US Lacrosse office is located at Homewood Field on the campus of JHU. Crabs are in bed with JHU. JHU one of the biggest offenders of early recruiting, mostly holdbacks and re-class kids. Other Big 10 and ACC programs are also offenders. Is the picture getting clearer now??? These schools want the oldest most mature "freshman" they can get. When you are getting 20 year olds instead of 17and 18 year olds in as freshman, it is a huge advantage, this is why the Coaches recruit them. [/quote]
Hopkins has no special relationship with Crabs. Hopkins coaches kids play for other clubs. Some Crabs go onto to play at JHU because they are special players such as Stanwicks.
You guys are confusing 2 issues- age verification and grade vs age segmentation. US lacrosse not perfect but they have come out with best practices which includes organizing by age in single year increments u11, u12, u13 etc. I've heard they are going to announce an age verification process soon. Of course age verification means nothing when clubs, leagues and tournaments are organized by grade. USL can't compel a tournament organizer to be age-based. Tournaments will organize in way that maximizes the # of teams. Since clubs are almost universally organized by grade that's how the tournaments are run. Grade based teams originated on Long Island and everyone followed. Your teams are at an age disadvantage in the grade based world. LI parents- push LI clubs to go back to age and tournaments will follow and then other regions will too. Otherwise stop complaining about a system that your lax leadership created
