DC Express?
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Anonymous
they may pack the rosters with 25 or more per team, but only 20 or so are getting on the field, clown |
Anonymous
| how many spots realistically? |
Anonymous
The exact number on the DCE, Next Level, or MadLax A team is a moving target because the bottom third of the roster is a revolving door, and all three teams sprinkle in fly-ins and guest players from one event to the next. My son is on one of those three teams and the official roster is 26, not counting guests. I’d estimate the other two programs are about the same if not larger. But only 18-20 per team, at most, are happy with their playing time. |
Anonymous
| What’s the difference between DCE Metro and DCE Black? I only heard of black and orange but have seen Metro pop up and was wondering what that is. |
Anonymous
Who knows. Between Urick and Severns it’ll be a total failure. |
Anonymous
So they have 5 teams each grade now? Metro, Black, Orange, Urick and Severns? Anyone know the order in terms of best to worst of the teams? |
Anonymous
So take out the Orange and replace it with Metro. This is only for the 2028s that I know of. |
Anonymous
| so are there five teams? |
Anonymous
| dcelacrosse.com shows 6 teams |
Anonymous
They are really suffering and this was predicted on these threads. When Anzelone's kids aged out, he gave control to Severns and the club sank. Now they've got some strange mix of Black, Orange and Metro and some ages have multiple teams and others are single. A club can't have a part-time director. NL's Mitchell quickly gave up the DeMatha job. Maddox gave up coaching years ago and MadLax is a long term success. Club Blue is back and has a full-time director. |
Anonymous
Interesting take. The website shows they have a club & recruiting director in Urick who isn't listed as a coach on any team for DC. It's widely known he's not coaching at Prep any longer so this is likely his full-time gig. They have an executive director in Breslin who is also the executive director of parent company BLC. It appears Severns is no longer the director and is now the assistant director of recruting while coaching two teams. Based on your argument of a club not having a part-time director these moves look to only strengthen the program not weaken it. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, I didn’t realize urick was the full time guy. Now it remains to be seen if he is more than a lax dude, phys ed teacher and can handle running a business. |
Anonymous
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I think That BLC is actually running the business but that Coach Urick was brought in to spearhead recruiting
Spoke to some parent recently with boys on 2024 and 2025 teams and they said there was zero recruiting support and zero communications around recruiting for individual family's. So I would say this is a massive "win" for the club? It was actually shocking for me to hear their opinions on the club and their boys were al playing pretty high level D1. Their overall opinion was the club didn't help that happen, in one case it was more the high school coach (STJ) and in another case there was a dad on the team tat helped guide them and make introductions. I would have thought a high end club like DCE would have a real process for recruiting communicated when the boys are in middle school. This is all new for us and no idea what to expect in high school if our son wants to try to play in college. |
Anonymous
| Albeit Urick was brought on after being let go, but parents said he's done next to nothing. Running a business is no joke and he'll need to ramp it up because the other 3 clubs are pulling away. |
Anonymous
He coached my son’s team a couple years ago. It seemed he had a lot of personal issues going on and he wasn’t able to separate that from his work responsibilities. I suspect that’s what happened with Prep too |