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    Lacrosse Gear

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    I have been doing the same thing. My son is in his second year of U8 travel hockey. He grows out of his pads like every 3 months. I've learned to stock up on cheaper clearance items in the spring. With the exception of skates and helmets, I have enough brand new equipment stored away right now to last him through U10.

    BTW - I picked up a D-Pole for $20 today. Still working on the heads. Silly e-bay people, submit to my offering!!!

    I have been doing the same thing. My son is in his second year of U8 travel hockey. He grows out of his pads like every 3 months. I've learned to stock up on cheaper clearance items in the spring. With the exception of skates and helmets, I have enough brand new equipment stored away right now to last him through U10.

    With skates - our club did a used equipment sale twice a year (until this year) and I didn't pay more than $10 for skates until this year when I had to break down and buy skates from a store (I still got them at 70% off). I would pick them up two sizes at a time. Upshot is now that my second one is skating I have a veritable treasure trove of skates squirreled away for him to wear.

    Wanna buy a car?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    In a driveway. Or wherever you store a boat, inside or out. They could shrink wrap it like a boat? It is the road salt while driving around that mainly eats it up, right? Snow on top shouldn't hurt it too much, car cover, wrapped, etc...

     

    Anyway, I stand corrected. Somebody above said it is repaired all over. ;-)

     

    I can imagine the minuses! Did you have a contract with a barf bag manufacturer?

     

    ;-)

    Speaking of which, there seems to be a solid barf stain on the carpet of the limo in question. I can only imagine the amount of pathogens and random DNA that have been splashed all over that thing.

    Lacrosse Gear

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    My son played throughout high school and now @ University of Iowa (club team). I still get annoying emails from:

     

    TotalLacrosse.com

     

    They are affliated with:

     

    TotalHockey.com

     

    I know they have brick and mortar stores in some areas.

     

    Oh... And I can't wait till he hits me up for more spending money. :-/

    I get the full gamut of Total emails from acquiring hockey gear. They have a B&M hockey store near me and they do a great job sharpening skates, very well done and consistent as opposed to the LHS near me that are completely hit or miss whether they do even a decent job sharpening. Total is generally a little more expensive than other online shops but, because I get free shipping with a $25 purchase from them they often come out cheaper in the end. I refuse to pay full retail for anything except helmets so I'm scouring online all the time for gear that's a model year or two old. Honestly, does most gear change that much year to year? Of course not, so give me last year's leftovers at a discount. Got a pair of Eagle gloves in his club colors last year for $25 from hockeymonkey. They're great and holding up extremely well after 50 games plus practices. I have a pair of $100 Graf pants up in his closet waiting to be grown into that I got for $5.

    Lacrosse Gear

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    Former colllege lacrosse player and current varsity coach.

     

    Best Att/Mid heads (IMO) are Nike CEO U, Maverik Centrik, STX Duel U, or Epoch Hawk Sequel.

     

    Get a scandium or titanium shaft off of EBay and you got a nice new "twig."

     

    For defense heads....STX Hammer U, Warrior OG Blade, or Brine Clutch 3. Best 3 for defense, IMO.

    That's tremendously helpful. Thank you. How about a scandium shaft like this?

    Lacrosse Gear

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    If he's not fully committed yet, look on Craigslist or eBay for used stuff.

    I've looked there. I've had some luck with E-Bay in the past, craiglist is mostly really old really crusty stuff Mom and Dad are getting rid of when the kid goes to college. There are exceptions but that's generally the case I've found. We have a play it again sports nearby and I'm down with that but my bigger issue is I don't know what I'm looking for.

     

    You can drop me in play-it-again or ebay for baseball or hockey stuff and I can come out with gems because I can sort through the crap. I'm lost with lax.

    Lacrosse Gear

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    My son decided he wants to try lacrosse again this year. He played 1 year as an 8 year old and is going back to it at 10. This is his second sport (hockey is king) and he's really doing it just for fun, no aspirations/delusions of grandeur. Can anybody give me a recommendation for a decent middie/attack head and shaft as well as a decent defense head and shaft? I'm not sure what he's going to end up playing and I want to be prepared with recommendations either way. With hockey gear I know what's what and can scope out good deals on marked down stuff. With baseball I know what's good, what's bad, and what's recently been made illegal (yet is still sold). I know jack about lacrosse gear so I can't tell what's marked down because it's old stock and what's marked down because it sucks or because it's illegal to use. His helmet still fits and I was able to get some recommendations on gloves and arm pads that I was able to get very cheaply ($25 ea. marked down from considerably more than that). If you're going to respond think good, but cheap. He's not good enough nor invested enough for top end gear.

     

    Lacrosse Monkey seems to have a nice selection of things in the Clearance area but like I said I have no clue. Online reviews are, well, online reviews. Not super helpful and often contradictory.

    Millennials share the worst advice from baby boomers

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    Yep, and get a breakout by zipcode and you will see a concentration of where low test scores lie. It ain't spread out like peanut butter, it's concentrated in low-income areas across this country. Those kids are not any smarter or any dumber than the rest of the country, they just don't have the same resources at their disposal.

    Having worked in my field for 15 years in the lowest of low income areas,a top tier upper middle class suburb, and a working class first ring suburb I can say with conviction that you could swap the teachers from those schools and the kids by in large wouldn't notice the difference. There are great teachers at every school and there are really crappy teachers at every school. I'd argue that you'd often find better ones in the low income areas because they have learned how to do more with much less.

     

    There are PLENTY of other disparities I could list for you that do make a palpable difference though.

    Mike Waufle- new DL coach

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    the best thing to happen to marcell was that $100 mil contract.

     

    this could get ugly. i know that when my boss yells at me constantly, hitting up a fatty boom batty of the sticky icky icky at the end of the day is the only thing that keeps me going.

    Some people's reaction is to stop !@#$ing up. When that happens the yelling usually turns into praise and the yelling is directed elsewhere while you're held up as an example to follow.

    McDermott's Coaching Staff has its First Hire; Juan Castillo

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    Castillos positions

     

    As player:

    San Antonio Gunslingers (1984-1985)

    As coach:

    Texas A&M UniversityKingsville (1982-1985)

    (Defensive line/linebackers coach)

    Kingsville High School (1986-1989)

    (Linebackers coach/defensive coordinator)

    Texas A&M UniversityKingsville (1990-1994)

    (Offensive line coach)

    Philadelphia Eagles (1995-1996)

    (Offensive assistant)

    Philadelphia Eagles (1997)

    (Tight ends coach)

    Philadelphia Eagles (1998-2010)

    (Offensive line coach)

    Philadelphia Eagles (2011-2012)

    (Defensive coordinator)

    Baltimore Ravens (2013)

    (Run game coordinator)

    Baltimore Ravens (2014-present)

    (Offensive line coach)

     

    I do like he has worked both sides of the Ball.

    He was an absolute disaster as DC in Philadelphia. OL Coach is his strength and he's very good at that.

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