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Lets get back to the better teams to discuss. RR and HOCO are ,,,frankly, just not that good. Only a few players will make it to college team from either team, and that will be a bottom D2 team at best

Summer will be here before you know it. The only team in the DMV to hang with LIE or the top 10 teams will be DCE. VLC never, Next Level never and Madlax not happening. Looks like the top teams didn't feel the need to travel to Florida for US Clubs Nationals. Looks like Maddog and Sweetlax ran the table down there. DCE will #rundmv

Happy New Year!

Says the team that is 1-9 against top ten teams since October 2021.

Give me some of what you are smoking please. DCE isnt in top five in MD. They are terrible.

None of those teams ever go to Club Nationals, except Madlax, so not sure what point you are making.

You're correct that VLC, NL, and ML are a notch below LIE, but so is DCE. each of those four (except possibly NextLevel) could beat the other three.

You must have overdosed on eggnog or latkes over the holidays. DCE hanging with LIE is the funniest thing of 2023 so far.

Looks like 2-5-1 since 2021 and agree not top 5 in Maryland. But this team is drastically different then it was in 2021 and summer 2022. Are they better then Madlax, Next Level and VLC which is really what I think the pp was stating.

Agree, DCE would have a hard time keeping up with top 10 including LIE. But don't think DCE would have any trouble with ML, NL or VLC.

No chance DCE comes close. ML gets regularly smacked around by LIE as would DCE, NL and VLC. Not on the same level by far.

Why do you think that DCE would have not have trouble with the other three? In HoCo last spring VLC beat DCE by three, and was up by ten at halftime. DCE's two best attackmen left the team for greener pastures and one or both joined MadLax. On any given day, any of these teams could beat the others, and the Hawks for that matter. Any Dad who says his son's team is dominant within that pack of five is either living in the past or his quarter zip is too tight.

Look forward to high school ball instead of reliving middle school lacrosse. The boys have moved on, the parents should as well.

says the guy reading and posting on the 2026 BOTC board.

actually the same travel teams continue through HS, so we still have a ways to go. Back when the Hawks were good, their crowing was obnoxious but at least they backed it up on the field. Listening to DCE and VLC Dads going back and forth is pretty funny, but I don't expect it to stop, nor would I want it to.

Team 91 was very impressive down in Florida. I thought there were new players but was informed same kids just all have grown a lot (as have most kids/teams this age). I guess because they’ve always been a “small” team but now they’re not and physical, it happens !!

And there it is. Nor do YOU want it to. Move on with your maturity dad. I guarantee you your kid isn’t stuck back in middle school anymore. The teams and players you 💩 on are now his peers and school teammates. Grow up and go enjoy the next 4.

Typical of holdback parents, they didn't - exactly - lie to you. We'll see what 91MD does at the 2026 level, but certainly in the years ranging where MM's sons played (2022 - then held back to 2023- through 2025), he has fielded pretty talented teams at the HS level.

I have no doubt that many of the 2026ers have been together for several years, though likely as the lower half of the 2025 91 roster that didn't receive playing time and took MM's advice to reclass to "stay elite." And hey, he is correct on that. High level D1 and especially Ivy League are targeting the biggest, strongest kids these days. I don't know why, but it's the trend. Look at the USL magazine article about the 6'5" Penn middie from Oregon....

Couple of issues
2026 91MD will be worse as they had 4 kids hold back before reaching high school and are now on 2027.

And why wouldn't you want bigger, faster and stronger. Now that the football numbers have started to flush out, those kids who used to play football have now switched to other sports, with lacrosse being the benefactor. You can see it with guys like Ament and Adler. Best of the best but at all of 5'9 and 170, they are prone to injury going against bigger players play after play. I can't understand why any coach wouldn't look at his high school freshman players and figure out who is going to be the biggest and strongest come their senior year and give them more reps and playing time. That 5'5" freshman whose dad is 5'7" and scored a bunch of goals in hoco may not be the kid to concentrate on when you have a 5'11" kid trying out whose dad is 6'3".

