lax culture from an insider
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Anonymous
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NL has never had a solid program. It will eventually fall apart like it always has.
FCA, BW & VLC are much better programs that don't cost a fortune, either. |
Anonymous
No you don't, NL ends up being about $800-1000 less per year. |
Anonymous
| McDonogh working Gonzaga over today. McD is one of the top 2 in the MIAA along with St. Paul's, but it doesn't seem like a strong year for the IAC across the board |
Anonymous
Nope. The MIAA is stronger this year and the IAC is a lot weaker this year. Kudos to Gonzaga for scheduling some very hard games. There is no way any team could play their schedule and go undefeated. |
Anonymous
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Landon gets a win 12-6 against St Mary's. This year St Mary's expected to be at the bottom of MIAA with Gilman this year.
Prep beat PVI 12-8 which doesn't indicate how one sided it was. Score was 11-1 at one point. PVI is terrible. |
Anonymous
| Fly High, Eagles. ALL HAIL GONZAGA! |
Anonymous
Let's clear up a few things. The commissioner of the HOCO league emailed the club owners in the recent weeks a few times. In the first notice, the HOCO commissioner noted this US Lacrosse rule for 2016 in regards to grade based teams: US Lacrosse has, for 2016, in "Age & Eligibility guidelines" the following: "Grade-based competition: For leagues or associations in which some or all teams choose to organize by grade, those should be single-grade teams and should play in the age division determined by the oldest player on their roster' That means if a club like Madlax or Crabs trots out kids who are 15 year old 8th graders, they can't play in this 8th grade league. It also appears that clubs like Madlax have known for some time they were screwed out of being able to enter grade based teams in the HOCO league because of the holdback endemic. This has been a HOCO commissioner notice on the website from earlier this year: CONFERENCE APPLICATION & ROSTERS Rosters are to be submitted on the official roster form by January 15th. This includes the Howard County Lacrosse Program who organizes select/travel teams and places these teams in the Conference. Each player's full name, date of birth, school, grade, parent’s cell number and jersey number must appear on this form. Incomplete rosters will not be accepted. Rosters must be emailed to the Conference Commissioner at dethompson@howardcountymd.gov So, yes, based on the way club lacrosse youth teams are administered around the DMV with so many held back kids for lacrosse recruiting reasons the only lacrosse these 8th graders will be playing this spring will be informal play dates with other clubs like them. Now here is where it gets worse...Team 91 owners in LI are in a struggle now to apply the USL 2016 grade based team guidelines to summer tournaments. If that is a success Madlax and Crabs won't be able to enter most summer tournaments except for the ones Cabell or Ryan run themselves. Suck on that with your supper. |
Anonymous
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Except that tournaments and leagues are free to do whatever they want. US Lacrosse cannot mandate what independent leagues and tournaments do, they can only mandate certain restrictions for their own events.
In other words, any league - HOCO or otherwise - can decide how to adjudicate their league however they see fit. |
Anonymous
| Well, based on that message from the HOCO league commissioner there can't be holdbacks on a team or the whole team has to play up. That would never happen, so the DMV club teams bowed out. |
Anonymous
| What are y'all talking about? |
Anonymous
| There won't be a HoCo AA Elite division of the age based rule is enforced. I would love to see it happen, but I can't imagine they will enforce it. Why would they start now? Every team in Elite has holdback a, some more than others. |
Anonymous
I'd like to believe this, but how or where did you find this information? |
Anonymous
That is a cut/paste from the USL website rules of the game for youth rec and club. I understand well enough that certain clubs and leagues just ignore this. However, the second item I cut and pasted was straight from the HOCO website. I have a hard time believing that Madlax and other clubs abruptly pulled out of this HOCO league for any reason save it would darken their competitive prospects to have to take age based teams into the league. It would not be difficult at all to take kids who are tool old for 2020 and have them play 2019, etc. just for this spring league. But clearly certain club owners have drawn a line they won't abide that, so they are out. I hope and expect to see more of this in the future. Kids constructively playing down with this reclass nonsense is bad sportsmanship straight to the ground and there isn't anything special about lacrosse versus other youth sports which are age based. Doing age based little league, soccer, etc. teams has proven timeless because it is fair. This lacrosse relcass endemic is just something that was come up with by Ryan McClernan and a few others as a way to cheat the fact that the game has grown and good players are everywhere now...not just in Maryland and a few other places. |
Anonymous
| The Madlax MD highschool team has been a disaster. A bunch if boys are leaving it and rejoining their old teams fir the summer tournaments. Next Level highschool team has a big group going back to them. |
Anonymous
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Because none of those kids can play. But Madlax knew/knows it because it was from the get go just a money grab. Instead of a B team, they decided to have 2 separate B teams (MD and VA) because that's 2x the number of Academy fees. But for several grades, they had to go back to a single B team because there aren't enough guys.
It doesn't hurt Madlax in the long run because those kids aren't viewed as players, just dollar amounts. But it shows where Madlax is focused. Profits. |