"Can Team 91 really offer anything that most of the 10 other Baltimore area clubs don't already offer"
they can offer competitive lacrosse while keeping the teams honest and truly age based, something Crabs, FCA, and Breakers don't do. Those three put out competitive teams, but do so with hold backs and playing kids down in age groups.
91 will come in and attract top talent because of their name alone, anybody who disputes that is crazy.
There is not one kid on the Breakers 2020AA team that is a holdback. They have 4 or 5 that were born in July and August but they are all legitimate 2020s who have not been left back or held back and managed to tie Crabs losing in OT during the playoff. They would have lost to Crush but Crush should have been the winner anyhow. Before you paint broadly check your facts and if you still doubt it, contact their coach for their report cards for 2014/2015 school year and preceding years.
Can you clarify, is that born in July and August 2001 or 2002?
I am sure they are talking July/August of 2001. I would bet the vast majority of top 2020 teams have a good portion of their team born between June 2001-December 2001. The cutoff for Denver is May 2001. There is a reason the tournament directors moved it back. (I believe it started out as a sept 2001 cutoff, but too many teams said they wouldn't come with that date because they would have to leave multiple players home) I would be very interested to see the percentages of 2001 and 2002 birthdates on 2020 teams. I would also wonder if any team now has kids with 2000 birthdates.
Don't remember the specifics but Maryland changed the age requirements when the kids born in 2001 were entering kindergarten, as a result there are some kids with summer birthdays who are in the appropriate grade (7th) per the Board of Ed.
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