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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BA seem to be doing fine with SAC kids and guest players.

Can’t imagine many will take that hour drive north in rush hour from Bethesda even with CM running people away.  I do agree fewer may head south from Baltimore suburbs.

If history holds they’ll pick up some fast developers from smaller clubs

If you look at the top 5 Maryland 2014 teams (pipeline, Celtic, Coppermine, BA/sac, Potomac), they are already talent dense enough to be surprisingly competitive regionally with deep enough rosters to be playing 11v11.

Outside of union / Delco / Richmond / syc it’s a bigger drop off in pa/va.

I think the real question is not Coppermine or a few b team kids in DC going to ppa/dc soccer mls ad. It’s will the age shift at the same time teams go to bigger u13 rosters change the landscape. Will kids parents accept offers to shuffle their late 2013 kids out of mls ad to ecnl, or stick with the MLS hype. How many Jan 2014 chase a mls HG.

[b]File this under Questions no one will remember in 5 years[/b].[/quote]

Lol so true!!

I do wonder how the age change and the variation between HG (calendar year) and everything else being school year will play out. If someone is a late 2014 bday, they could find themselves on one of the HG teams, or on a second team playing 9v9, presumably as a total stud. That's a huge delta and it would be hard to bridge that gap.

It's becoming increasingly clear that AD is just a way to extract more money from second-tier teams, and is not a pathway to anything. SAC doesn't even let their AD team wear academy uniforms. Now you have clubs like PPA getting it. And I'm sure next year there will be more.

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Would 'B' team kids be playing elsewhere for free if not on an AD team?[/quote]

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