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Well Put

This post also means my son has no shot of making the team so lets find any way to bash it. Haha So transparent gotta love it. One day dad, one day

I heard well over 100 kids at Long Island brine tryouts for 23/24. Wonder how many 24,s will tryout for this. It's double the price of brine. Not sure how to justify that.

No


Not only is it double the price, then if you are "chosen" its another 695$ to join team. Then spend last weekend in July in Mass. hotels$ travel$ etc. and that's after spending June and July traveling up and down east coast for Club tourneys!

You guys need a box of tissues for your tears

Everyone is excited about up coming Lax season..Town teams 1st.. What teams are the most competitive? And What teams will be among the top travel teams besides the obvious Pac and Taz.?

not bashing it and not saying my son isn't trying out. maybe he makes it, maybe he doesn't, but lets not be naive. $185 try out, its a money grab.

You mean Taz then Pack

Complete money grab, its all a money grab. That dosent mean it wont be good. Its all about the money though. Money, money, money. Blackstones steaks last week 300 bucks for my wife and I. Money grab, without a doubt. But steaks were real good.

Closer to 60 at brine. maybe 10 24s

Complete money grab, its all a money grab. That dosent mean it wont be good. Its all about the money though. Money, money, money. Blackstones steaks last week 300 bucks for my wife and I. Money grab, without a doubt. But steaks were real good.

10 24,s sounds low. Weird

Until Taz beats the other teams that the Pack has beaten they will never get the full respect. One goal wins over the Pack (which seems to be the only thing this team cares about) and losses to BLC and Madlax do nothing for them. Pack has beaten every good team in the 2024 division at some point. That is a fact. Taz? No they have not. Yes you can puff that chest out but in the end they are still not a true top team until they can put up a win against every top tier team in the age group. Argue all you want. but in the end that's the truth

Wait.... is that really the standard now. You are not better than us, even though you beat us on multiple occassions. You haven't beaten the other teams we have beat.

Do you realize how stupid that sounds?
#1 Because you are banging the drum for your sons team, not the team you play on
#2 There can be more than one premier/elite/AA team in an age group
#3 You are ignoring head to head match-ups...... Sometimes teams match up well against one, but not the other.

FYI- This is 2017....New team every year Jimbob. Both teams added starters. Pack is a great squad and can compete against any team. Same can be said about TAZ. Holding on to Wins/losses from 3rd grade has to stop. Both teams were measured in the Fall and both teams dominated the grade.
Lets see how the spring/summer pan out before you start measuring.

......I asked about the town teams? and the other good travel teams..this is a 2024 thread not taz pac thread..you will see some more parity this year.

Poster does have a point. How can you be the top team if you haven't beaten every top team in the age group at least once? Not that hard to understand. If the WP beat every team at least once and the Taz has not then it does make sense.

WP and Taz both went down to Maryland in fall and beat all the md teams there. Great for LI

The original post says "Taz then Pack". He didn't say that Taz was better than every other team. He just said that Taz was better than Wolfpack. Which they are, since they beat WP the last 3-4 times they played. It doesn't mater if it was one goal games or not. WP hasn't beaten Taz since the boys were in 3rd grade. There's really nothing left to say on that matter. Head to head trumps all other modes of comparison.

Madlax?

not low because most smart people knew there was very low chance vs 2023 honey badgers and s2s. on top of it i'm sure there were plenty of kids with 2004 birthdays.

3. express
4. team li
5. outlaws
6. igloo
7. 24
8. true blue
9. express b
10. outlaws b

3- Express A
4- Outlaws A
5- Team LI
6- Igloo
7- Express B
8- 24
9- Outlaws B
10- True Blue

What a tool.

Outlaws B? you almost had me there...that's a joke, right?

they are 3-10 because they don't have coaches/clubs who put in the work off season. skill work is players job. team concepts are the coaches job. if you're coming into the spring without a basic offense, slide package, man up, clear, ride, you're behind. Look at your calendar. Before the june tourney season kickoff you have 8 weeks. Best case 12-14 practices with holidays and weather. btw, not everyone will show up. Good luck teaching and practicing the above. not enough time. Gap is only going to get wider with pack and taz vs 3-10

And Express B? You must be that Mommy again.

Ok Taddie

Agree

If you are on Taz or Wolpack and not first line in a few years from now you will be surpassed by all the boys who are on the teams 3-10 you mention. Or your son just may lose interest because they don't see the field. What is the point of putting your son on that team if they don't make it into he games? Just so you can say your son is on that team? You are doing your kid a disservice. Yes they practice with great talent but a 10 or 11 year old wants to play and they will grow to resent the sport. Think about that daddy.

haha...True Blue...Express B beat them like 15-2 last summer...not even worthy of the top10

True Blue 2024 never played Express last year . . . regardless of what tournaments they played, they never were on the losing end of a beat down like that against any team.

Yes they did...Mavrick Big Time Shootout in July at St Pauls...it was the finals and it was literally 15-2, maybe 15-3 Your young coaches were rattled.

Maybe your son missed the game but my son was in Express B and hat statement is true. I don't remember the exact score but I remember being up by quite a bit.

Two terrible teams, like two bums swinging it out outside the bar on YouTube. Who cares who wins.

they did play, check the tourney site. he is right

You are horrible. It's 10 and 11 year old boys and I bet some of the top players who were on those teams (or even the bottoms players) will play division 1 lax while you watch them sitting in the bleachers with you son who stopped playing cuz you destroyed your son.

You are correct Express B won that tournament...and I believe they won most of the games in the fall.They deserve to be in top 10. ahead of true blue.

B team kids at this point will not be playing meaningful lax in HS at this rate! You know that kids are pouring into the sport that are real athletes, and all of your clinics and B Tournament wins will not matter. My son will be in the group you are watching my friend.

Says the guy while TB seems to keep putting boys into D1 programs, as well as number more into top D II and III programs. Yep - they all got displaced! You tools that somehow think that if your kid doesn't play for one of the top 5 'elite' programs, they have no future playing college lax couldn't be proved wrong more times than when every new year goes by!