I believe the vast majority of parents are absolutely not ok with this growing epidemic. The fact that U.S. Lacrosse is remaining totally silent on the issue, is emblematic of how toothless the organization is. Their defense is that they cannot control what parents or tournament organizations do. Though true, it does not prevent USL from coming out with strong guidelines on single year, age based competition. A prior poster has it correct, what will stem this tide are the attorneys. Unfortunately a kid will get badly injured and the parents will sue tthe holdback's parents, the team, organization, tournament director and most importantly, U.S. Lacrosse. Then we'll see how quickly things change. It's a sad realization that it's not child safety that will alter the playing field, it is money.