US Lacrosse Magazine July 2007

[agentogden]

Rumor has it, there are a couple of MCLA articles coming soon in IL.

Some other rumors too. Soon.



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[agentogden]

everyone complains about not getting coverage in their lame, look what we do for kids, magazine.

Hey, every organization has room to improve, and there are sports that didn't get enough press. But if you want kids to learn lacrosse as kids, and show up at your college with strong fundamentals, lots of game experience, and a strong sense of sportsmanship - then USL is doing their best to make that happen.

This is a thread about the magazine not on field activities.

Think of it this way - if you paid $50 for 1 service - just getting the magazine, and USL put all of their financial resources into producing the magazine - then the product would be considerably better.

Damn, when I think of it, what a shoddy product we get from Sports Illustrated for the price, when you consider how little gets covered outside of NBA, MLB and NFL.

But in reality, probably $10 is spent on the US Lacrosse magazine, and the other $40 is spent on developing the sport through grants, education, website support, rules development and interp, umpires, national teams, hall of fame, runs a convention for 5000+ people, and a variety of other initiatives. Lacrosse has exploded in the last 5 years around the country and US Lacrosse is doing their best to help it grow.

SI is a weekly book - which requires alot more work. I'd say USL spends about .10 on design and creativity. Boring.

There is never enough money to go around. Would it have been cool to see more MCLA coverage in the July issue? YES, I noticed it was missing too. Does USL have limited staff and travel budgets to cover all the various championships in May and June - YES, as far as I can tell, they don't have a money tree growing in the back of the office.

There were 20 writers and 3 photographers at the MCLA championships that were all willing to donate their services to USL. They turned it down.

it might not matter soon.




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[PigPen]

anyone else notice the kid on the last page that talked about getting into lacrosse "too late" (his junior year in hs) and now that he is going to UCSD there is no lacrosse (or at least reference to it). The kid seemed pretty sure his career was over just because he was going to college. Hmmm-maybe a subtle shot to us there from USL. Definitely not helping our cause.

[Sonny]

All I can say is that kid needs to get out more.

Google UCSD Lacrosse and the first thing you hit is:
www.ucsdlax.com

He is living in a pretty small vacuum if he is playing high school lacrosse in So Cal and he isn't aware of the college opportunities at the WCLL level including UCSD lax.