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Another endearing YJ post

We actually should start calling them TP like you I think mistakenly did.

Thought this website was supposed to blow up from all the tryout stuff. Only thing blowing site up are TG PARENTS!!! Enough already, holy carp

As of now the top YJ and top TG teams in the age group are about equal and a game between the 2 could go either way( slight advantage for TG). I would say a couple years from now advantage definately shifts to YJ .YJ 2 team is clearly better than TG purple and as the top players from YJ2 get moved up and weaker players or players who's skills do not progress get moved down the top team will be deep with talen.TG black team has a very good core group but not very deep at all. I have watched and been told that in close games 1 or 2 players are the only kids scoring.In my opinion the coaching advantage for YJ is huge at this age group and will also be a major factor in future years.

Did one TG team even make a semifinal in the CNC in Boyds? I know none made a final. How bout that 16-0 shellacking from M&D? Fact checking is fine. If have the facts show where posted

How did your turn that around to be a TG thing? Nothing to do with it, but yes this thread was extremely quite for weeks on end, since tryouts started, posts have increased dramatically, and understable why, lacrosse is back on the minds of people as they are trying to make spots on yj teams.

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Its not you as a parent ducking a team, I'm sure you want the directors to get teams scheduled against one another just like everyone else. It is also not the place of parents to call out or challenge other teams/clubs to a game, especially on an anymous internet thread. The only people who could possible be responsible for ducking other teams are the club directors at tournament venues. Is this happening or are we just imagining it? Its funny if you travel to MD and play other LI teams everyone complains, if they don't play other LI teams, everyone complains. Lax parents are nuts.

You're TG, go look it up, should be right after "TG places 0 Teams in National Draw Finals". Ask any of your 2017 parents about the 16-0 score.

Please try and keep up - everyone makes a team!

Everyone knows that CR has scheduling influence at all the tournaments (some much more than others), when you bring 28 teams and $50,000 to an event you have a voice that will be heard (I wouldn't think that anyone out there finds this unrealistic), thankfully word is that tournament organizers are tiring of YJ attitude and behavior and things are slowly starting to change. That being said the only thing worse than traveling out of state to play other teams from LI is having to play several games against your own club!

And soon your beloved tgs will also do same thing, already happening. Oh yeah good luck to $$, it is a business

Obsessing over TG on a yellow jacket thread. Hmmm...

Word is ,really. The word I heard is SS will have less and less involvement with TG because of fear of violating NCAA rules and she knows her future is coaching a college program not coaching a second rate travel club.Good luck with the actual head of your club with his vast lacrosse coaching experience.

Yea ok like those Marland folks are going to look out for LI teams. Go back to the TP thread. You have alot more to worry about with that club!! Maybe you can find a winter league team for little Susie or get an invite from some parent coach to play this weekend for your TP teams. Or maybe pray you had a fall schedule like YJ.

Oh and you were right this thread will heat up after YJ tryouts because the TP folks are so jealous that YJ has loads of kids at tryouts and they are forming even more teams.
Those happy little YJ kids must like playing eachother. Oh playing eachother is far better than wasting time playing TP. They surely don't need you to train these young athletes.
In fact they trained almost your entire staff!!

Now go back TP thread

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Great points!!

No, definetly NOT obsessing. Just trying to let you in on reality. Like i said before, Good Luck to $$. It is a BUSINESS. Now Pleeeze go away.

By the time end of November rolls around YJ will have played in 7 tournaments - 3 of them heavy duty recruiting showcases. TG just cant compete with that amount of exposure and overall playing.

Starting from when?

Are you including the summer schedulee?

Nope. 2 in October, 5 in November

I doubt that one, leave a club behind that is 400-500 players and growing rapidly, between dues, camps, clinics, training, selling apparrel etc... a player is dumping $1500 to $2000 per year in. Take a chunk out for coaches, tournament fees, whatever. No doubt it still much more than what is on table as a coach for NCAA. Womens lax is a far cry from mens football or basketball where the coaches get paid. Of course your entitled to your opinion but I can't agree that it is a second rate club dwindling away, quite the opposite, it is growing in talent, numbers and strength exponentially, for a club only around for three years it is incredible what SS has put together.

