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Exactly. A Quick Look over at Inside Lacrosse, and you get the rankings of the 3 respective DMV teams often discussed here. Madlax is firmly at the bottom in 3 of the 4 high school grade years, with the 2027 team the only one not in last place of the 3. In that year, they are ahead of the lowly 2027 DCE team. So in real terms— Madlax teams @ChillLaxin. And they are not winning. But keep patronizing that fool, maybe it’s working for you!

2025’s:
NL #17
DCE #26
ML #33

2026’s:
DCE #2
NL #15
ML #44

2027’s:
NL #6
ML #23
DCE #61

2028’s:
DCE #28
NL #34
ML #42

* Rankings per Inside Lacrosse. 2028 rankings per US Club Lacrosse, 2028 not yet ranked by IL

That ML 27 team had a very uneven summer. IMO, that ranking is a tad high. Got ran off the field by Laxachussetts at NFL and lost to Team 91 MD and NE Blazers down the stretch.

Sorry Folks,, MadLax is a top program and no matter how you spin it, always will be.

You should have sold it, Cab. Your reputation is finally catching up to you’re getting run over by your competition. And DM might even be shorter than you!

I am sure True would buy them

Exactly, MadLax is leading at every age group.

Or— last in all but one. But yeah.

Ok, CM is a buffoon.

Where are the 2028 HoCo teams playing this fall? NAL? Terp Classic? NLF?

Can we all please take a moment to recognize how BOTC finally figured out not to have two or three blank page links at the end of each forum and now just goes out to the last page with actual text?

Humanity literally built a space station before this breakthrough, but it's welcome nonetheless.

Does anyone know anything about the Fall East Coast Showcase & Invitational? Is it worth doing at this age?

This is such a great post. I thought I was the only one annoyed to death with that

Yet the direct links are still broke.

If you want to just check it out that's fine. If you are looking for recruiting value then it's a money grab. College coaches are paid to be there. No college coaches are looking at 9th graders. Right now they are trying to lock down the 2026 recruits and will start scouting the 2027's. My opinion is based on my own mistakes. I actually had my oldest son do the player series in 8th grade and it was a complete waste of money.

True, but the site was still handy when I was trying to explain to my kids how annoying pop-up ads used to be, since this is their last refuge on the internet.

Yep- the only forum you can visit is the one most recently updated, or the last one you visited. Can’t believe these admins haven’t figured it out.