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!
I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything. I’m simply stating verifiable facts:
1 the roster is huge
2 there are a lot of fly-ins
3 most of the players are new
4 ML’s play over the last 5 games was riddled with turnovers and poor shots.
5 other teams are actively trying to recruit MLs best players.
If any of those statements are false pls let me know. I’d like to be wrong. I hope these boys have a great final season of HOCO. But as I see it ML 28 Cap is In for a rough time.
Btw I’m not a Cab hater. He’s put together a good program that has won lots of tournaments and produced great college players.
I have no idea whether points 1-5 are true, and they are not particularly verifiable, but true or not, you now sound even more desperate to prove something about MadLax. None of those five points spell doom in HoCo. My own son's team had a ton of poor shots and turnovers in their pre-season play, as did most teams they played against. a huge roster doesn't hurt at all; if the bottom 10 players are unhappy with their play time, they can leave, but it won't hurt the team. Madlax is known to be a revolving door, so of course other teams are recruiting their good players, but nobody can switch teams in-season, so rosters will be locked down soon, if not already. I assume you are referring to NL and DCE as the teams who are recruiting, but their own rosters are extremely bloated too, so they will have their own problems keeping everyone happy, and the last thing either one needs is more Madlax refugees. Other than the Hawks, all seven teams in the elite division (including Madlax, to be sure) have big questions to answer, and all seven have potential to be within a game or two of .500. let the games begin and try to focus on your son's current team, not his last team that obviously [Censored] hurt you really badly!
