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Looney's:

2027 4-18-1
2026 11-14
2025 6-21

21-53-1

.28% win percent

Makes sense as they do not have to pay $100 a hour for field space in the fall and spring. $750 probably gets you better facilities then most. Some good coaches is those programs who are in it for the right reasons.

Does looneys have a 27 team this year?

I don’t believe so. Think most of those kids went to Preds.

Using “hit the wall” as your go to comeback shows your ingnorance and lack of lacrosse knowledge. stunads use phrases like that. You have no idea what it takes.

26 team lost 8 games by 1 goal. Including several top 10 teams. They did not have a FO kid.

Wasn’t it the defense that kept them in those games…the same starting defense that left for crabs? 🤔

They did not have a FO kid.

They still don't!!! LOL......But his mom will tell you how great he is!

How do they not have a fogo when they have a roster the size of a high school?

Sounds like he beat your boy a number of times for you to be bitter and attacking him like this. Grow up coward.

People like you are why we can't have nice things.

Is Looney’s still around? Did everyone pull up stakes and leave?

I believe the Looney's club has three teams, 24, 25, and 26. Seems a small number of teams compared with other clubs.

My guess is that Looney's folds after this summer or is gobbled up by TRUE or someone else. Things are not good!

The 26 Team may not make it to summer tournaments. Many are already looking for other clubs to play with.

The 26 Team may not make it to summer tournaments. Many are already looking for other clubs to play with.



They need to merge with FCA

Kelly Post rec programs used to be a big feeder into Looneys but that changed several years ago with like the 2025/2026 classes when KP realized they could keep kids together to play club, and now are aligned w True. I don’t know what happened or if there was anything that precipitated some of that but Looneys lost a lot of their pipeline.

I don’t know what FCA gets out of a Looneys merger, I feel like they’ve already picked up a lot of the good 2026 and 2027 kids.

Good luck to those kids trying to find news clubs at this point.

Not to divert from talking smack about Looneys, but this is generally the pattern when clubs "go away" in a saturated market like Baltimore/Towson.

1. 1-2 older rosters blow up or mass-defect because of a conflict with a specific coach or "the club" in general.
2. Even if roster is back-filled, it is usually a downgrade. Not as much positive PR for the club's brand.
3. Becomes harder to recruit new players at the youngest level. Koopers, Looneys, MESA-MD, Breakers, and others have nothing below the 2027 class. Looneys youngest is 2026. Breakers only remaining teams that can even sort of compete are the 2024 and 2026. 2025 and 2027 are awful and 2028-2031 folded.

Honestly I think it's just a function of age and branding. I'd expect some of the next to go will be Looneys, Arden Diamondbacks (owner has said this is the last year....folding), Crabs (purchased or folds in next 4 years tops), Zingos (will fold, as they have downgraded so much as to not even be able to compete with the HoCo rec league teams).

On the bubble (have 5+ years left): Roughriders, Sidewinders, Rock, Koopers.

In their place I expect:
1) More True teams that nobody wants
2) Some new-branded clubs out of Harford and Anne Arundel Counties
3) Some new club to hitch their wagon to Loyola Blakefield with the next head coach in the next 12-18 months (following the model of FCA-CHC and dare I say, Predators-St Pauls / McD).

Wrong about Zingos. With Roughriders basically dead (2026 is youngest team), the only club teams based in HOCO are Zingos and HOCO. With no club team in Carroll County, Zingos gets it fair share of those kids. They have 2 2026 teams, 2 20027 teams, 2028, 2029, 2030, and 2031. They will be fine in the space they compete in.

Koopers has a 2029 team, but no 2028.

Breakers, Roughriders, and Rock don't seem to be long for this world though.

The clubs are also an in-bred group led by guys and gals who love lacrosse but have little to no experience in maintaining a business. Once past that initial energy, there is little left in keeping it going. It's almost like a restaurant where the owners get old and haven't thought about how to pass it along. They refuse input and advice and the product dies. At this point, I would say thank goodness there are orgs like 3Step and True to keep options open for the sport.

