wasnt igloo windchill 7th at east regional? honestly I am so confused no idea who will be playing come Denver on these teams but have to look at regionals to get an honest idea. All these tournaments seem to have non on age kids playing on every team. At least a couple
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
The team to beat is Igloo Windchill. Easily the best team that the Pack has faced this year, even though the Pack downed them 10-5. Kudos to the Igloo boys. They will do well against the MD cheater teams this weekend.
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Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
The team to beat is Igloo Windchill. Easily the best team that the Pack has faced this year, even though the Pack downed them 10-5. Kudos to the Igloo boys. They will do well against the MD cheater teams this weekend.
Benches cleared, dads rolling around on the ground yesterday at LI laxfest yesterday! North port vs East coast elite! all over trying to win a T-shirt!
Cant wait to make a sign with my daughter and all it says is "BIGGGG" and drop it in your team huddle after they win-which I will; it'll be in the back of my car waiting. Its closer than you think. Enjoy your time at the top, but stay humble. You will see that sign if your daughter is even still on the team!
Goalie dad is back! Crazy part is my daughter in on a Maryland team and I can tell it's you sure the parents on that team adore you. To answer your statement yes things change but right now there is a BIG drop off after those three teams watching them play live they are extremely talented. Just for clarity my daughter is not one one of those teams but unlike yourself I am honest with my daughters teams ability. You'll realize someday if you don't ruin your daughters love for the game come 9th grade no one cares who wins So can you drop that sign in the huddle now Crazy Dad
I am over all completely embarrassed by what this sport has become. Its a perversion of what it should be in every way. I have 3 kids in travel, and I can say outside of college, I have seen it all. Parents fighting on the sideline in boys games, parents rooting for others to fail in girls games, coaches choosing to give playing time preference to kids they train "privately", Its as bad as it gets and its all now a regular thing. I'm disgusted with myself and most of the people that I have met along the way, in that at the end of it all, every relationship has been based on how much money we pay, and how good is your kid.
We created this. We gave a tremendous amount of power to youth coaches and club team owners - who are held to very little standards and ethical considerations, who operate in the shadows and without real scrutiny. This youth lacrosse platform is in no way positive - it is a money grab at every turn, and we as parents have enabled it.
No doubt there is a toxic environment associated with this sport.
very close games for hawks which isn't their usual showing; they generally crush; they were missing their faceoff guy - looneys gave them a scare forcing OT
Brotherly Love is no cupcake team
Brotherly Love is the best greater Philly area team - and the only "elite" level team around. So it attracts a really good group of players.
Hawks only loss the entire weekend was in the Championship game against DC Dogs. And man, did the Dogs look good throughout the tournament. The only game that was close for them was the Edge game - primarily because the Edge team has a very good (and different) Canadian style offense that gave the Dogs a bit of a challenge.
All in all, I think the Hawks had a good weekend - and the "scare" against Looneys was more about Looneys kids playing better and with more energy than it was about Hawks playing poorly. As for the missing FOGO, it wasn't like the Hawks used some random backup - they got a guest player from LI who looked pretty good from what I saw.
It was not in a pool of jello, that's for sure, and thankfully they were each fully clad. Rebel Mom thinks she is a ref or has the right to yell and scream at the ref (while being wrong) like its her husband or something.
9th and 10th graders make up the Command Team genius. I believe all the kids that made it were on the Varsity roster and - well - Spalding is awful. Next year let’s make the MSJ coach the UA Coach and stack the roster with MSJ players.
No fair to throw MSJ coaches in the mix as lacking integrity.... Especially because they do not have a coach at the moment... There are some very good players on the Varsity roster at MSJ..... Don't start throwing them under the bus......
I could put together a squad of the best rising 10th grade lacrosse players in the Mid-Atlantic and they would still finish out of the top 4 in the MIAA assuming the other teams had an upperclass laden roster. What planet are you on??
no Hawks at LI tourney this coming weekend. What team will the folks cry about?
Did the folks at TriStar (aka Express) ask to see birth certificates causing them to back away?
Uhhh, no. one 6-0 trip to LI in June is enough.
Be sure to pat 14 year old Johnny on the back. He got to beat up kids that are younger than him. You should be a proud Daddy. Still won't see him at the WSYL though.
Will you ever get tired of the same excuse? If Hawks played with 13 and 14 year olds the scores would have been 20-0. It’s not like the games were blowouts. Get over yourself.
Still won't see him at any event that checks birth year. Common sense tells everyone that the Hawks don't participate in an event like that because the teams wouldn't qualify. Enjoy beating the younger teams.
If you only watched the Hawks play once all weekend, then you missed a good team with very good players. The Eclipse and Hawks game was a great semi-final. The Hawks are ON AGE 12-13 year olds. STOP MAKING STUFF UP. There is only ONE player which could maybe be called what you say is a "holdback". Don't make things up and bash a team that you watched once while they were playing their 4th game of the day against a rested Long Island 91 team that was playing its 3rd game. Great way to line up a tournament by the way. The Hawks lost that game at the face off X, and hardly had possession. 91's FO guy was as big as any kid on the Hawks. You beat a completely gassed Hawks team, congrats, good luck at the U-13 Jake Steinfeld Bowl in Denver.
You can bash MD lax all you want, but DONT lie and make things up about a team you know absolutely nothing about.
Ok. My bad. You have only one single holdback. Great. Then we’ll see you in Denver at the WSYL. NOT! Holdback teams don’t qualify for the WSYL now do they? NOW YOU STOP MAKING garbage UP, CHEATER TRASH!
