BOTC - US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Boys 2025-3rd Grade Fall 2015 Summer 2016

Man you people are crazy. Can't you just enjoy the fact that your children like playing the sport. Lacrosse used to be the one sport where psycho parents were in the minority now it seems like most of the lax parents are crazy. Your talking about 9 yr old boys please... The idea of youth sports is to teach your child life lessons, like how to be part of a team& work with others, as well as being able to listen to instructions and follow them. If you think wins and losses matter @ 9 yrs old I feel for you.

This whole thing started with the concept that Channy needs the team to be better so they can add a second team. Cut the high and mighty junk. Express can't hang and their performance will not be good enough to generate the $$$.

you are reaching Joe jackass...next year it's Exoress over geese and you can go back in your hole. Remember,the Geese were the best last year now they can't beat the blast this year. Go to bed Johnny!!!

You must be a channy minion.keep believing his lies and emptying your wallet into the money pit.

You do realize that Express already runs out 2 teams in this age bracket.. LIE will run out 7 teams if there is enough at tryouts. They'll just focus on 1

Emptied their bench? If you are playing on a 3rd grade team and don't empty your bench then something is wrong. In 3rd grade they should be developing otherwise your child will suffer later. This is 3rd grade!

Or something crazy could happen and we could have a 3rd or maybe 4th competitive team in this bracket instead of just Geese and Blast. That would be wonderful. I like that some of these teams are good competition. My kids team gets better for it every time they play them. They learn from it and it motivates them to do better.

Only one 2025 team. Dope

Blast will be looking to DELETE

Maybe 2 next year if Channy is serious about coaching a team. I will believe it when I see it though. O'Reilly is confirmed to come back.

It's done. They sent an email about pre tryout workouts. And the email was from Channy saying he is coaching. Don't know what else you need to convince you. His contact info is on the website.

John Lynott is the other coach. Channy lending his name to compete against Spallina and success of Geese. Riley is still the best of the coaches.

He is coaching the team. Why is that so hard to believe.

Word is a couple TAZ boys playing own age with geese this year

Yes. Very solid players, too. Will dominate on that team.

Good. Then Geese won't need the kids who try to go to Blast. Good team shouldn't suffer for a couple of t-shirt chasing parents.

Expect some really high quality kids to come out of nowhere at tryouts this year. 4th grade is traditionally when most kids start playing travel. There will be 4-5 very good teams next season. The teams who plan on just taking 1 or 2 kids will surely have their eyes opened at tryouts. Don't be surprised if you see 5-6 new kids on most teams.

Any other teams have pre-tryout evaluations??? They called it something else, but I think it's pretty shady that they want to see which kids they want to keep and which ones they want to get rid of the week before tryouts. Is this a common practice??

Fairly common.

How many teams does express have in 2025? What about Igloo?

Very common for the big clubs

Express 2025 will have 2 teams

Two. Channy and Orielly.

Never heard of it as a formal thing, but if you want to make sure the kid gets a look, I would guess it's good for you. But only if the kid is good. Something like this will show strengths AND weaknesses!

It seems shady though, who is doing that?

I think those two are expected to be the most improved. With more kids trying out, less will bother with the top 2 (not including the Manhassett team that beat Blast, obviously they're the top club in the age group but a town team so I won't include them). That will make teams like Igloo and Express stronger.

Teams want to be sure about who they want to keep. Tryouts are a mystery. Most top teams will take anyone that makes the team better. Those practices are the last chance for kids to show they're worth keeping. Starters aside, everyone else is replaceable until about 6th or 7th grade. By then, teams are pretty set and everyone knows everyone else.

All this chasing to be on the best team and the clubs recruiting and planning to be the best is silly. The top teams will be the top teams, why? Because the best kids aren't going to worse team. Mergers and player movement means nothing, you only play 10 and teams will shorten the bench in big games and make it up in blowouts. So... if your son is not a starter encourage him to keep a positivd attitude and work hard and move up the depth chart and/or do some research and look for options. You all should be focused the best spot/club to get your son prepared for the next level. You want to settle in on a team this season and stay with that coach and team for the next several years as kids get ready for next level. Point is, get on the best team you can coupled with being a solid contributor during big games.

This my humble pre tryout advice.

Ps make sure you have a coach that is dedicated.

With all these tryouts starting this week... does anybody remember when this was mid September and August was when lax took a vacation.

Like 3 years ago

but its moving in the right direction. pretty soon will be end of july. maybe then we will get august back

Amen. Would rather it be July while the kids are still in the lax mode. Get it done and enjoy August.