As a MD parent of an on age kid - it’s difficult to describe how inconsequential this World Series tournament is.
Yes on age sounds good. But on age is completely and totally irrelevant in the lacrosse world. Literally NO ONE CARES.
Not in club, not in HS and not in college. If the NY crowd feels better about themselves than have at it.
It’s just not the way this game is set up right now. Hopefully it changes soon for kids to come. It won’t impact my son at all.
Besides I could argue that the best on age kids are in MD anyway. To play on those teams against the older kids DAILY cuts a different sort of kid.
Enjoy the tournament.
On age means nothing at high school and college. But between the ages of 10-14 it means everything. What part of that do you not comprehend?
It means something for 100% sure. It doesn’t mean everything.
But keep telling yourself that. You have 1.5 more years to cry about it so get your moneys worth.
Again, enjoy the tournament.
Nobody is crying about it. This is a public forum to discuss a lot of things. Sometimes people on here are ignorant and impossible to talk to. Sometimes they are open minded and reasonable like you seem to be. The reason that this tournament means a lot to the Long Island and northeast kids is because it’s an opportunity to play against an even playing field. The advantage is non existent. It means nothing to the Maryland crowd because holdbacks are so common. I was on the Maryland board the other day and was amazed at how matter of factly they were referring to teams running into “academic problems”, meaning gonna get a lot of holdbacks. Such common place for kids to be held back that it is just accepted. That is not something that is common here. Yes, it exists. But it’s so far from common.
In the end it doesn’t matter. It will all even out after puberty. But at this age it’s overwhelmingly thought of as “unfair”. Nobody is crying about it. But it’s definitely something that people do not like. Hence the reason this particular tournament, and the attitude towards holdbacks, is so different up here. Both Long Island and Maryland will continue to be hotbeds for the sport, along with some other areas catching up. If lacrosse was set up like hockey, which most hope it will eventually be, this back and forth wouldn’t exist. It won’t matter to most of us because our kids will be in high school and beyond by the time the change comes. But it will eventually come.
