Looney's has a 24 team and a 23 team. Club lax is a fickle universe especially here in bmore. You have to be shameless in your recruitment of little lax rats. Looney's director is a coach at LB. I'm guessing his interest is pulling kids to Looneys in middle school that are headed there. The former director would recruit coaches from rec programs - LTRC, Carroll Manor, Kelly Post, Freedom etc. And they would bring their best kids from those programs. Some of those rec programs are keeping their kids by branding as club... at least in 4th-6th grades. So I think all clubs teams are struggling in younger age groups. Look at the records of young FCA, Crabs, 91. There are pitfalls in parent coaching but they are the best to pull in the kids at their child's grade.