So true. The obsession of these MD clubs to win now, is their ultimate weakness. How ironic. The business of youth sports. Buyer beware.
The problem starts with the parents. Clubs are going to take the best players at tryouts. If they're all holdbacks, that's what they'll take. Let's be honest here if Express or 91 was presented with 20 holdbacks at tryouts, they would take every one of them.
Good news, we don't generally hold back on Strong Island because we don't need to. Maryland will continue to be a poor, backwater area of the country because they can't win even if they game the system. Winners win and losers ... well, you know ... Once those kids grow up, realize lacrosse isn't a job that pays and have to enter the workforce, they'll be exceptionally well qualified blue-collar workers like ma and pa. Meanwhile, ma and pa are still broke from some ridiculous dream of lacrosse actually meaning something in the real world.
