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Thank you for the insight. Did your sons play for LE or elsewhere?

Thanks for story. My kid did both. Nike was much better. More recruiting coaches. Better time on calendar. And played against best from across country. Worked for us. Good luck.

Was at the New Balance tryouts this weekend. Great turnout from a ton of different clubs - BBL, LE, MadDog, Tri-state, Patriot, 2Knights, etc. Checked last year's roster - less than half of the kids who made the team were BBL.

Spoke to some folks that attended the Nike tryouts. Sounds like it was just a Leading Edge practice for the most part. Very few non-LE kids there.

If you're LE, I'm sure the Nike experience will be fun. If you're not an LE family, New Balance appears the way to go.

The Nike will be Leading Edge. That is a NLF tournament basiclly. I am sure they hope non-leading edge kids show to tryout because 2026 is not their strongest class. Towermen waters down edge and bbl a bit in 2026. New balance wil be mainly bbl and towermen because they are coaching 2026. Tri state had coahes there as well so they will have representation for nj. They will also probably have atleast one player from some of these nj clubs; mad dog, riot, 2 knights, brotherhood if enough players from those nj clubs attended yesterday.

3d Nj is coming into their own in Nj. In 25 they have better commits than Tri State in 25 class so far and are behind BBL and LE 25 class obviously. But not bad as #3 in 2025 to date.

Fair. However, if there was a scrimmage score would be Nike 30 NB 3 right?

2026 would depend if BBL and Towermen players are on Nike LE team again? If not, it would be close. LE will get all their producers on team but bbl and towermen don’t push their top players to play new balance. Wish LE had the guts to play NJ.com teams in regular tournaments so we don’t have to pen these silly threads.

Hahaha. I love the garbage talk. There's actually LE kids on the NB teams too. If you take top BBL, Towermen, Tri-state, AND LE kids they are much stronger than a LE-only team. NB is the closest thing we have to a true All-NJ team. Last year an LE kid was the MVP of the NB senior game and there were other top LE kids on the team too.

BBL players makes sense to do. Risiing juniors 200 colleges in attendance, NLF all stars there. Chance to be seen and play against the best. On the level of top showcase of summer.

Trying to positive. Last year at least in 2025 it was kids who couldn’t make nike at the other one. For the senior game both are good. But Nike is the superior event if comparing. Not sure what happened but Nike closed this debate years ago.

According to the tryout calendar the CR infomercial is complete, back to our original programming.

Noticed some of the better names in 2026 that were on the NB team last year not there this year. From what I am hearing they didn't tryout.. wondering if they went to Nike tryout or what

Maybe if Nike would post who made their teams we would know.

NB invitiees were notified last Tuesday morning. Almost a week later and still no Nike?

If the tryouts were the only factor in determining the teams, you'd think Nike would be able to post within a day or two.

If it takes over a week to post the results, you have to wonder what other factors are involved in the decision making process.

These teams are not real tryouts. New Balance or Nike. A player could not make a tryout for New Balance and was told they had a spot before TRYOUT. The player declined the opportunity. THEY ARE not tryouts. They have the teams before the tryout, plus a couple of players to make it look real. College coaches know they are rostered teams basically and not real tryouts.

Not true, at least at NB. Sorry your kid didn't make the teams. Better luck next year.

Had to be New Balance because Nike is NLF LE. Did you see 27 BBL vs LE. I am surprised LE didn’t pull out of tournament.

Ask your son, he will know but it is obvious why the spot was open for this player and it is also obvious why he should decline the offer. Was New Balance.

STEPS Boys - Just finished our last season with this program. Sad to say our entire club experience with STEPS boys was disappointing and dreadful. Player absence was rampant, Tournaments were single A (where we still lost and uncompetitive)...no offensive plays or defensive strategies. Just collecting the $$$$ $4k x 20 players each team = $80k. No recruiting help at all. all the talk of missing practice will endanger your spot is just not true. Drive all the way to Randolph for winter sessions and Black River fields for summer practices were a waste of time!! Lucky to have 1 1/2 lines of each position show for each tournament. Some great players would come to tryouts....but still not taken on the team. Lost opportunities....

Parents would be better off to explore other club options such as BBL, LE, Mad Dog (if serious about playing at the college level).

STEPS girls is and will continue to be Elite - just not the boys program.

Any idea what’s going at Tristate? Rumor is they have been sold or are getting sold?

I would like to know.

Turco left SHP to focus on the club, doubt he’d do that just to sell

You think he left on his own accord? And he did it to spend more time with Tri State? You're clueless.

Clue us in then genius, if you know the truth.

Turco was forced out. Parents were not happy with him and Terranova.

Terranova wa the non-public Assis. coach of the year in 22, but parents still unhappy? Color me shocked

Parents at SHP have short memories i guess. Losing the non public A finals last year with a big lead in the 4th didn’t help. Getting handled in this years finals surely didn’t help. Very questionable coaching decisions especially at the goalie and faceoff positions in finals this year might have sealed their fate.