Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
holdbacks may be within the rules but they are mostly non-athletic cowards. Everyone knows it. It's why the holdback parents here always deny it or make excuses about it.
Listen to them dance around it in the stands- It's hilarious!
Hmmm…Cole Herbert from CHC…never saw a non-athletic coward when he is on the field for CHC or UNC. That’s just one example out of a couple hundred of how ludicrous your statement is.

Sure. Every kid that holds back is the next Cole Herbert. Just like every kid that swings a decent golf club at age 4 is the next Tiger Woods.

Correlation does not equal causation. Correlation and causation are often confused because the human mind likes to find patterns even when they DO NOT exist.

I've seen it in the league for the past decade+. There are way more holdback struggles and washouts than Cole Herberts.

It's a major reality check when these holdbacks go from competing against mostly younger kids in Middle School to mostly older kids in High School. They more often than not struggle and it happens in high school.

Great argument if you are talking about when there was only 1 or 2 holdbacks in MS going into HS playing against older kids. Reality is, soon it will be the majority of kids wanting to play at a higher level will be holdbacks. More HS kids will be holdbacks as well!! It’s getting out of control.

Developing years should be aged based and the cream will rise to the top in HS. Just make it a fair playing field in the developing youth years. Give the kids a chance to develop at the same ages. Plenty sports are age based at the youth level. It’s the right way to do it!

CH has a huge varsity roster. Bigger than most colleges at 53 kids. Teams usually only play about 20-24 kids in competitive games. So most of those kids don't get much playing time.

At some point the kids who are just bigger or more coordinated in MS earlier wash out. Most of them hit their peak much earlier.

Aside from the holdback BS that US Lax really needs to fix....CHC kids should consider looking at other schools so they can actually get on the field and play so they can get better. There is lots of talent on the depth chart from 20-30 that could play/start elsewhere in MIAA. This has been going on for way too many years. Parents wake up!!!