Will be nice to see the chickens come home to roost when the switch to age based teams happens. The scourge of reclassifying has really damaged youth lacrosse. Sad.
You do realize that the on age kids will just come back to crabs if this does happen.
Though judging by the Crabs tryouts information on their site for next year, they are not switching to age based so I doubt anyone else is either.
If it does go to age base lacrosse, Crabs will then have just average teams, nothing special. They can't field a strong team without holdbacks, that has been proven several times.
Exactly where has it been proven? Don't say WSYL. Taking kids off the existing team and leaving them with a partial team is different than if the tryouts were based on age and that's how the team was put together. When teams were age based, when exactly was it proven that Crabs couldn't field a strong team? Crabs will field a strong team regardless the rules. I think THAT is what has been proven several times.
Sorry Crab dad, but you are completely wrong. Stop making excuses, Crabs without holdbacks are just average. And, there are lots of kids who are good, on elite teams that want nothing to do with Crabs. These kids talk, they don't want to be known as cheaters.
Lets follow that logic on this, can we? You cant just say take the holdbacks off Crabs and they would be just average. If you took all the holdbacks off Crabs you should take the holdbacks off every team. And assuming you took the all holdbacks off every team the right thing to do would be to re-hold tryouts. So if we re-held tryouts then every elite club would have open roster spots. (BTW-- those awful holdbacks need to find something else to do anyway -- they are ruining the world) And if every elite club had open roster spots then the best non holdback kids would come flocking to Crabs tryouts. And if all the top non holdbacks came flocking to Crabs then Crabs would re-load (again). And if the Crabs reloaded again then all the angry dads would still be angry...so whats the point???
The point is most non holdback kids would not try out for Crabs. They are happy with their elite team, and want nothing to do with Crabs, Crabs reputation is well known. Plus, if all the elite 2020 teams for example, had to move out their holdbacks, most elite teams would lose about 3 to 4 holdbacks while Crabs 2020 would loose 10 holdbacks plus 2 double holdbacks. And to your point about dads being angry, you are way off point. In todays youth lacrosse world Crabs is not respected and many if not most parents would not want their sons to be associated with Crabs. Plus, as previously mentioned, kids talk, they know what Crabs is about and want nothing to do with them. You are just too hung up on the misguided thought that Crabs is the best and greatest, with and without holdbacks but the truth of the matter is that without holdbacks Crabs is average at best and would remain average after their tryouts to replace their boatload of holdbacks.
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