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No you.

Don’t come on this page with a comment from left field that you can’t backup. The roster count is accurate with a margin of error of one player either way as I write this. What King of the holdback “Mac” is doing as a trustee on the BL board of directors is also true. He is using Crabs as a vehicle to recruit kids to the school as the enrollment numbers have suffered. The boarding school is new and needs to be filled. It will be filled with athletes primarily(lax). If this is not the case than Mac can move move practices away from BL and leave the board and see what happens. The floor is yours.

Mic Drops !

Agree. The 2025 Crabs was a solid team but most of its starting line-up is now gone to way better clubs. Two went to Team 91 (ranked #1), one to Hawks (ranked #9), two to DC Express (ranked #15) and two to FCA (ranked #18).

You mean most dropped down to 2026. Keep it real.

Which Crabs teams are still looking for players?

If you have to ask, Crabs arent for you, Stay where you are, Iron Sharpens Iron.

26 needs players for their Hardshells team.

Hardshells are always looking. Crabs not so much. They will take quality players if needed

From their 25 team 😆

Crabs 2025 is recruiting from Little Sisters of the Poor at this point. Fall season could be ugly. Not sure if all weekend practices with kids staying at Best Wrstern can help

They will dominate with the players that are there and coming

Just like they have over the past 2-3 years of mismanagement....

So no more Crabs 2025 team?

It is a shadow of its former self. 16-17 kids gone. Anyone still there should be asking how do I get out this dumpster fire that Mac created. Did not play in NLF tourneys the past two years. No chance of playing being competitive in one next year…PLAYOFFS????

Mac’s MO: if a team is good he champions them (in the case of the 2014 Crabs he also remained involved as a coach): if an age group falters he lets them fail: not exactly a turn around guy: more of a front runner. This is not new. Most lacrosse parents are lemmings.

Still Bitter over your son getting cut. Look inward instead of playing blame game.

Lol

Great description of "holdback Mac". He is not a great game coach. Solid practice coach for sure. Does not make critical adjustments during games to zone in on certain players, schemes etc.. He needs the bigger, faster, stronger & older players from the start to be successful. Just look at 2023's this year.... He will struggle to turn around 2025 team.

You state a few simple facts on this page. Thanks.

2029 team isn't doing so hot either. Only have 12 kids. Most of the kids who left, left because of head coach. They went to 91 (4), FCA (6), Koopers (1). Heard there were yellow helmets at LTLC tryouts, too.

29 and younger is average at best. People aren't paying when they can get better, cheaper lax, closer to home.

Crabs still the envy of players that arent on them,

I don't think so. Take a gander:

https://www.ghclacrosse.com/boys21

2025 Crabs were .500 at 4-4. The 2026 team was their best at 6-1. Then there's nothing to be excited about:

2027 Crabs (3-4) were bad.

Sun Mar 21 L 9-10 FCA

Sun Mar 28 W 11-7 @ Team Maryland White

Sun Apr 18 L 5-13 @ Next Level

Sun Apr 25 L 9-17 Annapolis Hawks

Sat May 1 W 14-4 @ Sidewinders

Sun May 2 W 11-6 Team 91

Sun May 9 L 3-11 Madlax Capital


2028 Crabs (2-4) were bad.

Sun Mar 21 W 14-2 BLC Blue

Sun Mar 28 L 2-15 @ Madlax Capital

Sun Apr 11 L 4-12 @ Annapolis Hawks Green

Sun Apr 18 L 3-5 @ Next Level

Sun Apr 25 L 2-5 FCA Blue

Sun May 9 W 4-3 @ True Annapolis Green



2029 Crabs (1-6) were very bad and lost to (almost) every club and "rec" team they played:

Sun Mar 21 L 4-13 Madlax Capital

Sun Mar 28 W 8-7 Cavalier Orange

Sun Apr 18 L 2-13 @ BLC Blue

Sat May 1 L 6-13 @ True Annapolis

Sun May 2 L 5-11 Blue Claws

Tue May 4 L 1-6 Next Level

Sun May 9 L 1-17 @ Hawks



2030 Crabs (1-6) were very bad lost to every "rec" team they played:

Sun Mar 21 L 6-12 Kelly Post

Sun Mar 28 L 6-17 HoCo Pink

Sun Apr 18 L 5-8 @ Sidewinders

Sun Apr 25 W 5-2 Cannons

Sun May 2 L 1-16 LTLC

Sun May 9 L 6-7 @ Blue Claws

Sun May 9 L 6-12 Kelly Post

Is this the same person posting teams schedule on looneys thread too? Man you have a LOT of extra time on your hands! Should find something better to do then obsess about youth lacrosse.

Mans gotta do what a Mans gotta do..

This is a bit creepy

☝🏻

Creepy, but nice to hear facts instead of the fantasy that Crabs are amazing!

Yes, but, everyone will still flock to Crabs and try out for them in the coming years. Elementary school, whatever. Middle school changes things. And all you have to do is go back and look at previous records prior to 2025 to know that the failure of the 2025 team is a fluke. So OP is in fact correct, they are the envy whether we admit it or not.
(No. My kid is not Crabs, never tried out)

Don't think anyone is envying the 2025 Crabs right now and after this year its too late for the kids' recruiting to switch clubs. Maybe for the younger kids the envy theory can hold up but not for the 2025s.

The new version of King Crabs 2025 team-bigger, slower, fewer, older, boarders @ BL. Its a new world....

Guess we'll see how it all pans out when the new and improved Crabs 2025 play their former players at Hawks, 91, DC Express and FCA, But I'm pretty sure we all know how that will end up in the win-loss column for King Crab.

Team folded.

The Crabs 2029 team was losing to Rec teams.

https://www.ghclacrosse.com/schedule/team_instance/6190552?subseason=734752

Meh 25s, 27s about to implode. No 29s.
King Krabb missed his window, shoulda sold like the Hawks did.
Might be too late.

You seem clueless about the Club scene. HOCO, Blue Claws, Forest Hill, Bethesda, and others may be associated with rec programs, but they are not rec teams. You have to tryout for these teams. They don't cost $150. They cost around $1500-$1700. They are year round teams. They are not "rec teams." Get a clue.

My son tried out for both Forest Hill and Blue Claws last year. Both are year round. But they both cost $700-800 total last year.

Anyone know how the Crabs made out with 2030s? Last year was a mix of 2030/31 and not very successful. Did they get enough kids to form separate 2030 and 2031 teams?

Wait, $2800 is greater than $800.

How can those cheaper "rec" teams possibly beat the Crabs?!