Rumors of HOCO going to 10 games for 2018 and AA County offering the same program, but on Saturdays. Thoughts?
Terrible idea. Going to Howard County is bad enough. AA county just as bad. For what? a few more meaningless games against crappy teams. Mid week games or two games in a day is nuts- thats for summer. Keep it simple people. Train more play less. Practice is fun, meaningless games are not. Put the focus on kids back into lacrosse.
Great idea every team plays everybody. No hiding behind a weak schedule
Amazingly hoco is claiming lack of field space as the reason for not offering a complete schedule where all teams play each other.
If hoco could coordinate with AA or Balt Co to get more field space, it would be great to have the teams play each other.
Only reason this league exists is because of the Howard Co turf fields and their willingness to allow them to be used for the league. Not sure how AA works but Baltimore County Rec is a decentralized mess. Each community has a volunteer rec council that has 1st rights to the fields. For instance LTRC has Seminary Park turf, Hereford rec has Hereford HS turf, Kelly Post has Towson HS etc. There is not a chance in [lacrosse] that those programs would give up turf time to the clubs they are losing kids to.
The other benefit to this league is that Hoco does all the admin - schedule games/fields, refs, update scores. When you show up for the games you know the field won't be double booked or no refs. Leave that to individual club directors to go out and find/rent fields...
If we're all honest with ourselves, the real purpose of the league is to get clubs ready for summer tournament season. Those programs that want to play more games in the spring already go play in the Kooper's league. So I see no real point in more games in HoCo.
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