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Agreed

Freedom 28’s rolledddddd past Dukes! The most entertaining part is watching the Dukes coaching staff come unglued🤣🤣

I take it there is some bad blood between these two ‘28 teams? What’s the backstory? Both teams are pretty solid from a talent perspective (no dog in this fight)

Good battles between the two local teams, Freedom for sure has had the Duke’s number…
That said, Freedom parents are THE WORST

Dukes bought by the same group that recently bought Brotherly Love? Philly lacrosse going corporate, shame.

I had heard BPG might buy Duke's but haven't seen any confirmation. Have not been a fan of the changes to BL and was considering moving my son to BL.

What changes have you seen that would warrant concern? How do you go “corporate” in lax? Sounds like coaching will all stay as is…

Anybody know what this Duke's Elite Helm team is all about? Will these just be the only High School teams? Or is this their "National" team and regular old Duke's Elite will be the non-national teams?

Just HS, guess EB wanted something of his own to keep a pet of the program. The national team they run is Premier Nationals.

We were offered a roster spot to which we replied and paid for said roster spot. Almost a week has gone by with no communication whatsoever. I have emailed three different email addresses and have not received a response from any.

Is this normal?

I would say generally this is not normal. Given that Dukes sold to a conglomerate, my guess is they haven't figured out the who is doing what. You would think that a professionally run organization would have that all buttoned up when the deal was inked. I'm sure they will get it all figured out and you'll get a response. But certainly doesn't distill confidence out of the gate.

Generally, I wouldn't expect too much communication from the club during Late July/Early August. Everyone is taking vacation after the spring/summer/tryout season. Late August the communicate will pick up as they start ramping up for the fall practices that will begin in September after Labor Day.

While I have never been part of Duke's or the parent company, most large clubs have a communication Director that all questions should be funneled through. Probably the type of information they will get to you once they figure out who is doing what.

In closing, is it annoying - yes. is it unexpected - probably not given Duke's changes. will it get better? - hopefully/probably.

Enjoy what is left of summer. you've got the next 11 months to worry about your lacrosse team.

The Duke’s MSI is completely outside of their normal teams; Ebe must’ve mandated access to his own team, in order to sell. Not sure why they have HS plans young ages as well. Big corporations means teams everywhere I guess..?

English translation?!

I think he is saying:
EW must’ve demanded a team in order to sell, hence, the Duke’s MSI (believe EW owned the rights to the club name)
The big corporations wanna make profit, so they saturate the market w teams - doesn’t make sense but trusts what they do. Duke’s will go from 1 team to probably 3 or 4, depending on geographical reach.

Ebe Helm (not sure who EW is) didn't own the rights to anything. Duke's was named after a bar in Springfield back in the late 90s or early 00's when they started a men's summer league team. Ebe then expanded to build out the HS program as club lacrosse started to grow. But I am fairly certain he didn't sell anything when he transitioned the operations to a number of directors (before MSI acquired).

They already have a national brand - NPG National is Dukes.

BPG National - it was a colossal failure

Understatement of the year. Along with the Laxtown tournament they tried to hold this fall. BPG is poison.