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.
Many years ago when Jim Brown was at Syracuse, my college (Union) played Syracuse in lacrosse and soccer. Jim Brown was such an all-around athlete that he played the 1st-half of the lacrosse match, giving Syracuse an unsurmountable lead, and then suited up for track and won the 220.
Agree with that, track has really fallen upon hard times. It was a sport that brought a lot of glory when I was a kid (we were competing against the Russians) and now, not very many kids do it. It is unfortunate that lacrosse is a spring sport, it really should be a winter sport, at least in California.