Hey Paul, would love to see a PLL combine with 40 yard times, agility drills, strength, shooting, conditioning drills that could be televised or filmed for highlights. I think it would give players more exposure, would promote player talent that can be comparable to other athletes in different sports, and give players real metrics that they can compare with other players in the league.
Based on the assumption that PLL players are actually comparable to those in other leagues :D (Some definitely can. Still think that in other leagues the average player is on a higher level from an athletics standpoint.)
Paul, as a long time lacrosse player and fan of PLL, NLL, and MLL. The league should host 4th of July weekend in Denver. When the Outlaws hosted this game is consistently year over year brought 30,000 fans and non-fans to the stadium. This was an amazing way for the Outlaws to build in my opinion one of the biggest fan bases in the MLL. Also, please reintroduce the Outlaws Lacrosse Club.
I’m getting into lacrosse for the first time ever in my life. I love that the PLL runs on a tour-based operation. It’s especially helpful for people like me who live in a state that has no professional lacrosse (Florida). We had the Orlando Titans of the NLL and the Florida Launch of the MLL, but both of those teams ultimately turned out to be failures. All that being said, I’m excited to watch my first PLL season. Arrows up 🏹
Paul we need a PLL combine/Tryouts. You have current players in the league come from d3/d2 schools such as Kyle Hartzell and Andrew Kew however they got their start in the MLL when there were more teams/roster spots. I would love to see an opportunity for high level athletes playing on college programs with less exposure to have an opportunity to showcase their skills. This ultimately would bring the best of the best into the league increasing the quality of the product.
Hey Paul, I'm late commenting so not sure you'll see this. If the schedule is still TBD my personal feedback would be to not have full no game bye weeks DURING the playoffs like there was last year. It really really made it lose momentum with their being weekends without any lacrosse games (on two separate occasions). That's fine in the regular season but that shouldn't happen when the stakes and energy are highest! Maybe one time before the Championship game itself is enough so two top teams can rest. But none other than that IMO! Just killed the excitement.
For your State of League question, my only thought is to keep em coming! Now that it's on your personal socials I'd love as much as we can get about how things are progressing on the business side of things, viewership numbers, expansion plans. You already report numbers on PLL's official socials but it would be great to get some context and dialogue behind those numbers- especially within the relative lense of other professional North American leagues. I watched/listened to anything of yours on this topic I saw last year on TH-cam/Twitter and it was great stuff. Definitely makes the most hardcore fans feel ownership within the process. Would just love to see more when possible! Keep it up, brotha!
PLL has the best media team in sports. PERIOD. Can't wait to see this league grow even further. Had the chance to experience live in Hamilton. The only Canadian weekend. It was the best live experience of sports I have had the chance to attend. Bring on 2022. #RollChowse🦂
Hi Paul, in my opinion the PLL would be a much better product if it had more teams (ideally at least 20). I understand this is going to take time but this would make the league a lot more interesting and exciting. Personally, it’s hard for me to take the league too seriously with only 8 teams.
On a more positive note, getting the national TV deal with NBC and Peacock is something that hasn’t happened before and a massive step in the right direction.
Any chance the PLL will get involved with Shootout for Soldiers? It would be awesome to make the All Star game part of Shootout for Soldiers. Maybe use the All Star site as a site for SfS. For those that don't know Shootout for Soldiers is a 24 hour charity lacrosse game to raise money for Veterans. It is played at multiple sites across the country for 24 hours at each site. Every hour over the 24 hours, two new teams take the field. At the site where my son plays, they keep score and just continually add to each side's total (It will be like 72-46 when his team starts playing). One hour it will be two teams of 10 year olds, the next it will be a couple men's league teams. The All Star game could be part of the 24 hours (although I think the All Stars would need the field for more than an hour). They could wear the Shootout for Soldiers jerseys. Bet they could sell a lot more jerseys and raise a lot more money if they were also the PLL All Star Jerseys. You could have PLL coaches or players as guest coaches or team captains for the teams participating in the charity game (maybe PLL players and coaches who aren't in the All Star game). How cool would it be to show up with your high school buddies and get to have a PLL player as "coach" or "honorary captain" for each team!?! Maybe a ticket to the All Star game could be part of the package for players as well.
Absolutely love the state of the league. I feels to me like me as a fan being invited into a board room zoom meeting being updated on my investment. Because im fully invested in this league. Drove from Orlando to Atlanta last season to watch my Chaos play the Dawgs. I cant wait to do it again this year. Love how early theyre starting the pre season because im already 100% back in and ready for the media dump to just be the only thing i think about for months and slowly build up until i can’t physically wait anymore then June hit and i just have the time of my life.. again like the first two years. Lets go boys!
