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Heard just the opposite. 91 losing several players to Crabs and Hawks. Whats going on there ?

Not many 91 helmets at Crabs tryouts this week. A few, but not a lot.
Way more FCA helmets.
The reshuffling of the deck each year is just kinda boring, IMO.

Is Hogan going to get rid of the 5 DAD coaches for the Hawks 2025 team and bring in outside coaches. Hogan will not give answers to this question

If Hogan won’t give you answers, you won’t find legit answers here.

The answer = No.

You're not gonna get away from Dad coaches, ANYWHERE. At any level.

Duke and Syracuse had Dad coaches.

Does 2025 coach have a son on the team?

For Hawks? Yes the coaches all have their sons on the team. Crabs coaches No idea, was wondering who the new coaches will be.

Looneys got rid of all dad coaches at 2025, hopefully it will be a good move for them. Crabs coach is Sal Picataggi?

Crabs doesn't have a son's coach on the team, but it might as well be since a son's dad employs one of the Crabs coaches at their day jobs.

Are we talking about the 2027 team here?

They didn’t release the names of coaches for 25s before tryouts and expect families to commit? Or did I read that wrong?

Its the Crabs,,That is all you need to know.

No. Crabs 2025 has McD assistant lacrosse coach as the new head coach. Crabs 2025 is changing head coaches for this class again. He's currently the Crabs 2022 head coach.

Improvement

In my experience the "right Dad" coaches are way better than non-Dad coaches. The "wrong Dad" coaches are detrimental to any team. If you get the right Dad coach he will put in way more time and effort than any non-Dad coach around. Just look at teams with non-Dad coaches and how often they skip practice because of the threat of rain, Coach goes on vacation during a big tournament, etc. The right Dad coach is way more invested and will produce great results as long as he doesn't put his son ahead of the team.

See MM at 91..........

I think you are 100% right. The biggest challenge is that you won't know if you have the "right Dad Coach", until your knee deep in it. You can always ask around, but not easy.

+1
100% accurate.

Best Coach around at present time. Legend .

Legend????? Billy the Kid, Bonny and Clyde were also legends but for the wrong reasons. If you think MM is a legend it is for the wrong reasons.. He is at times psyco, most of the time out of control and his kid ALWAYS comes first. He is rude, foul mouth and just cares about how his kids do and how much $ is rolling in. Why people stand up for him is beyond most of the stable lacrosse community. If you want to subject your child to that nasty enviroment don't say you were not warned.

Does anyone know anything about the Crabs 25 tryouts? Scuttle from another family suggesting mass exodus of top players. Can anyone confirm?

Half are already playing on the 26 team lol

No mass exodus. Just a large reclass this year. 8th grade is the last chance for reclass generally. By this time unless your child was born Sept-Oct you are tired of your child competing against older players. .. Time to reclass like the rest and get a automatic year added to your skill level . It does work.

This is just flat out wrong. 6-8 are leaving and only one is a reclass, and they are all going to better teams including the #1 team for this age group.

Why does anyone care about this team, really? They are horrible outside of 5-6 good players.

Are those 5-6 "good" players the ones leaving? Am guessing, yes. Roll 91

Out of staters are coming in to fill the "new building" on Lake Avenue campus and being placed on Crabs teams regardless of talent. Be careful having your middle/high school son tryout here. There is no loyalty. Florida, Texas & California kids are coming and have been coming for several years-but the pace is picking up to fill the new digs....

Tell that to the 2024 91 Wolfpack parents because they just won the Biggest prize in club lacrosse, the NLF National Championship in Amherst, this past weekend, without a single holdback… against all of the pure-holdback teams. They’ve never had one holdback. Not even one. Never. Legacy Taz too. None. Remember Naptown?? Yup. Taz beat all of the holdback teams with… NO holdbacks. Both teams have been beating up on all the holdback teams every year for the past 8 years. What you got to say about that, holdback-preacher-parent? I’ll wait…

That's what the 91 Smash parents said about their team, no holdbacks. When Inside Lacrosse published birthdates, they had "older" kids. Call them what you will, but Long Island had as many older kids as MD.

You live on Long Island and no one can afford an extra year. The cost of living is out of control and your kids don't want to spend another year at home with you.

I guess it times for the boys to work harder to achieve goals. I know crazy concept; have to work to keep your spot.

Long Island kids are only recruited because they qualify for financial aid and don’t need scholarship money. The private school kids get the team scholarship money because they come from a much more affluent family.

HILARIOUS

How many Crab yellow helmets showing up to FCA and 91 try-outs this week?

3-4 at each age group. Tops

3-4 at FCA. Zero at 91

That’s because none of them would make the 2025 91 team they literally don’t need to add at any position - keep chasing….

Heard from a Crabs 2025 parent that at least 13 kids are leaving (some cut, some moving on to other teams). Maybe more…

Most are reclassing.

Not true. Just BotC bs.

Trying to sow false discontent and hope people get happy feet to knock off the kings. Ain't gonna happen.