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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 3252640, member: 780"]
No where is this more true than in high school lacrosse. That the kid plays no other sport -- or at least no other sport well --- and that neither parent was particularly athletic never seems to register with these people as having anything to do with their own kids chances.

There's a special lens that parents look through that somehow doesn't allow them to see the obvious.

And it doesn't stop there. I sat in stunned disbelief as a guy who had played basketball as a guard in the ACC talked about the schools that he thought his own slow, short son could aspire to. It was self-delusion at a high level. And his guy was also a great youth basketball coach.

The kid, whose talent and potential were apparently not visible to all coaches that saw him play, ended up trying to walk-on at a low mid major. He lasted a couple of days and did get a couple of nice practice T-shirts out of it. Of course, there was the usual "He didn't get a fair shot. He was injured" or "The coach doesn't know how to evaluate talent" from the father.
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