Lies… spoken like the true character-challenged holdback parents that you are. My kid is a public school kid and non holdback and 5’9” and going to an elite school with an elite lacrosse program at no charge. Know what else, several kids on his club team, which are all on age public school kids got similar deals. Didn’t need to “buy” my kid an opportunity via prep schools tuitions or resort to unethical practices like playing down a year or two, either. Yeah, nobody is talking endlessly about me behind my back saying what a lowlife cheat I am for having my kid only play younger kids. Yeah that must tough knowing everyone hates you. It’s nice to know that my son played on a team for 10 years and never had a single holdback and was the best team at his grade almost every year that the rankings exist, to include the current one. That’s right. Best team in the country and not a single holdback. Ever. Chew on that got a little while, you holdback parents. Cheating isn’t the only way to get ahead. Sometimes all you got to do is WORK GOR IT! Great lesson for you kid too. Sure beats the lesson that you are teaching.

Wow, you’re triggered by the word holdback.

I think this is the same troll who posted on the 2027 board that his superstar kid will be making money from college lacrosse by combining a 100% scholarship with NIL money.

"My kid is a public school kid and non holdback and 5’9” and going to an elite school with an elite lacrosse program at no charge"- lies

"several kids on his club team, which are all on age public school kids got similar deals"- more lies

"nobody is talking endlessly about me behind my back saying what a lowlife cheat I am for having my kid only play younger kids"- truth, cheat is not the word we are using.

Prove me wrong. Tell us who you are, what club and grad year, and where he is going. I'll wait.

Judging by the US lacrosse poll, over 85% of parents get triggered by holdbacks, so he's not alone.

Not sure where the lie is. Team 91 not holding back or college coaches wanting bigger and stronger. Seems pretty clear this is some kid who has been on the bench while the bigger, faster, stronger and older kids were on the field.

And not only that, but I'll always be amused by the underlying concept that "spending $950K on a 1900sf house on 1/4 acre in The Right School District is soooooo much a better dad flex than paying private school tuition." This guy's kid didn't go to PG County or Dorchester or Baltimore City public schools. He is straight up MoCo, HoCo or maybe Severna Park. But go ahead and pat yourself on the back for PuBLiC sChOOLs. Seriously nobody cares and you're not a better person for it, than someone who made a different choice. And you're certainly not a better person than the dads who can't move their kids out of average (or worse) public schools, and don't get to wear the superhero PuBLiC ScHooLs SuPpOrTeR" cape you do, so proudly, in the face of evil and non-meritocratic private school dads. What a weird thing to post, trying to impress strangers you already dislike.

You’re gonna be waiting a long time. The guys a troll.

In all seriousness, how many freshmen at CH, McD, StP, LB, AS, StM will make Varsity

We're all a notch below them now. LIE is an All LI plus (Conn, NY, northern NY) team, even more so now that it is HS. DC/Balt best talent is spread out between 5-6 top teams.

A few on each I would assume.

LIE is nothing but all Long Island boys and all reside on Long Island. No Jersey players, No upstate players NY & No fly ins. 13 boys attend St. Anthony's, 6 Chaminade and the remainder public high school. 2 of of the public school boys will most likely play varsity while the Saint Anthony & Chaminade boys will probably not.

nobody cares

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7+ million population on LI helps with the talent base

91 LI has the fly ins.

Md needs to start a team of the top kids in 26 and play - we cab call it ALL IN and take on LIE - oh wait

The jokers in the DMV (District, MD and VA) would never with all the egos in area. You could do one of MD and NOVA players then see how it goes.

I like it but we’d have to make 2 teams and send them to all the national team tournaments and join the circus. I mean circuit. 1)Coaches kids All IN. All existing coaches and their kids. 2)MD ALL IN. Real coaches with the real top players.

I think the vice grip is slowly slipping - Crabs players are explicitly prohibited from playing on national teams, but numerous yellow helmets bouncing around in Naples Florida last month at the Circus event.

No longer afraid of King Krab's influence on playing time, recruiting "help", etc I guess.

Numerous yellow helmets everywhere, not just Naples. King Crab is fool if he thinks Crabs parents are going to sit tight while watching other elite players from all over play on national teams. Their FOMO takes over.

Isn't that what UA and Nike All Stars are for?