Originally Posted by Anonymous
Was at the New Balance tryouts this weekend. Great turnout from a ton of different clubs - BBL, LE, MadDog, Tri-state, Patriot, 2Knights, etc. Checked last year's roster - less than half of the kids who made the team were BBL.

Spoke to some folks that attended the Nike tryouts. Sounds like it was just a Leading Edge practice for the most part. Very few non-LE kids there.

If you're LE, I'm sure the Nike experience will be fun. If you're not an LE family, New Balance appears the way to go.

The Nike will be Leading Edge. That is a NLF tournament basiclly. I am sure they hope non-leading edge kids show to tryout because 2026 is not their strongest class. Towermen waters down edge and bbl a bit in 2026. New balance wil be mainly bbl and towermen because they are coaching 2026. Tri state had coahes there as well so they will have representation for nj. They will also probably have atleast one player from some of these nj clubs; mad dog, riot, 2 knights, brotherhood if enough players from those nj clubs attended yesterday.