I agree it is impressive. Enough already with this living through my kid crap. Enjoy watching your daughter play . Have some class.

Bravo!

Really? Lets start by throwing out all the mickey mouse 7v7 tournaments and the T3 event (where Liberty will be the only competition there - and they will only be there for older ages) that leaves two tournaments and the only teams "invited" are 2014 & 2015...

ONLY if you're one of the "chosen ones" that were "invited" will you be going to fla

IMHO the TG 2019 is considerably ahead of YJ 2019. The YJ 2019 team lost to a town team in the finals of the Laxin Against Eating Disorders Tournament. I'm fairly certain the TG 2019 would have had a different outcome.

Your [lacrosse] is completely that of a person who has no idea of what they are talking about.The YJ team you are talking about was a 2020 YJ team who were a mixed level team playing against a town team that had multiple non town players who were 2019 TG black players.That town team also had multiple other TG 2019 players and a few YJ 2019 players to boot.The fact that the game went to overtime is a testament to either how good the YJ 2020 team is or a testament to how weak those TG 2019 black
players that never came out of the game were, take your pick.
As a matter of reference for you that same 2020 YJ team played one week later against a team composed of 2019 YJ players and unfortunately it was a lopsided win for YJ 2019.Before stating your opinion at least have a clue ,most YJ teams play up in age as this YJ 2020 team did when town teams are involved.The YJ 2019 team you are talking about was playing in the 7-8 grade division unlike your TG 2019 team would have chosen to do.I'm fairly certain you have no clue what you are talking about but feel free to respond and make a fool of yourself again.

Clearly it is you who looks foolish and should recheck the facts that you spew. The town team was from Middle Country and only had two guest players playing for them. You are correct that they beat the YJ 2020 team in overtime, but that was in the semi-finals. They went on to beat the YJ 2019 team in the finals, also in overtime. Don't be so blindly defensive.

You are a complete moron.The 2019 team you played was a lower level YJ team, their top team (Carro) was playing in the 7-8 grade division, feel free to check .Because you are such an ill-informed moron I will further point out that if you feel the need to insist you only had 2 guest players I will name more then 2 guest players that you had and they can have a conversation with you about getting their kids involved in your lies.(personally could not care less that kids not from middle country played on that team but do not pretend it was a town team in anything but name)By the way you actually lost to that very same lower level YJ 2019 team earlier in the tournament prior to some of their better kids leaving for soccer.I wonder how your 2019 TG purple team would have done, before you give another misinformed opinion I will tell you they would not have won a game.

OUCH - pins and needles, needles and pins - a happy man is a man who grins!

First of all, I'm not the person who originally offered up the opinion and could care less who a bunch of over-involved parents think is better. I am a Middle Country parent who is tired of everyone saying it wasn’t our town team. I don’t know the different levels of the YJ program and was merely stating the facts about the age groups we played. Seems like I might have hit a nerve. You are correct that the Middle Country team had more than two guest players. It was a simple mistake and not a "lie". After relooking at the picture, we had exactly three. So twelve out of the fifteen girls are Middle Country girls. So for you to say that we should “not pretend it was a town team in anything but name” is ridiculous.

And by calling the other team a "lower level YJ team," and whining about how some girls had to go to soccer you're disrespecting every other girl on that team. It would be nicer to just congratulate both teams girls than to put them all down. I say again, don't be so defensive.

