It would have been nice if players were not wearing their travel club helmets and were asked to try out all wearing white helmets. As a parent of a pole from outside LI who tried out and didn't make it, the process seemed flawed. My son IMHO was NOT in the top 6 or 8 poles trying out, some really good talent, and should have not made the cut. There were at least 30 poles trying out, but in the end, the team was divided by helmets with the reality they could have chosen any of the top 10 or so and not lost much.

Let's understand the Brine event,and the guy who runs it, is a money grab who makes all his dough on the front end with the try out fees so the actual event (like most) is not all its cracked up to be unless your son enjoys playing against "kids" from Georgia and Alabama in the 95 degree heat of a MD Summer. He wants the top end LI kids to go to validate his tourney and keep the $$ rolling in.