The US Lacrosse article seems to address what's best for the coaches. Doesn't always align with what's best for student-athletes, as you point out (official visits conflicting with fall HS sports, camp roulette, etc.). I wish US Lacrosse would conduct a poll of the 2020 families that just went through the new 9/1 contact date...
And a poll of the 2021 families that are spending thousands of dollars almost blindly because of the lack of communication. We are talking about a difference of 2.5 months. The new rules have helped things in terms of slowing it down. But common sense would tell you that the end of 10th grade makes more sense than the beginning of 11th. Have some insight going into the summer when you have to decide what camps to send your child to. Not to mention as pointed out above the issues with visits in September when most girls play a fall sport. The coaches say they want multi-sport athletes and then fight for rules that make it very difficult to be one so they can line their pockets with money from the camps. They like it this way. Sophomores didn't used to attend camps because they had already committed. Lot more money for their assistants this way.
Stop your complaining, don't do it if you don't like it...
So you like randomly shelling out money to schools? Go ahead.
Don't do it then, solves that problem...parents have been doing it for the last 20yrs, What makes you any different?
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