Your assumption is that an august or July birthday kid is bigger than a September-December kid, and it’s completely false. My kid is a September birthday and I can assure you the one week difference from him playing his age or being considered a hold back does not equate to him being bigger than the rest of his team. In fact if he was an August birthday I would argue he would be at risk for injury in the next age up.
Y’all wanna preach safety until you don’t. What it really boils down to, is your little Johnny is at the bottom of the depth chart and all these summer birthdays who are barely older than him are the problem.
This should be focused on the double holdback and the kid who is clearly more physically mature who decides to go hold back instead of working harder.
But the true colors of the issue with lacrosse are being shown on this thread.
Btw. There is only one other thread that is more toxic than this one on BOTC….clowns.
Someone said it… with a year based system, there will be kids who are old for their team (January-March birthdays) and kids who are young for their team (Oct-Dec). But at least there won’t be kids who would actually be 2026 right now playing 2028 (born fall of 2008).
Fall 2008 is an on age 27. Not a 26. Just dropping in with facts.
Carry on.
Blind guy… you missed the point. NO.
If youth lacrosse goes to Year/age based… your fall 2008 baby will be playing with a few young 2027s born fall of 2008, but primarily 2026’s who were born 1/1/2008–8/31/2008.
Vast majority of kids playing 2028 were born 2009-2010. So— under the year based model, kids born in 2009 would play together. Those born in 2010 would do so as well. 99.9% of the current 2028 class were born 2009-2010.
Point is— if it goes to Year based, like hockey, teams will get busted up at first, but at least they’d all play together in perpetuity— meaning, you wouldn’t have kids aging out of their current team when they turn 14 in the middle of a June tournament.
The older kids on the team would be born Jan-March
months, younger kids on the team would be born Oct-Dec…but they’d all stick together for years, no chopping up teams mid season.
Oh yeah— and if kids want to play UP, they can do so. But under no circumstance can a kid born in in November of 2008 play with the kids born in 2009. Very simple, really. And equitable.
