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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 2734219, member: 1646"] I can only speak from my personal experience, but it is definitely a growing sport. I say that because of what I've seen with my kids, but also just what I've seen with clubs in the last few years (which I don't think is a positive trend). The sport has exploded in the suburbs. Lax has done a pretty good job of making it a lifestyle. Are some of the kids douchy as referenced above? Sure, but that's just a term because they are wealthy. My son's soccer team gets into it with lower socioeconomic teams in soccer in every game. You just don't call those kids douchy. Boys in competitive sports can be d!*%$ at any wealth level. My understanding of lacrosse (not growing up with it as an option in the late 80's in my town) is that it used to attract a lot of football players for a spring sport. Now (in my town) kids are skipping football altogether or some wait to pick it up in high school. It has really hurt our small town football program, and rec baseball (travel baseball is still doing well). We are a soccer family and I didn't want my son to be a one sport kid. He didn't take to basketball or baseball and chose lacrosse. He likes it, and I like that it's a different set of kids from soccer. But it is an expensive sport and getting much worse with the proliferation of clubs. A new club pops up every few months in our area. They charge a lot, plus they sell all of their extra gear (including $400 helmets). A couple of them are taking kids that have no business playing at a high level, and then they cut them the next year if they find someone better. What was a primarily spring sport for most players is extending through the summer and casually in fall and winter. I'm glad my son decided to quit his club even though I think it means he'll stagnate a bit. He wouldn't be playing in college anyway (soccer or lacrosse). I'm not sure why UConn having a D1 team would be all that great. It wouldn't be a bad thing, but the sport doesn't pay for itself and I can't imagine that UConn could fund a D1 lacrosse team without harming football or men's basketball. Some would probably have no problem hurting football, but I don't believe that would be desirable for realignment attractiveness. [/QUOTE]

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