I don’t understand the hold back BS on these boards. Your sons will always be playing with and against kids older and younger once they’re in HS or College.The sooner you get use to it the better.
We are talking about at the youth ages and developmental ages up until HS! Should be more fair during those years!
One of the early MIAA holdback adopters was BL. Once King Crab set-up his shop @ BL the culture moved over to his club. He has always been a big proponent of trying to have more older kids on his teams than the competition he plays. He will take the older kids at any age.
This began years before the MIAA was even in existence. The school on Lake Ave used to have the reputation for being a soft landing spot for anyone who had academic or behavior issues or got kicked out of other local privates. In order to ensure the kid was up to speed, (and get their tuition money's worth) BL admissions would ask those kids to repeat a grade. BL flourished and often had good lax teams. The trend continued. holdbacks then became a more popular "thing." At BL and elsewhere.
Oh yea it goes back to the MSA(pre-1994) days. Boys who got kicked out of Loyola & CHC for various reasons headed over to BL to be "reformed". Shriver & the faculty saw this as an opportunity to repeat a year to get things back on track whether it was needed or not as well as have lax players that were older and more experienced. Then it became part of the culture as the Crabs program began to flourish. Soon it was part of the school's culture and 7th & 8th graders were brought into the holdback picture. This started BL's dominance. The MSA/MIAA allowed them to play lax in the "A" conference, while they also allowed them to play other sports in the B conference-a discussion for another day. Somebody should interview Shriver & King Crab about their role in this whole evolution of the lax holdback.
Another factor at BL is that they're probably the best school in town for kids with learning disabilities aside from Jemicy and have been for years. Before ADD/ADHD became very common, they took lots of kids with dislexia and did wonders. A lot of kids with learning disabilities take an extra year at some point, completely unrelated to athletics.
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I don’t understand the hold back BS on these boards. Your sons will always be playing with and against kids older and younger once they’re in HS or College.The sooner you get use to it the better.
We are talking about at the youth ages and developmental ages up until HS! Should be more fair during those years!
One of the early MIAA holdback adopters was BL. Once King Crab set-up his shop @ BL the culture moved over to his club. He has always been a big proponent of trying to have more older kids on his teams than the competition he plays. He will take the older kids at any age.
This began years before the MIAA was even in existence. The school on Lake Ave used to have the reputation for being a soft landing spot for anyone who had academic or behavior issues or got kicked out of other local privates. In order to ensure the kid was up to speed, (and get their tuition money's worth) BL admissions would ask those kids to repeat a grade. BL flourished and often had good lax teams. The trend continued. holdbacks then became a more popular "thing." At BL and elsewhere.
Oh yea it goes back to the MSA(pre-1994) days. Boys who got kicked out of Loyola & CHC for various reasons headed over to BL to be "reformed". Shriver & the faculty saw this as an opportunity to repeat a year to get things back on track whether it was needed or not as well as have lax players that were older and more experienced. Then it became part of the culture as the Crabs program began to flourish. Soon it was part of the school's culture and 7th & 8th graders were brought into the holdback picture. This started BL's dominance. The MSA/MIAA allowed them to play lax in the "A" conference, while they also allowed them to play other sports in the B conference-a discussion for another day. Somebody should interview Shriver & King Crab about their role in this whole evolution of the lax holdback.
Last time I checked, there were several schools that play lax in the MIAA A and have other sports in the B. A few years ago I believe only Loyola, Calvert Hall and maybe MSJ had all A Conf. sports. Gilman had B conference teams for a long time.
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