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NAL. Not sure why our JE team punted into the weak tournament. In the past we would play with the best teams like BBL and LE are doing. Now all we can hope for is being the champion of the second tier tournament with the scrub teams.

JE?

Very quiet in the forum. Tri-state 2023s go 0-2 and lose to a weak True Utah team. Is Tri State 2023 team falling apart? LE beat that same True team by 7 goals.

Very quiet day again today in the forum. BBL must have had a tough weekend.

You are not kidding. NAL scores show bbl going 2-10 for the 2026-2023s. Poor showing.

NAL was extremely embarrassing for NJ lax outside of Leading Edge.

Bluestar, BBL and Riot all struggled.

LE 2025 coaches were moving kids all over the field they had so many kids sick and hurt.
They have a number of public school kids that will get playing time this spring on varsity. It will be interesting to see how they all grow and mature before the summer.

LE is only program for HS. Look no farther than the shift at 2024 where BBL was a top ranked team up until 8th grade. Now they are struggling while LE 2024 is a top ranked team beating folks up and down the coast.

Yeah a shorthanded Blue Star team losing to a fully loaded Mad Dog National team by a goal is really embarrassing...perhaps you should focus more on the forty + coaches on the sidelines watching the game, that is what matters

Didn’t tri-state 2023 beat LE 2023 in June?
Why is someone constantly commenting on Tri-State?
It’s fall ball. Too bad no NJ team came out on top.

PEOPLE....this is fall ball....many teams are missing key players...you guys are making way to much of this.

Blue Star is a B level program whether you want to believe it or not.

Fall Ball is still really important, especially as someone had mentioned above, when there are 40+ coaches on the sideline.

If you are getting beat up by True Utah, it's never a good look no matter what season you're in.

I got to see them play this fall and they looked VERY GOOD. It seems like they added a handful of contributors from JE. One of the D guys on that team could easily be the best D man in the state for that 2025 group.

Tri State 2023 had to use their back up 2024 face off kid, they had numerous 24's playing with them all weekend and had no face off kid at all on Sunday. Don't try to draw them into this LE vs BBL crapola.

By making every excuse in the book, you are drawing yourself in the the LE vs BBL crapola. If you cannot field a team, don't send a team. True Utah taught y'all a lesson.

No club in NJ has the top to bottom talent like a LI Express or 91. NJ clubs will have good and bad classes, just the way it is. So to make a blanket statement that a club is B level is simply short sighted and ignorant.

Okay big bully, know it all, never wrong, I am great your not, my opinion only, that is how your coming off dude.

Outside of Leading Edge? They are still the same old turnover machine as always. And they had a cupcake schedule and still lost.

NJ was not good and giving LE a C- To other programs ads and Fs is not much to crow about.

Don’t fret about what club team you are on as all clubs get their top 5 players recruited somewhere.

Can you send me the decoder ring, please?

Sure. No club should be proud of NAL results. The NJ club schedules were easy which makes results even worse.

Angry LE parents are the best. Pure entertainment.

No, not angry anything. I really don't understand what they are trying to say. LE is C- and all NJ clubs received an F?

NJ did not fair well at NAL. See you all at the Prime Time tryouts. JK it is the kid not the club. All the NJ clubs at the NAL have commits in 22 and 23. Yes some more than others. Yes LE gets 15 of the 50 NJ commits has a year. But 30 plus come from other clubs. Some leave NJ for stronger programs than NJ can offer like 91, express, prime time, 2 way, eclipse etc.

Recruiters will find your son if he is an athlete and has the size, skill and speed for the division.

Personally I just want to enjoy their high school days. A college sport is a job.

Very true, kids should think long and hard about whether they want to spend 4 years at a D1 college playing lacrosse every day, and then graduate having spent 4 years not really enjoying college. Not knocking the kids that want to take it on, but it is a huge commitment.

Yup. I played D3 soccer and loved college life and my brother swam D1 and didn’t get in a pool for 8 years after graduating college.

BBL director leaving for True program? Oh boy.

Who's leaving BBL and what role is he taking at True?

If it is the 8th to high school one BBL will be better off with new blood. Great guy but BBL needs new people. And he needs fresh air at a new club as well. A win win.

My goodness… detest LE all you want, but give some credit where its due. They had a good weekend! The NJ clubs all played in different brackets at each age level. No one had a cupcake schedule.

Clubs can play a very large role in the recruiting process at the D1 level.

Having the size, speed, etc. is 100% essential to get noticed, but coaches look at more than that. Take their perspective for a second. They see hundreds, maybe thousands of players each weekend. They may watch your son’s team for a half, if you’re lucky. Watch a half, check out both teams, move to another field and repeat.
- It becomes really hard to compare their favorite player from game 1 to a very similar player in game 20.

No matter what club you are on, they will reach out to the coach to learn more about the player. These relationships build over the years and become valuable when making tough decisions.

If you trust your club coach, and the college coach trust’s their opinion, then you are in a good spot! But do not under estimate the role that they play in the process.

Yes. Agreed for the top players on each club. There are about 25 3 star plus players in NJ each grad year.

The rest of the players on the back 85% end of every NJ club 22 or 23 roster and the back 70% of LE for you LE heads need to do a lot of the recruiting work themselves. Those players realize they have to go to D1, D3 and D2 showcases and college prospect days. That is what a lot of these seniors do in their junior/senior summer and fall. There is nothing wrong with this process. A club is not the complete answer for most of our children.

Very well said. The club coaches and directors play a significant role in the recruiting process, particularly in the kids that may not be a top 1-5 player. (These types of players standout and would get recruited no matter what)

There’s really no credit due. 2025s played good. The rest not so much.

I disagree. Club coaches relationships are extremely important for the kids that fall outside of the top studs. The top dogs are going to go to big time schools with or without that director or coach pushing them. The next crop of kids are the ones that need the coach advocating for them to become a solid recruit and land them a home that best fits their academic and lacrosse ability.

What many people don’t realize is that there is a very small group of schools that often fit a players academic and lacrosse ability as a perfect match.

I personally think our club coach and director will play a vital role in finding that match.

Prospect days and camps are often money grabs for schools to help pay their volunteer assistant coaches. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure some kids can stand out and get picked up from a prospect day, but a good majority are money makers.

Complete answer, no. But they should be helping you through the entirety of it. If your son is a D3 level player, I would hope the club coach is honest enough with them to say hey, “UNC’s prospect day might not be a great fit.” Also advising on which showcases are actually worth attending and which are money grabs.

If the club coach is not giving this advice, or speaking to college coaches on behalf of every kid, they aren’t doing their job.

As a side note: The D3 recruiting process can be different from D1 given there isn’t scholarship money, contact restrictions, etc.

Agreed. The club coach is helping the player find the match of lacrosse ability & academics.

To even further the point, they shouldn't be jamming kids down D1 coaches throats if they do not fit. Eventually that can come back to haunt them because the school will lose trust in the director or coach pushing kids that don't belong.

It is about finding the fit.

I can’t stand LE because they are liars and you can’t trust them at all. It’s that simple. I had my son play with them for 5 years and they F’d us his junior year.

Why would bbl need new people? Is it because they have a pretty weak coaching staff? I am just curious.