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Were both undefeated?

This guy doesn’t get it. Yes we all know cheating, excuse me holding back your kid in school helps them in sports. You are playing against younger smaller kids. We all know the kids who are holding back in this grade. For the most part they are seeing others pass them by in size, speed and talent in some cases. They have decided to holdback rather than just go to college and be a lower division athlete or heaven forbid just a student!! What you are not understanding is we think you are nuts. No one cares what the UVA holdbacks do. In ahe kids aren’t comparing themselves to them because many kids right now could be in that top D1 category if they reclassed but won’t reclass. Either the kid, parent or both don’t want to do that. They think it’s ethically wrong or sends wrong message to their kid.
If you are ok with it which you obviously are then go do it. Buyer beware though, the kids their real age give them no credit for playing down no matter what they accomplish, neither do the parents. You don’t seem like a guy that cares what people think, maybe your kid has thick skin too because chances are he will need it.

Yup, we’re all up here losing sleep over True NoVA. Do you have any perspective on these teams?

DCE almost always ends up farming a good team in HS. Just look at the 28s. A bunch of ML kids left to start it and randoms from other places joined. Took a while though, but they would stomp the life blood out of ML and NL now. DCE 27s are week, and I'm not sure why, but 26s and 25s were very good.

I suspect many ML and NL kids leave for a 2nd shot at DCE and then they cobble together something solid. A lot of talented 29s. I'd argue, on the whole, more solid than the 28 class. They will want to shine if they aren't getting a lot of playing time elsewhere. Just the way it works.

-Dad of Four Kids

Crabs organization put zero effort into VLC, and the partnership arguably made VLC a worse experience, not better.

Regardless, it's too late to start a meaningful new 2028 team at this point - kids who are serious aren't going to move to a start-up with no history once high school has started - and I don't know that anyone could've done better than the very middling results True has had in NOVA at this age group.

If it was the same kid that showed up to tryouts for a few teams in Maryland, she is a very good player and makes them better. Most impactful is a sense she will help make YJ better and help them compete. If that’s what you meant, I would agree. However, word of caution before you get ahead of yourself, A bracket lacrosse is a lot different than the B level tournaments your DD traveled all the way to LI to play in.

Also, can BoC re-open the LI 2029 page so the YJ parents can go back there to boast? We would like to go back to talking about teams who play in the top bracket of tournaments. 91 parents you can stick around.[/quote]

Yes, her! She dominates the draw and is a scoring machine, haven't seen her stopped yet. Good luck MD folks!!

I agree Preds will be a top 1-3 team in the AAA division. They are all talented players.

Agreed. I've seen most of the top non-mid atlantic teams play. Lax 4 the Cure's top 2 brackets (8 teams) had some really good games. The only ones that could compete with M&D, Heros and Coppermine were NXT and 91 Roar. All the other teams are outside the top 5 including YJ, Eagle Stix, TG and Monster.

YJ also had a girl from California in addition to the player from NC. They are still a great team but definitely outside the top 5 until they prove otherwise by playing 91 Roar, M&D, NXT, Coppermine and Heros.

I agree, definitely top 3 in AAA after you lose to True NoVA in Elite play in game. We are coming for your spot in Elite!

The assistant coach running out on the field blowing a whistle for warmups like it’s the Thanksgiving Day parade is certainly entertaining.

If it was the same kid that showed up to tryouts for a few teams in Maryland, she is a very good player and makes them better. Most impactful is a sense she will help make YJ better and help them compete. If that’s what you meant, I would agree. However, word of caution before you get ahead of yourself, A bracket lacrosse is a lot different than the B level tournaments your DD traveled all the way to LI to play in.

Also, can BoC re-open the LI 2029 page so the YJ parents can go back there to boast? We would like to go back to talking about teams who play in the top bracket of tournaments. 91 parents you can stick around.

Heard Coach played the freshman to send a message to the existing entitled players and parents. If they are going to lose with the existing below average players, might as well play the kids who haven’t been tainted yet. Turning a new leaf, it’s going to be earned and behavior and off field actions are being taking into account.[/quote]

Winning in MD means recruiting and not playing entitled players. Last year they let their sr goalie start because of whose son he was. I'm not for completely benching players but make clear what they're contributing and not doing well.[/quote]

New staff seems to be adding gasoline to the dumpster fire already. How long til the principal steps in and makes them start his son on varsity?

Highly unlikel!!. Saw YJ play this fall was not impressed (other than 1 player). Also saw the true top 5 teams and was super impressed.
If YJ was that good, they wouldn't need go out of state for help. Kind of a deparation/cheating move.

The player they have traveling back and forth from NC will make a huge difference. She may be the most impactful player in the 2029s if used appropriately.

YJ dad,

Your coaches have the contact info for heros, m&d, coppermine, nxt, and integrity, why don’t they set up a scrimmage or two? Those teams could def use strong b bracket competition to try out new plays and get tuned up for ngll, why not make it happen? (We know why….)

Heros, m&d, and nxt should start entering the same lower brackets that yj plays in each tournament, that would be hilarious.

Preds Dad is back! We missed you. That 1-4-1 fall record has the Talk of Baltimore on their way to the top!

Disappointing for the other 11 goalies in the program.

HA! Your 1-4-1 record this fall says otherwise, but you always will be “the talk of the town”

Philly is the king of lacrosse. Look at the New Balance All American games recently. Philly has been winning them consistently, especially when they have all the top players playing. Haverford and Malvern are consistently some of the top teams in the nation, often only losing to boarding schools / national teams that pull players from all over the nation like Lawrenceville or other national powers.

How will we ever test this theory out, you guys deliberately duck teams like 91, nxt, heros, and coppermine?

Lot of word salad there. YJ is the team to beat. They are better than last year and could have easily beat all the teams you mentioned by end of summer. This year they will be improved and should beat all teams above. Hopefully you are still around to come back and eat your words.[/quote]

Lol. YJ picked up at least one girl cut from the programs mentioned, you have never beaten those teams, you guys hide in the B bracket, have never won a tournament anyone has heard of, and duck team 91 by not playing in NGLL; nobody is scared of you.

I bet you guys would sign up for the B division in the NGLL too, so weak.

Cool story Coach.

This will definitely change in the Spring and Summer when athletes that play a fall sport become more present in their club lacrosse teams.

Don’t tell reclass Dad this he’s too interested in using his kid to live out his dreams.

Hardly, Look at Duke,UVA or any Ivy roster, 75% of team is holdbacks. Unfortunately being held back or doing Prefirst works. Total @ChillLaxin in youth, but helps there too.