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Just focus on finishing the eighth grade first kids. No college coach is watching you play D in 7th or 8th grade...C'mon!

Who are you going to blame when your kid doesn't even make the Crabs team next year? That is a painful reality for you, that is why you are so bitter towards kids. Kids leaving the team, new kids added to the team...the outcome will be the same for you no matter what. Good luck!

Correct watch every top 2022 team in 3-7 grade that played zone D. Igloo API all struggle as they get older. You play zone D to win games as coach it does not develop talent. You also play zone D because you do not have talent

There are no college coaches watching 2023’s.

2022s won’t play spring ball any more. He’ll play 2023.

Stop Spreading Rumors. He is 2022

I like to come in and look at the 2023 and younger forums sometimes.

After looking at them, it makes me so glad my sons are in High School playing now.

The same garbage is going on now as a couple of years ago. It actually sounds worse .

The worst thing I see and hear is that the Holdback/prefirst/reclass garbage is growing.

Our sport is a non money sport that is becoming a joke in fair play as it pertains to youth lacrosse . I dont see it getting any better frankly.

Probably had to do prefirst and then reclass later to make team

Many of them are and the parents see that it hasn't helped one bit. They are bitter towards kids who are good players and on age. All of the drama created by them. Blaming coaches, players, other parents. Creating an unhealthy environment for kids to be around all because they want more playing time for their own kid.

Millon’s son repeating 8th - sorry, reclassed for all of you sensitive to that - to 2023 & switching schools. Fact.

Or you play zone D because the other team is full of holdbacks and older kids that you can’t match up physically. It’s actually the smartest way to play against older players that are bigger and stronger.

That says all you need to know about current state of lacrosse.

He is no different than any other coach associated with Baltimore Private schools who has a son playing lacrosse. I cant think of one that has not held their son back. They all know the drill.

Not sure how you would know that. But since you are in the know, will MM take over coaching 2023 MD 91? If so, that means he will look to recruit for that team.

Is the Crabs owner in charge of NLF? Or did the 2023 just get lucky to have he easiest first two games. Put in a 4 team division with True but did not have play that team. And based on tiebreakers ends up with the 3 seed and plays HHH. So Crabs walks into the semis where they will get embarrassed by True.

Crabs will turn over fifty percent of its roster. Most of those middies that filled in after the exodus last year will be gone. 5th grade won three legit tourneys and 6th grade dominated. This year’s team won a rec level tournament. Now RM takes over. Heads will roll.

Yes Crabs and HHH always get gifted an easy schedule so it looks like they did well. But get trashed when they play anyone decent.

LI Express last weekend and now bandits lost to DC Dogs today and it wasn’t even close. Now all the hold back conspiracy folks will start chirping.

It’s pretty common knowledge & not hard to come by if your son, like mine, is a 2023, goes to a MIAA school & plays club lacrosse. The boys all have friends on every team & the parents know coaches in most of the programs. I think it’s a reasonable assumption that he will coach his son’s team. But I don’t know for certain.

The Shore 2 Shore win over the DC Dogs looks pretty impressive. The D.C. Dogas are on a run since that game. Who is Shore?

Since the 2023 team has yet to win a game in the HoCo for 2 years or any tournament ever, and with tryouts two weeks away, it seems MM would advertise his takeover of 2023 to increase interest in the team.

Nice,back to back weekends the number one and two team in the world(lol) lose in their next tournament. Reality sets in when you don’t have older kids.

You mean 16 year olds with next level kids carrying the weight for the dogs

Conspiracy? Do you have any clue about Mater Dei? If you did you would realize how idiotic your statement is.

Reality??? Having older kids and pulling kids from other teams just to win a championship should NOT be reality.

AKA the only middle school to issue stundent parking pass

Amazing the team that got caught cheating and the team with the oldest kids play back to back weeks in the finals. Great examples of how youth lacrosse shouldn’t be...

Crabs are like little minnows when it comes to holdbacks/reclassed compared to Mater Dei...Is there anyone that even goes there that is proper age for grade??

Check out DC Dogs vs True on ESPN 3 at NLF....Even the announcers made note of the fact that some of the kids look like High Schoolers....what a joke!

It’s a joke Dogs has kids that will drive as Freshman and True brings kids from all over that aren’t on there rosters.

Don’t walk...run!

One of the Dogs players got in his car and drove off after their game against the Bandits, meanwhile the Dogs parents were trying to convince the Bandits parents that they were all 13. So dumb. Why lie about it? Just own it so people know what they’re choosing to go up against.

Hopefully that is an exaggeration. Still the age difference in many teams is noticeable at times

Son went to school with two of the boys and they are supposed to be rising 10th graders ! 2021. That is so bad and that’s just two he knew

They still couldn't beat the Hawks last month.

It's a broken system. Schools and coaches at the 6-8th grade levels somehow need to find the morals to step in and address this with parents who are happy to work the system. Maybe the Millennial coaches can stop it... and how is it that often it's the high end or expensive schools that are the worst offenders??

Now that tournaments are for the most part complete and with tryouts starting early to mid August this is a key year for this group. Here are my rankings for what is likely to be the HOCO elite bracket in the spring. Too many teams to rank them all:
1. Hawks: Despite a zone d they still are the team to beat
2. DC Dogs (CB): close number 2 improved team need to beat Hawks
3. Crabs: well below the top two could fall further with a bad tryout
4-5. NL and Looney's: this is an interesting matchup as they each had some good wins and bad losses. Hard to separate these two. Not sure what happened to NL at Young Guns
6. FCA loss's to Looney's places them at 6 but very solid team could move to #3 with a good tryout.
7. Bethesda-DCE. Seem to be going in the other direction may move down further. Not a great summer showing.
8. The next team to enter Elite. Most likely VLC but could be SR or Cav. VLC appeared to play the toughest summer schedule and only second year team.
9. Team 91: Is Millon going to coach his son???
2019 HOCO season should be fun. Enjoy youth lacrosse this last season for these boys!

The holdback division. My older kid who did an extra year of school can bear your on age kid. Who cares. Snowflake gets an advantage cause daddy will spend an extra $25k to live his lacrosse dream through junior who could not hack on age.

Is the FOGO and attack (the one that score a bunch of goals against True DC or Next Level (Played for them at the WSYL)? They are difference makers for sure.

Watched part of the game with my son. The craziest thing was the Dog parents cheering like they won the lottery at the end! If their kids are rising 10th graders, that’s 15! Most 2023 kids are 12/13! You’re cheering because you beat kids 2 and 3 years younger??? I don’t get it. What am I missing here? Seems pretty embarrassing to me.

Watched part of the game with my son. The craziest thing was the Dog parents cheering like they won the lottery at the end! If their kids are rising 10th graders, that’s 15! Most 2023 kids are 12/13! You’re cheering because you beat kids 2 and 3 years younger??? I don’t get it. What am I missing here? Seems pretty embarrassing to me. [/quote
That's what it has become. Win at all costs. You cant even say that the boys are getting better playing against kids 2 to 3 years younger. The dogs with much older kids even took the best kids from another team just to try to win. Disgrace.