Just got a notification that ML is continuing their "flex tryouts." I suspect that's code for "not enough players." Makes sense though because guest players are not allowed to play in HOCO and just about everybody will be watching for that this year given the meltdown of the Cap team last fall. I've been told the HOCO admin people have already been made aware of the potential ML player influx.
Guest players aren't allowed but can't you put anyone on the roster you like? I assume they'll roster kids from out of the area and bring them in for at least some of the games, just like True Annapolis did (with mixed results) last year.
Exactly, that model is legal as far as I know. The problem that True encountered last year is that the in-town families did not like being pushed aside each week by the fly-ins, so the team imploded. But if MadLax does not have enough local players to field a team, then that is a different story. the local players will be happy to have the reinforcements. MadLax always has tryouts before each season (fall, spring, summer) so the fact that they are advertising tryouts now is not unusual. Honestly I would not under-estimate MadLax. if they bring what is essentially a national all star team to HoCo, they could be in the playoff mix.
Is it possible for kids that play AAA could also play Elite? If that is the case, then MadLax could grab some locals if people want to play on an Elite team.
No, when Team Money teamed up with a group of Baltimore City kids 2? years ago (now mostly those kids are at St Pauls and Loyola), most of those Balt kids had been on FCA, Forest Hill, 91, etc as of Feb/March. The question was directly asked, "Can we play with Team Money at AA (?) and 91 at AAA and HoCo shut that down immediately. There's a specific rule that any one player can be rostered for only one team in all of the Hoco league. You can even change teams mid-season, but you have to get off of the one roster first.
True Baltimore got away with this repeatedly when using their 2027 goalie on the 2028 team; they were so bad that nobody cared or noticed. But technically could have been DQed from most of their games in that season. Their argument was that technically the kid was a 2028, so it was fine. But the problem is that in the same day at Troy Park, he'd play for both the 2027 and 2028 teams.
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