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Agree. Left with my older kid many moons ago. Was a sudden shift to few practices far away from the good hs. And suddenly playing no name tournaments against no competition to trophy chase. Team talent nose dived. Obvious if you were paying attention.

Goes without saying the Predators will dominate this year, Glad you did anyway, New Sheriff in town.

How about seeing how it all plays out. All these teams will be relevant, with good players. See you all in the fall.

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I don't think it is correct that DCE is now Black Ops. The normal progression is that BLC becomes DCE in 8th grade. For 2021 Black Ops was formed as a world series team, as a three team combination (VLC, NextLevel, and BLC) to establish superiority over the MadLax world series team, a goal that they definitely accomplished, and of course to make money, which they also accomplished. The Black Ops head coach happens to be the DCE coach, so there were rumors of VLC and NL player migration to DCE, and the coach and BLC families probably tried to make that happen, but in the end there was little to no movement. So DCE is what it normally would be, an extension of the 2026 BLC team, plus 2025 holdbacks and whomever else they can recruit. The Black Ops team might reassemble occasionally for tournaments, and will have overlapping players with DCE, but they are not the same team.

Crabs 2026 Hardshells. Just saw roster. They will challenge for AAA Division

Crabs 2026 Hardshells. Just saw roster. they will challenge for AAA Division

Good luck to you coach.

HOCO moving up to AAA and will be competitive.

If Hoco and a new Crabs team are going to be AAA, who is getting bumped to AA ?

Guessing Predators will be AAA too ?

They should start at the bottom and work their way up.

True Annapolis started in Elite....cant see Predators ,being designed to be an MIAA feeder, anywhere below AAA . AA is pretty much Rec programs

Predators are St Pauls?.

St. Paul’s has been irrelevant for years.

Until now, maybe.

St P will always be irrelevant in lacrosse.

Roughriders probably. Lost most of their talent who walked

I just saw next spring's standings. Predators already won AAA and got a special dispensation to be a 3 seed in Elite. It is pretty special.

BL is for kids that can’t get into any of the other private schools and their parents are whiling to waste $130,000 for a terrible high school “education”.

Haha!!! agreed!

Wow! You’re spot on.

They would be lucky to compete at AA with all the subtraction

Crab Hardshells the sleeper AAA

Preds are weaker the koopers

St Pauls will be back to winning Championships like years ago...within three years will be top tier again,

Not true. Predators is Elite. They don't waste time in AAA

HOCO and Cannons will move up to AAA and both have a very strong roster and will be a real force this year. Not sure who will be moved down yet.

Predators are Koopers of a few years ago when Koopers was winning everything. Now they have a HS to feed, it will be not fall apart like Koopers did and be a competition to Crabs and FCA in North Balt area

There is a difference between a “very strong roster” and a stronger roster.

Lol hardshells is a joke. They’re being coached by a dad that wasn’t allowed to keep coaching at crabs, despite crab’s low coaching standards. To lure players they’re claiming the kids on there can move up to crabs but it’ll never happen because there’s no room with all the holdbacks and out-of-towners. Why anyone would go on that team to play second fiddle to crabs instead of going to a team where they’ll be appreciated, is beyond me.

Why don’t we all just wait and see what happens in a couple months. This was the year for a lot of movement. Side deals will be done between now and the end of October. Kids will jump before seasons even begin. Happens every year going into 8th grade. Part of the process. It is pointless to make any predictions until the fall season is underway.

Can we please stop with the predators talk. They haven’t even played a game yet and already elite? Great for you being a new club but nobody is really concerned. Your younger team will just take over kids that may of went to looneys. Someone on this and 27 thread is trying to boost them up. And for a club that wasn’t even suppose to have a 26 team now there “going to make noise in elite”. Judging by tryout videos I would say not the case.

You seem concerned. You’re talking about them.

Wrong.....they have one kid that plays midfield and one that plays attack that are very good; the rest of that varsity team is average at best and the JV team is a joke.

Roughriders lost at least 7 and the some of the kids stayed on because they were not offered spots on other teams. Lack of development from coaches.

Only 6 boys accepted invitations to join other teams. Every team is new again after tryouts. Enjoy your son's new team.

All that is left is the fogo and little lefty. Cupboard is pretty bare at attack, mid and goal. Some good ones left on defense.

They coach at Roughriders?

I do not know why people waste their time on teams that are irrelevant. Nobody has cared about Predators, HoCo or Roughriders. These are glorified rec teams. Go hit the wall and get better!