See below. Here is the fat pos himself, Ryan McClernan, founder and originator of "holdbacks" and club lacrosse.. He is one disgusting individual involved in youth lacrosse and I wish someone could come up with a reason to get him the [lacrosse] out. Just pathetic and the biggest BS artist I have ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77VmhFja1uQActually a pretty good interview. How would he be the founder of holdbacks; did he invent pre-first?
A good interview??? Are you kidding? No guess not., you sound serious. This man is a total POS and if you knew about him and how he operates you would understand. No he did not invent (your words) pre-first but he and his organization put pressure on parents of players to re class and this has been happening for several years. His mentality is having an older/bigger team will win more games. And do not tell me this is not true, he approached me with this re class crap three years ago when my son was in seventh grade. That was the last time he played for Crabs. I know more than several parents with the same story. This POS man is out for two things, money and winning at all cost. He is not respected in the youth lax world, he is just tolerated, nothing more. And if he decides to stay with his present team, 2021, as head coach, watch what the 2021 players do. They will leave Crabs 2021 in droves because the 2021 players hate him as a coach and as a person. Many of those players can find another strong team/club that would love to have them.
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Wait, a private, pay to play sports club, which advertises competition goals to be of the highest levels, wants the biggest/strongest athletes, would like to turn a buck, wants to win, is openly geared for players that would like to play in college, and has turn over when athletes don't advance within the system? Sounds like, oh, the business model for every private competitive organization on the planet.
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You clearly sound like a Crabs parent/fan. There are several other strong clubs that do have some holdbacks, none to the extent that Crabs do. And other clubs do not make re classing part of their business model. Crabs does, it has been their business model ever since grade base first appeared. In fact, they were the ones pushing for grade base over age base, so they could manipulate the system, churn more money and have teams that were 2+ years older than their competition. Ask around, see what the youth lacrosse world thinks of RM and Crabs. Not liked nor respected and it is not for having a winning team, it is because of the way their system is operated. As a coach, he is a total joke, has a low lax IQ and belittles his players in from of teammates. He usually always stays back and coaches the 8th grade team. He has mentioned he is planning to stay with the 2021's as they move forward and you will see what the 2021 players do. They will leave Crabs as they cannot stand RM as their coach or as a person. The whole operation is pathetic. Your above argument is weak, there are several other clubs that have the same goals/objectives but not in the manner Crabs approaches these and they have beaten RM teams on several occasions, in spite of his players being 2 years older. Even Crabs 2020 has a player who just turned 16 this past March, and he is a freshman at Gilman. Imagine that, a 16 year old freshman. Don't even try and dispute that, it is a well known fact. Many could post his name on this board but out of respect to this individual won't. But it makes it no less pathetic.
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If you did prefirst, good chance you'll be 16 your freshman year. What is the news here? All top teams are riddled with extra year private school kids. The 2+ bs is clearly fake news. Look dude, hate all you want, but FCA, Looneys all have the same amount of extra year kids. You obviously don't like the guy, but success has many enemies.
