Each case is different and each school is different but you can not paint broad strokes like that.
Well, you blew that idiots theory up. Probably very concerned about his superstar seeing the field on the freshman team at Cham or St A's. While his son's friends from his club team play Varsity this spring. Very transparent.
