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I would love to know how the Next Level parents feel about adding at least 3 more to an already large roster. You might say that if their kid is a star they don’t care BUT kids don’t move without the promise of playing time so something is going to give.

Saw the second half of NL v Crabs. NL should have beat them by a few more. Completely dominant at all facets. Any given Saturday I guess……

After months of chest thumping, 2028 Crabs ends their HoCo careers never winning a playoff game.

Ouch.

Good luck to NL and Hawks for the final ugly neon hat tomorrow!

lol Crabs

Crabs 2028 officially 0-1 in career playoff games. Failed team with a failed season. Dave Mitchell finally out coached someone.

Meanwhile next level and Hawks set to play for chance at double digit HOCO elite championships. Hawks set to play for 3rd title.

At this point DM has just about out coached everyone…..

In fact, NL has seven teams playing in Championship games tomorrow. His program is doing a lot of things right. Sour grapes?

Chokers

Rumor has it that he’ll be coaching at Bullis next year. Any truth to that?

Weird how all this success came for NL once it began taking in entire teams that imploded at other clubs and rebranding them as NL

Failed season?! Crabs went undefeated and lost a one goal game to NL in semis. Their best player hurt himself diving to the turf on a shot and came up holding his head in pain. 1 goal game and 3 mins left. Crabs coaches put the kid's health first and took him out. It's just a game. Crabs played it the right way. They already proved they can beat every other team. That kid's brain health is way more important than a chance to win an ugly hat.

True and VLC (and DCE?) tried the same thing and couldn't make it work, so not like that's an automatic path to success.

i hope he didn't drive home then

But did you win? That team hasn't won a single thing hahah

Glad to see the Crabs parents taking their failed season well

Wait, the coaches didn’t send him out a few more teams like the FCA coaches did to win a game for their team?
Crabs also has a few other injuries from what my child told me so they were down players at the start of the game.

Haaaa!

The 16 year old got promised playtime so he’s taking someone’s spot. He doesn’t like to pass.

His kids are 16.

And this is why BOTC is greats and terrible at the same time. Hilarious

Boooohoooo Crabs. Your obvious attempts at holding back failed.

Excuses are like tailpipes. Everyone has one.
They lost to a team that is 1-2 against the lowly DCE last 3 times they’ve played. Better figure it out before summer and the elite teams they'll be seeing

Well, so far it’s been Madlax’ 4 best players headed to NL. Cabell losing his mind, combing Instagram accounts looking for some kids he can trick into coming over. Dave Mitchell eating his lunch and the bag it came in…

I'm not sure eating a bag is the flex you seem to think it is.

DM and NL don’t develop players. They wait and wait and wait until BLC and Madlax kids are elite and then he poaches them. He’s still at it and his team is already big. Now he promised the double reclasser from Madlax a starting spot. Who is odd man out?

Why are 4 kids from DCE going back to Madlax?

How about we talk about the Instagram Clippers getting whooped by a bunch of Frederick county boys. Clippers had 10 photographers there.

Congratulations to the 2028 Annapolis Hawks.

Great HOCO season!

I assume there will be movement among NL, DCE, and ML between now and the fall. It is hard to imagine very many local kids who are good enough to have options would want to be on MadLax for HS, considering the revolving door of fly-ins and the tendencies of the coach/owner. So the good players will be on either NL or DCE. If those teams are smart they will be pretty ruthless about cutting players down to their B teams, and each have tight rosters of about 22 players each on their top team. It will be an interesting summer.

Not 4 from DCE. 4 from Mad Lax to Next Level.

Reclassing.

It’s one thing to get duped into going to play for that maniac, bunch of kids from true and from out of state have been guilty of that. But anyone going “back” to CM needs his head examined. Cant imagine that’s happening.

Pretty dominant run from that team. Great players and well coached. Congrats!

The 2028 ML team must have some pretty good coaches or new assistant coaches for people to go back.

28 Hawks won using 2027s. Not a single on age Hawks team won a HoCo Elite title this year in younger divisions. What happened?

Haaaa. That’s funny. Cabell will always be the coach, except on game days when he gets kicked off the field by refs or tournament officials. Anyone else on the sideline is a hood ornament.

Hawks 2027's just better than the Crabs 2026's!!

Congrats to those kids, if you know any of them or have played with any of them, you know those kids work HARD. They play Box together, and train constantly.

Easy to detest on a winner or yell holdback or some other BS, but those kids earned it.

One person went back and that person has been there and back a few times. Nothing new at Mad Lax - same old CM BS.

This is so silly. The Hawks are noticeably smaller than the other top teams in that division. Just give them their due and move on.

agreed. we may not be able to beat them, but at least they represent Maryland well on the national stage.

Can’t you just self congratulate on the sideline at practice?