Bingo! Being pushed aside on a great team due to holdbacks. Switch teams! Playing time is most important! Being on the D side of a great team can be boring. Playing D on a very good team will be more challenging and present more opportunities to display your abilities. Worked for us!
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Grade based teams with an age cut off like the World Series of Lacrosse would be more than sufficient in curbing this practice. It's one thing to have a late birthday or a year of pre-k. Its another thing to use reclassifying as club strategy to gain an advantage which is what the Crabs are all about. Their thrashing on national TV last summer proved that without older players they are not so hot.

I think the funny thing is if the crabs and all the other clubs where forced to follow the age limit rules. The same teams would be at the top of the pack. Because you are correct the crabs without holdbacks are not the best, but the better players that are on age but play for other teams because they where cut or pushed out by holdbacks. I have seen it happen the top 13 players on the top clubs are what make the team. If you find yourself as the 14th player you change clubs so your son is in the top 13 players on that team. So the last 7 or so players on all the top clubs are really avg players to good players. You can see how a team like Sweetlax has 10 players on a team commit. If you go back the last 5 years of that teams roster you see kids who have moved to another club and show up on a commit list. Or in VA you see kids leave Madlax for Blackwolf and VLC and end up on a commit list.