Thoughts on MC Elite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Coach had a great season with the talent she had" -- nothing like throwing the kids under the bus. Unreal. The FACT is that team was much more competitive relative to peers last spring than they were this spring -- pointing to "talent" of 11-year-olds as the issue is not only appalling on principle, it is totally disingenuous.

However....... The coach can only do so much and then it's up to the girls on the field to execute. Players change a lot at this age - it's not unusual to see teams dominating age brackets in 4th and 5th grade and then slipping in 7th and 8th. How you look as a player at that age has nothing to do with how you look in HS. Some of these winning younger teams have a couple of standout players who carry the team and if they start coming up against teams with a greater depth of talent then scores start going the other way. Sounds like these parents had a rough season and are looking for someone to blame. Too bad it's always the coach.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Coach had a great season with the talent she had" -- nothing like throwing the kids under the bus. Unreal. The FACT is that team was much more competitive relative to peers last spring than they were this spring -- pointing to "talent" of 11-year-olds as the issue is not only appalling on principle, it is totally disingenuous.

However....... The coach can only do so much and then it's up to the girls on the field to execute. Players change a lot at this age - it's not unusual to see teams dominating age brackets in 4th and 5th grade and then slipping in 7th and 8th. How you look as a player at that age has nothing to do with how you look in HS. Some of these winning younger teams have a couple of standout players who carry the team and if they start coming up against teams with a greater depth of talent then scores start going the other way. Sounds like these parents had a rough season and are looking for someone to blame. Too bad it's always the coach.

You are talking about a coach who attended 2 of their 8 games this season, but can’t be blamed.

[Anonymous]

I am the PP above. I will add my experience has been that the lacrosse world is small. I have watched parents take a scorched earth policy in when kids are in elementary school to later want their kids to play in HS for an old coach affiliated with a program they hated (or make a showcase team or whatever).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MC Elite 2030 Midnight parent here. The way our girls were treated by the coaches and club this season was UNACCEPTABLE. That’s why the TEAM is leaving. Not just a few parents. The TEAM. I want a refund on principle but lucky for MC Elite my spouse wants to let it go. I’m so pissed I’m literally going to have a bonfire with all the branded crap we bought for this club. Bye, MC Elite.

Gee. You sound like a super fun parent to be on a team with.

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[Anonymous]

Ever heard the time-honored joke about academia: "The politics were so great, because the stakes were so small"...

Reading the last several pages, I think that applies pretty aptly to this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That will be shared soon. Exciting stuff and there will be supplemental tryouts....

OK I am really impatient I can't wait where did they end up? I know there was talk about some new club or whatever and if that is the case what does that say about MCE where an entire team of A players leaves for an untested brand-new club with no track record...

If the players have cycled through Next Level, Bethesda, and MC Elite before 6th grade and no other established program wants to take them all, they may have to go to a program new to the area if they want to stay together. You see programs across sports like baseball and lacrosse buying up or starting local franchises. M and D has done it with their shore and Orlando teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Coach had a great season with the talent she had" -- nothing like throwing the kids under the bus. Unreal. The FACT is that team was much more competitive relative to peers last spring than they were this spring -- pointing to "talent" of 11-year-olds as the issue is not only appalling on principle, it is totally disingenuous.

Was talking about the HS season and how good the coach is. Stop spinning words. What is disingenuous is the attacks on a lacrosse program that has and will continue to cultivate elite HS and college players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP above. I will add my experience has been that the lacrosse world is small. I have watched parents take a scorched earth policy in when kids are in elementary school to later want their kids to play in HS for an old coach affiliated with a program they hated (or make a showcase team or whatever).

It is extremely small especially in this area. There are a lot of connections between old coach/player, former teammates, etc...

It's one thing to leave a program, it's another to leave it the way you mentioned and leave a bad taste in the mouth of the coaches. Coaches usually don't want to deal with those parents later unless your kid is an actual superstar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The gaslighting going on is remarkable. Just like I heard that at the parent meeting last night there was talk of “no parent coaches”, while a parent was coaching a team not 10 yards away on the same field as the meeting. Don’t believe what you see, just believe what I say.

Parent coaches all around this club! I know of at least 3 MCE teams with parent coaches- 2029, 2028, 2032/33.

Which, taken alone, is totally fine. I have seen some phenomenal parent coaches at clubs over the years. But just be upfront about it and not lie saying that there are no parent coaches and try to push that as a selling point. How can someone believe anything they say, if the club leadership lies about something that is easily and visibly disproved?

I was actually at that parent meeting and I think this comment is getting taken a little out of context. It was in reference to a discussion about clubs that have multiple dads volunteering on the sidelines at every game and was not made as a standalone statement that MCE does not have any parents who are also coaches.

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I’m not fun at all. I am exhausted and not happy when people hurt my kid. Especially my healthy one. I don’t give a s!#% about lax but my daughter does. Will go scorched earth on anyone or any club that treats her like s!#%. Otherwise, I don’t get involved because I don’t have time. Lax does not pay the bills and I would rather be doing just about anything else besides watching sports. F MC Elite and any parent that excused the way they treated our daughters this season.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That will be shared soon. Exciting stuff and there will be supplemental tryouts....

OK I am really impatient I can't wait where did they end up? I know there was talk about some new club or whatever and if that is the case what does that say about MCE where an entire team of A players leaves for an untested brand-new club with no track record...

YJ someone mentioned in earlier thread

[Anonymous]

Maybe it's time to move on to other things - like some great NCAA games to watch this weekend! Anyone have a kid playing I should be cheering for?

[Anonymous]

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I’m not fun at all. I am exhausted and not happy when people hurt my kid. Especially my healthy one. I don’t give a s!#% about lax but my daughter does. Will go scorched earth on anyone or any club that treats her like s!#%. Otherwise, I don’t get involved because I don’t have time. Lax does not pay the bills and I would rather be doing just about anything else besides watching sports. F MC Elite and any parent that excused the way they treated our daughters this season.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is on the 30/31 combo team and we are staying. She is also a soccer player, and her sister plays for Bethesda Soccer on an ECNL team. Every elite club has its up and downs and they all cost the same $ (soccer is way more than lax). MCE practice fields/location are A+, we chose the club b/c of the coaching experience and success of all the coaches, the tough losses are not a reason for us to leave, she is so happy after practices.

I see a combo 29/30/31 team in her future…