Paul - Nice job. Will there be any off weekends this year. I thought the breaks in last year’s schedule hurt the league with regard to keeping fan’s attention and interest. Also I know you love the content stuff during the game, but I hope you start to limit it as the league continues to grow. It takes away some of the legitimacy of the game. Can you imagine Lebron talking to an announcer during a game? I want the players on the team that I am rooting 100% concentrating on the game.
My son's team played a team from KC at a tournament here in SoCal. They were pretty competitive - definitely not miles ahead or miles behind the rest of the teams at the tourney!
Should grow a bit into canada. Attract all the hockey fans. I have a friend who is obsessed with football and hockey. I told him i played lacrosse and he thought it was a soft sport. He thought it was like golf.
Really??? I grew up in Canada. My 7th grade teacher was a lacrosse player. We always thought of lacrosse as a "tough guy" game - kind of like Hockey. Of course, for us lacrosse meant box lacrosse. I had no idea what field lacrosse was until I moved to the States.
I think the record was the Championship game last year had an estimation of around 15k fans in a stadium at seats 20,000. That's pretty close! Hopefully this year can hit that 20k mark!!
Start getting folks to join you. This delivery was great, maybe next get coaches, or even the young pups / freshman from last year to talk about that college -> pll experience and transition?
Fans says this every year but an inclusion of PLL Fantasy within the app would really skyrocket the experience for game day! Pick Ems and other betting games are fun to enhance the experience and growing every I know but a lot of people don't gamble (age or personal reasons) or can't in their state. Hope fantasy gets added in year 4!
i just got a member ship to a gym and was wondering. is there a routine that i should be doing? like, a specific lacrosse routine? or could i just make one myself, because i have. legs, abs, upper. and i know about the wrist and the heels. are there anything else?
Love to see this. Clear vision! Keep doing good work of creating equity in lacrosse. There is just so much lacrosse talent coming out of college, but it is still not even close to what it could be if WE continue to grow the game. Its on everyone but 10 years from now lacrosse will be a tsunami because of the earthquake that the PLL is creating today. That 7 year old future #1 recruit in the nation is paying attention to the PLL. NFL is out here putting playoff games on Nickelodeon….🤔 probably because the next generation is all playing lacrosse now!
Please please PLEASEEEEE come to Louisville KY. The sport is growing here and we have great spots for the game to be played and a new fan base and I am dying to go to a game but there hasn’t been one anywhere near me yet.
So top 5 league means plans for a lot more teams, like the NFL field lacrosse wont need a farm system due to the competitiveness of ncaa. I wonder how many MLL teams will be added into the PLL prior to the league shifting to a city / region based model. I could only see the outlaws being the last MLL team added prior to city based models.
Nah 12 is a perfect amount 6 games a weekend keeps the teams talent loaded to allow for no clear powerhouse there’s plus it keeps the fans with a smaller amount of teams for more fans there’s just not enough exposure for more than 10-12 maybe 14 teams
Eventually, yes they should go city based. But right now being tour based is the best option. It exposes more people to the sport. And often teams will have issues with cities about stadiums, right now what they’re doing is the smartest option.
If they were to partner with ESPN the ideal situation would be if most of the games aired lived on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 or the ESPN App (aka the ESPN3). My concern would be if most of the games ended up on ESPN+
@@thestapler for real. Broadcast is so important to reach people who don't know the game. It needs to be on in sports bars, hotel lobbies and oil change shops. Just random places that people may not know to turn it on, but will see it being played and be like "oh damn!" Premium streaming is great and all, but that's 100% not growing the game.
@@meatstaxxx I agree. A growing sport/league should not be shackled to ESPN plus. Hell, I watch barely watch UFC now because most of their Fight Night events are on ESPN+, and that's a far more established league than PLL is. I know they have to take the best offer given to them buy any broadcast partner, but PLL needs as much visibility as possible. On channels available to as much as the general public as possible.
My son played at Texas A&M. Our family were Dallas Rattler fans, and we are season ticket holders to the Panther City Lacrosse Club. Although we forgave the PLL for poaching Jordan Wolf from the MLL, and we started off as Archers Fans...what we no longer do, is watch PLL games, because frankly, I don't watch lacrosse to get lectured on white privilege. You lost us when you went woke and took the knee. I would rather spend my weekends watching High School Lacrosse games and seeing the innocence of Lacrosse and the joy the game brings for those that just want to play for the love of the game. Since the PLL is going to use lacrosse as a platform for Social messaging...we're out.