You seem like the type person who has your daughter cheat down in age but insist it's still a younger level team.How many kids does your coach need to have play from outside your town before you are willing to say it is not a town team.
The funniest thing is you have at least 12 kids from your town team willing to play in a 7 on 7 yet your coach feels the need to bring in at least 3 kids from outside who played the majority of the games and scored the majority of your goals.Actually you had zero chance of winning those games without them.Hope your daughter enjoyed sitting on the bench while those new town team players never came out of the game. The other kids scoring from your town team were actually YJ players .
Stop with the politically correct nonsense everyone knows what the different colors on these travel teams are .
The reason that the 2019 Carro team played in the 7-8 grade division is to get better competition unlike your top TG teams do.When you state that the YJ 2019 top team lost to a town team when in fact it was not their top team and it was not a town team in a fall 7 on 7 event as a reason that you feel TG 2019 is way ahead of YJ 2019 it just shows that you ate a moron.When your story changes in every post about how many guest players you had it shows you are a liar.When you are good with having your daughter sit on the bench and watch the other guest players play so you can say you won a tournament it is just sad.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the 2017/2018 tryouts this past sunday? it seemed well organized - liked that it was outside rather than inside. don't think parents should be allowed to watch, and why were some groups of girls allowed to leave before others? any thoughts appreciated.

And the fact that you can't admit your precious Yellow Jacket team, whatever level, got beat by a TOWN TEAM is pathetic.

Have fun watching your daughter sit on the bench while you keep telling your misinformed stories, moron.

The fact that can't admit you based your original comparison on the wrong team is pathetic.Just admit you made a mistake and had no idea what you are talking about it will make you feel better.Ask your town team coach if he would consider that team to be his town team and I am sure he will tell you no,as he is a good guy .My guess is he had signed the team up as Middle Country prior to having those girls sign up to play with him and did not think he would have pathetic parents like you calling them a town team and using their performance at a charity event to try and discredit a team they never played.

You seem like the kind of person who doesn't like to listen to the facts. You appear to be talking to two people. Again, I don't have a daughter in the YJ program or the Top Gun program. So I don't care which team is better. All I care about is that our girls had a great time playing lacrosse with their friends. I didn't lie or change my story in every post and admitted on only one occasion that I was wrong and that we had three guest players instead of two. They are the children of our coach’s friend. The reason our coach asked them to play with us is because we have three YJ players on our team and we were not sure if they could play on both teams. And just for your information my daughter played as much as anyone else, scored quite a few goals, and had a great time. You can continue to say what you want to say, but we have a tight knit group of girls who love playing together. And don't be so vain to think everyone knows what your programs colors mean.

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You seem like the kind of person who doesn't like to listen to the facts. You appear to be talking to two people. Again, I don't have a daughter in the YJ program or the Top Gun program. So I don't care which team is better. All I care about is that our girls had a great time playing lacrosse with their friends. I didn't lie or change my story in every post and admitted on only one occasion that I was wrong and that we had three guest players instead of two. They are the children of our coach’s friend. The reason our coach asked them to play with us is because we have three YJ players on our team and we were not sure if they could play on both teams. And just for your information my daughter played as much as anyone else, scored quite a few goals, and had a great time. You can continue to say what you want to say, but we have a tight knit group of girls who love playing together. And don't be so vain to think everyone knows what your programs colors

You are such a tool ,you do not lie or change your story you just made a mistake, sure.
Seems you have made another mistake ,they were the children of your coaches friend, really they were all sisters ? I don't think so but I am sure it was just another mistake .Your daughter played as much as anyone else, sure she did must just not have been in the games I saw. Here's a fact for you a town team has all players from one town, seems you have trouble understanding that. I could not care less who people think is better YJ 2019 or TG 2019 but cannot stand when people come on here and state falsehoods .3 YJ players on your team so you may have had to play a couple 7 on 7 games with only 9 players ,those town kids would never have been able to make it thru the day on short fields ,try again.

Amen!!!

Funny how people think by watching a fall tournament they can decide which team is better. YJ 2019 blue carro is a very strong team. They have both talent and depth. In all of these fall events the team has been brooken up into smaller teams with talent distributed equally between them. This allows ALL of the girls to play and they get equal playing time to boot. They have an outstanding coach. Not only does he have the knowledge but he is so positive with them. Focus is placed on the team rather than the individuals. These girls are being taught great defense using body positioning instead of stick checking. This team has a very bright future. When they do meet up with TG it will be a great game and hopefully the parents won't ruin it.

My daughter played blue 2018 last year - her
Group was one of the first to leave I assume
Because those girls are remaing on that team?