Howard County Lacrosse League has come out of their fall meeting. They decided to eliminate eligibility for all birthdays prior to Jan 1, 2008 in the 2027 division and all corresponding divisions below with the Jan 1 date. This decision was based largely on the polling by USCL, the recent article by Inside Lacrosse and the overwhelming sentiment to put an age ceiling on their divisions.
I wouldn't believe anything said on BOTC unless it's in writing, which it is not. The new 2023 bylaws mention nothing of age requirements. But have fun arguing about it.
https://www.ghclacrosse.com/rulesTotally agree with that. The three most powerful entities in lacrosse are the club programs, prep schools and college programs. I don’t believe any of them have an interest in seeing age restrictions put in place.
That is exactly the truth... Top Clubs want holdbacks to be above the rest, Privates want Holdbacks to be better than the rest, And colleges wabt older players
HOCO league is the reason grade based exploded years ago. Main reason was guy running had son in MIAA .Kid is gone as is he, Wonder if they care as much now
HoCo is not the reason grade based exploded.
People just make up anything.n
You obviously have zero clue how grade based started in MD . MD in youth was age based up until about 8/9 years ago when HOCO decided to start a lacrosse league. Nothing to do with early recruiting. ZERO . HOCO and one of their Directors decided to go grade base league instead of age based league like EVERY other league in Howard County was at the time and probably still are. Of course most didnt know that his child was a holdback in private school. The Crabs along with a couple other clubs loved it as they would have most of holdbacks from their MIAA contacts. The MYLA in their complete failure teamed up with them at first, thinking that clubs ( originally for summer ) would play on Sunday while all the MYLA teams with same players played on Saturday and weekday. Now that was a mistake as MYLA was nothing of itself within two years. Howard County Recreation gave Clubs the outlet to play Grade base and the Clubs ran with it. There was NO place to play grade base YOUTH lacrosse until these HOCO low moral people started one. The rest as they say is History
Howard County Recreation should go down in the Lacrosse Hall of Shame for what they started. If the league would have been age based to start, it still would be. Early Recruiting was always the lousy excuse to give them a pass as time went along, which ER was ZERO consideration at first.
Are you a HOCO person? Next time you want to comment on HOCO maybe ask around . Now they do run a good league with taxpayer funded fields and employees.
