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Can everyone here agree that this time of year is the worst. I cannot stand the jockeying, club switching, etc. Even if my kid makes his team it's just the worst seeing kids you like and families you've gotten to know just cut loose like yesterday's news. Really not fun for parents and I can only imagine what the average 13 yr old thinks of this process.

Hawks got the best player from a 1-6 team. That doesn’t sound like an upgrade to me. Both the kids you are referring to might make the third string. I do know this much the goalie is a true 28 not a reclass he just played up.

How many will be cut from FCA tonight? Where will all of these kids gonna go?

Uh oh. Looks like somebody is got a case of the Mundays.

2028 True Chesapeake Team,

My Staff and I want to thank you for letting us have the opportunity to coach your boys over the past 8 months. We got a chance to develop great relationships with all of them and we genuinely cared about them. As someone who has been doing club lacrosse for almost 20 years around the country, I've come to realize that the Maryland Market and the parents are completely transactional. It doesn't matter how much training you will do for them or how much time you will spend with them, the relationship will always be a transaction. It makes you detest your job. We all do this because we love to teach, coach, develop and build young men. That is why we do this. I started True Lacrosse because I love developing players.

Between the directors and myself you had 17 years of College Coaching Experience, 12 Years of Professional Lacrosse Experience, and 25 years of experience of being in the industry and helping kids get recruited We were all dedicated to your boys and helping them develop as lacrosse players but more importantly great people. This was not good enough for you guys. It was not good enough for this parent group.

I hope all of you find whatever you are looking for.

The door is always open,

Coach Deane

Hawks got the best player from a 1-6 team. That doesn’t sound like an upgrade to me. Both the kids you are referring to might make the third string. I do know this much the goalie is a true 28 not a reclass he just played up.

Uh oh. Looks like somebody is got a case of the Mundays.

2028 True Chesapeake Team,

My Staff and I want to thank you for letting us have the opportunity to coach your boys over the past 8 months. We got a chance to develop great relationships with all of them and we genuinely cared about them. As someone who has been doing club lacrosse for almost 20 years around the country, I've come to realize that the Maryland Market and the parents are completely transactional. It doesn't matter how much training you will do for them or how much time you will spend with them, the relationship will always be a transaction. It makes you detest your job. We all do this because we love to teach, coach, develop and build young men. That is why we do this. I started True Lacrosse because I love developing players.

Between the directors and myself you had 17 years of College Coaching Experience, 12 Years of Professional Lacrosse Experience, and 25 years of experience of being in the industry and helping kids get recruited We were all dedicated to your boys and helping them develop as lacrosse players but more importantly great people. This was not good enough for you guys. It was not good enough for this parent group.

I hope all of you find whatever you are looking for.

The door is always open,

Coach Deane

Not a True parent, but I assume the families are leaving because the team flew in ringers from out of town for the Hoco games. can management and coaches really be surprised that the local players are looking for different team?

Hawks add 5, cut 3

Best player from 91 and Crabs added to Hawks. 2027 Hawks goalie reclassed down to Hawks 28.

Can everyone here agree that this time of year is the worst. I cannot stand the jockeying, club switching, etc. Even if my kid makes his team it's just the worst seeing kids you like and families you've gotten to know just cut loose like yesterday's news. Really not fun for parents and I can only imagine what the average 13 yr old thinks of this process.

Can everyone here agree that this time of year is the worst. I cannot stand the jockeying, club switching, etc. Even if my kid makes his team it's just the worst seeing kids you like and families you've gotten to know just cut loose like yesterday's news. Really not fun for parents and I can only imagine what the average 13 yr old thinks of this process.

Please take this sort of honest, self-aware post and your reasonable sense of perspective elsewhere -- it has no home here.

Not a True parent, but I assume the families are leaving because the team flew in ringers from out of town for the Hoco games. can management and coaches really be surprised that the local players are looking for different team?

Which Crab? The pole or the FOSO?

This has zero context. What happened with this team that would invoke such a vague email from one of the largest names in club lacrosse? Looking at the rankings, this is a team that finished Top 50. I would say that is pretty good. I would say it's highly likely this is a fake post. Just some guy with an axe to grind. If in fact this is real, it would be great to get WAY MORE background on what happened here.

Or you could say this time of year is best. Kids get to try out for clubs they’ve always hope to play for. Some will actually make it. Kids move up to higher divisions with better competition. Kids move and get better coaching and more playing time.

It just depends on your perspective.

Two top goalies at the Hawks- that means half the reps and half the play. Where did the old Hawks golaie from True end up?

I highly doubt it is fake. it reads exactly like something a lax bro would write after his customers realized what a rip off the fly in model is for the local players. starts off with fake gratitude, then a heavy dose of self-promotion, then some stunning but genuine confusion over why the local kids were unhappy, and ending with some passive aggressive lashing out at people who could care less what he thinks. and as the grand finale, the door is open, as if these people are dense enough to come back and be ripped off all over again.

if it is fake, I want to have a beer with the guy who wrote it - he is brilliant!

I’m sure that’s going to go well. Leave it to Hogan to find a way to screw up a good thing.

I’m sure that’s going to go well. Leave it to Hogan to find a way to screw up a good thing.

Or have the best goalie room on the best team in the country. Sounds to me like it's working, but what do I know.

This is when I wish BOTC allowed photo uploads. I’m looking right at it.

Hang tight, one of your friends will get a screenshot via text soon enough if you need to verify. Til then, trust me. Or don’t.

Did True fold the 2028 team?

Why the emotional email?

Did True fold the 2028 team?

Why the emotional email?

It's a real shame that parents didn't feel honor-bound to a team run by a big corporation and with a rich history and traditions stretching back multiple months.

Especially when they have 4-5 different 2028 teams in the DMV and are still flying kids in for HOCO....

Somebody has to know. Sure does sound like it.

I don't need to see a screenshot. I want to know the context of what transpired. that is all.

The letter is very real. Word is that none of the talented players from last year would commit and were going to other clubs. Therefore the True Chesapeake team as you know it is gone!! The laughable part is that the parents are to blame!

what did the parents do (or not do) that makes them to blame?

I have no insider knowledge, but I can give a pretty good guess. True 2028 flew in kids from around the country to play in HoCo games, and the local players didn't like being displaced week to week. this is the same reason (among others) why people are leaving Madlax in droves. it's not too hard to figure out, but apparently the True management are surprised and [Censored]-hurt that the families departed. someone on the inside please confirm - is this accurate?

Maybe it's just me but have had kids doing this process since 2015 and this year has got to be the craziest I've ever experience, at multiple age groups.

Confirmed. There were other missteps by True that angered many of the players/parents such as folding the DC team after they had tryouts and combining with Annapolis which left the kids who didn't make the team scrambling to find a place to play. True has yet to establish its own program in Maryland. They wanna talk transactional, how about the fact that their Maryland teams only exist because they purchased the rights to other existing programs who were on the way out anyway (Wolfpack, API Diamondbacks, Mesa/Green Hornets/Swarm, USS Lacrosse, Koopers). Additionally, they keep someone who clearly has a problem with alcohol on staff in a business whose customer base are KIDS!!! And promote him no less to VP.

With new teams, mergers/acquisitions, and fool coaches happening all over the DMV, it certainly has become a show.... I am waiting for a network to make a show from all of this.

It’s like musical chairs for the truly Elite players. And this is the last summer where we will see significant movement, as these rosters will likely remain relatively intact barring a coach /club director debacle….

It’s like musical chairs for the truly Elite players. And this is the last summer where we will see significant movement, as these rosters will likely remain relatively intact barring a coach /club director debacle….