Based on the past two weekends of play and the posting about holdbacks, it sounds like at least four teams are in the mix but have plenty of question marks - NextLevel, FCA, Crabs, and MadLax. Do any of them play each other before the end of the fall?
You can’t tell from fall. The five most talented teams are Hawks, Madlax, NL, FCA, and Crabs. But all of those teams have kids that play football or soccer. NL went undefeated two falls ago and then finished fifth in HoCo. last year NL was around 500 in fall and won HoCo. Roster availability matters a lot.
Maybe. In 8-12 months many of these kids will be shopping for top lax school opportunities and there's no reason (aside from a sudden covid or stomach virus outbreak) why a supposed elite team should be rocking 1 goalie or a 16 man roster in the fall. Running out of time for creative excuses. Be honest, some of these teams are AAA teams in the fall and elite in the spring. Just accept it and go with it. It's a team sport and if one kid's presence changes the GF/GA by 10, then your coach has a poor or nonexistent backup plan.
And honestly, seeking to back up your superstars makes the superstars work harder. When kids are away playing football, soccer, wrestling in the fall and they hear "the backup guy is pretty good, we won without you!" from their friends, that's a good thing
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