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Why would EXPRESS pull out ? Don't they have lots of large, left back players? ? ?

Ryan Danehy
‏@RPDLacrosse Re-classing can be done a few ways. You can:

1. Repeat 8th grade
2. PG

Or

3. Declare yourself a year younger on rosters w/ intent to PG

This is the type of person who should not be involved in youth lacrosse. Why don't we just try working hard and every plays straight up instead of working every angle and gaming the system. This guy is a disgrace.

Add his boss too, Jamie Munro suggests this, as well. While playing D1 lax could be the be all and end all for some insane people, why anyone would want to pay $50K for a prep school for the honor is beyond my comprehension. For sure he has suggested this to families who can't really afford to do that then spend another 45K/yr at an expensive school when junior gets a 1/4 scholarship. At the end of the day older kids win tourneys, winning tourneys makes for successful clubs.

These guys have a business, it is about the business, consumers need to beware of the hype. If you are looking to a 3D for guidance on how to raise your kid or make rational decisions you are insane. They are hired to make your kid recruitable. That is their goal, not what is best for your kid, that is the decision of the parents. No one is forced, it is just suggested.

Having a few players who were held back is different than a program playing teams a division younger with the excuse of intent to PG. Just my opinion. I'm NOT in favor of these parents who hold their kids back because their kids can't cut it on the field but playing teams down without holding them back is unacceptable in my book when its systemic.

Merry Christmas to all. Lets hope Santa brings some common sense to the sport.

do you think the PG studs are paying $50k
dont think so!!

do you think the PG studs are paying $50k
dont think so!!

Take a look at this picture via the link below, they have a bunch of huge kids on the team, which is 6'3"?

http://instagram.com/p/vgj0CbktxN/

I have a 7th grader and he'd look unsafe and foolish on the field with those kids. I am sure Edge has some good players, and they're good kids but this is another example of lacrosse club guys and daddies running wild. This dodging around to get kids on the field with others so much younger and smaller is a disgrace. This is not high school or college where kids can handle high school varsity as 9th graders or play JV. My kid is a normal 7th grader and he does not have a choice to opt out of playing these kids unless he quits lacrosse. Is anyone else's middle school kid rapidly listing interest in lacrosse for all the wrong reasons? Mine is. My youngest already quit because he likes two other sports more and that had a lot to do with a lunatic U-11 coach and some sideline daddy coaches berating the boys. This sport won't grow if this is how it goes.

Lol I saw the picture and most of the boys look 15 and 16. That is a joke and they chest pump, I would be embarrassed. I'm sorry if you look at a real 2019 team they look a lot younger.

6' 3" 8th grader, HELD BACK BY PARENTS, who should be in H. S. ? ? ?

Would be hysterical if it wasn't so pathetic.

It is pathetic. It will reach a point where lacrosse honeymoon is over as a growth sport and kids who are good athletes will go to real sports that have more scholarship programs and money.

Remember how exciting it was when Michigan went varsity, then a few other programs added on in Furman, U Richmond? It seemed like lacrosse would roll on. No D1 new programs follow through, no momentum in the big $$ conferences like SEC and Pac 12. No follow through in ACC. Why not Miami and Fla State and Ga Tech? Those are all high growth youth game areas? No CU Boulder no USC or UCLA or even a UC Irvine. Those are all wildly popular areas. I think college administrators are laughing at the thought of starting a lacrosse program. The only rumored new D1 program now is College of Charleston, a.k.a. CoC, a.k.a. I couldn't get into Clemson but my parents have $60K a year for me to go somewhere for 4 years. A better question than is this what the sport has come to would be is this all lacrosse will be? A country club kid sport with some socially [lacrosse] parental additives from places like Canada or Baltimore where kids are 20 before they go to college?

The post makes a point. Why no D1 growth? I find it incredible still no SEC conference teams and no added ACC teams. I've been hearing for 5 years now about all those Florida and California universities taking their club team up to varsity but no movement. Lacrosse will never be interesting or exciting to a lot of kids unless there are more D1 opportunities with real scholarship money. Is anyone's kid growing up dreaming of someday getting a scholarship to Furman ?!?

Regarding D1 lax programs, I think Title 9 forced many colleges to drop Men's lacrosse. So, starting with the following schools, lacrosse simply needs to recapture schools who dropped lacrosse!!:

Boston College, Michigan State, Gannon University, Morgan State, UConn, UNH, Butler, Radford, William & Mary, NC State, Bowling Green, William & Mary, etc.

Youth programs like Edge lacrosse simply need to be met head on by tourney directors who refuse their registration unless they play in their proper age group. It's really that simple.

Title IV isn't sport for sport - it's participation. So schools that have football need to balance that out with girls participation with another sport. A good example is Vanderbilt and BC.

Deranged because you guys hold back your kids for athletic advantage, and it's wrong!!!

Italian [lacrosse] Out Cruising.

How did edge play in dicks this past week if that is an age based tourney?lost to igloo in the final.

You LI dads are obsessed over nothing. The entire lacrosse community outside of STRONG ISLAND laughs at you.