It's not just Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island teams often have a majority of holdbacks. Asked a parent at a tournament who old their 6' son was, she said "13, but he will be 14 next week" Most of our boys were still 12 and hadn't even turned 13 yet.
not true at all.. Most of the boys are 13 thats a lie..
I don't know why or how you are saying this is a lie. Are you a parent from Mass or RI? The other guy is right at a tourney in RI the defense from a Mass team told our attack they were going into 9th grade. So either they are holdbacks or they are pulling kids down from their older teams. Is it only ok to bash Madlax for it on this board?
Absolutely not. We are an equal opportunity basher. We know that many teams do it. The question is, to what extent? Madlax just does it better than anyone else due to their DC proximity and corrupt to the core culture there. But the rest of MD are not far behind. All of the MD data is confirmed over and over again on the MD thread, by disgruntled parents of on age players. We know that 70% to 80% of every HOCO team ate holdbacks,which basically equates to every player that steps on the field in competitive games is a holdback. It’s true, many NE areas have similar situation to MD but there simply aren’t that many elite travel teams in NE, so we just don’t run into teams as often. And the holdback culture in NE in no way compares to MD where it is ingrained in youth lacrosse and considered the only route to success.
