Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
ML is in serious trouble. Huge roster, Fly-ins and majority of the team is made up of families that came over in the past year is a recipe for discontent. The only thing that can solve that problem is winning. Unfortunately, despite looking brilliant in spots ML is going to have trouble winning games. Too many mistakes are being made to fix them all in time for HOCO additionally look for the top players to be scraped off by DCE and NL by the summer.

I am no fan of Madlax, but it is comical that certain people seem so desperate to convince the Board (and themselves) that the team and the program is toast. But they seem to have nine lives, and through fly-ins and similar manipulations they will always put decent teams on the field and always make money. They won't win many popularity contests, but that has never been their goal, nor the goal of any travel lacrosse program. They are here to stay and get used to it!

Agreed, the bottom line is that it's a profitable brand and the teams they assemble look basically competent out there, and while everybody here is myopic into the top 20 teams nationally and the top 4 teams locally, let's remember that there's 300+ club teams out there at this age group, and it is certain that on any given day Madlax would beat all but 40-50 of them. And they'd win a few of those top 40-50 too. So (as Red Hots and Team Eighteen will tell you) there's plenty of interest from kids from OH to TX to CO to come play for them.