Box lacrosse stinks...nll...is unique...how bout having 1 month leather pockets ( besides goalie)...I month mesh...that might b a curious study. Giv it up for Joel Walter's....2 b playing as long as he did...or maybe still does
Hey Paul, would love to see a PLL combine with 40 yard times, agility drills, strength, shooting, conditioning drills that could be televised or filmed for highlights. I think it would give players more exposure, would promote player talent that can be comparable to other athletes in different sports, and give players real metrics that they can compare with other players in the league.
Great idea
W idea
Totally. Could be a great helmets-off introduction to players
$$ idea. Proof to those around the country that lacrosse players are true athletes
Based on the assumption that PLL players are actually comparable to those in other leagues :D (Some definitely can. Still think that in other leagues the average player is on a higher level from an athletics standpoint.)
Paul, as a long time lacrosse player and fan of PLL, NLL, and MLL. The league should host 4th of July weekend in Denver. When the Outlaws hosted this game is consistently year over year brought 30,000 fans and non-fans to the stadium. This was an amazing way for the Outlaws to build in my opinion one of the biggest fan bases in the MLL. Also, please reintroduce the Outlaws Lacrosse Club.
Outlaws will definitely be back… Just a matter of time.
Yes Outlaws back!!!!
And hopefully they bring back the Grateful Dead uniforms as a throw back 🙏
Can't wait for the season to get started! Side that Costabile back flip never gets old
I’m getting into lacrosse for the first time ever in my life. I love that the PLL runs on a tour-based operation. It’s especially helpful for people like me who live in a state that has no professional lacrosse (Florida). We had the Orlando Titans of the NLL and the Florida Launch of the MLL, but both of those teams ultimately turned out to be failures.
All that being said, I’m excited to watch my first PLL season. Arrows up 🏹
Paul we need a PLL combine/Tryouts. You have current players in the league come from d3/d2 schools such as Kyle Hartzell and Andrew Kew however they got their start in the MLL when there were more teams/roster spots. I would love to see an opportunity for high level athletes playing on college programs with less exposure to have an opportunity to showcase their skills. This ultimately would bring the best of the best into the league increasing the quality of the product.
PUMPED FOR SEASON 4! 🔥
Hey Paul, I'm late commenting so not sure you'll see this. If the schedule is still TBD my personal feedback would be to not have full no game bye weeks DURING the playoffs like there was last year. It really really made it lose momentum with their being weekends without any lacrosse games (on two separate occasions). That's fine in the regular season but that shouldn't happen when the stakes and energy are highest! Maybe one time before the Championship game itself is enough so two top teams can rest. But none other than that IMO! Just killed the excitement.
For your State of League question, my only thought is to keep em coming! Now that it's on your personal socials I'd love as much as we can get about how things are progressing on the business side of things, viewership numbers, expansion plans. You already report numbers on PLL's official socials but it would be great to get some context and dialogue behind those numbers- especially within the relative lense of other professional North American leagues. I watched/listened to anything of yours on this topic I saw last year on TH-cam/Twitter and it was great stuff. Definitely makes the most hardcore fans feel ownership within the process. Would just love to see more when possible! Keep it up, brotha!
PLL has the best media team in sports. PERIOD. Can't wait to see this league grow even further. Had the chance to experience live in Hamilton. The only Canadian weekend. It was the best live experience of sports I have had the chance to attend. Bring on 2022. #RollChowse🦂
Glad your getting better man, can’t wait for the 2022 season. ROLL WOODS!
Roll Woods
Is there gonna be another LC added this year or sometime soon????
Thank you so much for everything you're doing for the sport!
When are more teams coming to the pll
The teams need cities. Cities is what engages a fan’s loyalty, and ensures the community has a favorite team at all times.
Hi Paul, in my opinion the PLL would be a much better product if it had more teams (ideally at least 20). I understand this is going to take time but this would make the league a lot more interesting and exciting. Personally, it’s hard for me to take the league too seriously with only 8 teams.
And associate with cities
I have no reason to like any of the teams so I just don't care
@@user-mo6iw3yz7x I couldn’t agree more
On a more positive note, getting the national TV deal with NBC and Peacock is something that hasn’t happened before and a massive step in the right direction.
