BOTC - US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Boys 2026-10th Grade Fall 2023/Summer 2024

Please don’t pretend Sweetlax Florida isn’t a national team by itself.

Please don’t pretend Sweetlax Florida isn’t a national team by itself.

Sweetlax FL is a national team at virtually all ages.

They didn't play each other. Team Ten would beat both of these teams the most of the time if they played each other 10 games in a row.

You have to feel bad for Team Ten 2026 players Having all of those 2025s come down so they can boast about winning silly games.

What are you even talking about? The 26 team has very few reclasses (no more than any other top 26 team currently) and the 25s certainly do not come down and play for them.

Let the games begin. Top 100 from IL should almost be fully committed by late fall. The 3 stars will take a bit longer.

NLF players dominate the commit list again.Something up with that?

happens every year

Thikn about it, why wouldnt they want the best, its not that hard to figure out, dont need to be smart to figure it out, know that I mean.

Just reclass and you can be one of them too

You have to feel bad for whatever lost made this comment because he lost to Team Ten

Reclass is the way to go. If you can’t beat them, join them. If they are gaming the system, you may as well too! I know people have moral issues with it, but others don’t and are benefitting greatly from it. So? What’s fair?

Team Ten did not have any 2025s come down to play. Are there kids that reclassed early on, sure. Just like every other team. But the 26 team did not need kids from the older team to come play with them to win games.

This is correct. There are only 2 reclasses on TT 2026, the rest are on age. Most top teams have a least 2 reclasses, if not more. Keep making excuses.

You seem lost. This forum is for NY, Long Island and New England. can your irrelevant group go back to where it comes from?

Why is everybody so anti reclass? It’s none of anybody’s business if somebody chooses the path to giving their son the best opportunity possible.

Me neither, I see no issue with anyone having their son play down against younger players. And then get a spot on team that some pathetic on age player might have had,

I see nothing wrong with my son reclassing so he can drop down a grade a take a scholarship away from a kid in that grade. As long as it works out for my son why do you care if another kid gets screwed over?

Congratulations to all the boys that got the call right away. Repeating 8th grade is really paying off now.

My son got several calls and texts right after midnight on the 1st. Not a reclass. Maybe your son is less than mediocre?

I'm sorry your son got hurt and still isn't back. That's going to be very tough for him and for you.

But I've never heard of any club giving refunds for injuries. Ever.

Seriously. Post is ridiculous. It’s called registration insurance and practically every club offers that instead of having a refund policy.

For never playing one minute ? He got hurt befor the season. And that makes it right if other programs do that? I spoke to several who all said they would have worked with me.

Thx for your kind words. He got hurt before he even played tho.

I detest it too, but I’m surprised that you’re surprised. It’s well known to never assume a refund in any case ever. So, you said earlier that others clubs you spoke with said they would if it happened? That’s fine if they said that, but perhaps a little selling going on there. For next season where ever you go…read the disclaimers, terms, etc closely and get registration insurance next time is my advice. The club is showing no compassion following their terms precisely, but posting on here in this manner isn’t helpful to your cause either.

Other clubs tell u want you want to hear always the case not just specific to your situation speaking in general terms.

Son attended a DI prospect camp in Philadelphia this month, he already attended three different DI prospect camps last year (2 upstate NY and 1 just outside of Philadelphia), so we do have some experience.
Won't name the School, but the program has 3 scheduled (Sept. Oct & Dec) camps. Compared to our other experiences, this Head Coach was barely involved. He just watched the games from the sidelines while his
attention was divided between the games and his phone.

There was NO interaction with the players during the games. Again, this was completely different from other camps we attended. At least the other program's camps, the Head coach was on the field, directing the games, gave the appearance that the coach was actually evaluating the players.

OK, camp is over and there is nothing; Time to move on. Which is fine.

But, to add insult to injury, we just received an email from the staff encouraging our son to attend one of their remaining, upcoming camps (Oct/Dec). This just reinforces my assessment that this program is conducting their multiple camps, SOLEY as a money grab.

The school is very clearly Villanova...

Geopraphy challeged, hmm. Even though this is a LI, CT and West Chester forum, I'll guess that you are from LI.
Villanova is OUTSIDE Philadelphia.
UPenn and StJ are located in Philadelphia.

Thanks. Just got you to narrow it down to Penn and StJ. Don't know why you didn't just put the program name in your initial post but whatever. Good luck to you and your son.

In my opinion, the transfer portal is way more impactful to scholarships and roster spots. Reclassifying does open more opportunities, yes, very likely. But nobody is taking away anything. That is so bizarre to say. There is so many roster spots and scholarships available to any player across college lacrosse. Because in reality it is only impactful for top programs. Reclassifying and transfers are not denying a chance to play on the college level.

You forgot Drexel. And a lot of people say "Philadelphia" to mean anywhere in eastern PA.

NO 1000% Villanova. Did their prospect day with my 2024 and I was amazed at how little the coach even looked at play. Granted it was a giant s show. The guy didnt even have a clip board. It was clear as day, you paid money to be on their field for some stick work. Captains practices at my sons HS have more organization.....only value of the day was seeing how bad the Nova lacrosse facilities are which did align with the way the Prospect Day was sun which allowed us to rule out Nova very quickly.

It's definitely Nova. Did it with my 2025 and even after he committed to a different Big East school he still gets at least one email a week inviting him to an upcoming Nova fundraiser to pay for assistant coaches.

NOVA is a PURE money grab. Many are, but at least they try to act a tiny bit they arent. NOVA, pay and pay and pay some more.