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Easily.

They may get a chance to showcase themselves in AAAA next year, as they proved they are not Elite level. Same goes with Kelly Post. Bring up Blue Claws and one more.

Kelly post steamrolled that division last year and blue claws just lost to Team 91.

Then Wlite should be 6 teams. BLC and KP clearly have no biz up there, losing games 18-2, 16-1, etc.

Elite will probably be 10 teams next year.

Is hoco going to love the times for the semi finals Sat. Supposed to be 96 without heat index. Hear advisory. This is dangerous.

Yeah imagine losing a game by that much. I agree, get rid of BLC, KP and FCA.

If you arent playing elite by now, you have zero chance of being a starter in MIAA let alone play D1 in college.

Probably the densest comment on Back of the Cage from a guy who never played a minute of Varsity lacrosse. Have fun at Preakness with your Black Eyed-Susan.

What summer tournaments are teams doing?

Who is playing in Naptown?

Hawks green
June 11-12: NAL, New Castle DE
June18-19: Summer Exposure, Annapolis
June 27-28: Naptown, Annapolis
July 9-10: Prime Time, Danbury CT

Is the gap between the two divisions so vast that the same team would be a punching bag in elite, but a sandbagger in AAAA?

A+ but too vanilla trolling attempt. No one who ever played high school sports would say this.

Furthermore, anyone who has ever coached and tracked athletes' development knows that "talent evaluation" before 9th grade is at best a 50-50 prospect. There are kids on every single AAA, AAAA, and Elite team this year who should not have made their team and have not contributed.

This is a question of the time (3 years?) it takes "getting beat up at elite" to attract key standout players (at this age, 2 mids, 1 SSDM or LSM, 1 FOGO, and 1 goalie) whose parents simply do not want them to be playing "down" at AAAA or AAA.

At most other spots on the roster (at this age), including backups, there's not much dropoff from mid-low Elite to upper AAAA (you can't tell me the NL 2nd string goalie is substantially better than the FCA white 2nd string goalie)...........but those 4-5 standout kids make all the difference. *at this age*