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.
So you are claiming that college coaches have conspired together to recruit from only private schools to discriminate against non private school kids? For what reason would they do that? If there are a bunch of quality college level players from public schools not getting recruited, wouldn't it take just one coach to capture that group and dominate?
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