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"Thanks for showing your true colors (yellow and blue). I am embarrassed for you.

What do you expect her to say? Of course she will say that, any good coach would. The fact remains that it is obvious to all, who should not be on team. You are right when you say talent dropoff is steep on remainig teams, picture yourself in those parents shoes. Not pretty. So the girls will practice hard and compete harder, because someone says thats why they weren't chosen, but we all know that is truly a false statement. Another comment was about aggressiveness, that will get you so far. Watch how many fouls will be called on your so called aggressive kids. Good luck to the girls and better luck to the ones who truly should be here.

this might be true, but she is going to create a lot of animosity with other club coaches in the area. again, landsharks, hurricanes and westchester are really well established programs in the lower hudson valley region with solid college connections and recruting processes. I highly doubt that those coaches are going to take kindly to a "franchise" team showing up because they want to cash more checks and expand their brand.

I guess we will see though. does anyone know what the numbers were like at the YJ north tryouts? that is probably the best indicator for how this is being received.

CR is brilliant. If there wasnt a need for a mcdonalds in every town there wouldnt be one. It's a great club, with a strong name that everyone wants to be a part of. One down side is when you said you plyed for yj in the past it really really meant something. Future will tell if it gets too watered down

IF???

Oh, and brilliant all the way to the bank has nothing to do with it.

IF???

So you think 4 and 5 teams per age is too watered down already?

I don't know what you've been looking at , but YES is the answer. Many of the better town teams would be able to beat some of the #2 teams and most, if not all the 3,4 & 5 teams fairly easily.

YJ's were one of the first teams on the Island - whereas, they are jumping in the game awfully late in the hudson valley. my guess is that most coaches in westchester and CT didn't recommend the YJ's to their players. there was a coaching shake up before the team even got off the ground. plus, although the top yj's teams are excellent, the rest of the squads are no better than all of the other smaller programs out there. i doubt other teams will be nervous if they see YJ North on their schedules this summer.

Too funny ,a lot of grumbling. Go talk to the coach of the 5 th grade top team. She is thrilled with the level of talent on that team from top to bottom and politics seems to have played no role at all.Agreed 6 th grade group seems like some towns are unfairly represented and they have way too many kids .If you are thinking that the lower level team is going to beat the top team this summer you ate really sad, not going to happen but good luck to your team, you will need it.

T-dub runs the CT Lightning or at least she did. Not sure if there is an official connection to YJ though.

lax clash in ct and the mitchell field tournament are pretty much carbon copies of each other - same teams, same format and run by the same people

What do you expect her to say? Of course she will say that, any good coach would. The fact remains that it is obvious to all, who should not be on team. You are right when you say talent dropoff is steep on remainig teams, picture yourself in those parents shoes. Not pretty. So the girls will practice hard and compete harder, because someone says thats why they weren't chosen, but we all know that is truly a false statement. Another comment was about aggressiveness, that will get you so far. Watch how many fouls will be called on your so called aggressive kids. Good luck to the girls and better luck to the ones who truly should be here.

It’s the Friends and Family plan, get used to it. Just look at the weakest line of each team and you can see which kids don’t belong. Then you match them up to who is a friend or who is family. If it bothers you that much, say something to the parents or the coach, because posting your complaints here in an anonymous chat room is a waste of your time and everybody else’s time. Lets’ move on, because I just wasted 2 min of my time on this stupid topic.

It’s the Friends and Family plan, get used to it. Just look at the weakest line of each team and you can see which kids don’t belong. Then you match them up to who is a friend or who is family. If it bothers you that much, say something to the parents or the coach, because posting your complaints here in an anonymous chat room is a waste of your time and everybody else’s time. Lets’ move on, because I just wasted 2 min of my time on this stupid topic.

I guess your kid is on the Friends and Family plan.

Yup, just keep telling yourself that's the reason. We all need to justify our shortcomings...it's OK, it's human nature.

I had a team attend a tournament this fall. We were just made up off some local kids in three school districts in my area looking to play. The kids paid the tournament fee and about 18 bucks for a pinnie. We registered for the "B" bracket in our age group. The girls contacted some D3 coaches about our schedule and parents shot game film on their iPads. Everyone had fun.

Anyway, we played a yellow jackets team. On the sideline for the yellow jackets was a man doing the subbing. I asked him how his team was doing on the day, as I assumed he was a yellow jackets coach. He said that he was just a parent and that no coach from the yellow jackets was going to be helping him much. He said they had too many teams at the event and that this team was not good enough to have a coach there.

My team beat this yellow jackets team by 3. My girls paid under 100 per player for the event. Not sure what those players for yellow jackets paid but it was most likely more than $100.

My point is that if a girl plays for the top yellow jackets teams it is totally worth it. If they don't play on the top squads in each age group, the player would be better served to go with a smaller travel team. No coach on the sideline does not seem right to me - assuming the parent was not just being sarcastic. At least on the smaller teams the girls all get attention from the coaches. Also, if you don't play on a top YJ team you aren't getting looked at by best college programs anyway. You don't need a YJ jersey to play college lacrosse.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

Yup, just keep telling yourself that's the reason. We all need to justify our shortcomings...it's OK, it's human nature.

I guess this a a TG parent who's kid didn't make YJ and is trying to stir the pot with the Friend and Family comment.

I guess this a a TG parent who's kid didn't make YJ and is trying to stir the pot with the Friend and Family comment.

LOL


I didn't think there were any kids who didn't make the YJ.

I didn't think there were any kids who didn't make the YJ.

There are plenty they are called Top Gun Players

no hates.
Just the facts.
when was the last time TG won U15 ?

Your logic makes no sense. Top Guns tryouts were in August. Why the hate?

wow, obnoxious. If I'm not mistaken you lost last year.

IF???

CR is brilliant. Who else can get away with charging $125 per kid for a tournament that costs $700 per team? One team has 23 kids on the roster, that’s $2,875 in registration fees. That’s a $2,175 profit for that one team. There are 7 teams registered for the Shamrock Shootout with an average of 21 kids on the roster. That averages out to a $1,925 profit per team and a $13,475 weekend for CR.