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the wave of the future will be the stud athlete that only had a stick in their hand for two or three years. lacrosse is an easy game to pick up...athleticism is bred.

IMO - the Canucks are great players and skilled but let's keep it real - they are part of the hockey community and think nothing of holding kids back - they are great no doubt but typically older.....

the wave of the future will be the stud athlete that only had a stick in their hand for two or three years. lacrosse is an easy game to pick up...athleticism is bred.

IMO - the Canucks are great players and skilled but let's keep it real - they are part of the hockey community and think nothing of holding kids back - they are great no doubt but typically older.....

Primetime average at best, Eclipse a step above them...EOM

Some excellent posts. I wouldn't write any late bloomer off. This is the Wild West. This 2017 class broke the levee and the classes filled up at light speed. Kids who were little guys in 9th grade are not projecting well at all. In D1 high level like ACC play you can be super fast small at attack. The rest of the positions, there's just no way. It's like trying to get Rudy on the field for more than the last play. Ain't going to happen for a 5'8 or 5'9 middie or defender or goalie. Those positions you'll always see good athletes with more physical stature. Some programs are just screwed with early recruits and they know it. De-committing is going to blow out, and it won't just be kids changing their minds. It will be coaches counseling kids to look for a new home. Kid gets to save face. Next big trend won't be dumping low tier for upper tier. It will be kids de-committing from Hop, Duke, UVA and UNC because they were dumped. Some assistants at those programs know to be out looking for 2017s and even 2016s. They care about winning and their jobs, not the non-binding commitments they made to 9th graders.

There isn't a doubt that ER is idiotic on many levels. The recruiting quality of it is already showing some serious flaws. I think the people who disagree with that are Volleyball Boy Xanders and some pretty defensive parents of kids who won the 9th grade Gong Show.

Don't kid yourselves if you don't think the coaches are looking at 2020's already...soon enough we will see Pietramala hanging around the middle school tournaments!

I am not a fan of early recruiting either but just take a look at the '18 and '19 classes - the pace of early recruiting appears to be accelerating if anything. Please explain why you have no doubt that it is idiotic as more and more top schools continue to do it. Denver Maryland and Cuse has jumped into the fray when just two years ago they were not involved. The emergence of the Big Ten now pits more teams against the ACC regarding early recruiting. I suspect it continues at a very fast pace.

There will also be a major trend of early commits changing schools. Parents panicking for the early commit and just jumping on any offer. Then they realize the school they chose really wasn't a good fit or the kid didn't have the grades after 3 years in High School and will just commit elsewhere.

1) you have to mention Ty, he is part of the problem with the recruiting craze and he is making $ from it

2) You have to expect early commits to change...boys change interests, many are tied to a certain GPA, burnout...I think it is healthy and as the recruiting goes earlier, the more it will happen. Coaches know it and plan accordingly.

1) you have to mention Ty, he is part of the problem with the recruiting craze and he is making $ from it

2) You have to expect early commits to change...boys change interests, many are tied to a certain GPA, burnout...I think it is healthy and as the recruiting goes earlier, the more it will happen. Coaches know it and plan accordingly.

Is the fl$ 2018/17 team going to fl$ in 3d a team of committed high school players?

It is not.

Thanks, saw that fl$ was putting together a committed team for summer 2016 and was wondering if this was the same from 2015, if one existed. Good luck, Hope the tournament is successful.

These club tournaments are starting to look like garbage in, garbage out. I know Sweetlax and fl$ and the others have good players in their clubs but this spamming out teams into so many events makes the events just worse. There is a Sweetlax team going to this fl$ thing, but it seems like a party gift suprise when we get there if it will be "the real deal" Sweetlax team.

Club lacrosse has become a total joke for kids when they get further into high school. I no longer believe that this is where my kid can be challenged in good competition and improve. We're looking into Canadian juniors next summer in search of a spark. Anyone else have bright ideas?

This isn't aimed at any club, just club lacrosse in general guys. Quite honestly if that fantastic 2017s Turtles team is still together, I feel kind of bad for them. There isn't enough of an effort by clubs to put any good 2016 or 2017 teams this past summer, this fall or going ahead because they are marketing organizations focused on recruiting and recruiting is basically all done by soph year now. So juniors and seniors can play for their school and then slum around these crappy club tourneys for 2 1/2 years? No thanks.