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It is not similar to any arrangement, it's not a partnership or a merger. We are simply doing 8 sessions of training for Rising Sons as we would offer to any program. We are inviting their boys to try out for NXT when their current program ends in 8th grade. Their 2020 team is very strong but will have to fight it out with our existing 2020 team for spots, nothing is guaranteed. As next year comes we will talk about doing training then if they want to continue.

Legendary Player Frank Urso named HC of Brotherly Love 2022

Who cares. Doesn't mean he can coach.

You know we are all just waiting for TD to posts video's of his players laying people out and standing over top of them on YouTube....oh wait, he already has done that. What a class act!

Not sure he has done this wire his players, the only videos I have heard about are ones DELETED

Who cares if he can coach as long as he can poach. "Scholarships" for club lacrosse to the best kids are out there. Look out Sons, Mesa, and Freedom.

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Yes "poaching" is a real thing. Your post is absurd and obviously you are on the poacher side as opposed to poachee. Here is what you are missing, when a player leaves a program to go to another that is fine, there could be many reasons for it. It could be playing time, dispute with coaching philosophy, the kid simply not enjoying himself, etc. etc. That type of departure is not "poaching". Poaching is when a program, in season, contacts a player already rostered on another team and offers that player to come "play in one tournament for us for free, see if you like it" or "how about your 2023 son come play in this showcase event for us". The poacher teams are playing on the system, convincing a parent that their child is getting college looks at the 23 level! That is a blatant lie.
This same program just advertised that they brought on a "college recruiting specialist" yet they have no teams older than 2023?? That is manipulative and a lie to lead these parents to believe their son is getting looks in 6th grade!
So to address your note, yes poaching is a real thing. The standard held by the vast majority of the clubs in Philadelphia is that we do not contact any player already rostered on another program. If they reach out to you that is fine but to actively recruit players off existing teams is a despicable thing only a few teams do. These teams have been called out on here numerous times but just to be clear, they are Brotherly Love and Rising Sons. Rising Sons has gotten a bit better about this but that is primarily because they have lost their luster after their 2021 team fell apart and now their 2020s are done. Brotherly Love has a guy working from them who pumps out propaganda like the Germans in the 1940s! One thing that Rising Sons and Brotherly Love have in common is that both have been caught cheating in the NXT Spring League for having unrostered players play up/down/on multiple teams. BL will fall apart like RS has, give it time.

NXT does not NEED the RS kids, they have had teams for years and been successful. Sure some of the RS kids will come to NXT but not nearly all of them.

My son plays for BL and you are absolutely right they do have players moving between rosters. However look up the rules NXT allows this for both their league and the tournaments look it up. You are only breaking the rules if you play down. My son along with a few others was asked to play UP from 2023 to 2022 to help out with numbers. The one coach also had his son play up from 2024 to 2023 but again he played up. You seem to know BL really well so you know who I am talking about. Like most on this forum you should get your facts straight before accusing another club of cheating. You must be from Freedom or Roughriders come on fess up your just mad and tired of losing to a club that just started 2 years ago that charges less money than all the rest. It's okay just be honest jealousy doesn't become you judging from your rant. Got to say have had 3 philly based clubs try to convince my son to leave BL...

He deleted the lacrosse ones but the football ones are still there. It's great because of how he titles them, shows 9 year olds "laying wood" and "laying kids out"!

I know the 3 kids you are referring to ask NXT that ran the tournament BL didn't have enough kids to field a full B team and rather than withdraw asked the tournament director if we could drop the 3 kids to play B as long as they weren't AA players. Like most clubs our bench players are A/B players and the kids we sent were not even close to our best players. If the tournament director approved it then it ain't cheating the fact that they beat your team is probably what's bothering u. The BL coaches actually sent an email out saying we were short and would be moving kids around. Most people I know don't announce it in an email when they are cheating just admit it tired of losing

I saw that game and saw the 3 kids u are referring to run to the other field where they joined a team that had no subs but also left a team without subs makes sense to me.i watched the BL game they all ran to as I was curious to see how BL would do against Bethesda Lax Club thinking that BL would get smoked as Bethesda killed Mesa and BL needed a Braveheart to beat Mesa however BL put a beat down on Bethesda was very surprised. Say what you want about BL but u got to give them props that is a [lacrosse] of a good team may be the fastest youth team I have personally seen makes sense to me that B players on that club would look like A players to another club all subjective

Freedom Dad, Not sure who that guy is but my son played on that BL team and enjoyed every minute of it....it sucks losing doesn't it.

C'mon now don't hide be honest with us Knute Rockne if you aren't from Freedom watching the illegal roster switching and assessing B level talent vs A level talent over the course of a game it begs the question why you spending ur free time watching a bunch of young boys running around in short shorts getting all lathered up...just be honest with yourself Freedom dad and if you really aren't (not) get yourself some help