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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with previous couple of posts. These age groups are so young there is a lot of lacrosse to be played and the club will recruit aggressively into their sophomore year.

They have also made it a point to swell rosters that year. As other have mentioned, it is not good for the existing boys on team but it is needed to compete at a high level. 3-4 middies lines and multiple specialty positions are needed in case guys get hurt. All the boys on black every year get multiple offers to play in college. Some elect to not play at next lever but they do gt offers. and all of them start and contribute on their high school teams which is all you should be concerned with when you are talking 2032:)[/quote]

This all ignores the very unique and very obvious dynamic that’s developed between BLC and NL for the 2030 class and younger. Typically, DCE had a strong group of BLC kids coming in during 8th grade so that the team was already competitive with the best of teams around. That’s not the case any more. NL has poached nearly every BLC squad from 2030 on down, and so DCE is inheriting BLC teams that generally can barely compete in the 2nd or 3rd brackets of HoCo. I hope they can weather the storm - the more elite teams around here the better - but to use your experience with the class of 2022 or 2024 or 2020 or whatever to what’s going on now with the youngest DCE teams ignores a huge problem they’re dealing with and will have to deal with for at least the next 4-5 years or so that didn’t exist back then. Could work out well for them. Could result in a death spiral where talented kids avoid the club because their 8th and 9th grade teams are going to struggle so much for the foreseeable future. [/quote]

fair enough, but the poster up the thread makes a very good point that in the DMV there are only 60 opportunities available (20 each on DCE, ML, NL) for meaningful playing time on a team with a good recruiting track record.  All three programs pack their A team rosters into the high 20's, and carry players on their second team with hopes of moving up, so you have around 100 players within those three programs gunning for 60 spots, not to mention fly-ins from around the country, and the top players from less known local programs looking to move up to the Big 3. players generally consider the three programs interchangeable and think nothing of moving teams to chase playing time.  based on supply and demand, all three programs will be over-stocked with good players on their high school teams for the foreseeable future.  if you need further proof that DCE will thrive, just look at MadLax - with all the criticisms and complaints, have you noticed their rosters are always full?[/quote]

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