Originally Posted by Anonymous
This is a misleading post. The Crabs encourage and promote holding back and have worked hard to insulate themselves from age appropriate competition. Any reasonable person would view this as manipulating the system, e.g. cheating. It is no different than steroids, videotape and underinflated balls, except USLacrosse is no NFL.


Only an unreasonable person believes that it is cheating to break a nonexisting rule. These teams play grade based and then find the biggest fastest most mature players that meet that criteria. Some of those players will be holdbacks. They then enter tournaments and schedule games against teams following those same (lack of) rules. What npyll or tournament rule have they violated? If there wasn't a rule against filming other teams or deflating balls than the patriots wouldn't have been in trouble. The teams the holdback teams play obviously don't have a problem with it or they would put in age limitations. Nobody who attends young gunz had any illusions about the age of the players in the AA division. Just because someone doesn't play by the rules that you wished existed doesn't make them a cheater. It may make them someone you don't want to play or associate with but that is your choice.