You know the rankings are flawed if 3D Red moves up the rankings. The only competition they faced was Laxachusetts Black and their schedule reflects it. Playing your local tournaments against weak competition doesn’t prove much. Just the New England version of Team 91. Plenty quality tournaments played over the past several months with strong quality competition and 3D Red was no where to be found. Can’t wait to hear the excuses. Assuming to many hold backs to make it to the WSYL. Good teams want to play good teams. That’s how the get better!
I would say that playing Laxachusetts black 5 times is serious competition. And going 6-0 at Millon with wins over Towermen and BBL Black was not a fluke. They are definitely a top 10 team.
That may be so, but most of the talk on BOTC as far as rankings and reality is that the teams discussed on here that are relevant are the on age teams. Not national teams with mostly holdbacks.
Reality is that most, if not all, of the country does it one way and LI does it another. The rules are the rules until hey change them. And we all know that holdbacks happen on LI, just not at 7th and 8th, but it is the norm. Bottom line is that other than LI Express, there isn’t another LI program that can crack the top 20. Can t keep comparing about the same thing over and over again. Gets old.
What's old is the defense that age difference and holdbacks don't play a factor in wins if a handful of kids are 6-12 months older than the bulk of their competition. Well known that it's a fact of life in lacrosse but it needs to be called accurately.
