Not much difference in the cost with what TG or YJ charge. It is just the way each presents it. TG is one lump fee divided into 3 installments. YJ break it into two fees, membership and tournament. For 2019, TG has 5 tourneys and YJ has 6. For this age group TG will pay 1300 and YJ 1200, not including hotel and travel. I am sure the number of tournaments vary for different years but is almost the same. If CR is ripping off her players than so is TG. Profit is what makes people successful. If you don't like it than don't participate.
YJ 2019 will play in two or three (depending on the team) bogus one day tournaments that are better suited for town teams and are significantly cheaper in terms of entry fees(Babylon Lax Blast, Mitchell field & Lax Clash CT), two of which are run by CR & Tracy - so lets think a little before we hit the send button. 2020 & 2021 will have five tourneys, three of them would also be the one's mentioned above, again two of them run by CR & Tracy. Great bang for your buck!
Please keep up the comparison in bang for your buck.
Nice that you have to get some parent coach who has no idea what he is doing running indoor practices for this age group because TG offers nothing. Well at least during the season you have some college kid who has no background in coaching instructing your kids when he is not too hung over to make it.Anytime you want to compare coaches let us know.Keep playing in indoor winter league at your age group against town teams while YJ consistently plays up in age to challenge themselves.
TG value , poor coaching ,terrible uniforms, virtually zero off season training or tournament options, the main draw to the program has either no time to give or is restricted by NCAA rules so has little involvement, zero significant tournament championships. The good news if Hofstra is the school for you TG is the place for you, also they do have some nice kids and some nice parents.In actuality YJ offers much much more in the off-season than any other club, multiple tournament, stick skills, shooting clinics etc. ,all coached by actual coaches and not some stand in parent. Yes all the extras cost extra but at least you have some options.
More Yellow Jacket self aggrandizing, we're better than you B.S. Truth is you are paying top dollar for mediocre High School coaches to run crappy clinics, and having your second through tenth string teams play against the same teams that you pretentious lax parents comment about. Meanwhile, very quietly, and without the knowledge of you under informed, clueless yellow jacket flunkies, Black Diamond Lacrosse is running clinics with college coaches, and playing games between Manhasset, Garden City, and Sacred Hart. But please, keep spouting out all your infinite lacrosse knowledge. It makes for a good laugh
Actually I saw several liberty players at those crappy clinics you speak of, some as young ay 2021 so I suppose the word is out. It's just too bad those same great coaches don't coach liberty team!
So your talking about 2021, Fourth graders, I will assume your kid is no older than a sixth grader. I know how excited you must be to have your daughter playing on one of the most prolific and successful girls lacrosse travel programs in the country, and I congratulate your daughter on her success and dedication to the sport we all love. As for you let me tell you how this really works, there are 2 types of clubs in this small world of ours, ones that make money and care about advancing our daughters to meet there goals, and ones that make money and care only about strengthening there brand name. with that being said, I am sure you saw 4th, 5th,and 6th grade girls, not only from Liberty, but from every club on L.I. at Carol Roses "clinics". she will take money from any person on the planet. The Back Diamond clinics are geared more towards girls of older ages, as you will soon learn, for the obvious reason. As far as the completely absurd question of how many of the college coaches that coach at the Black Diamond clinics coach for Liberty ( this is what gave you away as a parent of a younger kid ) let me just say that those coaches are far to busy recruiting during the summer to coach at any club team. In my final comment let me say this about the High School coach vs. college player debate. call me stupid (as I am sure you will) but I would rather have a college aged woman that has a proven record of success in the game on a national level coaching my daughter than some semi successful, regional, small school coach.
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