Originally Posted by Anonymous
I think it will dramatically reduce the reclassing of kids for lacrosse purposes. The verbal commitment is no longer available in the 8th grade - so why do it? Everything will go age based because the motivation for grade based (ability to play the holdback game) just went away as well. Organizations (cough - crabs) that built their team on the holdback scheme better come up with a new trick.


reclassing & hold backs have been happening long before ER. Crabs were more dominant before grade based teams.

The grade based club ship is going to be tough to turn around. I hope it does but I don't think pushing recruiting to Junior year means it automatically will. My hope that there is less interest in jumping into club at 8/9 years old. Hopefully rec/town lacrosse sees a resurgence. Club lacrosse shouldn't even be a thing until middle school