Anyone know the score of Crabs/Next Level game? It was 2-0 Crabs in the first 5 minutes. then I left. Got a chance to see the Crabs players up close prior to game, without their helmets on. It is quickly very obvious many and I mean many of Crabs players are much older than 13/14. They are 15 and a few close to 16. Absolutely obnoxious the crap Ryan McClernan pulls and just out and out violates the grade base system. He should be banned from youth lacrosse simply for his lack of ethics. He is a total POS and I am surprised that schools like St Paul's, Loyola and even Boys Latin want to have any connection to him. Why be associated with a cheat.
Exactly how is he "gaming" the system? The league is grade based. Those kids are in 8th grade. Where should they be playing?
I say you all boycott the league next year. Why let one team do whatever they want, even if their players are in the right grade? Make them change the rules.
They can't boycott the league because all their teams have holdbacks too. They just don't have as many which gets their panties in a bunch. Apparently it's ok to have 2,3 or 4 holdbacks. That's not "gaming the system". It's only cheating if you have 10 or more. The line of demarcation had been set and the Crabs are thumbing their noses at the agreed upon 4 holdback max rule. Cheaters.
Let's be clear...cheating is bringing down 4 2019's in a tournament who's rules state -
"Placement on a grade based team (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) is dictated by the highest grade of any player on the team."
- and then sending them back to 2019 the next week. That is cheating and the Crabs own that label exclusively and forever.
As far as holdbacks, yes, other teams do have summer birthdays, kids who would be the youngest in their group if they had started school earlier. Crabs have kids who would still be among the oldest in their group even at 2019. Show of hands - how many Crabs 2020s have their learners permits? There's a few
Most of these teams do not have multiple kids who have repeated 7th or 8th grade (or both) and I have not seen another team that pursues, promotes, and encourages holdbacks as a strategy.
The Crabs have just taken it way too far. It's kind of like cosmetic surgery, a little makes you look better, too much makes you look weird, comical...and sad.
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