Love to see the effort keep it up paul* 💰
Any chance the PLL will get involved with Shootout for Soldiers? It would be awesome to make the All Star game part of Shootout for Soldiers. Maybe use the All Star site as a site for SfS.
For those that don't know Shootout for Soldiers is a 24 hour charity lacrosse game to raise money for Veterans. It is played at multiple sites across the country for 24 hours at each site. Every hour over the 24 hours, two new teams take the field. At the site where my son plays, they keep score and just continually add to each side's total (It will be like 72-46 when his team starts playing). One hour it will be two teams of 10 year olds, the next it will be a couple men's league teams.
The All Star game could be part of the 24 hours (although I think the All Stars would need the field for more than an hour). They could wear the Shootout for Soldiers jerseys. Bet they could sell a lot more jerseys and raise a lot more money if they were also the PLL All Star Jerseys.
You could have PLL coaches or players as guest coaches or team captains for the teams participating in the charity game (maybe PLL players and coaches who aren't in the All Star game). How cool would it be to show up with your high school buddies and get to have a PLL player as "coach" or "honorary captain" for each team!?! Maybe a ticket to the All Star game could be part of the package for players as well.
Absolutely love the state of the league. I feels to me like me as a fan being invited into a board room zoom meeting being updated on my investment. Because im fully invested in this league. Drove from Orlando to Atlanta last season to watch my Chaos play the Dawgs. I cant wait to do it again this year. Love how early theyre starting the pre season because im already 100% back in and ready for the media dump to just be the only thing i think about for months and slowly build up until i can’t physically wait anymore then June hit and i just have the time of my life.. again like the first two years. Lets go boys!
Paul - Nice job. Will there be any off weekends this year. I thought the breaks in last year’s schedule hurt the league with regard to keeping fan’s attention and interest. Also I know you love the content stuff during the game, but I hope you start to limit it as the league continues to grow. It takes away some of the legitimacy of the game. Can you imagine Lebron talking to an announcer during a game? I want the players on the team that I am rooting 100% concentrating on the game.
I hope one day the PLL will play in Kansas City. There’s way more lacrosse fans and talent here than most people think.
My son's team played a team from KC at a tournament here in SoCal. They were pretty competitive - definitely not miles ahead or miles behind the rest of the teams at the tourney!
cannot underestimate how lucky we are to have this information be public and transparent 🤯 inspired by you guys and I don’t even play lacrosse.
Should grow a bit into canada. Attract all the hockey fans. I have a friend who is obsessed with football and hockey. I told him i played lacrosse and he thought it was a soft sport. He thought it was like golf.
bring him to a box game lmao
I believe Canada’s nations sport is lacrosse may be wrong just pretty sure it is
@@samstewart41 it is
Really??? I grew up in Canada. My 7th grade teacher was a lacrosse player. We always thought of lacrosse as a "tough guy" game - kind of like Hockey. Of course, for us lacrosse meant box lacrosse. I had no idea what field lacrosse was until I moved to the States.
@@samstewart41 it is but is it on the same level as hockey
All I want is there to be a stadium full of people at a game
I think the record was the Championship game last year had an estimation of around 15k fans in a stadium at seats 20,000. That's pretty close! Hopefully this year can hit that 20k mark!!
Start getting folks to join you. This delivery was great, maybe next get coaches, or even the young pups / freshman from last year to talk about that college -> pll experience and transition?
Fans says this every year but an inclusion of PLL Fantasy within the app would really skyrocket the experience for game day! Pick Ems and other betting games are fun to enhance the experience and growing every I know but a lot of people don't gamble (age or personal reasons) or can't in their state. Hope fantasy gets added in year 4!
i just got a member ship to a gym and was wondering. is there a routine that i should be doing? like, a specific lacrosse routine? or could i just make one myself, because i have. legs, abs, upper. and i know about the wrist and the heels. are there anything else?
Love to see this. Clear vision! Keep doing good work of creating equity in lacrosse. There is just so much lacrosse talent coming out of college, but it is still not even close to what it could be if WE continue to grow the game. Its on everyone but 10 years from now lacrosse will be a tsunami because of the earthquake that the PLL is creating today. That 7 year old future #1 recruit in the nation is paying attention to the PLL. NFL is out here putting playoff games on Nickelodeon….🤔 probably because the next generation is all playing lacrosse now!
Nice vid Paul. Wishing you a speedy recovery. See you soon brother.
Please please PLEASEEEEE come to Louisville KY. The sport is growing here and we have great spots for the game to be played and a new fan base and I am dying to go to a game but there hasn’t been one anywhere near me yet.
