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sorry Bandit dad... obviously that hit a nerve... keep paying JS for that Trilogy Shirt!

Fierce? Maybe so, but how do you know any of those teams, I heard of maybe 3 of them.

You must be the Outlaw coach or a parent of one of the Outlaw teams that didn't very well last weekend, People know which team you are. Besides the kids, who have no fault whatsoever in that S%^T show, the adults should be embarrassed!

Outlaws 2024 made it to the finals, but came up a little short. Parents, coach (class act!)

Who is DK?

Chief Whitetooth! I love it! I think people take pleasure in watching the fall of The Bandits because their coach is an arrogant [lacrosse] who spent year running up the score on other kids and encouraging showboating by his players. I truly hope the team loses again this weekend, though it will be tough with that BS schedule. Is that why people want to play for the Bandits? To face easy teams, play zone defense, and then watch the coaches' kids play the whole game when they finally get to a meaningful one? And pay an extra $5000 for that? Sounds awesome.

"Juiced Cherries?" Is that actually the name of a team?

Looneys parents were classy, congratulated the igloo parents. They were amazed on how the kids played, and how the game went back and forth. Came down to possession at the end

Better coach than current.

No way is this serious

At NXT they don't even try and hide it. You know what your getting with the officials Usually great fields and awful officiating

It's true. They are from Detroit

Lmfao

That's an interesting choice

We get it you work hard so does every team and this age group is packed with good players. Which will be great next few years that's what is crazy everyone attacking everyone. Step back and enjoy it not every age group is this competitive.

Not a very good team either.

Just more whining,crying & excuses why the L I teams did not win.

Don't believe anybody is gloating over JS and Bandits struggles (OK, maybe a few people). Rather believe they are more laughing at the irony that many of the personnel decisions made by JS are coming back to bite him now. He allowed many very talented players to leave the team so as not to take playing time away from his twins or less talented (and frankly, some tiny) boys because the parents kiss his butt, they play tackle for him in the fall and they are local. Cant imagine he wasn't kicking himself last week watching his former player light it up at the WSOL in Denver with the 2022's and other players that are incredible athletes compete on a national stage in other sports after not being encouraged by JS. Listen, obviously JS is a solid pro coach and an excellent women's coach but my take, a lousy evaluator of young boys and identifying who has the highest ceilings regardless of who is willing to stroke his ego.

100%. He only coaches those teams to put his kids in the spotlight. His twins and buddy's kid don't come off the field in big games. Egomaniac.

It's not just the Bandits that people gloat over. Express, Igloo, True Blue, Legacy...whenever any of these teams lose, 9 times out of 10 there is someone on here joyfully reporting the loss. It's sad.

It's the same story out of state tournaments regardless

As an express parent we wish he had kept that player as well as this is another obvious post by this family I mean doesn't everyone want a player two years older on their team. Bandits set the bar and teams have risen up to it. I think it's great my son wanted to beat them for years and they finally did it without the way older player. Not many age groups have SO many competitive teams and it is great for the kids to compete

Always feel tho that when out of state teams come here our refs are fair

Obviously not an Express parent. Just some idiot trying to stir the pot. A player two years older ? Get your facts right before you start babbling like a fool.

True Blue ???

Wrong been with express from the start and my point is enjoy it. After my sons team beat the bandits he was on cloud 9 for days. Competition is great

The guy that posted this is a donkey. The only team at NXT that was anywhere close to being big was Dukes. Cherries had 2-3 large kids and 8 small ones, BL doesn't have a kid 5'7 let alone that be the avg height.

Lol! Seriously???

Anyone who know the Bandits knows whose parent is writing this post. His kid who played second fiddle to the best kid at middy on the team in 4th/5th grade, then went to Express, now only plays soccer.

"Incredible athletes, national stages in other sports" come on Melville daddy/mommy everyone knows this is you keyboard chest pumping and grinding your ax...Move on, Back of the net is looking for you.
Humble bragging about your kid being an incredible athlete is a sad look. And BTW we all saw you many times stroke the ego, so don't be a hypocrite....

The guy that posted this is a donkey. The only team at NXT that was anywhere close to being big was Dukes. Cherries had 2-3 large kids and 8 small ones, BL doesn't have a kid 5'7 let alone that be the avg height.

