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I think this is the first time that any 91 team made it to the playoffs since the 2025s (one of the best teams in the USA for their age) last played the league in 2021.

That's 5/6 losing teams in 2021
6/6 losing teams in 2022
6/6 losing teams in 2023 (I recall it was a combined record of 7-35 or something gnarly)
5/6 losing teams in 2024, honestly....this projects well for this team. Not so much any other 91 team.

Clippers were probably tired at many games due to excessive photo shoots. The team that instagrams together, stays together!

Hawks thought they had a cakewalk today until 91 punched them in the mouth.

Trust me from experience. On most teams no more than 16 or 17 get decent minutes unless game is a blowout

Yeah as a coach, I'm calling BS on this, even though it's always fun to drag ineffective government. It's a county program, yes, and it also happens to be the far-and-way best boys lacrosse league in the entire United States, and Howard County Parks is a nationally recognized agency for the quality and quantity of public access (and ADA inclusive) work they do. I am 100% confident in the 10+ years of the league, they have made, and continue to make, ADA accommodations. As they should!

But an "ADA accommodation" is not "BOOM here's a crisis happening in real time, you must be fair, make the right decision right now!" It's a well-papered process where nobody is entitled to immediate relief, and I think you know that, and it seems like you don't want others to know that. So let's retrace steps.

90% of the problem: Your son's club submitted a roster to HoCo about 5 months ago. Clearly the club understands what the situation with this player is, and had a major responsibility, before the league play began TWO MONTHS AGO to work with HoCo to make proper accommodations. This would have resulted in a paper trail that would have avoided the crisis situation at the championship game. However your son's club did not do this, otherwise a different outcome would have occurred.

Very much trying to be kind to the parents here - it is obvious that the letter of the regulations (the adoption of USL age standards makes it a league rule, not a recommendation), their son was ineligible. Either they assumed that someone else would rectify this with the league (which, I doubt any parent of a differently abled kid is that naive), or someone at their son's club assured them it would be handled....and I'm telling you, clearly it was not handled. Those people who billed you $3K are who you should be upset with here.

I'm 99.9% sure that if the lax club, or this player's parents had gotten on the horn with Ricky DuBois in February, this crisis would have never happened. And if the parents didn't know the name "Ricky DuBois" or his job title, before championship weekend this spring, there's a bunch of balls that got dropped. Seriously how do you end up on championship day with a clearly (by the letter of the rules) ineligible player, and nobody has any kind of paperwork or PDF on their phone verifying it was handled with HoCo, and the age requirement was waived for this extremely valid case? Seriously how did the adults in charge of this young man's sports play let that happen.

Please understand: To parents who have been around club sports awhile, while this sounds like a very legit situation, it sounds like so many other very non-legit situations of roster violations.

if you spend some time in the 2026-2029 message threads on BOTC, you will see example after example of DMV's slimiest and creepiest club coaches "accidentally" getting busted for showing up with as many as 9 ineligible players at a Hoco game, and as many as 5 at a Hoco playoff game, and what is their sob story in 100% of cases?

We tried to call HoCo, shucks, there is no record of those calls on our phones.
They didn't accommodate us and it was unfair.
We are sure we submitted some paperwork but no we don't have a sent email, a PDF, or a print out of it to show anybody. Is that OK?
We emailed HoCo but I must have deleted my sent files.
HoCo says they never talked to us but just because there's no written or digital evidence, they are lying and unfair.
They left us no choice.
The boys are heartbroken (they love this one the most, like, the local NXT B-team players heart broken because they couldn't ride the bench so 6 players flown in from Texas this morning could play, who nobody even tried to get placed on the roster).

And the other classic..........Shame on Hoco for not following their own rules.

How many years do we have to hear the same nonsense from the same coaches and club directors. And yes even in this case, it's one of the perennial "misunderstood" violators of Hoco club roster rules, so excuse the cynicism of others on this board.

Dang I thought Pequa over WM was big upset and then WI takes down GC! Great job by all the girls playing today.

