Timeout. NL won HOCO. I thought that made them the best team in the country. How could some random team from NJ beat them?
5th or 6th loss in less than 2 weeks for Next Level. Some of these elite teams haven’t lost that many in 2 years.
Next level got lucky and won HOCO. They aren’t even a top-10 team or program nationally.
"Some of these elite teams" obviously doesn't include MadLax, which has lost twice to NL alone in the past *three months.* Any Hawks parents want to do this board the courtesy of tallying up the MadLax losses to your squad over the past year or two? I'm putting the over/under at 5. My point is that there's a lot a parity and good competition in the 2028 age group. Hawks are a consistently great team. NL and MadLax are both very good teams that have the talent to beat anyone--and also the tendency of 12-year-olds to be inconsistent. But we're doing this little history lesson because NL losing to a couple of national all-star teams in summer competition has apparently stirred the MadLax trolls who can't handle NL's recent domination of them and insist that it's "lucky."
ML Dad Protocol on BOTC
1) Assert dominance of youth athletics. Evidence not needed.
2) Pick apart small parts of arguments against ML (but not the heart of the argument) to demonstrate other parents are "clowns" who "have no idea what they're talking about." No detail is too small to detract from the main argument and prove the ML critics are just "clowns."
3) Excuse all losses as one-off.
