Originally Posted by Anonymous
Not 3-5 at all just 3 and there is a lot of separation. Other than the Ducks and Igloo no Long Island team comes close. The next pack is led by one or more of the B teams.They parents may think they are on par until they see it for themselves and and have an oh crap moment. Seen it every tournament where somebody came over to size up one of those teams and were taken back. Then they found out the score was 10-0 and the kids were all playing with their off hands. Not about one kid or talent it is about team game and lax iq. These teams are far ahead as they have a strong core


At ANY AGE GROUP, the idea that any tier/classification/level/whatever you want to call it would be wholly comprised of single digit teams is outright dumb. The top 3 (or top 5 -
depends on age group) may be that good and there may be separation between they and the next closest teams, but that still doesn't mean then next best teams are not on a higher level than the teams below them. The foolish take on this is that somehow the teams that are in the 4 - 20 range being labeled A somehow diminishes the top teams - in reality, it magnifies their prestige. They are such that they are that much better than the rest of A; these top teams are AA or elite or whatever name you want to come up with. But, then there are regular A teams, B teams, and C teams - all three tiers on LI will have a fair amount of teams in each tier. This isn't Georgia where there truly might only be 1 or 2 or 3 A teams - it's Long Island, a top 2 locale for the sport. There is no other organized youth sport dumb enough to approach the idea of classification the way the people associated with LI's top teams go about it, and that isn't a good thing, and speaks volumes as to why it's so f'in dumb.