Taz is on it's way to irrelevance like every other Legacy team. It's not the kids or the coaches, it's the club. As soon as they stopped being the undisputed #1 team they stop attracting talent because the club itself isn't a draw by itself. Express has the Catholic school hooks and 91 has the marketing. Legacy has none of that. Sorry, but it is all downhill from here.
Obviously the Legacy brand is a subpar brand in travel lacrosse. C’mon, they came to be, from a merger between Riptide and Havoc Dunedogs. They have a couple of decent teams, of which Taz is one. That’s it. On the landscape of significant travel clubs, they don’t exist. Not sure what will happen to Taz, but if my son were on the team, I would be seriosly thinking about other clubs, at this point. When it comes time for recruiting, those kids are at a serious disadvantage.
Both WP and TAZ are fantastic teams there is no doubt but how many articles do you read about great lacrosse players not getting recruited because they were pigeon holed into one sports. The fact is NCAA coaches are looking for multiple sport athletes. Kids that play on teams that are not labeled "AA" but are able to play multiple sports fair much better in the recruiting process because ultimately they are better athletes. Big difference in a multiple sport athlete who has handled a few losses in his youth travel games and a kid that hardly handles defeat but when they do they are taught by there parents to act is if the sky is falling. Coaches notice that.
You're really going to hate this... but as I've posted before, the core reason why this group is so good, is because they are tremendous athletes first and lacrosse players second. Most are top level athletes in this grade year, anywhere. They are top top players in every sport they play. By the way, there isn't one child on the team that is a lacrosse-only athlete. All of them play several sports (almost always at least 3) including football, soccer, basketball and even baseball, along with any other sport they can fit into their busy schedules. Other travel teams too (not lacrosse). I don't know where you got the idea that these kids only play lacrosse. That is completely ridiculous! Nothing could be further from the truth. Sorry Charlie.
So your claiming tremendous athletes in 6th grade. I think what your seeing is players that have a bit more training than others at a young age. Yes some kids may be a bit more coordinated or dad has had them working in the backyard or training with a trainer to get ahead but when that thing called puberty kicks in you really start to see who the athletes are. The kid who was a stud because he had some better field sense and skills because he started at a younger age will start to get caught up to by players in 8th maybe 9th grade because of puberty. That kid who once was bigger and faster is no longer. Seen it a ton, been coaching for over 25 years at many different levels. The kids that were better players at a young age and anointed the best players get passed by. This is not to say that the players who were good at a young age dont continue to get better and also benefit from puberty but the disparity isnt as great.
The younger teams who are well coached and have a strong core are the ones that do well. Eventually you will see the coaches make player changes because at tryout the kid that had decent stick skills but was on the small side the year before all of the sudden grew a few inches and out on some size and also committed to practicing a bit more in 7th or 8th grade.
Again?? The same post, virtually copy and pasted over and over again, year after year. Gets a little redundant, no?? The problem with these statements are, year after year they are proven false. How’s it going so far? Status quoe still right? No changes at the top. But the sky is still about to fall on WP and Taz (you hope). [ChillLaxin] hum.
1st it was wp then slowly taz came into picture now you have Express and igloo..True Blue (beat Taz).. a couple of years will be someone else.Parity it happens.
