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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For 2034s, it's HOCO Black and then everyone else. They just swept a 2033 division. Pretty demoralizing TBH as a parent on another team.[/quote]

Fully agree.  We’ll see if/when they start defecting to the big name clubs.  Not thinking they’re gonna be able to hold that together beyond 2-3 more years, but maybe they will be the exception.  HOCO (the club) is surely trying to have a death grip on to them for relevance and to up themselves from being an 83rd ranked club—Howard County is exploding with young players these days and enough to populate more top teams than historically was the case—but reality is they don’t have any recruiting chops, connections or experience and who would risk it.  Even though that team is great, the ‘34 year is not too strong in general.  Hero’s Green is good not great and M&D ‘34 Black is currently a B-level team.  That said, kudos to the HOCO team.  It seems a crime to have them play other ‘34s but that’s the way it works.  No question they are the best in the nation.  I think, as you mentioned, they beat HOCO ‘33 recently.  I don’t know the score.  They have crushed HG in most recent play.

The HOCO ‘35 team is okay with a few good players, but they aren’t in same league as the ‘34 team.  I believe the ‘34 team may have come to the table the way they are.  I heard they were a group of kids who played sports together for some time in Carroll County, with the head coach’s daughter.  They practice 3 times a week is the rumor, and probably require wall ball the other days, to be as good as they are.  Other teams may be as good if they gave it that level of intensity.  I don’t think HOCO teams are going to draw new players from higher ranked teams, however, like other higher ranked teams do in a few years.

Maryland United also has assembled some strong younger teams.  Million dollar question is does any of this matter?  Does it matter to have the best teams at the youngest ages?  M&D and Skywalkers tend to falter out of the gate and then clean it up a little later.  HG gets the pick of the liter at these ages but is more relaxed about their team performance and wins at the younger ages, so they may not dominate.  I also don’t know what % of these young “stars” or difference makers are going to be the “it” kids come 6th/7th grade.  Puberty can change things.  Great athletes from other sports can come in.  Still, it seems it would matter to play on a competitive young team and to play other competitive young teams for development at least.[/quote]

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