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[QUOTE="relaxer, post: 4336913, member: 7852"]
I mean it's no secret that Section III has been down for quite a while now. Even at the public school level, money fuels lacrosse success which is why Fairfield County is producing a lot of talent even as it gets raided by NEW-1.

The shift to private/prep school dominance and the emphasis on re-classing and club ball is killing the development of the sport IMO; that's why I loved seeing a kid like Jeffery, who is on-age and from relatively unheralded Cheshire, spurn the private school route and get recognized.

Long Island is relatively clean when it comes to reclassing, but even here the swell of the private schools is hurting the overall quality of talent coming out of the region. St. Anthony's is swallowing up all the best Suffolk kids at a rate they never did before. Kids who were or could be differences makers in Suffolk A now transfer over to St. Anthony's and get stuck in the bottleneck on JV until their junior year. In the meantime Suffolk A falls further and further behind; it seems crazy that a decade ago that league was stronger than NEW-1 on a yearly basis.

Likewise there are still some great players produced from Section III, but they get raided by the prep schools so they don't present as Section III players. For example Charlie Lockwood from West Genny just transferred to Lawrenceville. Christian Hogan was a quality 2024 attackman from Auburn, but he reclassed and is now at Culver.
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