Your out of your mind Cherries were tremendous and so was BL I didn't see the Dukes so I cant comment. FCA very big also.
Cherries Goalie, 31, 25 23 just to name a few.

Two more votes and they would have been the Squished Bagels.

The next few years are going to be rough for boys that are on age, even more difficult for kids that have summer birthdays (or in NY fall birthdays) who started school as they had just turned 5 or in NY they would still be 4. There are some kids who look like giant studs right now not because they are actually better, but because they are older. It will actually be the worst from 8th into 9th, because there will be kids who have already started late (so they were already 6), some then did K and then Pre-first too (adding another year) and then my absolute favorite, then they repeat 8th grade. So these kids look like unstoppable beasts from 4th-9th grade. But trust me, the on age kids catch up and it is hysterical to watch when the kid that has always just run through everyone can't do that any more. My "on age" Rising Soph is seeing that this summer. The gap has closed big time and it feels really good for him to now be able to run just as fast and be just as strong. I can also tell you, it is also hysterical to see these "man-baby" kids (that is what my son called them when they were shaving in 5th-7th grade) now struggle, they (and their parents) are not handling it too well.

I hope you are right because it is such a sh** show right now as I have a rising 9th and rising 7th who are on age and are competing fine but wow are some of these boys "mature". And the arrogance of the parents astounds me. It's hard to believe as you watch the games that anyone takes winning and losing seriously since the reasons for a certain teams success (not all of course but a few are really obvious) is so obviously because they're older. I don't get the pride in that. I can imagine that since they have bought into the fools gold of holding their child back it must really hurt when reality strikes. The skill sets of some of the smaller on age boys is impressive so once they catch up I can totally see them passing everyone by.

I just read through this thread and it seems the the owners of the BL team are thirsty for attention. Have you guys won any major event? Just saw NXT Cup event last weekend and you lost!

I believe it. I think that's why we are seeing all the "undefeated" teams that no one could touch for years are starting to lose as boys start hitting puberty. The almighty Bandits, Express, Black Ice, Crush are all starting to take a regular turn at losing and everyone quickly points to coaching and player movements. It could very simply be other boys in the grades are simply catching And size is leveling out. The gaps in team performance will continue to narrow. We will continue to see the holdback parents unravel on the sidelines as their system fails them.

Crush lost once. Please don't put those other teams in the same sentence as Crush. Cant even remember the last time they lost their age, if they ever have.

Thanks for that wonderful inspiring story. Kind of reminds me of "the little train that could".Please keep us all updated on the progress of your Rising Soph.

Look at Igloo's last 2 tournaments: last week Young Guns (this was probably the weakest YGs field in years) - played 3 nobodies in pool play, barely beat a terrible Looneys team (1-2 record) in playoff and then got absolutely destroyed by the Hawks in the final. They went 1-2 in Summer Slam the week before losing to 2 teams that didn't win the Championship. They played in crappy tournaments leading up to this and when they played some semblance of competition they were awful. But yet they still claim to be a top 5 team - that bandits win last year can only take you so far. Daddy ball and the toxic atmosphere created by both coaches are killing the team.

At least the Warriors and S2S play anyone and everyone. Don't know much about the RI tournament - seems like maybe they wanted to end on a nice weekend in Newport. A little cheesy but hey the Bandits played in that Trilogy tournament - that was probably worse. For all trying out for Igloo - beware of the coaches. Do your homework on both.
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Funny you should say that. I've been hearing the same things about this team and its coaches. The term "30 foot pole" has been used

For all trying out for Igloo - beware of the coaches. Do your homework on both. [/quote]

Funny you should say that. I've been hearing the same things about this team and its coaches. The term "30 foot pole" has been used [/quote]


Head coach is nothing but his kid first, then Manhasset kids next. If you are neither of these kids you will never see the field. The assistant has been banned from coaching girls PAL lacrosse in Huntington for life. Not who I want coaching my kids...

Finally someone is trying to move to age base
NXT Sports
https://nxtsports.com/blog/entry/nx...to-adopt-us-lacrosse-age-segmentation-p/