To the guy who posted… high D1 players are all holdbacks. Take a look at the top rosters. Pretty sure you’ll find my kid there and a huge amount of his Long Island friends there too who are 98% on-age. Long Island has the best players in the country and almost none are holdbacks. All run of the mill, on age public school kids, who have been beating up on older and far more privileged (yet inferior) kids since they were 7 years old. How you Splain’n that daddy-o?!!
Question for you. How are MD teams going to compete with teams from the island, once they do away with the cheater rule? Seriously. The only way MD competes with LI is by playing down a year, and you still usually lose. So how can you compete on age? There will no longer be elite teams in MD. Your top teams will be in the B division. Thinking you old boys didn’t think that through too well. Ya’ll might want to reconsider!
Spot on....I agree with everything said here . My son is younger but trains over the summer with one of the top D1 players in the country that lives on long island . The D1 player is not a reclass and when the subject was bright up he laughed and said how he thinks it's ridiculous. Unfortunately long island now hasany holdbacks with LI Express being. The worst offender . Go look at their 2027 AA team .....6 holdbacks
I’m not familiar with the 2027 Express team, but you could be correct. If any team on the island gets holdbacks, it’s definitely Express because of their association with St A’s and Chaminade. But I highly doubt they have 6. Never heard of a team with that many. Maybe 3. Rest of teams have basically none. 91 Wolfpack got their first-ever holdback last year (a favor). Nice player, but not considered an impact player. Never a holdback prior to that. Yet, over the past 10 years, that team is the most successful team in the grade. Absolutely not arguable. And they don’t recruit kids. Never have. 70% of the players have been on the team since it was initiated in 2nd grade. Haven’t had a new player since 2019 (other than the holdback previously mentioned). This is the model to follow. Work hard. Develop your players. It’s that simple. And it obviously works. Don’t need to be the biggest, the fastest or the quickest. Just need to be the best. Which is EARNED. Not given.
FACTS- express 2027 AA has 4 reclassed kids and 2 holdbacks
And we are to believe this information, coming from a holdback parent from the holdback heck of the earth? Holdback parents are the George Santos of the lacrosse world. Yup. Real [Censored]. Your word is a total joke. Completely worthless. Your words couldn’t mean less and in fact if anything they confirm the opposite of your intent. Based on your account, I’m absolutely certain that Express has zero holdbacks.
But I have a question for you, Congressman Santos. Did you ever think it might not be such a bad idea to have your son earn his playing time through determination and hard work, instead of wasting an entire year of his life looking for the easy way out… living a lie?
Sounds like you missed a golden opportunity to teach your son a valuable lesson about life, hard work and earning what he gets in life. After all, the holdback benefits are short lived as we all know. Might your son have done better if he simply learned how to compete, instead of just quitting on his age group, such that he did?
How’s he doing now? Still waiting for the college coaches to call him? Yeah. That’s what we thought. Yet another holdback kicked to the curb.
I took a different path with my son, and it worked out pretty well. Didn’t hold him back. Just another public school kid. Nope, no 60k prep school for him. He worked extremely hard both in the classroom and on the field. He earned his playing time and the respect of his teammates, coaches and ultimately D1 college coaches. He earned a roster spot on an elite team, at an elite school, and earned a phenomenal scholarship. And I’m very proud to say that many of his teammates, who are not holdbacks, received similar distinctions and deals. They all worked hard, never gave up, and earned what they deserve through hard work and determination. Really makes you think, right? Could there be a better life lesson than that?
There you have it, George. At this point, don’t sweat it too much. Just continue to live your lie. You’re in too deep. What’s done is done. You screwed up. It happens. Hopefully your kid will some day forgive you for wasting an entire year of his life, for no good reason. I mean, what’s a year of someone’s life really worth these days. Hmmmm.
One more thing. Just want to set your mind at ease in case you were wondering. Yes… we are all talking about you behind your back.
