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the AAA team did not play fl$, but the AA team did and was very competitive. AAA had weekend off and is unquestionably best in DC area and a top 5 team in the country. 6-7 high D1 recruits and counting

Did you just say AAA? Are you making things up? Never seen AAA rating for a team ever!! Is that to make people on the "C" team feel better about being on "A" team?
Crazy!

Did you just say AAA? Are you making things up? Never seen AAA rating for a team ever!! Is that to make people on the "C" team feel better about being on "A" team?
Crazy!

Stop hating. They beat each of those teams too. Won over 20 games in a row to finish summer, 4 straight tournaments, including toughest tourneys in the country Young Guns and UMD. Finished 2nd in another, losing in overtime. Played toughest schedule and won. Beat the unbeatable Canadian Edge team that registered a 10th grade team in the 9th grade division. Players getting tons of attention from Top D1 recruiters.
If you want to be the best, play with the best. Go Madlax!

Please, the DC 2019 team had a losing record against FCA 1-2 and Crabs 1-2 this year. How can they be the best in the country? If you are boasting about the success the National team had at the end of the season the please be clear. Yes that team had a nice run, but comparing that team to the DC team is not an apples to apples comparison. How do the DC players feel about giving up up playing time to those out of state ringers and to the 10 grader(s)?

Did you just say AAA? Are you making things up? Never seen AAA rating for a team ever!! Is that to make people on the "C" team feel better about being on "A" team?
Crazy!

It is a stupid marketing trick that the owner came up with last summer that nobody buys. Because he found enough suckers to field 3 teams at that grade, he basically he called his best team "AAA" in order to call his B team "AA" and his C team "A".

The entire "AA" v "A" thing is stupid, although the "AA" term was created to separate a club's best team ("AA") from a rec's best team ("A").

Now that he has plans to split his marginal B teams into two separate B teams, I'm sure he'll call all his "AA" teams "AAA", and these B teams will now be called "AA".

Everyone sees through it. What do you expect from a guy who charges his kid $200 a month in order to advocate for them to college coaches?

Not a fan of Cabell Maddux. I think he is an overblown clown, but if he has three teams in an age group what else should he call them. He could call them orange, blue and white and people would still come on here and [lacrosse] about it. A little silly to focus on the semantics when there are so many other things to laugh or pick at.

I have the rosters from the tournament in front of me. I was there. Eclipse had 7 D1 commits including Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland. Leading Edge had 12 D1 commits including John Hopkins, Princeton, Georgetown, Villanova, etc... Madlax 2017 has 6 D1 commits to date. Keep it classy and give credit where it's due. Madlax players earned it and deserved it. It's as simple as that.

All of the elite teams in the Baltimore and DC area that consist primarily of private school kids are filled with hold backs.

How did this sport get to a point where the ranking of a team is how many kids committed to colleges versus performance on the field. 3d has a high school team with 8 D1 commits. Three VMI, a Mercer a Marist and can't remember the others. My son's rec team could beat them. PVI has over 10 commits. How many of those kids can really play at a high level. One? Two? Remember, the Ryans are gone now so can't keep riding those two players for a reputation.

Lacrosse people look seriously stupid to impute quality by college commit lists. It has almost gotten to a point where a kid should legally change his name to John Doe (UNC) or Joe Smith (JHU). Jesus, as someone who did college sports and actually accomplished something in a sport at an ACC school, this is all a little silly and kind of offensive to me. You're a Cavalier when you've worn the V in a match. You're nobody for just showing up and attending.

That is world class pathetic. Find me one prep school program in the MIAA or at a top lacrosse prep school in the DMV that doesn't live for lacrosse commit lists. Go find me one news clipping of a BL game or a Bullis game or a PVI game to name three where the kids who scored goals or are noted in the article with college commits in parenthesis. Laxpower has threads where commit lists by prep school are updated almost weekly. I will take the other side of what you wrote, I think it is enough for most kids to just say they were committed to a college. We can agree to disagree, but I don't see a kid being a Cav or a Tarheel until he wears a jersey and does something.

