Why would any club owner or league director have a problem with birth year teams? It is the easiest and most simple thing to implement and follow, and it doesn't interfere with anyone's appetites to reclassify and play prep school lacrosse as a year older kid in a grade. A 16 year old can still be a 2018, but he will play U-16 for club. That creates a crisis for the kid ?!?

If NCAA coaches want kids older, an age based club system won't stop them from going after kids who repeat middle school grades, do a post grad boarding school year. Or fancy this, why don't all these kids and NCAA coaches who agree they need to be a year bigger, stronger or whatever just go to college and redshirt a year at the parental expense? Lacrosse scholarships aren't much $$$ anyways. What would make your son a better lacrosse player, being a 19 year old HS senior beating down on 15 and 16 year olds or being a 19 year old college program redshirt practice player? In terms of the best lacrosse decision it is the second.