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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've heard BA will fold and not have a DA next year.[/quote]

From any source that might know something or rumor mill and speculation?[/quote]

I don't think that's either rumor or speculation - just plain trolling.

Even if Pipeline does leave (which is currently rumor and speculation until we learn otherwise, random anonymous coaches notwithstanding) Armour won't fold immediately, at least on the boys side. Most of the young boys teams are SAC players, so no great loss there. I doubt existing older DA players are going to quit and go back to Pipeline to play ECNL when they have already invested time into academy and are being looked at, or about to be looked at, by college coaches. ECNL, on the boys side, isn't yet on the same level as DA (though may be one day, especially if they can pull more good clubs from DA). So, very little should change next year.

If Pipeline as a club leaves Pipeline players are still going to be eligible for Armour just like kids from any other club. Armour won't turn away good players - hell, I'm sure they would be more than happy to poach them much like DA clubs like to poach from each other. The Pipeline players who want more college looks than ECNL can currently provide may still end up at Armour. Even if they don't all it means is that Armour coaches will have to step up their recruiting a bit and do a better job getting players from other local clubs, especially some of the players in eastern Montgomery and PG counties who might otherwise have gone to DCU.

In a few years, if ECNL boys keeps growing, then who knows. But in that scenario it's not just Armour going away, it's half the DA.[/quote]

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