Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
This is nothing new in Lacrosse or any other sport. It's been going on for decades. Why do you all continue to beat this dead horse. Jump on the wagon and re-class your own kid or just STFU already.


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Obviously this poster has ZERO idea what they're talking about. Going for DECADES? Do you even know how long a decade is? We'll wait why you Google it.

Did you even play lacrosse? If so, you know for a damn fact this hasn't been going on for decades, as club lacrosse started fairly recently in the timeline of the sport. Furthermore the cancer of holdbacks/double holdbacks etc. all started in the MD club scene. Coaches/parents/administrators just didn't have the backbone to stop it and call [lacrosse].

If your son is a holdback/double, pre first whatever just have them play on age. Is that so damn hard to understand and compute? PLAY UP not DOWN. But ... but... it's within the rules!!! I am within my God given right to have my son play down. Congratulations. You're everything that is wrong with the sport and what it has become.


This is now a high school graduation year forum, and it would not make sense to play up a graduation year at club once you are in high school. There are no "age" groups in high school lacrosse or high school club lacrosse, so how do you define playing "on age". Sounds like you may still be referencing youth sports. There are no age groups in HS sports.


More holdback nonsense. To the holdback crew it has never made sense to play up. Most people define on age as being in the grade you should be in if you started school at the appropriate age, based on local BoE guidelines and only did every grade once. This results in you typically playing against kids your own age...shocking, I know.

When they were in 8th grade they said "it's grade based, so age does not matter". Now they say "they're in HS so age does not matter"... more deflection. Kids get recruited from their clubs not their high schools. The 14 year old 9th grader is still at a big disadvantage to the 16 year old 9th grader when it comes to recruiting.

To the person who said jump on the wagon and reclass...if everyone did it that would pretty much negate all the advantages. We'd soon see 17 year old HS freshmen.


Anyone basing their education or sports divisions on the BoE, the government, should go back and take that extra year of school. That system is what, about 70 years old! The teams that everyone complains about are about 75% private school kids, so to say the public school grade systems should be the gold standard for setting divisions is a meaningless argument. Aside from a small handful of parents that actually would have their kid repeat a grade for athletics, the age variance these days is based on the private school systems actually evolving, while the government keeps chugging along with a system that was in place before WWII. Private school kids on average are somewhere around a year older than public school kids in the same grade. What if private school parents starting getting on these forums to complain how the younger kids are diluting the talent in the elite divisions - we could really get some action on here!


Merely providing a frame of reference for what people consider on age. If you're arguing that being a 16 yr old HS freshman is "normal" because he's in private school most would disagree.