A holdback is any kid that missed the school starting date, and LI has more holdbacks than anyone. It is just that LI's holdbacks are on average 1-3 months younger than MD's holdbacks. At age 13, do you really think 1-3 mos. makes any difference whatsoever??? In some cases, we are talking about kids born in LI in Sept. 2005 (currently 13) versus a kid born in MD in August 2005 (currently 13). If we listened to you the MD 13 yr. old kid born in August 2005 is the person of the earth, when in reality he only missed an arbitrary cutoff of 9/1 by a couple of days. The LI 13 yr. old kid, on the other hand, missed his 1/1 cutoff by months. Using your own flawed logic, the LI kid that missed his 1/1 cutoff by 3 months is a far worse cheater than a MD kid that missed his 9/1 cutoff by a couple of days. There are lots of legitimate reasons (that have nothing to do with lacrosse) for a kid to not be on-grade. For you to bash these kids as cheaters is complete BS and just silly, especially when all the top LI teams have worse offenders.
Really ? Are you paying attention to your fellow MD parents who are sick and tired of holdback parents like yourself corrupting youth lacrosse. You are the sole snake from MD that deniies this cancer that has overcome MD club lacrosse. Every one of the kids on ML are 14 or will be very shortly, or already 15. In case you ever want to verify Long Islands lack of holdbacks, check out the WSYL. We will be there. You will not be there. No MD team will be there. Most LI teams will be there with 100% of their team, which means...total lack of any holdbacks. So take your preK holdbacks and your reclass holdbacks, and your 6’-something 15 year old would-be, should-be freshman in high school holdbacks, and keep on playing down a year or two, every single game. I commend the MD parents that recognize the safety concerns and injustice be done to the actual 2024 children, of which your kid is not. You, on the other hand are the lone wolf on BOTC that still tries to sell the lies. There is no one else.
