Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
AAU Basketball just changed their eligibility to restrict birthdays and many kids found out their old team did not want them. They put in some grade based grandfathering for older kids, but not younger (U-14 or less).

(Example: 15U/9th Grade: An athlete can be no older than 15 on August 31, 2015. Grade Exception: An athlete who is in the 9th grade as of Oct 1, 2014 and who is no older than 16 on August 31, 2015 is eligible to play in the 15U/9th grade division)

It is too late for the 2020 to be affected by a stricter rule change, but there is hope for my 2025. Hopefully, lacrosse can get their act together.


Crabs will figure some way to cheat the system.


I am totally against the holding back of kids for an athletic advantage. Think it's terrible. But why single out the Crabs? Every team has them. One team who didn’t do so well last weekend at Hill even has a kid that just decided to play down without even reclassing. It's sad that people would go to these lengths to try to make their kid look better temporarily.


Which team???


Which team DOESNT have holdbacks? Seriously every LI team I know has at least one kid who should be in 9th grade. It may not be as open and widespread as say Edge Ontario, but they are there. Ironically also, they are often not the biggest kids so they fly under the radar. I agree that MD has raised re-classing to an art form......but the complaining on LI rings a little hollow unless or until all the clubs here want to lay near their rosters by DOB and take a no hold-back. What's that I hear? Cricket, cricket .....that's what I thought.


The issue therein lies that a kid born in November of 2001 is technically a holdback for 2020 LI team, but is age appropriate for the rest of the country. A sept 2001 is a hold back for sure in LI and STILL age appropriate for the rest of the country. As far as I'm concerned- LI teams would be fine posting their rosters. At the worse- you'll see kids that are age appropriate for the rest of the country. You might find a kid here and there with a summer birthday which seems to be the absolute standard for MD prep school filled teams. The joke is going to be that soon- a holdback will not be unique and more and more kids will do it- taking away any advantage. Now that'll be great- all these kids just screwed their academic path for nothing because everyone is now older!

Get rid of grade based- it's stupid. Play up if you have skill- those that play down do so if their skill set is weak or they are slow. Go U based by year until HS. Simple...