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All this JC talk is great. Can JC get its act together and keep most of the above average talent in Harford county? If they do, they can become respectable, and then the top talent will stay. They link up with a club (not much to choose from) and could turn it all around. The drive time will only be getting longer and longer into Baltimore county.

We love the JC talk down here in AA Co.

They are doing a good job recruiting. All the Baltimore programs are getting squeezed for kids. It's not a coincidence that so many of them are resorting to out of state kids now that the good kids are staying at JC


JC folks like to simultaneously argue that the Harford County kids don't have the skills to make an impact at the "Big Schools" .... I think the usual quote is "they get lost on the bench." As if the boys have no role in that outcome whatsoever, they're just not that good and it's "decided" somehow?

AND (again, simultaneously....)

Keeping those same kids local at JC is going to transform those non-impact players into kids who can beat the "Big Schools." Logically, both of those things can't be true, at least most of the time.

To that point, I know the BOTC rallying cry is "But Pat Spencer" in terms of coaching/zero-to-hero/player development and senior year impact (and it's an OK example and a GREAT story), but also remember that Pat Spencer held back a year at St Marys (pre-K or K) and held back another year at BL (8th) so he was not a spring chicken in his senior year. Dude was seriously ready.

Spencer was a Double Holdback then . Did not know that. I expected him to be a holdback like most of starters at BL, but not a Double.

I remember the year I told someone BL was undefeated and a great High School team. He looked at me with sarcasm and said, they should be, they are all college freshman.

Remember that when everyone says how great our youth teams are compared to Long Island. They should be better they are OLDER. Hence why everyone is afraid to do the World Series.

Yeah like LI has no holdbacks...but it's true that it's less pervasive bc even Catholic HS is $70k there.

BL doesn’t have hold backs. They don’t allow it.

In the 10 year existence of 2024 club lacrosse, best team is team 91 Wolfpack from Long Island. Can’t be argued, based on the record. Got their first ever holdback last year, which was a favor. And based on the WSYL 9/1 cut off date, he is only a holdback by 4 hours. I don’t believe that’s even a holdback by MD dates. Prior to that boy, never, ever had a holdback. Ponder for a moment. Legacy Taz has 2 holdbacks and they aren’t top tier players on that team. Not sure how many express had but I’d say 4-5, simply because of their connection to the 2 catholic schools. Speaking of the 2 Catholics, I know of all the 2024’s and most 2025’s. There are extremely few holdbacks on those teams too. Holdbacks simply aren’t the culture on Long Island. Mostly because there are no boarding schools, I would imagine. But the clubs don’t push it either. I’ve never heard of a director from any team approaching a parent about holding back their child “to stay elite”. Absolutely does not happen.