BOTC - US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Boys 2020- 9th Grade Fall 2016/Summer 2017

Yea around 7am they'll go to the field and beat your sons [lacrosse] AGAIN

Na... I gaurentee they don't

I keep seeing all of these Tweets coming out about rising sons 2020 players. I thought that team folded? Is that right, or did I missing something?

How many?

This guy might be right. This is the year all of these PA, Md, and Mass teams get "better".... All the holdbacks and double holdbacks will be in peak form in this grade. Many a former 2018 and 2019's will find there way on to the top 2020 teams from Md, Pa, and Mass this summer. Same ole story... "Our team caught up" No it didn't, it got stocked with hold backs and double holdbacks... Blah blah blah more future D3 20 year old freshmen. Really working out well for UVA, still haven't won an ACC game in years. Same for Hop, they could barely beat UVA. After breaking through last year, UNC's Holdbacks, double holdbacks and 9th grade recruits from a few years ago seem to be $hitting the bed royally...

Anyone know a good FOGO who needs a team to play for this summer.. very strong team looking for one

What region?

Let's get the banter going again for this Age group win the summer coming! Big recruiting summer for these boys

Top 10 pre summer rankings???

Banter the big recruiting summer was last year for these boys. We get it your kids in a middle of the road team. You want them ranked in top 10 Banter lololol

Well apparently now you can't make contact with coaches until sept 1 of junior year, so everything is changing.. as of April 28... and last year was early recruiting this is actually the prime summer

Actually, it will be next summer. This summer is meaningless.

Is Maverick Showtime giving refunds for 2020's and 2021's?

yes only to you

The end of early recruiting will see the return of age based youth lacrosse from top to bottom and the end of the holdback game. Little Biff from BL and Trig from Gilman will have to wait til their Jr. year to get recruited so the ROI of two extra years of Private school tuition to get a verbal commitment in the 8th grade just isn't there anymore.

What is little Ty Ty Xanders going to write about now?

Coaches can still evaluate and will

Of course they will - but the double holdback 16 year old freshman doesn't look quite so impressive when he is playing as a rising Jr against on age kids who have gone through puberty. The gig is up.

You will however see a spike in transfers from one school to another. Most of the transfers will be repeating 10th grade!!!

Not much will change

what are you talking about? Not much will change with a lot of kids transferring? Not much will change with recruiting?

HAHAHA, this is the old 80's ploy.

No interest (at the family college) going into Jr year for little "Drew" Hansome the 7th. Then transfer and repeat 10th grade, get another year under your belt before the start of Jr year. (now a year older) there should be more interest since "now" a Soph playing at Prep.

Although an illusion, everyone knows the second year soph should be a Jr., but if the ends justify the means right.

Just over a month and a half until the big 4! Let's get some banter going here

Top teams at the fall tourney were 89+2, Edge and Sweet lax national. That said, it was fall, so know there were kids missing from other teams. What will be interesting is seeing how all the 2020 teams play considering many of them boys on the top teams are committed and will eventually be teammates. The list below is only meant to get the chatter going. . .will be a great season and will be fun to see how things shake out...NO OFFENSE MEANT:

1: 89+2, Looney's, Crabs, Sweet lax National, Edge, Laxachusetts

2: Tomahawks, Hawks, LIE, NXT, Leading Edge, 4HHH, Sweet lax Upstate

3: Next Level, MadLax, Dukes, Sweet lax Florida, 3d NE, 3d Colorado,

No clue where the various 89+2 teams from Westchester and Maryland fit in. . .haven't seen them at any tourneys. And BBL? They have a 20 commit.

So fill in blanks, move around, etc. That top tier though is pretty solid, IMO.

Leg a sea has a bunch of commits

TAZ is in group 2

Who is Taz?

Oh will you please get over yourself already?! I have watched more than one HS team this spring with so-called "studs" from these power house club teams. In most cases the kids are good to very good, but not future superstars. I am also amazed to watch players from no-name teams step up and perform well on competiive HS teams. Stop with all the self-congratulatory BS on here.

Will these new rules affect these teams? Will kids not play as much in summer on the top end teams until closer to the year they can sign letters of intent?
Will 89+2 lose players for summer now?

Says the dad of the average boy

Looking forward to the upcoming season and renewing our rivalries we have 6 players committed before the rule change and everyone one of them is still playing with us this summer. We are at Big4HHH, CRABFEAST and the NLF event in Long Island. We saw the CRABS event has 32 teams with some very strong teams. Hopefully RM will see the teams properly insuring some good quarter final matchups.

Based on this ranking (which I think is flawed) fl$ would be in your 2nd group. Beat most of the teams in both your 2 and 3 groupings-and lost won or two as well.

1: 89+2, Looney's, Crabs, Sweet lax National, Edge, Laxachusetts

2: Tomahawks, Hawks, LIE, NXT, Leading Edge, 4HHH, Sweet lax Upstate

3: Next Level, MadLax, Dukes, Sweet lax Florida, 3d NE, 3d Colorado,

As i said, feel free to re-arrange. just meant to start the chatter. . .i clearly stated it was a first stab. Interested to hear your, and others, thoughts. I'm basing it upon the Fall Big Four and what i've seen, which isn't everything. Note that it's just tiers, not in any order within the tiers.

Where's FCA?

Based on this ranking (which I think is flawed) FL$ would be in your 2nd group. Beat most of the teams in both your 2 and 3 groupings-and lost won or two as well.

1: 89+2, Looney's, Crabs, Sweet lax National, Edge, Laxachusetts, FCA MD

2: Tomahawks, Hawks, LIE, NXT, Leading Edge, 4HHH, Sweet lax Upstate, FL* (here?)

3: Next Level, MadLax, Dukes, Sweet lax Florida, 3d NE, 3d Colorado,

FCA MD has a top team. I don't know where the other FCAs go. . .not even sure which other ones exist.

What happened to TAZ?

When will schedule
Be created for big 4? I want to see the possible match ups

This age group is not as fun as years past. Teams can't really practice as most are deep into HS ball. I have a 2018 and summer of 9th grade it lost its luster.

This summer will Be epic...

Darn kids growing up, ruining all of the fun.

Tz jumped the shark two years ago.
FCA is in MD
MadLAX is dreaming of being good in fantasy land
Predators are lurking
jersey cant gets its act together and field an elite club despite the fact that there are some great HS teams there...
All true stories

Is the big 4 the first big tournament of the year?