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Thats a loaded question.
Heard Spalding and St Mary's are drying up lately, but can't confirm.
LB historically doesn't give a lot. The blast on them is that they actually prefer if you pay THEM to play.
McD and BL gives for the right player and positional need. But are recruiting nationwide so chances of getting attention are slim.
StP and JC have been opening up the checkbook lately. But not sure if anyone wants to play for them.
Gilman and Severn simply don't give much for athletics these days.
CH will spend, but all based on the position and roster need.

Overall accurate, with the added note that if the school doesn't think you'll make varsity in one of their priority sports in 9th grade, you get no athletic aid.

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Thats a loaded question.
Heard Spalding and St Mary's are drying up lately, but can't confirm.
LB historically doesn't give a lot. The blast on them is that they actually prefer if you pay THEM to play.
McD and BL gives for the right player and positional need. But are recruiting nationwide so chances of getting attention are slim.
StP and JC have been opening up the checkbook lately. But not sure if anyone wants to play for them.
Gilman and Severn simply don't give much for athletics these days.
CH will spend, but all based on the position and roster need.[/quote]

Not true about St Mary’s. They just don’t recruit hard and then spend at the end. They have more 8th grade talent than any other school by far so they don’t need to recruit like a HS that doesn’t have an 8th grade. I don’t agree with how they do it, but that’s it.

Well DCE is not looking as good as everyone thought, 0-2. What could be the issue?

Also waiting for the Madlax excuse for their loss.

As for MadLax, coming within one of FCA surpassed expectations by a mile. People on this board were saying they will be a joke and obviously they aren’t.
DCE just needs time to gel and needs to upgrade at a couple of positions. They will be fine.
Hail to Crab and Hawks at 2-0 and looking tough.

Not true about St Mary’s. They just don’t recruit hard and then spend at the end. They have more 8th grade talent than any other school by far so they don’t need to recruit like a HS that doesn’t have an 8th grade. I don’t agree with how they do it, but that’s it.[/quote]


This seemed to not be the case for Gilman as well. They seemed to be generous when recruiting as they have a new coach working to rebuild their lacrosse program.

I agree. Maybe those kids going from Madlax to DCE was not such a bad thing for Madlax?

There were at least 6 kids playing for mad lax yesterday who had never been to a practice so as expected, CM played kids from out of town rather than kids on his team. Hopefully he at least told the kids ‘on his team’ that they wouldn’t play in HoCo.

What happened with NL? They got trounced by the Crabs

How many out of area kids played?

Nothing happened, Crabs are just a great team. They won big in week 1 as well. Other than Hawks, they will roll over everyone fairly easily.

At least 6. No one on this board who knows anything about Mad Lax expected them to be a joke. CM would never allow them to be a joke and he knows how to ensure they aren’t - just bring kids in to play for them. Let’s call a spade a spade at least.

The vast majority of the kids on the field were local. We have two kids from out of town who played significant minutes but all of the local “starters” got at least a half of play time. Actually, several of our bench players got time since our best middie and best attack are both injured. Most of the kids who got very little play time would have gotten little even if we didn’t have the out of towners.

ML’s defense and especially the goalie looked very good in the FCA game. ML also demonstrated good ball movement and competence at fo. The Achilles heel was our shooting both in the quality of shots taken and the failure to shoot when the opportunity presented itself.

The prevailing sentiment on the sideline was that ML exceeded expectations. If we get our injured players back and/or improve our shooting I think there is every reason to believe that ML will have a good HOCO season.

As to the question of whether the departure of players this fall hurt ML. I don’t think you can dispute that at attack and LSM we took a hit. But at defense and especially at goalie there is a marked improvement. I don’t think that point is up for debate when you consider the number of goals scored on DCE in the last two games.

Fake news.

Thanks for the update Madlax goalie dad!

Another reminder to keep the kids out of things.

Was the DCE starting goalie even at the game yesterday? I heard no.

Interesting to think that the BLC kids on DCE will likely set a record for most HoCo Elite losses in a career.

Can you explain this with half of those kids being from Madlax?

They will start the HoCo season 0-4

Hawks dad here. Played DCE. They’re not bad. They’re actually pretty competitive at every position, but they had 5/6 players taking FO and I think we won all but 2 of them. it was a 1-2 goal game in the first half, and then our team seemed to overwhelm them in the second half with a lot of full field pressure. They will win games

I am surprised a team like DCE does not have a FO.

Interesting that an adult is gloating over a group of kids' lifetime record for losses.

let me guess, Madlax parent?

He’s been out for a month w broken finger, and I think he was sick this weekend.

So it looks like four teams in elite (Money, 91, MadLax, and DCE) are unproven, which in the harsh world of BOTC means they are bad, and two more teams are arguably in that same category, Next Level after their beat down by Crabs, and FCA, who could only muster a 1 goal win over Madlax.
But these six teams can't all go 0-7. They will pick up wins against each other. Any given Sunday. It will be fun watching those teams grind it out among themselves for the last two playoff spots and the honor of getting their clocks cleaned in their semifinal playoff game.

Early predictions........
Elite Finals Crabs vs Hawks
AAA Clippers vs Team Maryland

Early HOCO elite rankings
1.Hawks
2.Crabs
3. FCA
4.NL
5. ML
6. Team 91
7. DCE
8. Team Money.

Any AAA predictions?

Team MD beats DC Orange in Finals

Pretty close, but not exactly. Current standings:

1. Crabs
2. Hawks
3. FCA
4. Next Level
5. 91
6. Madlax
7. Team Money
8. DCE

Clippers will beat everyone easily.

I'm convinced that at least 90% of goalie posts on this forum are goalie dads trying to act like neutral third party observers, if not asking and then answering their own questions.

I think Team 91 will not make it easy for the Clippers.

They should do that at minimum, since they promised the new parents that they would "dominate HoCo elite."

And most of those are from the ML goalie dad. His insecurity is sad. Bragging about your son on this forum has zero impact on recruiting or anything else. I don't know the kid or the dad, but the constant promotion on this site makes me want to root against them.

That guy is totally nutso. According to him in the fall, his son and the 3d Georgia are the best goalies in the nation. Who says that stuff? Dude is a complete clown. ML can’t carry the Hawks/NL goalies’ jockstraps.

Clippers are easily the best team in the second division in the past 4 years. They would beat Money and 91.

Then why are they sandbagging in the AAA division? It’s always a bad look for better teams to hide out in the lower divisions but to do it in 8th grade is awful. Have some confidence in your boys!

Weekly Clippers plug. They jump board to board and plug clippers by saying they would dominate. Joke is, it doesn’t make you look very confident to sell yourself this way. How serious can anyone take you?

We watched the first half of the team money versus 91 game. Team money seemed to have something going but 91 apparently pulled off the win. 91 probably knew it was a must win for them. I have respect for any team willing to play in elite especially one from out of the area. The top end of the 2028 Elite division is one of the best elite lineups in years. I would rather see a team willing to be challenged then a program who just wants post about big wins against B teams.

Because they are scared of their cross town rival, Hawks.