US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Boys 2024 5th Grade Fall 2016/ Summer 2017

Why on earth would parents go home Saturday.

Where is the moderator on this site? It is a complete joke what goes on here...Miserable people bashing kids.

Haters gonna hate!

No NLF and no 'Fest for any Leg a sea teams, it's not making the smart parents happy when they are paying for their boys to face such poor competition.

But the shirt chasers love it.

I just saw Taz playing 2023 this weekend. Don't know what you are talking about.

NLF doesn't allow *** to play in their tournaments...dunba$$.
They want to keep the t shirts for themselves.
They allowed them to play last minute last season to even out the bracket and guess what happened...

You keep believing that! Enjoy the shirts! But you can keep up with the real action on Tourney Machine! Lmao

9d1 wants to hide from taz lost last 6 out of 7. Just ask 9d1 directors. Avoiding geese as well. They will only play teams they can beat as and organization. Son they will have no one to play. Only top teams are JS teams. Others passed up by leg or igloo at every age.

There is a first time for everything...good for them...the boys will be better for it

The Pack just won Elite 8 and are not a JS team. The tide has turned back

Legacy Tornados 2023 A team is better than 90+1 Warriors B team????

My kid is in neither organization, but that's just dumb. They played them in Blatant. Went 1-1. different organizations commit to different tourneys for different reasons.

Taz playing 2023

Wow, You really did drink the Kool-Aid! That is just insane.

Every good team on the east coast is on LI for the next two weeks and you are in some fantasy land.
Taz parents should demand that they get these kids into the right Tournaments.
Playing up in a beginners Tournament will not do these boys ANY good, no good can come of this isolation.

Nlf 2024 competition looks weak.

It's not as simple as that. Most of the competitive tourneys are invite only

Agreed. I think most don't realize that NLF events are invite only with a ton of politics. The Elite Eight Tourney in Maryland makes this weekends NLF event look like a JV tournament. As a Brotherly Love Parent we have beaten handily most of the teams coming to this NLF event; however, we weren't invited. My theory is that the local Philly based Teams Mesa and Triple H, who are members of NLF, don't want us at this event as they are both ducking us. Why do you ask? Simply because they don't want to be soundly beaten and then they can't self anoint themselves the best club in Philly. We finished 5th at Elite Eight and and I believe that is where Brotherly Love belongs right in the middle of the pack of the top eight. As a club that doesn't start practicing for the Summer Tournament Season until end of May, that isn't bad. On that list WP, Express, and Laxachusetts are the only AA teams. There is nothing "Super" about the Super Series

Right, but money talks

Mesa Orange lost twice to Outlaws Gold in Spring. They are a B team

And before that they lost the championship at Blatant. Gonna be a long summer kiddos. Stop the tit for tat. You won't be able to keep up with the changes. WP and Taz probably won't meet for a few weeks. How many from each time is on the warrior 2024 together? That should be the real powerhouse!

Totally agree. Nlf does not want competition. They want to only play teams they can beat and not allow better teams in region that have founding members. Unfortunately, it is beginning to backfire as other non-nlf clubs are beginning to dominate the club scene especially at younger ages. College coaches cannot stand the alliance and have made that known to anyone that is in the inner circle.

I heard they added a question to the D1 prospect questionnaire. "when you were in 5th grade, did you play for an NLF Team?"
Cut it out.

Not as weak as fl$ lol. That tourney straight up garbage

Taz parents should demand that they get these kids into the right Tournaments.
Playing up in a beginners Tournament will not do these boys ANY good, no good can come of this isolation.


Sounds like you're guaranteeing taz the championship this weekend, better hope they come thru otherwise it would be an embarrassment for their team and make you out be more of a fool than you already sound like.

If you are not in the circle 🔘 you are out

Ok tourney czar. If you can;t get into NLF what is the tourney with the top teams? where are madlax, 91 MD and Hawks playing this week?

Yeah....NOT. To weak, won't play defense on attack. Won't or can't run up to the 50 yd line to catch the turnovers he and his counterparts drop. Goal hanger at best

That's the exception, not the rule. The Bandits are far and away the best in 2023 and the Warriors are also one of the top teams in the grade.

91 is ducking Taz because they're playing in NLF instead of a bunch of B and C teams at fl$? That's just a dumb statement.

Moron, that tournament is weak, if they win, they lose because the opposition is not good, if they lose, then all [lacrosse] breaks out. I'm not predicting anything, I'm just saying that organization is getting isolated and that's bad for the kids.

Nothing wrong with more tournaments . There is more to 2024 lax then the top teams. B teams need a place to develop and get better . Calling a tournament "garbage" because it's filled with B teams is idiotic.

All of this stuff written about this CT kid is by the Taz parents themselves. A lot of upset people on that team about how it was handled. No show practice, takes a spot of a kid whose been with the team since the start. Put yourself in that position and you would be upset also. Before pointing to other teams parents that are writing about this player look internally because that's where it is all coming from. Within the team it is an elephant in the room.

I am a Taz parent and I will tell you that our parents could not be happier. The boys are great, coaching is great and we still believe we are one of if not the best team in the nation. You all have nothing better to do then create drama to TRY to bring us down. It's your only option because you lost to us 6 OUT OF THE LAST SEVEN TIMES. Get over it, it's 5 th grade lacrosse. You are ruining a great friendly rivalry.

Nothing is wrong with more tournaments, but the discussion is what is Taz doing in a B event for weaker teams (that no one called garbage that I can see). Even playing up, there is a real problem if our kids get isolated.

Like u said 5th grade lax..Best in the Nation..CMON....who cares lady....5th grade lax. They wont be the best in 8th grade...Trust me when i tell u that..enjoy ur Tshirts at FLGEEEEEE this weekend

As we all read these threads it's obvious that this is one or 2 miserable WP dads

What a crock of sh*t Fake "Taz" parent trying to create drama , probably an Express parent. Go back to work you loser.

You my friend are the minority or a director trying to put out not just a fire, but inferno. Cant say I blame you. I spoke to a couple of your parents after this weekends events. They both said they were very unhappy with the way things were handled this weekend. It was a win at all costs attitude, fielding part-time players, which was bad enough when you are talking about 10/11 year olds that traveled 5 hours. The problem got worse though, when they didn't win. In the end the coaches caused an unnecessary rift which will be very apparent when tryouts roll around. Can you blame them? It was a slap in the face that will be hard if not impossible to recover from. That is a fact. Deny it all you want. It is out there and these parents are not even keeping it a secret.

Any one notice that Express 2024 A team is jumping into Laxfest after they find out that Taz, WP, igloo, Madlax, and even Outlaws are all playing different tournaments this year.

Well they have been scheduled to play LaxFest since January so I don't think it's a witch hunt here. Go back in your hole now.