So top 5 league means plans for a lot more teams, like the NFL field lacrosse wont need a farm system due to the competitiveness of ncaa. I wonder how many MLL teams will be added into the PLL prior to the league shifting to a city / region based model. I could only see the outlaws being the last MLL team added prior to city based models.
I’m thinking like 12 teams but that may be to little
Nah 12 is a perfect amount 6 games a weekend keeps the teams talent loaded to allow for no clear powerhouse there’s plus it keeps the fans with a smaller amount of teams for more fans there’s just not enough exposure for more than 10-12 maybe 14 teams
@@cammcman4119 I was talking about when they were gonna go city based but I agree with everything you said
great video Paul!!
Great vid. Ready for the next iteration. Any chance of remote work in the IT realm with the company? 19 years with a fortune 50 company.
Increase quantity of teams including minor league initiative. Paul you will be an even better businessman. Go get’em! Godspeed.
Hoping for an espn deal
Was fully expecting the video to close with "and our next media partner is..."
Can we get a conservative timeline on when the PLL will go from tour based to city based
PLL COMBINE
1000000x this- absolute NEED!!
Change the “can” to “will” in the caption. It WILL be top 5.
Random question. What kind of watch is that?
Eventually, yes they should go city based. But right now being tour based is the best option. It exposes more people to the sport. And often teams will have issues with cities about stadiums, right now what they’re doing is the smartest option.
We need to pull a “Drive to Survive” and have a Netflix series, what Netflix did for F1 was massive in terms of business and fan market
Hey Paul is there any way someone can invest into the PLL
Invest your time by watching it, invest some money by buying a jersey
Stock options r only available to players if im not mistaken
I think it would be great if you could get the Championship Game to Labor Day, like the NCAA Championship Game is on Memorial Day.
Love the Content!
Hi Paul love your Videos
Hey Paul, I'm from Canada and I wish we could watch live game cause here we can't watch American channel
Reintroduce the Outlaws man, they were awesome.
Early gang😤🐐
Unfotunate Jeff teat didn’t get a mention, he was 6 in top 50, and probably had the most dominant rookie season would have been cool to get a hm
Lax video game?
PLL combine
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Hi there Paul
Already is NUMBER ONE BABBY
My guess is the next Media Rights deal will be with... ESPN
Associate with cities
We don't have reasons to associate with teams
So are you guys still partnering with NBC Sports? They are the real deal!
Awesome!
Hope you recover quick
🔥
Paul! You need a PLL company mug! Blast that branding!
My school at pll stick shafts
PLL to ESPN
If they were to partner with ESPN the ideal situation would be if most of the games aired lived on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 or the ESPN App (aka the ESPN3). My concern would be if most of the games ended up on ESPN+
@@thestapler for real. Broadcast is so important to reach people who don't know the game. It needs to be on in sports bars, hotel lobbies and oil change shops. Just random places that people may not know to turn it on, but will see it being played and be like "oh damn!" Premium streaming is great and all, but that's 100% not growing the game.
@@meatstaxxx I agree. A growing sport/league should not be shackled to ESPN plus. Hell, I watch barely watch UFC now because most of their Fight Night events are on ESPN+, and that's a far more established league than PLL is. I know they have to take the best offer given to them buy any broadcast partner, but PLL needs as much visibility as possible. On channels available to as much as the general public as possible.
My son played at Texas A&M. Our family were Dallas Rattler fans, and we are season ticket holders to the Panther City Lacrosse Club. Although we forgave the PLL for poaching Jordan Wolf from the MLL, and we started off as Archers Fans...what we no longer do, is watch PLL games, because frankly, I don't watch lacrosse to get lectured on white privilege. You lost us when you went woke and took the knee. I would rather spend my weekends watching High School Lacrosse games and seeing the innocence of Lacrosse and the joy the game brings for those that just want to play for the love of the game. Since the PLL is going to use lacrosse as a platform for Social messaging...we're out.
Sup
Why don’t u Sign little kids auto graph walked right past asked said no
Ea pll 23 👀
NOT BIGGER THAN:
NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, PGA, CBB, CFB, AFL
PLL will be more on par with the WNBA
First
Bring back MLL style jerseys
design better jerseys and color schemes 80% of them suck
Box lacrosse stinks...nll...is unique...how bout having 1 month leather pockets ( besides goalie)...I month mesh...that might b a curious study. Giv it up for Joel Walter's....2 b playing as long as he did...or maybe still does
NLL > PLL
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