What's going on with MadLax 2026

[Anonymous]

I heard that the team is moving en masse over to NextLevel. Is that true, and if so what happens to the existing NextLevel team?

[Anonymous]

Next^Level. Two words, space in-between.

[Anonymous]

What do you think will happen? Of course, some kids on the current NL 2026 roster, will get cut.

The current NL 2026 players who are still good enough, will make the team.

As someone who has a son in college on a D1 roster, I can't understand why parents get up in arms over this. Club players have historically shopped around, and it's happening more frequently these days.

End of the story, if you and your son are worried about playing time in college, then D1 is def not for you, just scratch it off the list. College coaches spend more time these days, hitting the transfer portal and bringing in 5th year or graduate players then HS recruiting.

[Anonymous]

Cool story bro.

[Anonymous]

Next Level kids go bye bye. Tough way to do business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next Level kids go bye bye. Tough way to do business.

Will the NL kids go to Madlax? Sounds crazy but it is a good platform, so all Cabell needs to do is hire a good coach and then they have a home. Where else are they gonna go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you think will happen? Of course, some kids on the current NL 2026 roster, will get cut.

The current NL 2026 players who are still good enough, will make the team.

As someone who has a son in college on a D1 roster, I can't understand why parents get up in arms over this. Club players have historically shopped around, and it's happening more frequently these days.

End of the story, if you and your son are worried about playing time in college, then D1 is def not for you, just scratch it off the list. College coaches spend more time these days, hitting the transfer portal and bringing in 5th year or graduate players then HS recruiting.

Based on my older kids experience, I don’t remember kids shopping around like they do now. Both boys played for one club all the way though HS. Parents have gotten crazier, that’s for sure. Paying for private “lessons”?? Never used to be a thing…now kids do it in elementary school. The whole thing is nuts.

[Anonymous]

Next Level has improved a lot over the past year or two, so its roster is not too different than MadLax in terms of quality. If they held an open honest tryout for both rosters, the new NL team would be split about 50/50 legacy NL and ML. So what happens to the half of ML players who don’t make it - go back to MadLax??

[Anonymous]

This is the ripple impact from a couple of the 24's moving to 25's and the 25's who havent already reclassed moving to 26 but not wanting to stay in the ML system given how poorly recruited the 24 class has been.

[Anonymous]

MadLax is becoming the new Cavalier. I feel bad for their 2027's and 2028's.

[Anonymous]

Hadn't thought of that but good analogy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hadn't thought of that but good analogy

Agree, so ML boys are hoping for different results because all of the sudden they are better off with the NL boys who are horrible with the exception of 3 or so players. Again, the coach's fault is why the ML has underperformed not the boys that don't but in the work or listen.

[Anonymous]

Man...you parents are nuts. The amount of recruiting going on right now trying to pull kids from other clubs to come to NL is just crazy. You want to do your thing, do your thing. You don't need to try and pull others with you.

And don't tell me it's kids only talking to kids. I've had 2 Dads reach out (you all know who I am talking about) to see if my son would jump to the NL/ML combo. No chance I am making that commute.

And having done this before, if your kid is good enough, he is good enough. Almost all the clubs will provide a high enough level to get him seen.

[Anonymous]

Coach doesn't hold players accountable and frankly from what I have seen from this team by watching them play at tournaments they don't listen or play as a team. Never have played as a team and it has finally caught up to them all. They beat the teams they barely should and get kicked around by real teams from the north and nationally. Feel bad for those NL boys being kicked to the curb for what will be the same team different colors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hadn't thought of that but good analogy

Agree, so ML boys are hoping for different results because all of the sudden they are better off with the NL boys who are horrible with the exception of 3 or so players. Again, the coach's fault is why the ML has underperformed not the boys that don't but in the work or listen.

Disagree; NextLevel has improved a ton and they have a lot more than three good players. And MadLax has a few bad apples, but the majority are good players and good kids. You could put together a dominant roster of 22 players, and I expect the new coach will do exactly that. But gosh it will be ugly for the kids on both teams who don't make it. The Next Level kids were promised a full year on the blue team at August tryouts - how are they going to explain cutting half the roster? And that team has always had a tight nit culture, so a lot of families must be saying WTF.