Originally Posted by Anonymous
I guess I would argue that if you really cared about the sport and the betterment of kids there are actions that could be taken to minimize the corruption and inequity. If the lacrosse community put more pressure on US lacrosse and even drew attention to the discriminatory recruiting practices (ie only looking at kids from certain private schools) there could be changes. Lacrosse has talked about “growing the sport for years” however you can’t do that when you pander to and allow wealthy elites control a small insular community. America doesn’t want to watch professional lacrosse because it’s a bunch of wealthy entitled kids who were given opportunities no one else had. Not very appealing.

All high level sports require time, money, commitment. I don’t see the barriers you’re alluding to… if kids are really good at lacrosse, they’ll find their way onto the top teams (and they will play for free if they can’t afford the dues). And if they’re good players on the top club teams, they’ll get recruited.
The elitist aspect is that most of the good college programs happen to be, for the large part, in the northeast and East where the Ivy’s and little Ivy’s exist.