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What grade?

Normal? Don't fool yourself.

Find a coach that cares about your son and wants him to improve and succeed. Not easy to that these days!!!

Just do your research and call the coach and talk to them upon receiving an invite. It’s not that hard.

Call the coach? Big clubs don't even tell you who will be coaching your son. They will also tell you want you want to hear. It is a business, as unfortunate as that is. Better to ask older players and their parents what their experience was with that coach or team.

Honestly, What would club would send an invite without the coaching staff attached to it?

Just look at the title of this thread, for starters. Notorious for swapping out coaches and using misleading names for its teams.

Wait until your son gets to high school and all the directors from Express don't do ANYTHING for recruiting for any of the kids on the team - double whammy for those who have one of the directors as your Varsity or JV coach. Good times.

I have 1 son that graduated from one of their schools a few years ago and another soon to graduate and I can say with 100% confidence that you're wrong.

I agree. My son would not be committed without the Express. The second the school showed interest, the Director reached out immediately and helped tremendously.

Express is the best just ask the Express parents! 😂

Hilarious…..but true

Still waiting for express apology from WSYL

Me too. They think if they ignore it, people will forget. What a disgrace!

What happen ?

The kid no longer plays for Express. They did the right thing.

People can bash and joke all they want. My som is just starting the recruiting process and Express is doing more than I expected and he’s not that top 10%. Ask questions and don’t be a donk and they help.

If your sons goal is play in college, choosing the right club is everything entering the HS years.

And the right coach at the club. Just being on the A team isn't the only thing. If your coach looks after your son, it can make all the difference.

Is this true? It's not what I heard. I did hear his spot at SA was revoked.

If all this is true. If the kid lost his spot at St A’s and is no longer on Express. I feel bad for the kid. He did nothing wrong he is suffering for his mother’s actions. He is still a child not even in HS yet His mother is the one who should pay the price. Hopefully this will teach other parents how to act towards others and to respect all people. The kids pay the price for your actions.

Is this regarding the “Karen” mom thing? If so? Why punish the kid!?

Agree. Not fair to the kid at all. He's a friend of my son's and a good kid. Doesn't deserve this if it's true.

If express takes it out on the kid, shame on them

How exactly can the club punish the mom without impacting the kid?

Ban her from games and team stuff. Simple! Don’t punish a kid. He’s not at fault. That’s terrible.

We don't even know if he was really kicked off of the team or out of SA.

It's on this forum so it MUST be true!

Yes it’s awful but college coaches check to see if the parents are crazy too. Lacrosse does not generate that much money for them to have to deal with nut jobs. There is always another player just as good who don’t have crazy parents.

No public apology from the organization is really bad

Public apology for what?

That’s an old wives tale

Why does the organization owe an apology for a parent of a player that did something? How is that the clubs fault? The woman should apologize … period. And, nothing should be taken out on the kid by the club! Lots of kids have parents that do dense things, Nothing to do with the club or kid!

Honestly.

For parents representing the Express organization spewing hateful and belligerent remarks to Native American families. Why won’t the Express organization issue an apology for the actions of their members and denounce what occurred. People are still waiting and have not forgotten!

Are there express parents that witnessed this? I saw a Video from a Regulators parent and the Express mom really seems controlled and was explaining the table and there was other women trying to insult her. They were not irate as if they were severely insulted. Just curious what the real truth is and the video made me severely doubt it was true

It’s one individual. It’s not an organization. She owes the apology for her actions. She’s not an employee of that organization. Her kid plays lacrosse there. Nothing to do with the team.

Everything to do with the team. Her and her son represented the team. Please stop making excuses. You are part of the program.

Exactly. The truth is somewhere in between. It didn’t start off negative and the women from express wasn’t yelling and screaming at them. She asked them to leave the table so the express kids could eat. Things spiraled out of control when the parents sitting at the table refused to leave the table. Things were said that were taken the wrong way. “You don’t belong here” was in reference to sitting at the wrong table not they didn’t belong at the WS. Other things were said. Things did get a little heated. But this whole thing has been blown up to something it is not.
My feeling is that the person who keeps posting wanting an apology was not even there. If they were, they would know the real story and it would be a non story

Parents are not part of the organization. They don’t represent a club. If a kid is on a team and wears the Jersey he is responsible for his action and if he does something inappropriate the club/team does not agree with, then he should be kicked off. The team is not responsible for what a parent says or does. If a parent says derogatory racist stuff to people?? That’s on them, personally. They are not representation for a club. If the kid did it, different story. Then the team should kick them off. Could you imagine if teams had to apologize for every dense thing these parents are doing at the tournaments!