Here are some of the pictures I took up at the Ski Town 2010 Lacrosse Tournament last weekend with my brother. Click on the picture or the text to open the gallery.

Denver Lacrosse Club vs Utah Starz

All Idaho Navy vs Ogden Hogs

Panthers McGlone vs Southlake Dragons

Coyotes Pauley vs Tribe Jr

High Country Coyotes vs Logan

Players Lacrosse Club vs Team Texas

Vipers Select vs Cedar Park

Team Utah vs RSML Storm

Utah Starz vs Alta

Team Utah vs Orange County Crush

All Idaho White vs Team Arizona

Since taking on my new position as the CollegeLAX Senior News Editor, I have had the chance to interview outgoing coaches – coaches who have just been fired or more politically correct, haven’t had their contracts renewed.

It’s amazing to me how excellent coaches can get fired simply because the players don’t buy into their system or the Athletic Director doesn’t like them. It makes me wonder why so much relies on the player leadership. I coached with a former MCLA player that always said, “you can tell how good a team will be by looking at their senior leadership.” I’ve come to realize this is very true. All it takes is a few prideful senior captains to get together and agree that their current coach isn’t going to get the job done. Look at the best teams in the country and I bet they have excellent senior leaders. In other situations, all it takes is a prideful Athletic Director to decided he doesn’t want to deal with a ‘club coach’ just because he or she doesn’t like them or get along with them.

So when it comes right down to it, it all stems from pride. Prideful players, prideful Athletic Directors, prideful coaches. Rather than all parties humbling themselves and talking to each other, the one with all the power takes control and does what they think is best for the team or the school. But as we know, pride comes before the fall.

Links to recent stories I have written about coaching changes:

Troy Hood Resigns from Lindenwood

Mike Wood Fired at Chapman

Coach Greer: “It was completely unexpected”

This is a great little app for wasting time. Put on your armor and get your men ready to capture castles and gain the King’s trust!

Features
This game features two main maps with a few areas inside each map. Each area has several castles to destroy with varying difficulties. Each level has a castle with people on the castle. The goal is to destroy the castle in as few attempts as possible. The medal you receive depends on the how many attempts it takes you to knock over the castle and destroy all the people. If you get a medal on every castle in an area, you unlock another area and more destructive items. You can also build your own castle and try to destroy it which is pretty fun.

Rating
4 of 5 – Better graphics and more levels would help!