Originally Posted by Anonymous
The ELITE divisions were invitation only. And all teams that were invited have holdbacks. The clubs could have said no, we'll play in AA. [lacrosse] at your club director, not HOCO. Although considering all the clubs in the Elite divisions have holdbacks, I must assume you are with a lesser club. Are you just mad that your team wasn't invited to play in the Elite division. If you are in the Elite division, do you complain to the holdbacks parents on your team or just come here to [lacrosse] anonymously? Do you complain to your club director that they are fielding teams with older kids? What are you doing to change things other than whining on here?

Stop pointing your fingers at HOCO. They have built the league around the structure that all the Elite clubs want. Every team below the Elite Divison(Or AA for younger ages without and Elite division) are just cashing your checks and laughing that you are paying thousands of dollars for glorified rec lacrosse so you can say little Johnny plays club lacrosse. So who are the ignorant ones here?


HOCO is a cesspool of Recreation org and Howard County Government should be ashamed of what they have done to youth Lacrosse.

I like how you do the normal insulting like most holdback apologists..""lesser club, team not invited, etc"

Nothing was built around the structure ALL clubs wanted. What a load of BS. There was an "Elite league" when it was age based called NPYLL, and it had BEST players for many many years. And you never heard the vitrol like you hear now.

Howard County wanted to utilize their fields and make some money off them. But the HOCO Management decided to go grade base for some reason still not clear to anyone. Howard County Rec Department obviously had some ties to the Private schools and that had some reason to do with it?? But all other Leagues in Howard County are AGE BASED!! As matter of FACT..HOCO first year most teams were age base. But with this HOCO grade base league many Clubs with ties to MIAA kids decided to go FULL blown and push it to the limit. Are you such a moron not to realize that the Clubs with MIAA ties have the most prefirst/holdback kids??

So I will continue along with many others to point out what a cesspool Howard County Rec is for destroying the intergity of YOUTH lacrosse. Now you can go back to thinking how great you are and your son is for pounding on younger kids, but for some reason couldn't play against kids his own age??