Black Ops for WSYL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VLC players won’t move to DCE or NL, parents like the playing time their kids currently get. Besides most will go to local Fairfax County and loudoun county public school or at best PVI. I haven’t heard of any kids on VLC hitting up the big DC or Maryland prep schools. Only kid maybe leaving is the future Calvert Hall FoGo.

Seems like O'Connell should try and create a pipeline from VLC, especially with PVI moving out west.

O’Connell is a fine school. Parents looking for a good lacrosse program for their son are not going to this school for that reason. Most of the VLC 2025/26 kids live in Loudoun and most VLC kids go to public school

Like most generalizations, the final sentence of your post has some truth to it, but you would be surprised how many exceptions there are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VLC players won’t move to DCE or NL, parents like the playing time their kids currently get. Besides most will go to local Fairfax County and loudoun county public school or at best PVI. I haven’t heard of any kids on VLC hitting up the big DC or Maryland prep schools. Only kid maybe leaving is the future Calvert Hall FoGo.

Seems like O'Connell should try and create a pipeline from VLC, especially with PVI moving out west.

O’Connell is a fine school. Parents looking for a good lacrosse program for their son are not going to this school for that reason. Most of the VLC 2025/26 kids live in Loudoun and most VLC kids go to public school

Like most generalizations, the final sentence of your post has some truth to it, but you would be surprised how many exceptions there are.

By definition “most” is more than 50%. Your use of the term “exceptions” indicates that less than 50% of these kids live outside of Loudoun and attend private schools. There is not some truth just truth. The random True poster can comment next

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is interesting that as soon as the qualifier ended, this thread about Black Ops has turned into a discussion of players from one or more of the three programs jumping to the other two. I wonder if all three teams would have been better off playing WSYL on their own, just adding a couple of ringers or 2027's to replace the holdbacks. At least two of the three programs would have been in the running to qualify, and the WSYL process would have made each of the three programs stronger and tighter in the long run. I don't say this often, but maybe MadLax did it right.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VLC players won’t move to DCE or NL, parents like the playing time their kids currently get. Besides most will go to local Fairfax County and loudoun county public school or at best PVI. I haven’t heard of any kids on VLC hitting up the big DC or Maryland prep schools. Only kid maybe leaving is the future Calvert Hall FoGo.

Seems like O'Connell should try and create a pipeline from VLC, especially with PVI moving out west.

O’Connell is a fine school. Parents looking for a good lacrosse program for their son are not going to this school for that reason. Most of the VLC 2025/26 kids live in Loudoun and most VLC kids go to public school

Then the VLC kids will stick with PVI? I thought a lot of VLC kids went to PVI at the prior location, perhaps not commuting from Loudon to their.

Perhaps the younger VLC kids will go to O'Connell if they aren't from out west.

[Anonymous]

Why won't DCE be playing in NLF events going forward? That is news to me, but I guess I am not in the know.

[Anonymous]

sounds like a ton of talk of boys switching clubs within Black Ops last weekend in DE.

Lots of parents talking to other parents at 14u trying to make a pitch for boys to try out in the summer. With these boys moving to HS next year, bound to happen.

[Anonymous]

Do you really see anyone leaving DCE or NL for VLC?

[Anonymous]

Absolutely. MadLax too. There is potential for movement among all four teams in both directions.

[Anonymous]

So the only kids involved on the U14 Black Ops team were from the three sponsoring clubs?

[Anonymous]

No. One Crabs Baltimore kid.

[Anonymous]

VLC Black Ops had FCA and Looneys kids, too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VLC Black Ops had FCA and Looneys kids, too

Maybe at U13 but the question was about U14 which only had the Crabs kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VLC Black Ops had FCA and Looneys kids, too

Maybe at U13 but the question was about U14 which only had the Crabs kid.

Yes, that is right. U13 level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why won't DCE be playing in NLF events going forward? That is news to me, but I guess I am not in the know.

They gave up their membership to NLF. Certain aged teams can be invited to certain events, but it is not 100%. That is why they are starting their own thing w Maddog, 2way, Prime Time, etc, Tough to be second over in trying to build something similar to NLF. NLF is a monster.

[Anonymous]

Why would they give up the membership to NLF? DCE (and BLC) had a good track record for being invited and showing up to those events.