In my opinion, if your son is on Mooselax white, there maybe better options worth exploring

Robbed? How? Or you just assuming the

How is anything confirmed???? Please show us your proof annything in the way of phone calls to get kids in teams is confirmed. You can’t because the proof doesn’t exsist because it didn’t happen. Are you basing this on when some girls were dismissed early? There was ONE round of cut and final rosters weren’t final until evaluators could meet and make teams. You have no idea what you are talking about and it’s reckless.

Valid question. As a coach/parent/player, I think that fall tournaments are for playing time and summer tournaments are for showcasing the club and team. The objective is to get to 12-3 or 9-0 and then, absolutely, use your 2nd and 3rd line. But if I'm coaching a tournament and we're down a point, I'm making sure the team has the best chance to win. And if we're losing badly, our starters need the PT apparently. Once they're gassed and we've basically given up, yes, play everybody.

Honestly it does not matter what level of tournament it is. Your coaches should be entering your sons into tournaments that are APPROPRIATE for their skill level. If they are going 5-0 at an event with no goal differential less than 5, that is the wrong event. Same thing for going 1-4 or 0-5 at an event. Hold your clubs accountable for that nonsense.

And one final note about all of the above, one of the densest things in youth lax these days is B-teams (at any level) bringing down players from their A teams for tournaments. STOP IT. FCA (not this age group), True (every team, every age group), Team Maryland, NXT, Dukes Elite, the list goes on and on. Your B-team players paid their club dues. Let them play in their Single A or B level tournaments. If your elite level son is on an A-team or AA team and gets the invite to play down, really think about if that's doing anything positive for your son, except letting him collect another Aloha medal in the B bracket when he's worked incredibly hard to NOT be a B bracket player.

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Goalies were amazing on both sides. Congratulations to both teams!

Too many kids. They should cut roster to a manageable number. 20 would be good for a full weekend tournie. Cut the last 3 and bump them to yellow.

The problem with this theory is in high school at least the younger players have older players on their team. Whereas these teams that are true 28’s do not have older players helping their team. So when cheaters cheat and have older players on their team and beat true 28’s then brag about being the best, ya look silly. Follow Biff?

From what I noticed there were 2 kids with #3 jersey, 2 kids with #44 jersey, 2 kids with #88 jersey.
5 kids with white or non black express helmets
One kid blatantly wearing St Anthony helmet
2028 black chucks were in DE so they use 2027 kids
How many actual 28 orange kids????
Igloo robbed of fair chance at championship.

How did the 2032 Long Island teams do at the NLF summer kickoff in Delaware today?

That wasn’t a very nice comment about the NE Selects. Nice LI kids who worked hard and played well as a team. Are you ok?

Great LI Championship Class A today.

Newbies on bench behind chucks players or 2027 players.
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The real question is how many of the 23 will see the field for more than 5 minutes per game...

You can ask, they will lie and tell you what you want to hear. You need to talk to parents on the teams to figure all of that out.

Laxachusettes. Probably a 25-40 ranked club.

enter the 2027 express kids. Shameless

Topic of discussion - Now that we are entering Tournament season. (Scenario - Average middle of the road tournament.) Does a coach play it's best players to run the table and win every game or does a coach provide 2nd tier players more playing time with the chance to lose/tie games but still make a good run to the championship? Open to thoughtful discussions.

IMO, I think providing players that might not get a lot of PT chances is good in tournaments where they might be able to get challenged even if games are closer then they should be or even lose. Running the table in middle of the road tournaments does little to better top players and nothing for players not seeing playing time.

Big 4 HHH ‘28 went 0-3 losing 0-18, 1-15, 0-16. No teams at 29 or 30. This is what people think the best club in Philadelphia is?

BM is gonna have to turn over that whole ‘28 roster to keep his recruiting numbers up. I hope those poor parents wake up and realize how the next few weeks are gonna go for them.

As am I. It is the right fit for you. I on the other hand , prefer Private. Not a troll at all, just telling the truth.