Is Looney’s still around? Did everyone pull up stakes and leave?
I believe the Looney's club has three teams, 24, 25, and 26. Seems a small number of teams compared with other clubs.
Not to divert from talking smack about Looneys, but this is generally the pattern when clubs "go away" in a saturated market like Baltimore/Towson.
1. 1-2 older rosters blow up or mass-defect because of a conflict with a specific coach or "the club" in general. 2. Even if roster is back-filled, it is usually a downgrade. Not as much positive PR for the club's brand. 3. Becomes harder to recruit new players at the youngest level. Koopers, Looneys, MESA-MD, Breakers, and others have nothing below the 2027 class. Looneys youngest is 2026. Breakers only remaining teams that can even sort of compete are the 2024 and 2026. 2025 and 2027 are awful and 2028-2031 folded.
Honestly I think it's just a function of age and branding. I'd expect some of the next to go will be Looneys, Arden Diamondbacks (owner has said this is the last year....folding), Crabs (purchased or folds in next 4 years tops), Zingos (will fold, as they have downgraded so much as to not even be able to compete with the HoCo rec league teams).
On the bubble (have 5+ years left): Roughriders, Sidewinders, Rock, Koopers.
In their place I expect: 1) More True teams that nobody wants 2) Some new-branded clubs out of Harford and Anne Arundel Counties 3) Some new club to hitch their wagon to Loyola Blakefield with the next head coach in the next 12-18 months (following the model of FCA-CHC and dare I say, Predators-St Pauls / McD).
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