Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
What are the best 5 "B" teams on Long Island? Forget that they should AA or A or whatever.....who are the best 5 2nd teams on LI? I would think United and Igloo are up there....


Igloo
Schwalje
United
O'Reilly

1st teams that are on the same level are True Blue, Hitmen, Empire A and Force

If your son is not playing on one of the elite teams, these are the teams to play for imho


Schwalje won 2 of 5 games in the 'B' division this weekend!
United won 2 of 5 games in the "A" division this weekend and played top tier teams!


Again, this is probably JM (aka Dingleberry) and his United crew trying to say how good United is.

United lost every game on Saturday. United lost to:
2Way 7-4
Express Chan 8-3
9D1 Maryland 9-2

They were never even competitive in any of those games. United ended up ranked #6 out of 7 teams in AA division and lost every game in regular play. They are definitely not a AA team. On Sunday, they entered the consolation round (ranked #6) and won their 2 consolation games.

Schwalje won only one game going 1-2 in regular play in the A division and won 1 out of 2 games in the consolation round on Sunday.

Schwalje, O'Reilly, Chucks and United are failed experiments from Express and 9D1. Chan tried to capitalize on winning the World Series of Youth Lax last year by creating 4 teams. He only cares about his AA team, but with 4 teams he has about 35 kids on AA, 20 kids on the other 2 teams for a total of 95 kids. Multiply that times $3800 in up front tuition (they charged more for other training throughout the year), that is almost $400k. The Chucks team barely has enough kids showing up to practice and their coach does not show up either. O'Reilly and Schwalje picked up some kids so they got better. Parents really got screwed by Chan and thought he would bring down some of the AA kids to help out the other three teams and keep them as contenders, but instead Express keeps one dominant AA team and has 3 other teams to profit from which cannot compete at a B level.

9D1 keeps 22 kids on Smash. Great roster size, great coaching and great skill sets if you can make that team, but that team is pretty much closed.

Dingleberry and his 9D1 United team has almost as many kids as Chan - 30 kids! They kept getting bigger and kept picking up new kids. They picked up two kids last week, right at the start of summer tourney season. Talk about screwing parents over who paid, practiced and played all year, only to keep getting new kids AND getting 2 new additions right before summer play. Never play for a coach who holds tryouts, then picks up kids throughout the year. One parent told me the joke on that team is "who else is going to show up for practice?" They say EVERYONE who showed up to practice for that team was allowed on, no one was cut. Any travel team that takes your money and keeps over 25 kids is a joke. With all these kids, the best they can do is win 2 consolation games?

With tryouts around the corner, ask yourself if you want to pay this kind of money to play for Express with too many teams or with 9D1 United who will add kids throughout the year and still can't win. You can believe United will keep adding kids until they finally win some time next year.

The next teams to consider are:

F$G
Outlawz
Iglooo B
Legacee

After the above teams come True Blue, Hitmen, Empire, Force and possibly the new team called Rebels.

If they don't know you by now, your kid is not getting on Igloo AA, Chan AA or 9D1 AA. Those teams are far too talented, the kids have played together for a long time and they are closed teams.

Stay away from Express' B, C and D team. They are actually all C teams whose claim to fame is they all practice with Chan's AA team, but suffer from coaches and kids not showing up.

Stay away from 9D1 United. Dingleberry will just take your money and add kids all year!