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Anyone with that much reasoning or knowledge would never let their son play for that coach.

Definitely a Hawks parent. But whatever…. He’s accurate and legit

Someone should start an annual DMV vs LI challenge tournament. Like the ACC/Big Ten challenge.

I often thought the same thing. Would be a fun event. We should just rent out Blandair ourselves and invite the teams. I wonder how much the going rate for a weekend day at Blandair is?

Champions trophy consists of a Crab fighting Billy Joel.

First Annual Bored MD Dad Invitational

Both regions bring 6 or so teams and play 3 games round Robin. Assign points for a win and at the end crown a winner.

Lol

You all travel to the Island

Would love to. Have someone set it up.

Why would anyone want to travel to NYC's armpit.

Rotate locations and LI can have first crack. Do it over Memorial Day or just after school let’s out. LI families host MD families. Flip it to the next year where MD hosts. We did this with Canadian teams back in the day and great memories. Only catch is that clubs can’t line their pockets so it would never happen in today’s game.

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The Hawks v Venom game was for home field advantage Anthony. When you beat us, we’ll come to you.

It would be great for the boys. My hockey team growing up did that with the boys from cape Ann Mass.

Could never do something solely for the benefit of the boys though. Shame.

Someone would have to pay for it so *someone* would need to be in charge of organizing and the admin whatnot. And this is where it would fall apart of course because adults.

But it would be extremely memorable and something to look forward too.

We could make this happen….

This is a great idea— someone with no skin in the game, no grudge, no bias against other clubs. Just invite the top 4 from each and have at it. The kids would love it, the parents would love it.

True, but aren’t the parents the paying “customers?” If someone, or a group of parents put this on the map, parents ought to be able to press for something. Fun to dream, anyway…

As much as I laugh at all the vitriol on this site, this should be more representative of this board. Then, when the DMV teams run roughshod over the NY teams next May, we can get back to trash talking.

I suppose it’s technically not impossible but unless it was held in someone’s backyard there would be an insurance issue which might stop everything at step 0.

Unless someone has a connection with US Lacrosse that is.

We should contact US Lacrosse. Use their field….

Insurance for events like this pretty inexpensive

Best Clubs would bring in players to beef their teams up. Lacrosse Club is a huge mess now with No age, different rosters constantly, ... The Clubs are ruining the game, but what else you going to do.

Who has different rosters constantly?

There are 900 problems with club lacrosse but as I see it that in particular is low on the list.

Problem 1-899 birth year

Might want to come out and join the rest of the world. Adding a player or even a few players is common at many tournaments for many top clubs. If you think that isnt going on, dont know what else to say.

Like who?

My kid plays and has played for a “top club” (whatever that means) and has never done it.

Who and and what tournament?

Madlax prob the only one who will move kids.

ML, True, and Nationals are each notorious for this, and that is the basis over a current federal lawsuit between the three parties lol.

Low level clubs like Swarm, Rockfish and Breakers do this too, but it's solving a different problem - need more bodies because rostered kids/families are not super dedicated to club lax especially the always last minute changes to tourney schedules.

Looks like 7 teams for Elite 6:
SWLX Bandits - Sidewinders
Shore Boys - Hawks and FCA
East Coast - Hawks and FCA
White Oak - Hawks and FCA
Baltimore Elite - ?
Coastal Lax - ?
Crease Crankers - ?

Anyone know who the let 3 are?
Should be a fun format for the boys.

I like it

You really dont think it goes on ?? LOL.. And you dont know what a " top club " means ??? D1 is not in the cards for your kid. Look above, Several posters got it right.

Follow me here buddy. I’ll go slowly.

This started by talking about the top teams from the DMV (Hawks, ML, NL, FCA and whoever else) playing the top teams from LI.

1. Madlax has certainly pulled roster shadiness in the past - but the only way your point makes sense is if you postulate the Capital team will pull up kids from the DMV team. That won’t happen. They could fly in a kid from Texas, I guess. I put nothing past their coach but I don’t see it for this hypothetical.

2. True Annapolis to my knowledge has never done this. The rest of the True teams are out of scope for what we were talking about.

3. No one cares about Nationals - again this is about DMV VS LI.

Swarm, Breakers and the like - they do what they have to do. They wouldn’t be in this anyway.

Are you still confused?

Why are Hawks and FCA blending teams ?

This is a sixes tournament with no poles and small rosters. It is outside of the scope of regular club and is basically a lacrosse version of pickup basketball or a camp. It should be fun and sounds like a positive for some blending of players without any club team baggage. Unlike other years, the kids and many of the parents know each other and get along so this is not as weird as it may look at first blush.

They literally do fly a kid in from Texas at times, in addition to the 13-year-old who comes up from Richmond.

Because nobody wanted to blend with MadLax

Those teams were set up by different groups of parents, not some team wide set up.

My son has played for the Hawks for a long time, they have never had a guest player in all they years we’ve been here. There was a kid from Texas who was at tryouts, some fall and spring and all of summer last year.

interesting to see there is a Hawks/FCA lovefest apparently