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Not all of them are 9th graders - some liked 8th so much, they are doing it again next year. Watch how many follow MM's lead and have their boys repeat 8th grade. For those of you who lost to 91 2025 this year, you won't have to worry about facing some of their better players in HS until at least 2023.

You do know the 91 Team starts.....wait for it....a whopping 2 holdbacks. The FOGO and an attackman, so I would argue there are plenty of other squads who roll with more 'hold backs' than that!? Especially the team they trounced in the championship. Stop hating and sorry your son has not grown.....

HUDL doesn’t lie—they were even the whole game. The final tally from 16 draws without procedures was 7 wins for 91 and 6 wins for DCE. One of those was a dropped ball after winning outright.

We liked having Griff Meyer in the league this year. Made it more interesting and a better run up to high school. Got to see what going up against a Sophomore will be like next year—or is it a Junior?

So #1 will be hitting the weight room. Thanks for the motivation. #reclassy

HUDL doesn't lie, so maybe you need to brush up on stat keeping guidelines?

FO 1 - 91
FO 2 - DCE
FO 3 - 91 -> Goal
FO 4 - DCE
FO 5 - 91
FO 6 - 91 -> DCE FOV
FO 7 - 91
FO 8 - 91 - > DCE FOV
FO 9 - 91
FO 10 - DCE -> 91 FOV
FO 11 - DCE
FO 12 - DCE
FO 13 - DCE
FO 14 - 91
FO 15 - 91

So clearly they were not even the whole game. 91 had won 7 of the first 9 FO's. Thanks for trying tho.

And the Fogo is 5 foot nothing and most of the guys on here complain about holdbacks because they have hit puberty and tower over the other boys. Like the previous poster said there are 2. 91 runs out and competes against teams with many more than that and beats them repeatedly - NL and HHH just to name a few. We welcome playing older kids just makes the team better anyway.

Older does not necessarily correlate to better. The sooner some of these parents learn that the sooner we can move on from this my-team-cant-compete-because-holdbacks nonsense.

"This thing about holding back not working is pure delusional. It does."

Turns out, it's just immoral.

Wait....what? What does morality have to do with your kid repeating the 8th grade? In hockey they have something called 'juniors" where kids go to play often for a couple of years prior to playing in colleges. Is that immoral? What about a PG year? You can disagree, but I think it's a parents' or kids choice. I'm not sure why it even affects anybody else. Some kids go through puberty and are almost full men at 13 while others haven't even started by age 15..they still play on the same team...and that's fair. Look at any middle school class, regardless of athletes, and these boys all look so different. It will even out soon and thankfully these colleges aren't still recruiting in the 8th grade. Morality has nothing to do with reclassing.


Turns out, it's just immoral.

In northern VA, I have seen public high school freshmen playing varsity. They are good for their age but they really have no business playing varsity. Don't even ask me why they are on the varsity team - perhaps just not enough talent to go around in the public schools. Not sure how it would hurt them to spend a year or two on the JV team.

Apparently there are people who are willing and able to pay $30k - $40k to have their kid repeat 8th grade at a private school. Great for them, I guess. Seems kinda crazy to me tbh.

My own 8th grade son, when I told him there were kids repeating 8th grade, said "heck no, I want to get done with school as soon as possible".

D1 may not be in his future then.

So the question becomes: What does (attempting to) play D1 get your son?

New US Club lacrosse rankings have been released for those interested in checking them out.

https://www.USCL.com/rank?v=1025&alpha=N&y=2020

Rankings based on what playing?

So the question becomes: What does (attempting to) play D1 get your son?

Bragging Rights and an elite team to play on.

I guess if you play for Salisbury you don't get to brag about your numerous championships because you're D3 and thus not "elite"?

Or if you go to MIT, you gotta feel bad because your team is D3 and has never won a championship so no elite bragging for you. If only you went to mighty Syracuse instead of dogsh*t MIT!

Pretty much everything below 40 isn't really "elite" and will get beaten by the top D3s.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/lacrosse-men/d1/ncaa-mens-lacrosse-rpi

Bragging Rights and an elite team to play on.

I guess if you play for Salisbury you don't get to brag about your numerous championships because you're D3 and thus not "elite"?

Or if you go to MIT, you gotta feel bad because your team is D3 and has never won a championship so no elite bragging for you. If only you went to mighty Syracuse instead of dogsh*t MIT!

Obvious you have your son shooting for D3, not that there is anything wrong with it as Seinfeld said.

In northern VA, I have seen public high school freshmen playing varsity. They are good for their age but they really have no business playing varsity. Don't even ask me why they are on the varsity team - perhaps just not enough talent to go around in the public schools. Not sure how it would hurt them to spend a year or two on the JV team.

Apparently there are people who are willing and able to pay $30k - $40k to have their kid repeat 8th grade at a private school. Great for them, I guess. Seems kinda crazy to me tbh.

My own 8th grade son, when I told him there were kids repeating 8th grade, said "heck no, I want to get done with school as soon as possible".

D1 may not be in his future then

So the question becomes: What does (attempting to) play D1 get your son?

Bragging Rights and an elite team to play on.

I guess if you play for Salisbury you don't get to brag about your numerous championships because you're D3 and thus not "elite"?

Or if you go to MIT, you gotta feel bad because your team is D3 and has never won a championship so no elite bragging for you. If only you went to mighty Syracuse instead of dogsh*t MIT!

Obvious you have your son shooting for D3, not that there is anything wrong with it as Seinfeld said.

Uh his kid is in 8th grade. If you think you know your 8th grade kid is going to play D1, you’re deluded.

Anyone play at Trilogy this past weekend? Curious why Cannons didn't advance at 3-0 in pool play. Their choice or tournament choice?

Check Tourney Machine. Cannon Blue went 1-2 (Carolina Pool B/A) but Gold went 3-0 (Black Pool AA/AAA) but looks like must have come up short on the tie breaker for the playoff pool.

They were scheduled to play Jersey Express in semifinals. Trilogy had to move TEAM Lacrosse in to take their spot.

Got caught cheating on the roster again. 3rd time for this coach in 3 years he got caught. Cannons have a cloud of shame over them.

What's the context please? A tournament issue or hoco?

See previous posts about why a 3-0 Cannons team got left out of the playoff bracket at Trilogy Turning Point.

So now that we are into the summer season, where is the top '25 talent taking their skills next year? Or better yet, what DC or Baltimore private schools have the best recruiting classes?