US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums MID-ATLANTIC LACROSSE MARYLAND FORUM Boys 2022 - 8th Grade Fall 2017/Summer 2018

Trolling at its finest again. Why don't you just roll up to these teams practices and get the skinny yourself. These teams have been formed for 6 months already and most likely practice all the time and have played some games or scrimmages to this point.

Whats your point? Looks like they just saved you some gas money and travel time.

This forum is crazy. Someone saying the spend all this money on the child's lacrosse so that give them the right to be a jerk. Another saying to buy , sell or hold on 8th grade lacrosse teams. Calling programs armpits? Please those who want to do that stuff should get a life. Spending money does not give you the right to be an ass. People should not comment on the teams until the games are played.

Then everyone is wrong. Have the depth chart in front of me. Only 1 API kid still plays on Dukes and even that one doesn't show up all that often because of conflicts. If API had a bunch of Dukes kids they'd be better than they are.

Yes and No! Disparaging an entire program is most likely a sign of unfairly displaced anger. That's just stupid and easy to spot. There are to many good volunteer coaches, talented players, respectful parents in every program. Each program has its good teams, bad teams, good coaches, bad coaches, good parents, bad parents, etc. However, there are some shady practices, poor conduct and unethical practices as it pertains to youth sports going on at different programs and levels, which people should communicate and help others become aware of. If it is ignored, it will never stop. Some things may be true, some may not, but intelligent people can read, watch and make their own minds up. That is what forums are for! A lot of things happen behind the scenes, at practices and on the sidelines during games, where parents can see actions or results, but not hear the words or fully understand what happened, whether its your team or an opposing team. For club participation competition, total player numbers, demographics, logistics drive tryouts, outside recruiting and ultimately team success. Instruction is being replaced with marketing and that is where uninformed parents wind up placing their players in bad situations. This happens to be a 2022 forum. It is fair game for people to air out dirty laundry from their experiences on 2022 teams or certain coaches. If you are intelligent, you can read it and sift through the s!@# talking and unfair criticism to gather the more important details in an effort to become more informed. Everyone understands that these teams compete at a very high level and that means at some point, you may be faced with a decision to watch your child sit, or move them. When that time comes, you should appreciate some of the information, good or bad that is passed along on here, so you can approach your options with eyes wide-open. Most of this stuff DOES happen in some way shape or form and people should not ignore poor behavior, practices and coaching, simply because their kid starts on one of the top teams at a particular age group. These programs and coaches are responsible for your kids during a very impressionable time of their sports career. Ask them the hard questions, hold them accountable, so they have to break trust in order to deviate from that responsibility, or actually tell you the truth up front. Its not really that hard or painful to read info on here and then go watch a tournament or game where a coach is jumping up and down like a raving lunatic in front of his players, yelling at referees because they ended the game 1 minute early, due to his players getting chippy because they were losing by 4 goals. There are multiple problems going on in that scenario and it should NOT be ignored.

I agree and do use this forum for all of this information. I think the hardest part is people want to stay unknown so they say this team cheats or this coach is a jerk. But they are scared to give real details of the why this is true because they know the people around or on this team will know right away who is typing. So all I ask is people please try to give real reasons why a coach or team is bad or even good not just [ChillLaxin] "they cheat" they are mean" type posts

You are the funniest person on this forum. Let's all have a group hug and agree to a code of conduct. Oh yeah most of us already signed some agreement that this is travel and we play to win. Some of the best games have been up north vs LI and NJ teams. Players play and parents get to talk as much [lacrosse] as they want. Thousands a year spent on lacrosse you bet your [lacrosse] I'm going to talk [lacrosse] at the games and on this forum. If you want peace and quiet go have your kid join the chess club.[/quote]

Somewhere out there > My kid can beat your kid at chess.
>>Your kid can only win at chess because he is a [chess playing] holdover.
>Annapolis chess team is full of holderovers and you know it.
>>That Baltimore chess player is going D1. Great opening moves, and perfect end game

WOW. That is a result of coaching . Players dont leave good coaches that they enjoy playing for.

Why would you say wow, like it is a surprise?

