Many of you who have attended with your older sons, please enlighten me/us.
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Money grabbing at its best. Take the money and buy powerball tickets.
And love the link in the middle of this debate noting that college athletic departments are facing a fiscal crisis for non-revenue sports. I read that and think that any 2018 parent who gets his money spend on youth / club lacrosse back via a college lacrosse scholarship is quite the lucky one. At least when we were all stupid enough to buy a .com stock in the 1990s we had some irrational shot at making money. Here it seems like we can all see a money crash clearly and are steering toward it. I wonder how many lacrosse players on a roster of 45 are walk ons or basically walk ons...are getting a couple grand only to say scholarshipped. Half?
If you can get a direct invite , go! Otherwise, big money grab!
Many of the 2018 kids who went to Jake Reed last year did not get a direct invite, the system is broken. 3d Blue Chip is well run and fun as long as the weather is warm. Let's stop this nonsense about 'money grab', what organzation isn't trying to make money when they run a business.
Non for profit ones. Which many of these clubs "claim" to be!
I am aware of only a few claiming to be nonprofit, but you have to remember, that too is a business.
To help you understand more clearly: "The fundamental difference between nonprofit organizations and their profit-making counterparts is that nonprofits tend to take a greater portion of their compensation from easier working conditions, more time off, favors and under-the-table payments. Profit-making organizations take a greater portion of their compensation in cash, except those that are highly regulated. In the profit-making world, there is much greater monitoring of the behavior of people who act for the organization. Profit-making organizations have a financial bottom line they must meet, or sooner or later, heads will roll. Not so with nonprofits, which have no bottom line to meet. On top of that, incompetence for nonprofits means bigger budgets, higher pay and less oversight." -Walter Williams
