Feedback on MadLax

[Anonymous]

Not nice stuff. And, MadLax is more expensive, yet tons of families flock to play there. So there must be some extremely positive features - can anybody share what they are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not nice stuff. And, MadLax is more expensive, yet tons of families flock to play there. So there must be some extremely positive features - can anybody share what they are?

Top rated lacrosse teams?

[Anonymous]

(1) great coaches; (2) great kids; (3) winning teams. Unless the owner actually coaches your son's team (I think 2024 and 2028) you will never have to deal with him.
If your son is on the top 15 or so in his age group MadLax is a great experience and fantastic investment. If he is number 16 or lower on Capital, or he is on DMV, probably not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(1) great coaches; (2) great kids; (3) winning teams. Unless the owner actually coaches your son's team (I think 2024 and 2028) you will never have to deal with him.
If your son is on the top 15 or so in his age group MadLax is a great experience and fantastic investment. If he is number 16 or lower on Capital, or he is on DMV, probably not.

All true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(1) great coaches; (2) great kids; (3) winning teams. Unless the owner actually coaches your son's team (I think 2024 and 2028) you will never have to deal with him.
If your son is on the top 15 or so in his age group MadLax is a great experience and fantastic investment. If he is number 16 or lower on Capital, or he is on DMV, probably not.

All true

What about the 27's? They just switched coaches to the former BLC dad coach. He brought his son and a bunch of mater dei kids to the team on an already huge roster. Should make for fun sideline conversations as those players take time from the pre-existing players.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He assaulted a kid at SJC, was caught with hookers at McLean???

Really? I have no doubt that he sends mean emails, makes a ton of money, and sneaks his B teams into lower age groups. Guilty as charged. But hookers and assault - is there any evidence or is that a bit of MadLax derangement syndrome?

Hopefully all in the past - better judgement and discretion comes with age.

https://www.backofthecage.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/306196/madlax-lacrosse.html

Fired from McLean High School for allowing underage drinking by his players.
Fired from St. John's for kicking a player.
Fired from Potomac for threatening an 8th grade Potomac student for switching clubs.
Sent the following email to an 8th grade Landon student for switching clubs: "Hey ungrateful quitter....Your former teammates and coaches, who detest you now, can't wait to get a piece of you Saturday when we play vlc."
Creates an IG story bullying 8th grader that switched clubs

I know that we have all experienced accelerated aging in 2020, but the last listed example of poor public behavior was less than a year ago. Buyer beware.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(1) great coaches; (2) great kids; (3) winning teams. Unless the owner actually coaches your son's team (I think 2024 and 2028) you will never have to deal with him.
If your son is on the top 15 or so in his age group MadLax is a great experience and fantastic investment. If he is number 16 or lower on Capital, or he is on DMV, probably not.

All true

What about the 27's? They just switched coaches to the former BLC dad coach. He brought his son and a bunch of mater dei kids to the team on an already huge roster. Should make for fun sideline conversations as those players take time from the pre-existing players.

Yes, the 2027's are going to be interesting to watch this fall. I believe that the new coach from BLC is an assistant, not replacing the incumbent head coach. But in any event, with the influx of BLC players, the prior poster's analysis will remain accurate, probably even more so - the top 16 players on the Capital roster (whether legacy MadLax players or new boys from BLC) will have a great experience, and an already strong team will be much improved; the bottom 8-10 players on Capital will get good coaching and good competition in practice, and can brag that they are on a top 1-3 national team (trust me, they do) but they will have difficulty getting onto the field in games; and the DMV players (including the "Warriors," who are rostered on both Capital and DMV) will get okay coaching, and tons of game time in DMV games, but zero time in Capital games. And to make it more interesting, the 2027's are near the age where Madlax will bring in still more players from their Texas or Oregon programs for certain tournaments. All players on all ML teams (Capital, DMV, regional) will pay above market prices. Fortunately, the families who are successful enough to afford this are sophisticated enough to figure it out, and will make a decision by spring either to stay or go by balancing where their son stands against their other options. MadLax will make lots of money, which is the legitimate objective of any business, and people who are not happy customers will leave. The owner is free to send nasty emails or IG posts to those who do leave, but the truth is that he only sends those to the GOOD players who leave, not the average or bad ones, and families are free to ignore them, and to view them as validation that their son is good. I happen to know a family who received such an email and it was taped to their refrigerator with pride. All is well in the world of MadLax.

[Anonymous]

Yes, the 2027's are going to be interesting to watch this fall. I believe that the new coach from BLC is an assistant, not replacing the incumbent head coach. But in any event, with the influx of BLC players, the prior poster's analysis will remain accurate, probably even more so - the top 16 players on the Capital roster ....

The BLC dad will be the de facto head coach. He made a deal with Cabell to bring those players. They will all get more playing time than the pre-existing players regardless of skill.

[Anonymous]

DCE is the place to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, the 2027's are going to be interesting to watch this fall. I believe that the new coach from BLC is an assistant, not replacing the incumbent head coach. But in any event, with the influx of BLC players, the prior poster's analysis will remain accurate, probably even more so - the top 16 players on the Capital roster ....

The BLC dad will be the de facto head coach. He made a deal with Cabell to bring those players. They will all get more playing time than the pre-existing players regardless of skill.

Not true, but thanks for stirring the pot. That's what the forum is for, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, the 2027's are going to be interesting to watch this fall. I believe that the new coach from BLC is an assistant, not replacing the incumbent head coach. But in any event, with the influx of BLC players, the prior poster's analysis will remain accurate, probably even more so - the top 16 players on the Capital roster ....

The BLC dad will be the de facto head coach. He made a deal with Cabell to bring those players. They will all get more playing time than the pre-existing players regardless of skill.

anything is possible, but consider:

(1) many of the new BLC players, including the new coach's son, are listed on the DMV roster;

(2) Cabell's overall objective is to keep as many boys in the program for as long as possible; if anybody (old or new) deserves to be in the sweet 16 but is getting Daddy-balled, that player will be gone quickly, and Cabell knows it. Now that the BLC players have paid their money, whatever promises Cabell might have made to the BLC coach are not worth very much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCE is the place to be.

Now that is funny. You do know that DCE does not exist for sixth grade, right? And that the DCE feeder program, BLC, is where everybody left from to join MadLax?

By the way does anybody know why all these kids left BLC to join a MadLax age group that they had to know was already close to capacity? BLC has a good reputation generally, and in the last HoCo season the 2027 team did just fine in the Elite division.

[Anonymous]

The BLC coach's son is at Landon, so you see the connection. He left Mater Dei a year or so ago. What isn't clear is why all the Mater Dei BLC players followed him.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t BLC 2028 have a similar thing happen too? A bunch of kids left for Madlax and NL, including the coaches’ kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCE is the place to be.

Now that is funny. You do know that DCE does not exist for sixth grade, right? And that the DCE feeder program, BLC, is where everybody left from to join MadLax?

By the way does anybody know why all these kids left BLC to join a MadLax age group that they had to know was already close to capacity? BLC has a good reputation generally, and in the last HoCo season the 2027 team did just fine in the Elite division.

The 2027 BLC Blue team went 3-4 in the elite division and didn't make the playoffs.