the physical maturity of igloo's 2021 team players who were recruited to arctic blast will also be clear to everyone as well. let's see if the second time is a charm for igloo's rising 9th graders who played in the world series last year with black ice. maybe those players can be personal tour guides for all boys who will be experiencing the event for the first time and the announcers will have already practiced pronouncing their names. take pictures and bring back souvenirs for the boys who were excluded from this opportunity. keep rationalizing it and maybe you will overcome your moral conscience.
my kid earned his spot by working his [lacrosse] off. my moral conscience is just fine, thanks
totally agree that it is wrong to exclude players who made the arctic blast team this year. those kids earned their spots, are committed to the team, worked hard, paid, etc. unjustifiable to be alienated from the team and denied the opportunity to play in wsyl.
You are asking those kids that made the team to spend all that time and money getting to Denver without the best possible team. Why would they do that?
Clearly you fail to understand the concept of team. Let's try another approach. No kid left behind? Now do you get it? Arctic Ice is a team and Igloo chose to drop players from the team so that they could bring older players from Black Ice. Simply, that is wrong. May work for the specific WSYL tournament rules, but it is not right for the boys who were rejected.
This is not the military, this is competitive sports. Rejection sucks and I have sympathy for how you and your son are feeling being left out. I have been in both positions. The problem is that if the club does not take the best team then the best players will go to a club that will. You are asking for blind loyalty and in theory I like your way better. Get a nice group of boys together and stay together and have fun and learn some things. But it gets very frustrating for the elite players when they know that with a few changes they could win it all. And it's stupid for a club to not give those kids a serious chance to win with the best players because they cannot afford to lose those kids. Winning draws talent, it's the way it is.
I love how the Long Island dads love to whine and complain about Maryland teams cheating because they might have 3 to 5 kids with summer birthdays. But the leagues and tournaments are all grade based (which Long Island clubs went to first) so there is no cheating, the teams are just being fielded to make the best team out of the players that try out within the rules of the leagues and tournaments. Now there is a tournament that is age based and the Long Island teams fielded the best team to win that one tournament, saying they have to pick the best team to be competitive and they are just picking the best kids that try out within the rules. I've got no problem with that, just don't go from being the biggest whiners to the biggest hypocrites. So no more saying the Maryland teams aren't at WSYL because of holdbacks and can't compete without those couple of kids. It's just most Maryland teams chose not to make a special team for one event (which changed the rules after tryouts for most clubs were concluded, if WSYL kept the rules from last year the teams would be eligible) and leave behind a couple of kids. So here's to a summer of no excuses regardless of the tournament. If you think a team is cheating, ask for a roster check (which includes birthdays) rather than making up lies about kids being 2 years older or driving (it's gotten old and it's wrong to make up lies about kids), otherwise just let the kids play the game.
