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Red Helmets are a glorified B team at best Directors sell parents magic beans and they choke on them. Year after year. Not a legit A club. Doesnt Blatant sell clothing too? Hope their clothing is better than their A team (really a B)

I think it’s hilarious that people are still putting Express at the same level as 91. Not even close, express in this grade is not even in the top 3 on LI.

S2S never had any A players to lose

Then they will fit in Nicely with their program!

2 S2S A Players went to Rebels A (Their best 2 players), the others that left went to Rebels B.

Did you see what they got for the World Series lol. Brand new helmets, uniforms, apparel, hats, etc. All for free. What does it mean to hope they get better apparel lol?
26 kids on the team are fine with me as a parent.

So they all went to B teams, just like the team they came from. Just wanted to make sure.

Blatant is Ran by 2 Young Men not even 30 yet. They employee over 18 people full time. They also run tourneys and the LI Rebels.
Sounds good to me. The 2025 did add few very good players and will compete with all.
Have a Great weekend

Ok thanks MB. According to you any press is good press. You'll prove everyone wrong just like you did at qualifiers, Not, and at DC, again not. Rebels are the not quite A team. Accept the fact that they are probably outside of the top 10, and that's just on LI.

Who cares, move on and leave the rebels alone

MB works 15 hours a day 7 days a week. He’s not posting. One of the all time greats as a person. Thanks for everything Mike

Really cute that you think they gave this gear for free.
Charging $4k+ across all teams/ages….you paid for it. You just had some help from other parents to pay for it.
And next season, you’ll be paying for someone else’s kid to get the new gear

If they practice a lot then got no beef. Teams that pracrice a lot with good coaches win.

Rebels, the socialist team of the lax world.
Thats why they wear commie red! I love this board.

I laugh how at all the clubs get bashed for trying to run a business. And it’s usually the best clubs that get bashed. I guess they should just be free… They have the right to charge what ever they want. Consumer choice, you don’t like the price, you have plenty of options. If you pick a club based on cost you should stick with summer school team.

What about teams that practice A LOT and still dont win? Whats that mean?

Rebels isnt a bad program and everyone has a different experience. MB does a nice job as does the majority of the organization. Most grade levels seem to be competitive. It is just this one grade level that seems to be flawed.

Unfortunately everyone is letting this one team reflect the entire organization, which isnt fair. But their communication, # of practices, tournaments, etc is more than most so you cant gripe about that.

That is not a good sign.

GCB, anybody attend their tryouts? Any thoughts?

The amount of Rebels bashing (and promoting) on these threads reminds me of 91 a few years ago. They were the up and coming club doing things right and the people on the inside loved it, the people on the outside had spiteful rage against 91. If that’s any sign of what’s to come then keep doing what you’re doing MB.

They finished at DC with the #10 rank in the world… but aren’t #10 on Long Island. Quick math!

Bingo.

Means the team isn’t working hard enough on non practice days.

I was wondering the same thing.

Did they get a good turnout - are they going to field a decent team? Conner Farrell is a good guy but can he build a competitive team?

Are there any teams on the North Fork or at least near Riverhead? My son wants to play travel for the first time but it seems like most of the teams are so far west.

Maybe, East end Elite or Empire.

Can you please share where Rebels was ever ranked “#10 in the world”? It’s a fine club and if parents and players are happy that’s great, but to say they were ranked #10 in the world is absurd.

https://www.USCL.com/rank?v=1025&alpha=N&y=2020
63rd, close enough

Just talking the WSYL.

The went 3-2 in pool play (Including OT loss to BBL) and played in the 9/10 seeded game. Nothing about other tourneys or games.

Honestly, I don’t want to make fun of Rebels, but stuff like this is why people make fun of them. They had an OK performance at WSYL - finished in the middle of their bracket, didn’t make it out of pool play and then got their butts kicked in their consolation game - nothing wrong with that. Probably a better performance than most thought they would have considering the fact that they didn’t actually qualify for the tournament.

But to pretend there was some kind of ranking system in the consolation bracket that deemed them “#10 in the world” is absolutely ridiculous.

OK Rebel parent. You're ranked 63rd, enough said.

That is just how WSYL laid out the games.

Took teams with the 2 best records that didnt advance and played in the 9/10 game, then the next in the 11/12 game... thats how tournaments work that finalize seeding.

Epic Jokers, run by John Amato , HC of Mattituck HS Lacrosse. He is a great guy and coach. If we weren't so far away my son would be playing for him.

How many kids for the 2024's (age eligible of course) played with them at the WSYL that do not play with them now. Also, was the only reason they were in the WSYL because the team for Canada could not come due to Covid?

No Rebel parent coming on here saying that the team is great. It's all Blatant employees. This is a BUSINESS. They have a staff of Marketing people. $3400 per kid --- but they also provide gear worth $200 and $3200 of "great communication" we hear so much about.

Mike Brennan is a good guy/ coach and set up a successful program. Has a great mix of coaches at this age and brings in some talented kids that the other teams covet. They do a great job getting their players into showcases. Recruiting side not as established as some of the other programs. They also inherited all the castoffs from the other programs when they launched which account for most of these posts.

Lol sounds like someone with a gripe (cut from team maybe?) … answer will always be “no I moved on to a different team” I’m sure the rebels marketing department are spending their time on here…. I’m sure it’s the first topic at their meetings “what should we post on back of the cage today?!” With that math maybe they should hire you to do their next budget!

Some tournaments do that, but not this one. The teams were not ranked outside of their original brackets. Consolation games were simply bracket vs bracket - #3 in A vs #3 in B; #3 in C vs #3 in D and on down. I took a peek at your record and with 40 goals against Rebels certainly was not in the top 2 of the bracket 3rd place teams. If there actually had been a #9 vs #10 game Rebels wouldn’t have been in it.

Time to let go of the “#10 in the world” silliness. Rebels had a mid-level WSYL performance, that’s fine. They did not acquire a “world ranking” for that performance.

They may have been ranked #10 of all the B teams on Long Island

Enough with Rebels already. We shall see who improved in a few weeks. But bashing the guy by name isnt cool. And again, the overall program should get a good review as a whole. It is just the 25's that dont measure up and that is by no means MBs fault. He should look at the coaching and some of the parents if he wants to fix that situation.