Originally Posted by Anonymous
As a parent of a 2029, I haven’t had any near/direct experience with looneys other than I know it was once a Prominent club.

Can someone explain what happened? I know they attempted to start a 2028 team last year and that never got off the ground.

Looney's was a good club that was run coaches who knew the game and generally had a son on the team. The relative success of each team was generally based on the commitment of that teams coaches. The 14,15,16 produced a bunch D1 players including AAs Bryan Constable Ryan Conrad Cole Williams Alex Roesner among others. The 17,18, 19s got decimated when FCA started and took many players and some coaches. 2020's were rock stars with 2 teams that produced 20+ D1 players and another 15 or so D2/3. 2020 Orange was one of the top 2 or 3 teams in the year. 21s were a good not great team with a few D1 kids and several D3. It included the directors youngest son and he stepped aside after the 2020 summer. BTW the club charged $500-1000 less than comparable programs so they weren't charging enough to take money out. 2023s finished out strong with about half the team committed to D1. 24s were very good with 2 teams until the Orange team coach took the team to Crabs. The remnants are coached by the director and mostly LB kids. Looks like the last team. It's a lot of work to recruit elementary school kids and coaches and apparently the current director not inclined to do so. A good run.