[quote=Anonymous]2023 LI lax clubs seem all fired up, predicting the certain failure of the YJ club. Would like to put YJ into context for some of you. The first HS graduating class was a 2001 team, this year I believe they are starting teams for 2027. That's 26 years of Blue teams. Nowadays these teams play out for 8-9 years, used to be less. Also some of the younger teams only have a few of those years under their belts. If you look at the top YJ teams only you end up with in the neighborhood of 200 summer seasons played. There were two seasons where TG 2020 team seemed about as good as the YJ team, a couple years now where 2023 Igloo and TopGuns seem to have an edge. 2016 TG was close and a couple years were Liberty had some teams in the conversation. So to put this into sobering context for you, out of 200 Blue team seasons played, you can point to 5-6 that they weren't considered the best team on LI. Go back to the BOTC threads from the beginning like ten years ago. Same exact predictions of the impending end for YJ. Some things never change.
Silly post. How many travel clubs existed in 2001 ? YJ and Liberty. The landscape has changed and there are many new clubs taking talent that would have ended up YJ diluting the younger YJ teams. YJ used to have 3 strong teams per age group. Now they have one. The 2023 Gold is lucky to be in the top 8 teams on LI in the age group.
