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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t the Pride 28’s ranked #14 in the country? That isn’t average. [/quote]

I probably would not hang my hat on a fall ranking, but point taken.  Recent competitive play against top teams puts them in a tier well above average.  Prior Pride teams have followed the same model, slowly improving over the years and peaking in 8th grade before being decimated by a Capital exodus.  [/quote]

Many Pride 25s, 26s and 27s left for Capital because they saw the 23s and 24s (who elected to stay together at Pride HS) generate underwhelming recruiting results. 24s were already in the Pride pipeline by the time the window opened for the 23s, but the 25s saw what happened to the 23s in real time and led the Capital exodus that’s happened since.   
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This is exactly what happened. I feel bad for the 2023 families who made the commitment to stay with Pride that year and help KM launch her HS program. Some bad luck with the club’s recruiting director leaving at a key time to take a head coaching job at American, coupled with a really bad replacement hire. Without the recruiting history of Capital and really no direction provided to those families on how to work the recruiting process it took longer than it should have for talent on that team to commit. That 2023 team was loaded, had some of the best talent in that class, and was very competitive in the highest brackets. I believe the team had 3-4 High School Players of the Year on it from various private and public school programs and many All Mets. The way KM handled that class killed the future of her high school program.[/quote]

Several factors hurt the Pride Black 23s (PB23). The team played a 13th ranked SoS its second year, the most important year, and with that easier schedule ended the year at #15. They didn’t play in many of the same tournaments as Capital, and didn’t receive as much exposure as a result. It wasn’t until PB23s third year that it played a 2nd ranked SoS, but by that point the wave of the recruiting season had passed. PB23 slipped seven places with that jump in schedule strength and ended with a #24 ranking at a time when it needed to play its hardest in front of coaches to get their players committed.

The point that PB23 families were duped by KM isn’t entirely accurate. Those families knew they were joining a HS club with no recruiting history. They knew it was an experiment to stay with Pride. They knew they were betting on a horse with no track data. The timing of the PB23 recruiting director who left mid year was unfortunate. But PB23 families knew she had been away from the D1 coaching world for six years, and was a high school coach and youth club director / owner during that time. They also knew (or should have based on an IG search) that her club didn’t have a robust record of committing players to big schools and programs.

There just wasn’t a body of work to suggest PB23 recruiting would be successful even if the RD had stayed. It takes a lot more than putting a good product on the field and someone with a recruiting director title to be successful -- it takes years of relationships built on trust. Of course KM wanted the 23s to remain with the club, but the families shoulder some of the blame. It’s their job to help the player make decisions that will serve their best interests. The families were the ones who made the conscious / unified choice to stay with Pride. It was on them to ask themselves whether doing so put their players in the best position to be successful. [/quote]

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