I dislike it because it is taking all the best baseball players away. Kids in SoCal are getting bored with baseball, they don't develop the appreciation for it, and it is too slow for their video game lives. That is troubling for me, but if they switch to lacrosse, and stay away from soccer, at least the nation will survive. It will help if they also play football in the fall.
Might not take them away for long. Remember Gretzky played a lot of lacrosse as a kid.
I agree that lacrosse is a better game but this guy still doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
The coach who really laments the rise of soccer and lacrosse is the track coach. You’ve got to be able to run to play both, and track teams have lost many good runners.
I’m in the SF Bay Area, and lacrosse is indeed becoming very popular.
Here’s what I think so far about sports for boys (I have 3, age 12, 10, 6, none of them particularly athletic).
First, I don’t watch them practice, and only rarely watch them play. I consider it their business, not mine. (I’m no helicopter parent, that’s for sure.)
Basketball: too hard. Have to be super athletic.
Soccer: too boring. Season is too long (6 months).
Baseball: the best team sport. Good for nerds.
Golf and tennis: the best overall. Useful for life.
Horseback riding: very nice skill to have.
Ice skating: another good skill to have.
Track/cross country: I like it. Fitness, comradarie.
Karate: great for boys, but not places w/ contracts.
I like Little League; CYO basketball is too tough. I’ll never encourage my boys to do soccer unless they beg me.
It’s growing in my town too. This town is so overrun by soccer that the la cross players had to make their own field in front of a school. We have two practice fields for five Pop Warner teams, while the soccer teams have access to twenty fields. It’s not right that soccer gets all the resources because the town council members like soccer.