Your little high school team was the talk of the tourney. Everywhere I went, I heard people talking about how very over the top that cheater team was. The elephant in the room! Disgraceful!!!
FYI crybaby cheater dad. Pack played the 2nd best team in the tourney right before playing your horrendous team. Right before that they played the 3rd best team. Eclipse is a mediocre team at best. Although when playing the Hawks I’m sure it felt insurmountable.
Hawks should be banned from the 7th grade bracket on a tournaments. Utterly disgraceful!
Let’s look at it this way, MD cheater trash. Since the hawks don’t have enough on age players to go to the WSYL, what is that really telling us? Let’s say the hawks have 25 kids on the roster. They need 15 on age kids in order to have enough kids to play in Denver. But they obviously don’t have 15 on age players, or they would be going. That means that 11 or more players are holdbacks. So let’s be crazy kind here and say 11 kids are confirmed holdbacks. It’s probably more, but let’s use that as the minimum, just because I’m a nice guy. How many players actually touch the field in competitive games? I’m going to give you the answer. It’s 13. Ok. A little quick math here. This means that only 2 on age hawk players touch the field in any given competitive game. My example, as we know, is ultra conservative, and the real number is probably more like one or none. But best case scenario for the hawks is only 2 on age players actually play. There you have it, Chester trash. Indisputable evidence that the hawks play exclusively cheater holdback kids. You proud of that, cheater? How you sleep at night, knowing that you are teaching your kid to be a cheating DB in life. Great job daddy-o. Would you like to respond to my very simple logic? I seriously doubt you will, because you have no logical leg to stand on, my little cheater hold back parent. Whatcha got??
Unhinged to say the least, much like the FF LI dad who for the second tourney in a row decided that screaming "WSYL" at 13 yo kids is the right way to represent your club and the sport. At least be a man and approach a parent with that pathetic stuff. I am sure you will have a receptive audience.
To your post, it is actually not simple logic, simple minded logic perhaps. There is one huge assumption you make to get to your factually incorrect point and that is that every holdback will be in your magic "13" number (a number that can be debated along with your "15" for the WSYL). This is completely false and kills your entire argument. Once again you have no idea the ages of the kids on the teams or in that "13" no matter what bizarre logic you use. So it is not "indisputable evidence" at all. You can keep posting the same factually wrong rant on every MD team every time. As my kid said to me about the WSYL screamer, "that dude is sad".
And by the way how do you sleep at night knowing that you are teaching your kid to be a lying, whinny DB in life, well done papa.
What all MD parents have on their side in this nonsensical argument is reality, which continues to escape this FLID Dad. Why Long Island parents continue to obsess about a money grab U-13 tournament in Denver is beyond me. Most MD clubs elect to skip that tourney because it's a complete waste of money when they can get better 7th grade competition at any NLF tournament or just stay home and go to NAL or Naptown. Better teams without financially burdening parents and dumping money in Warrior and Jake Steinfeld's pockets. WSYL exists to satisfy the vanity of mom and dad having a DVR recording of little Sal playing in an empty stadium on 4th of July. It has nothing to do with the best competition or even remotely developing kids for the rigors of HS lax where age means nothing.
So call us cheaters all you want, but in the real world, your posts are baseless, nonsensical and childish. There are plenty of good parents associated with these Long Island teams, but the vocal minority of pure stunads drowns out any sanity. I know my 13 year old "on age" MD laxer will be enjoying his 4th of July with family and his 20 other "on age" teammates, getting ready for their last tournament without a thought in the world about the WSYL or the mediocre U-13 teams playing there.
I saw the Hero's 2026 Green team play YJ's this weekend, and wow, they are good. I heard that the U of MD coach helped pick the team. Wonder if that is true?
Does anyone want to rank the 2021's? Watched most of them play in Delaware and was amazed at the overall high level of play. I don't think I can differentiate between Primetime and Predators but I'm sure someone can. I saw dynamic team lacrosse not just one or two middies dodging through everyone.
Academy and Zeus are Brotherly Love teams. Some kids play exclusively for Zeus and some exclusively for Academy. Others play for both. Academy provides additional field time for kids from Zeus and other club teams who want an additional elite experience. I'm not sure what difference it makes that kids play for both teams. Why is this a topic?
Because the team that played Platinum Cup was billed as Zeus, and it was not. Not that it matters, but some people obviously care about this, not sure why. Perhaps because there is a history on this forum about how special the Zeus team is, no holdbacks, no guest players, etc.
So, explain this to an outsider... there's no definitive "A" team for YJ? I've never seen another team where they don't make it very clear which team is A, B, or C. Is this not true for YJ? There are 4 2023 teams, but people argue how they rank compared to each other? That's very strange to me!!
YJ used to make the distinction - Blue was the top team and Gold was second. Then CR's marketing mind kicked in and she realized she could attract more parents (and their money) if everybody could claim they were on the A team. That's when she switched to calling teams by their coach's name. Typically the teams have been listed in order on the "Coaches" tab of their website, but not always the case - especially when you factor in F&F, etc.
Tournament organizers tend to bunch the top teams together. It looks like for Live, Love, Lax, the top 2021 teams are spread out among 4 of the pools. Curious as to the motivation for doing that. This is not a tournament with a playoff so why not put the top teams together?
Totally agree. I think it's pretty common knowledge that YJ, M&D and SW are the best 3 teams in this age. Why are they in separate divisions in a showcase? All three of them have pretty easy games for the most part and should win them by close to double digits. Not sure what coaches learn about the girls watching them play lesser teams. The divisions were setup like there would be playoffs where the top teams could meet.
Capital Blue looks very, very good. They have to be considered one of the top teams in this age group.
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