Back of THE CAGE Forums MID-ATLANTIC LACROSSE MARYLAND MAIN FORUM Boys 2024-7th Grade Fall 2018/Summer 2019

Bunch of on age kids.. just isnt fair !

“World ranking”. Lol. The people of the Ukraine must be outraged!

I love starting my day off with a good laugh at sorry people who live to post about U13 world rankings! Get a life and stop wishing you were your kid.

I know right, must be hard for you to swallow your crab cake ..LMAO

Now that is funny ! Without Holdbacks where would MD lacrosse be !

Based on everything I read on BOTC every state except NY has holdbacks? Wait, I’m pretty sure I did read “other” LI posts saying LIE are cheaters too with holdbacks. Man, that must mean there are really only two clubs in the USA that don’t have holdbacks. You guys should be proud and I wish you the best at the WSYL bc after that it’s all a bunch of excuses and you guys against the rest of the lax world! Except moving forward your boys will be playing by club rules like the rest of the country and then we will see how great your teams really are!

Bro. Check out the scores. Pack is crushing teams that are either beating all of the MD cheater teams, or giving them everything they can handle. Beat Legacy Taz 9-2. Limited all North region qualifiers to a maximum of 2 goals, without a single competitive game. Pack is undefeated so far, and they have played mostly better ‘23 teams, so playing up against the MD cheaters is not a problem. So prepare your 14 year old son for a beat down, Long Island 12/13 year old style. Because the Pack is looking for statement games, against the cheater teams.

Just wait for the Millon Games. Run your Pack through Hawks, 91MD, and Madlax, and see how many of your boys are left standing at the end of the weekend. I'm afraid it might be a long ride home for your girls.

"statement games" at the 2024 level, hahahahaha, that someone would even write something like that is so sad. Might feel sorry for someone who is this caught up in a youth sport but the LI posters on this board are so pathetic hard to conjure up any level of empathy.

Serious question to all of the MD holdback parents: Why do you have your kids play down a year? Do they have a confidence problem, where they feel inferior to kids their own age? Or, without their size advantage, they really just compete with kids their own age? Maybe it's both? Very sad.

Another OBSESSED Maryland holdback parent calling the kettle black.

The IRONY in your post "IS" MD's "statement"!

No place on the planet is more wrapped up in their youth lacrosse than our friendly HoCo "Elite" (now that's a joke!) parents. Most of the posts on this board make me want to puke, as I read who's Johnny-holdback team is the best of the best cheating holdback teams.

You know what is SAD???

The very definition of SAD is an entire state that creates nothing but cheating holdback teams that are 90% a year older than the rest of the teams, just so they can win a little kids game. THAT MY FRIEND IS BOTH... PSYCHOTICALLY OBSESSED AND PATHETIC!!

~The Parent of a Holdback-Free Team

I would say one of the more difficult things for some kids , especially undersized kids, is making a AA team when most coaches are taking size over skill in 7th or 8th grade . a smaller boy may have superior speed, superior stick skills but lack size. its very unfortunate. so a boy that plays down, may be just positioning himself for the future as he has been pushed out of his own grade

That is most unfortunate and ill guided, as many of the very best players at this age, are the some of the smallest players. Size obviously is a major factor at this age, since differences during the puberty years can be an enormous advantage. But guess what else is extremely important? Skill, IQ, quickness and speed. A successful team needs all of them. So a mixture of all the above is the recipe for success. Going with only size or only skill will not result in championship level teams. Look at all of the top teams in youth lacrosse, during these years. It's always a mixture of larger players and smaller ones.

MD lacrosse has a history of holding back in the Private schools. It used to be exclusive to Private schools. Advantage was not in youth lax..just school MS and HS.. Now HOCO has enabled MS and below private school holdbacks to play...Well now more and more are holding back at youth level.

Do you charge rent for all the space Maryland lacrosse occupies in your head