Thanks True Dad.

Seriously, inbred, whatever, you are correct that the two types of people who start a club (laxers who work in a large corporate setting and HS coaches who never played club) are ill-equipped to keep a club going and healthy for more than 7-10 years. Someone on BOTC quoted the owner of Arden Diamondbacks as saying, "it's not worth the trouble," which of course is amusing since club owners make money hand-over-fist and if it's "too much trouble," either the club needs to lower expectations and dues, or increase dues to meet parent and player expectations. The quote says to me, "the easy money isn't fun enough anymore." Much like a restaurant owner (though usually restaurant owners blow their their profits in nose candy, boats, and young women they can't afford, before the restaurant goes out of business and they complain "restaurant business isn't worth the trouble" lol).

Koopers won't have a 2028 team as Predators has a ton of kids at that age and I anticipate a lot more trying out in July forcing an A and B team or one solid team. Rock and Roughriders will be gone.

Oddly specific but OK. I think those young Predators squads will continue to pick up FCA and Crabs kids who weren't getting playing time, and Team 91 kids who get tired of losing all year long, with 30 player rosters. Koopers lucked into that 2029 roster of theirs but whatever, good for them and good for those kids. The exodus of good rec club players after 6th-8th grade is always an interesting source of new players for various clubs. 91 is a destination for a lot of them, the marketing and packaging is perfect for the parent and player who haven't been snookered by a corporate club before. "We develop players! (*from Texas*)!"

Looney’s is ran and coached by good people but they seem to be done with the grind. I wish the kids the best of luck finding a new club.

Predators will be a dominate team next year. StP is on the rise ( just beat McD by 5 ) . Everybody hitches onto a winner. Predators the Talk of Baltimore

Are you a director at True ? Only one would be putting that out. True comes in with the same song and dance. Swoop up the players who aren't elite or under better players. Tell them that they will make them all elite. Take the money and get the same results year after year,,,mediocre lacrosse and players. The best players always leave True to local top teams.

Clearly written by someone who runs and or coaches looneys since that sentiment isn’t shared by parents or players

It’s interesting to me the number of people thinking predators is going to takeoff. A lot of folks unhappy at the 2027 and 2028 age groups… Coaching turnover galore is the rumor.

I hope they don’t fold or my son will have a hard time at this age finding a new club

Coach is a joke. Shows up half the time and doesn't take accountability. Took a team that won a HoCo championship and drove them into the ground. Now we won't even have a team next year. Same clown is at LB at look at that joke of an offense.

Don’t worry about it, if he wants to play there will always be a club for him. Parents and players panic but there new options will open up when others fold. It’s not always a fun process, but he will do just fine.

Really, not what I heard, just the opposite. Clearly your son wasnt getting playing time with the Predator's . Predators are on the rise and it shows at several levels. Been stated many times, Talk of Baltimore

Yeah, but the talk is that they stink!

Ummmm, not a Predators parent but nice try bro. 2026 team is 1-4 in A (single A), 2027s are 3-2 in AA and 2028s are 1-2 in AAA. I would not call that 'on the rise', they aren't even winning in mediocre divisions. If anyone is talking about them, its about the dissatisfaction with coaching and unimpressive results.

Looney, their coach, predators, or all 3?

Looneys parent. When are the Ville tryouts?

Looney’s loses to NL in the AAAA……how’s that elite argument going?

You know everything. What is the score of the Orioles game going to be today?

You can only play in the division you’re accepted into. Additionally, the OP missed that the 29 Predators are 4-0 in AA.

As a preds parent we have been at another program mentioned above, and my wife and I love the coaching and admin here so far. It’s knowledgeable, accountable and invested.

Records aside, as a first year program, our team is finding their stride and gelling. And my son is having a blast as we are seeing changes and development on a weekly basis. So take some of these negative comments with a grain of salt.