Couple of issues
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Team 91 was very impressive down in Florida. I thought there were new players but was informed same kids just all have grown a lot (as have most kids/teams this age). I guess because they’ve always been a “small” team but now they’re not and physical, it happens !!

Typical of holdback parents, they didn't - exactly - lie to you. We'll see what 91MD does at the 2026 level, but certainly in the years ranging where MM's sons played (2022 - then held back to 2023- through 2025), he has fielded pretty talented teams at the HS level.

I have no doubt that many of the 2026ers have been together for several years, though likely as the lower half of the 2025 91 roster that didn't receive playing time and took MM's advice to reclass to "stay elite." And hey, he is correct on that. High level D1 and especially Ivy League are targeting the biggest, strongest kids these days. I don't know why, but it's the trend. Look at the USL magazine article about the 6'5" Penn middie from Oregon....

2026 91MD will be worse as they had 4 kids hold back before reaching high school and are now on 2027.

And why wouldn't you want bigger, faster and stronger. Now that the football numbers have started to flush out, those kids who used to play football have now switched to other sports, with lacrosse being the benefactor. You can see it with guys like Ament and Adler. Best of the best but at all of 5'9 and 170, they are prone to injury going against bigger players play after play. I can't understand why any coach wouldn't look at his high school freshman players and figure out who is going to be the biggest and strongest come their senior year and give them more reps and playing time. That 5'5" freshman whose dad is 5'7" and scored a bunch of goals in hoco may not be the kid to concentrate on when you have a 5'11" kid trying out whose dad is 6'3".