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What happened to the crabs 2023 team today.

From what I hear the owner of the Crabs was a lunatic on the sidelines this past weekend at his own tourney! Why would anyone want their son to play for a man that clearly never or hardly ever played the game? I have seen him with a stick in his hand and its obvious he has no clue what he is doing. Why anyone would want their 8th grade son no matter what his age is playing for a man that yells, screams and belittle's kids in front of their teammates, parents, grandparents and friends? Don't be surprised if your son is completely burned out before he even sets foot on a college campus and potentially on a HS campus. What a joke!!

They've sent something like 400 kids to D1 programs. I think your prediction of their demise is greatly exaggerated.

Not sure, but I do think he played when he was younger. As for yelling, he yells a lot but so did the Looney's coaches. And many others I've heard over the years.

...and if you are posting on what you "heard" and didnt "see" you might want to re-think your approach. What you didnt "see" was a team that played with an unmatched intensity and drive thru every minute of every game by every player on the team. Maybe you dont agree with his style but its hard to argue the outcome.

Not just 15 year olds but 15 very very close to turning 16 playing against 13 and 14 year olds. This fat pos will do anything to win and I doubt he was a standout as a player. Look at his bio on the Crabs website, he is a total joke as far as thinking he has coached at a high level in the past. Fat crab daddy is about 5 ft 6 in and weights about 270, can't miss him on the sidelines, even when he is not yelling and putting down his players. Some of his former players may have made it to D1 but it wasn't because of him. Probably their hs coaches had a much stronger positive influence on them than the fat pos.

he isn't fat, just short for his weight.

Ok. You mentioned he is fat three times. I guess that strengthens your argument that he can't coach and/or his club is no good. You convinced me.

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Correct, three times but only two times that he is a pos, should have mentioned this many more times because. this is what hhe is. What he has done to youth lacrosse is terrible, all for the money
He is the most hated person in youth lacrosse, except for the misguided who has filled thselves with his bs. The whole program is corrupt, lead by the fat pos
Opps,there fat again

Ok. You mentioned he is fat three times. I guess that strengthens your argument that he can't coach and/or his club is no good. You convinced me.

I'd say the argument against this guy has to do with his new present and not his past. Yes, he was a dominant club. He was able to send kids to D1 schools. He did this alongside a few other clubs, as ALL kids playing lax had a few select programs to go through. NOW, with the rise of a few hundred clubs across the country, he started to lose his footing among lax greatness. Rather than accept that there was more competition, he started to encourage families to derail their kids academic path, leave their grade level friends behind, repeat a year of curriculum they already passed and play down with younger kids on his teams. Voila- he looks like a gem because he can put more pics on his site of champions and the money rolls in. Do some of the kids get D1 spots? You bet- but guess what- those kids are rostered among more than many that didn't need to do so. Talented kids win games and get recruited on their own. Only a business man looking to make money off of a kid would ask them to redo a year of their life. When push comes to shove- those talented kids will fair better as they never had to play down. Talent never needs to play with younger kids. Can you imagine a top school asking their gifted kids to give up their AP classes and repeat a grade so they can get higher scores for the school? That's what these coaches are now doing. It's a desperate move to stay relevant in the lax world and to keep a business stable. Competition became too much and his coaching and club couldn't stay on top with all the other competition. When his teams had to play against their peers, we saw what happens. Crabs need their older players or else they are just a competitive team. Competitive isn't bad, but it certainly wasn't making the owner the money he once was. It's all about money. You can't keep bringing it back to the past, when the club had much less competition to thrive. D1 kids come from all clubs now and most don't need to play with younger kids to do so. It's a sad day when a parent derails their kids academic path for a business. If you truly had faith in your kid, you'd know he could make it on his own. Your decision to have a kid play down speaks volumes to your faith in your kid. Your club owner is smiling though.

Your kid got cut/did not make Crabs--we get that, now go away.

My kid is on age, so are his teammates, they get oustanding coaching, Crabs is way cheaper than any other club program (and they give top of the line helmets and gloves for free to all new players) and he is getting fabulous exposure/competition. Again, sorry your kid did not make it, now please give it a rest.

My kid is on age, so are his teammates, they get oustanding coaching, Crabs is way cheaper than any other club program (and they give top of the line helmets and gloves for free to all new players) and he is getting fabulous exposure/competition. Again, sorry your kid did not make it, now please give it a rest.

I don't think Team 91 and the other teams up there are doing this. I think MD teams are into this 1) to try and keep up with the NY teams and 2) because public schools are so awful that most lax kids go private. The holdback thing is big among privates in all sports.

The poster above was correct and Crabs did ruin the youth lacrosse world in pursuit of money. Hard for some of those have drunk the kool aid to believe the rest of us have faith in our children and will not subject them to being a pawn in RMs game of filling his wallet. Nobody is jealous of Crabs and that is what the Crabs have a hard time understanding. By manipulating the rules in favor of yourselves you have become irrelevant to the rest of us - it is not talent although many of the kids are talented but you have tainted any talent by playing them against younger kids. it all catches up with you over time in more ways than just lacrosse.

I don't think Team 91 and the other teams up there are doing this. I think MD teams are into this 1) to try and keep up with the NY teams and 2) because public schools are so awful that most lax kids go private. The holdback thing is big among privates in all sports.

Serious question - does any other club team have the kind of relationship with a school like the Crabs have with Boys Latin? They seem rather cozy....

I have a son on Crabs and a son on FCA. The FCA team has more holdbacks than the Crabs team. Both of my sons are on age for their grade. What Crabs parents get upset about on here is that Crabs is singled out for having holdbacks. All Baltimore /Maryland teams have holdbacks. So why is all the venom spewed towards Crabs and RM in particular? That's why it comes off as jealousy.

fca and calvert hall

Serious question - does any other club team have the kind of relationship with a school like the Crabs have with Boys Latin? They seem rather cozy....

I think RM had a good thing going with the Crabs...a top notch lacrosse program, high level instruction...then his focus shifted from advancing the game of lacrosse and putting the best team on the field to a pure profit motive. The better the Crabs teams perform, the more exposure they get and the more $ he makes from camps, tournaments, etc... Teams are better to some extent because they are older (there are good players held back and on-age)...club lacrosse has become a cesspool and RM is now the ambassador of greed, attempting to hide his greed thru false passion. And please don't get me started on 3D, they are the biggest frauds in the lacrosse world

I think since the Crabs are still the biggest draw for most kids despite the FCA program being pretty comparable. They have the most holdbacks of kids that do not need to holdback. Thus, their holdbacks are more advanced than your holdbacks. They have players that are competitive on age, but their parents / program owner wants them to be dominant kids and really standout. They are physically capable of competing with their peers. The other clubs have ample holdbacks as well, but more along the lines of cannot compete with their peers and therefore holdback. The holdbacks are less apparent - physically on other clubs. I have seen this first hand.