Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Parents are putting in way too much thought and effort towards a hobby in lack of better words. In a couple of years, this back and forth regarding re-class will be passed down to another set of a clueless, self-absorbed bunch of parents. I just let my son play. He's focused on a certain school, and once lacrosse is over, it's over.

So your son has played and still plays on age and just focused on a certain school? His Good Grades and your money can probably get him in? But, with some of the top schools , that is not always the case.

Not everyone can get onto their top choice schools with grades and money. The sport aspect helps a lot! That’s why parents spend so much money on lacrosse. They are hoping it will be a factor in helping their kid get into a top school they wouldn’t otherwise get in with just money and good grades. The thought and effort is more about future opportunities , more than actual lacrosse!

The sport doesn’t help a lot. Football and basketball do, but lacrosse doesn’t help all that much. Guessing you haven’t gone through the process or you wouldn’t be posting this silliness.Want your kid in a top school, save the $5000 a summer and invest it in a combination of SAT prep and tutors, it will serve your son much more. Parents who spend the money on lacrosse do it for themselves.

The sport absolutely helps a lot. Take a look over the years at the kids who have gone on to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Duke, Hopkins, Notre Dame, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell... How many of them would have gotten in on their own? Take a look at the next tier and the tier after that.... Georgetown, Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina.... and the next.... Boston University, Lehigh, Ohio State, Villanova, Syracuse, Maryland, Penn State, Bucknell, Colgate etc...
Don't forget Navy, Army, Airforce.... How about Bentley? DIII is an option as well Tufts and the rest of the NESCAC's.... and many more schools.

How many of the Long Island players that are currently enrolled at those schools or who have graduated would have been accepted without the help of the lacrosse coach?

Go check the roster for Football and Basketball at the schools listed above and tell us all how many Long Island kids are on the rosters and then take a look at the Lacrosse rosters at those schools.

WORD! The sport helps TREMENDOUSLY. The Other poster who says it doesn’t, didn’t answer if his kid was a re-class? Hmmm? Sounds like he’s got the money for college, and his kid just playing extra years for fun and not advantages. ??

Dude, get off the socio-economic status of lacrosse players. Bottom line, the VAST majority of top kids are RICH!! they live in Manhasset, GC, Port Washington, and Syosset in Nassau. they go to Chaminade and St. A's. It's a rich kid sport. Look at every single LI Champion over the last 10 years and pick out the poor communities. Show me how many Freeport has? How about Amityville? If you don't like it, you picked the wrong sport. STOP BEING A VICTIM and show your kid how to succeed, YOU are failing him with all your whining.

Dude, no one is talking about the dollars! Talking about if the sport aspect helps get kids into colleges they would never have had a chance getting into without it. The money part came into play , because people who have it can afford to keep their kids back and play they’re-class game that is an advantage , no matter what you want to say about it! BTW, you didn’t answer … did your kid re-class?