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So much of the days of just go with what you got. Teach kids how to handle adverse situations and learn to compete.

NXT employee much! Why can't you use some of the fee money and set up a player verification process? It would stop all the issues and if successful you could roll it out across all our events.
Nevermind this is youth lacrosse and you don't want to upset the clubs that cheat.

[/quote] So much of the days of just go with what you got. Teach kids how to handle adverse situations and learn to compete.
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Exactly!

NXT employee much! Why can't you use some of the fee money and set up a player verification process? It would stop all the issues and if successful you could roll it out across all our events.
Nevermind this is youth lacrosse and you don't want to upset the clubs that cheat.
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First things first, not an NXT employee, in fact, the only thing that I like about NXT is the spring league... that being said, not sure that I agree that there are "issues" that can be resolved so easily - teams bring in players, clubs have holdbacks, for better or worse, that is youth lacrosse. Not saying that I agree with the process, but we waste more time discussing something that will not change for the current group of 2024's, 2023's 2022's etc, For better or worse, this is the way that it is going to to be. Moreover, as you suggest above, NXT has absolutely no incentive to roll out a player verification process over all of its events because teams will just find other events that do not care, the drive to Maryland or New England is not that far, and there is always the NLF I completely respect you position, and I wish that things could change, but it is the nature of the beast. As I stated earlier, I happen to really like the spring league, I think that the games are competitive, but I can appreciate the fact that you do not like the process - and next time, spare me the NXT employee nonsense, it does nothing but take away from an otherwise reasonable point that you are making.

NXT Spring League was the best yet IMO - 2022 was very competitive wiht some more parity.

Dukes (not the loaded national team but the real Dukes Young Guns) lost to Blackstorm in the championship. Some great games too like RR beating Blackstorm and Dukes beating Uprising (HHH)

Rising Sons 2020 lost to FCA, 9-6, and then beat Looneys, 8-7, at Baltimore Summer Kickoff today

Thanks for the update Tad!

NXT MELTDOWN thoughts on tournament?

Typical lacrosse tournament! Bad refs, teams playing down to win championships in B, stupid parents yelling like stunads.

No way that is Tad, he would never post that they lost. And, he is awfully quiet now. They lost 3 games this past weekend too. Nothing to brag about. Karma is coming around to him

My son played at the UA tryouts the last two nights. I think it was a great experience for him, but the one thing that I thought was really odd was that there were so many more coaches there on Monday night compared to Tuesday. I would have thought it would have been the exact opposite. Is it like this every year? Just curios

What is going on with Rising Sons? That club tours itself as the “premier” club in the area, and they have had a mediocre summer at best. They aren’t even playing in too tournaments. What’s up with that?

Rumor is RS is merging with BL. Guess it makes sense since Tad will walk away as soon as his kid is done playing.

As far as current RS... once they got uninvited from the NXT spring league and tournaments, their whole program went down the tubes

We’ve been with The 2022 team for a while, but after this year my son will be trying out for other teams, and other parents have told me the same thing. This year has been anything but “premier “

They are not uninvited to any NXT events. Fake News!

So you are saying they chose not to participate in a spring league? Seems odd because when the 2020 team was in youth grades they played in NXT and HOCO, so why all of a sudden didn’t they offer a spring league? As for the 2020 team, the disbanded, but that was a mess, they got back together, but have been total underachievers. And, they didn’t go to too tournaments this summer. Odd, well, it is almost over.

Not fake news. After TD broke the high school agreement with NXT they were out of the MAL. You are telling me they voluntarily left a league that they promoted as part of their package to have a few play dates instead??

go away Hillary

Go back to selling your training laces Tad

Guess again

Are Rising Sons merging with BL? I know Tad has been trying to merge for years but no clubs have wanted to. It seems odd that RS is moving to Maple Zone, that is a long way from Malvern for sure. I can’t imagine the current members of the teams are very happy about that.

100 percent fact that they were invited to play in the spring league. They just turned it down.

Why would NXT not let them play in the spring league but then turn around and let them play in their 3 summer youth events a month later?

BL Sons merger probably makes sense since most of BL kids will be GV jags next year.

I heard RS is partnering with Barstool for exclusive video content

Malvern is still their home for Spring and Summer. Sunday Fall and Winter Training will take place at MSI.

Not merging....

why would BL tie themselves to that sinking ship? RS is a pyramid scheme and his beloved 2020 team is sitting on top. Once his kid’s team is done in the club world he has no skin in the game and can focus entirely on slinging his training pipe cleaners to the masses

I thought BL was getting bought out by NXT? Makes sense since NXT has one team that wins any games.

I heard BL and Elevated are merging and it will be called Blelevated

Is there anything worthwhile on this forum? Seems like a lot of haters, does that mean a lot of jealousy? My opinion is no club, coach, player or parent is perfect but most are trying to do their best for the kids. Some priorities are different - be the best vs player development vs who can drink more beers in solo cups and contradict coaches more from the parent sideline. Yes there is a business side and there is usually someone who is leading the club who loves the relationships he has with the kids and families and putting their time in.

Yes daddy ball is an issue. Its an extremely rare coach who can treat their kid as just another guy.

Do parents know there is no money in lacrosse? Most college lacrosse programs lose money for their school which means AD's do not care. Most college coaches make much less than 50k. There are 12.6 scholarships per college program of 45 boys. There are almost 0 full rides.

Some of the daddys on here need to spend more time with their wives and less time spouting giberish about club lacrosse. World Championship for U13 is a joke but yea if you spend a couple grand per kid for a lacrosse tournament you better have a good time, at least the fireworks were awesome! Do the parents get happy endings or at least a couples massage? Tournament prices are insane compared to other sports. That is where the racket is.

More posts about the competitive games, the quality of teams / camps / tournaments.

What is up with Headstrong and such butt parents?

HHH and RS embarrassing themselves at NLF, but Mesa goalie is VERY good!

No, more posts ripping Tad Doyle, I like those.

Freedom is a joke, coaches fired by Dukes....raids Dukes players from all over the East Coast and claim to be a local club. Shameful

Get a clue.

I haven't watched HHH this year but have seen Sons' 23 team. They look like a low A team at best. Kudos for them playing up and competing in AA at NLF.

Sons Low A team , HHH high A team, the only local AA teams are Mesa and BL ,

I would put Mesa at a high A level. They haven't done well against real competition this past year. Maybe they will regain their mojo once they go back to having an A and B team this coming season.

HHH is an A team but not a high A team.

RS just announced they merged with Elevated.

RIP Elevated