I watched the dbacks play rough riders in the fall and there a legit contender

Where was this? What was the score?

Its Dukes that has 3 or 4 API players on team. They might not be playing in season but surely will jump ship this summer

Neither of those teams are contenders.

What team is legit?

Some good matchups this weekend playing spring thaw in Delaware.

I don't know how many times to tell you that you are wrong. There used to be a lot of Dbacks players on Dukes. That has changed over the last year as better players have come to the team. There has only been 1 API player to play with Dukes in almost a year.

Looks like NL got dropped out of elite division. Good.

#fakenews

Well the coach is a respected coach in the lacrosse community. It is unusual for that many players to leave? and others to actually quit!

Guess we'll see

Well known is quite different than respected.

Last spring season of youth lacrosse begins tomorrow at Spring Thaw. Some great matchups already. Enjoy it folks.

Hawks and Express are the only top club teams there.
Not many great matchups.
Hawks take all games easily.

Bitter dad - sorry you and your kid are not playing this weekend.

I hope so, they probably practiced 6 days this week to make sure they were all on the same page after last weeks 6 practices.

I hope so, they probably practiced 6 days this week to make sure they were all on the same page after last weeks 6 practices.[/quo

Classic sore loser comments - not a hawk but if they do practice 6 times a week which no team does, why do you care if you are not on team.
Spring thaw has a ton of good teams and match ups. Too bad it's not a championship format . It will be great for all the teams in it to get good competition before league starts. Gotta love LI Express playing 2 top teams from MD.

Sure !

ANY scores from today? Tourney Machine only post wins.

Dukes and Hawks beat LI Express easily.

Hmmm. Hawks is definitely a buy. They are in a league of their home. Followed closely by reloaded RR and Crabs. Not sure why you are buying DCE. They lost to Madlax today. Or maybe Madlax is better than you thought.

Did Dukes beat everyone there?

How did API and Crabs look today

Watched one game involving Dukes and API, and another involving Crabs and Philadelphia Freedom. All of these teams looked solid, and the potential for growth and development opportunities was apparent. Dukes had kids from Koopers, Rising Sons, Looneys and I believe Brotherly Love (?) playing on team. Dukes goalie could not have been a 2022 (he was enormous and had facial hair), but someone mentioned the regular goalie was out of town. Dukes built a halftime lead over API but API played them even in second half, and always appeared competitive. Got some very good LSM play. Dukes defense solid, but all scoring came from two kids. Dukes deeper/more talented, but did not appear "invincible".

Crabs beat a very good Freedom team by 3 goals. Like all the teams I observed, way too many turnovers and losses of possession. Physical play. Good goaltending and adequate defense. Offense looked improved over what i observed last year.

By the way, the Delaware facility is tremendous. Shame we don't have a similar complex in Maryland. All of these 2022 teams looked great and not much separates them. Wish I could have seem a Hawks game, but most of the 2022's played at the same time intervals.

Dukes only played LI Express, API and South Jersey Select. The API game was the closest of the three though none of them were close.

Facial Hair! Hilarious.. So many over age players for the proper grade now. It is a shame, but it does work..Look at Dukes roster. They show birthdays for many players. Some are two years older than they should be for class. Many are 1 and many are older for their year. Bottom line. Hold your child back if you want to play D1. Your changes are better.

The goalie does not have facial hair. He is the usual goalie for the team. He plays for Koopers. Not sure where you think that Dukes has a roster posted at all, let alone one with birthdates. My son is on the team as well as 2 of his club teammates and all 3 of them are normal age 2022 players.

Guessing he's referring to Duke University. There are a bunch of reasons why college players are older - they were held back when they 4-5, did a PG after HS, redshirt due to injury, Grad student. There was one Duke player that joined the military after graduating, did a couple of tours in middle east and then cam back and played as a grad student at 26. Also my 13 and 16 year started shaving at the same time, Go figure....

Where did they play at? Was it a close game? Score? Sounds like a good win for MADLAX if this is true. Didn't plates jump ship to DCE?

Hawks looked very good but a bit rusty as expected from all teams. They were fast all over the field with very good goalie play.

When does the league schedule get posted?