Originally Posted by Anonymous
I think everyone needs to think about why are they playing select lacrosse. Most people pay an exorbitant amount of money for your child to get recruited. These games are not about winning but getting looks from colleges that might want to recruit your son or daughter. If your son or daughter is on the 2021 team, then that is what the colleges want to know. They want to know that this is when this child will be potentially coming to my school. Kids all develop at different ages and that's fine too... I have four boys and even they developed at different times in there life's. Do you not think that if you took away the winning and just worried about how your kid performs on the field that everything will work itself out. Do you not think that when these kids enter High School or College that they will not meet the same adversity with playing with older boys? Manage your own expectations of your child and encourage them to do their best. When they walk off that field just be happy that they gave 100%... everything else will work its way out!

Keep Laxin!

MD Dad
True when a kid gets to H.S. or college they will be expected to play with other kids 3+ years older. True college coaches are not necessarily looking at the scoreboard, and just want to know what year any given kid will be expected to graduate and play for their program. True if a kid is gifted he/she will get looks from coaches no matter what program they play for. That is what makes what you parents from Maryland so dishonest. At the age we are talking about they are not expected to play against kids 2 to 3 years older, but with your dishonest practice oh prefirst, and holdbacks, sometimes making your kid as much as 3 years older than others gives them a decided advantage when a coach is only looking at what year will they start playing for them. If you and your state-mates were so confident in "everything working it's way out" then why resort to such clearly underhanded tactics? It's obviously so your kid will get the roster spot being given out in the the 7th and 8th grade by these coaches, when your kid should, in reality, be in 9th grade. But then, in the hight of hypocrisy, that can only come from the state that holds the center of American politics, You are now trying to say that it is us from Long Island that is some how more guilty of this practice. IF, and I do mean IF any parents from L.I. do this it's only to combat the fact that you Terps have been doing it for years and we are only trying to give our kids a far shake, and you have the audacity to cry foul? To my knowledge holdbacks are not as prevalent on the Island as down in crab country so stop your crying

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A Lawn guy land parent