VLC is a AA team. Hawks are to far for any VA Madlax kid. and Cavs could be a good choice but they carried a 28 kid roster or something like that. You see you can not just say Madlax Blue teams suck with out giving a real option for a kid to go play for. Madlax cost more but plays more. They are still over priced for sure. But can someone from VLC, Cavs, Madlax, and Beth. Please state the total amount of games and practices and the 12 month complete break down for what each pays. Madlax will be the highest $ amount for sure. But compare the money to games and practices played. This should be a great time for the Madlax killers out there to prove what a rip off Madlax is. I would love to say to the Madlax owner the Cavs pay this amount of $ and they play this many games for the year. But no one will every put it on here.

Please, the DC 2019 team had a losing record against FCA 1-2 and Crabs 1-2 this year. How can they be the best in the country? If you are boasting about the success the National team had at the end of the season the please be clear. Yes that team had a nice run, but comparing that team to the DC team is not an apples to apples comparison. How do the DC players feel about giving up up playing time to those out of state ringers and to the 10 grader(s)?

Other than Madlax 2019 Orange, name a 2019 DC club that won a tournament. Go ahead...

When your son grows up, you'll realize that while winning games and even a tournament is great, that is not the point of youth lacrosse. Nobody cares who wins a tournament. The point is getting better to play at higher levels.

Enjoy your trophy because nobody cares. You'll grow up someday, too.

I tell the kids and parents it's not about winning and losing. I schedule tough teams and tournaments so the kids grow and play teams that are better and realize what they need to do to step it up a level. Our playing style is based on long-term skills versus winning, i.e., taking a shot with your off-hand and not scoring or making that one more pass and your teammate drops it, versus powering through for the score.

All that said, those late afternoon post-championship photos are a big deal. Kids love it. Great for team morale. Parents love it. Makes kids more committed and loyal to team, etc. Parents can tell if a coach is organized and gives it is all and treats their kids well, but at the end of the day if you are losing they think you are a bad coach and if you are winning they think you are a good coach. That's life really.

More cynically, if a program is in it for the money, winning is what is going to make you money.

This is a great post. You have to care enough about winning to want to go and put up with the heat,travel and other outside crap. The best tournaments are when your team has a winning record but you didnt get the wins by 10 goals or more. I will take a 2-3 weekend with 5 one or 2 goal games over a 5-0 weekend with 5 blow outs. And I think thats what you get when you pay the extra money for some of the better clubs. The new lower level clubs go and get smoked in 5 games or play in a tournament to low for them and win 5 blow outs.

Who'd have thunk it two years ago that after all that drama Madlax would be the one which wiped every other local program out. I'm not a Madlax parent, am not a past Madlax parent and never will be a Madlax parent and have no reason to heap false praises. Madlax has the best youth teams by far, has the best middle school teams by far and has the best 2018 and 2019 teams locally by far. Next Level is done, VLC had a couple of good HS teams to live off until this year, comprised largely of kids poached from Madlax youth teams, but have not replicated the 2015 VLC team, and the 2017 team has had one outstanding player after the next leave over the past 18 months. VLC's youth teams are back to square one being coached by parents, and their HS teams are being handed off to local public HS coaches. Sound a little bit like Club Blue, Next Level, Cavalier, etc etc? Cabell isn't an admirable character, but he has won big. Game, set, match Madlax.

Again, the obsession to mention another club on a thread about Madlax. Strange.

Can we get back to talking about how Madlax uses kids from older grades on younger teams? I'm not talking about a kid who is reclassifying and is now on the team for his new grade. I'm talking about how Madlax has a 2020 kid on their 2021 team, for example.

Blackwolf dad here. I guess you guys feel the need to bash other clubs instead of addressing the accusations.

Glad to be a part of a club that actually cares about the kids rather than profits. None of our kids are playing down on teams a grade lower.