Honestly it was youthful optimism and naiveness on his part. A few of his friends were going and he wanted to. We tried to gently warn him that it might not go well given he wasn't a crab but unfortunately he just doesn't get the politics. Its refreshing but also sad.

You are correct that a Gilman coach was there but he coachs a crab team and BL is widely associated with crabs. I don't know much about the loyola/McD coaches present so can't speak to their club affailations.

In the end, we made the error of signing him up before I looked into it more fully. So just wanted to spare a future parent from making same mistake I did or at least give them more information to make the decision.