Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
There are some really good teams on the grade level. I don't know who has played any of the good Maryland, PA or Mass clubs, but there will be good games this summer. There will also be blow outs, thats how it works when the players are still single digit babies. Lots of things are going to happen in the next few years. Players will get faster, slower, fatter, thinner, more skilled and less effective. The landscape of all of these teams will inevitably change before they reach 8th grade; furthermore, if the NCAA votes to ban recruiting before fall of an athlete's junior year (as is expected to be the case), none of this will matter for 7 years. If you think any of these team will look remotely the same in 7 years, you are mistaken. Whatever you think, each of the teams in our age group are beatable. Without exception. Look no further than last tournament. Blast barely beats Express, then loses to Laxachusettes, then Express beats Laxachusettes and gets blown out by Blast. Any given day with these teams. There is no team that will blow everyone out all the time.


On age 4th graders are 10 going on 11, so there really shouldn't be any "single digit babies" in this age group . . .


Put aside the semantics of "single digit babies" for a second.....no 4th grader should be 11. Majority are still 9 with the December and later birthdays having just turned 10.

If a kid is in 4th grade right now, they should have been born 12/1/06-11/30/07 if following NY school grade.