Originally Posted by Anonymous
I think the only thing folks will agree on is that FCA would be ranked first and 91MD would be ranked dead last. You will have a hard time finding anyone outside of an anonymous discussion board with anything positive to say about 91MD, especially families that have been part of their 2029 program. Most would probably agree that FCA and Preds have the best development. Both benefit from great coaching and resources. FCA is also able to bring in stars/role models as huddle leaders and for "included" development sessions (such as John Grant Jr.), and their results this year speak for themselves. Preds head coach is a non-parent coach that is Defensive Coordinator for McDonough, and they have a dad assistant that might be the best coach overall at this age group. Both are coaches that the kids absolutely adore. Preds seems to be really developing their kids and won AAA in HoCo this year. Carrol Manor is another that has a dad coach that the team (and parents) seem to love, and whose team continues to improve drastically every year. Extremely solid option, especially if coming from PA. LTLC probably has the most talent of any of the Baltimore-area teams, although it seems that they have underperformed the most of any team this year by a wide margin (two really bad losses to Shamrocks and Dukes, only scraped by Team 91MD by a goal, and blowout losses to FCA, Next Level, Hawks and MadLax (in the spring). Considering they have the talent to beat MadLax once, all those other results raise lots of questions on their program.)
The Preds 2029 team keeps a low roster number. Probably another reason they have a lot of success. Any roster with more than 22 kids should raise a Red Flag.