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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is interesting is that there are seven players on the full All-Met list that were on the Pride 2023 A team. KM & BS drove all but three of them away to other teams and the level of talent they had is evidence of how badly Pride botched their inaugural college recruiting class. [/quote]

And it continues[/quote]

I don't think Pride's HS program will ever recover from the 23 debacle. The pattern seems to be the top 40-50% of the Red team goes to CLC and Pride then brings up some girls from White and girls from other programs to fill out the new HS Black team. The new Black team will be competitive but is now playing in tournament groups that are nowhere near the top like they were in MS. I don't see this pattern changing anytime soon and it seems that KM is more accepting of this reality versus when her 25 team left in mass.[/quote]

Some poor decision making took place by the 23s who thought they could be better off as a group instead of as individuals. That unfortunately had implications for many players and their future recruiting aspirations. Hard lesson was learned. [/quote]

I disagree that they were better off as individuals. They were better off playing as a group but on a team who's director paid people a living wage and can keep a recruiting coordinator more than 1 year. Though to learn their job and develop the required relationships in a year. [/quote]

The team had better success staying together, yes. Individually, you can't deny the better players on that team would have had better recruiting results had they broken from the pack and tried out / made Capital.

The blame can't be shouldered completely by club owners. Parents have to accept the lion's share. Choosing an unproven club with little / no history or recruiting track record over Capital was a group-think miscalculation. Some might call it hubris. Same results would have likely occurred had the recruiting director remained in place.     [/quote]Calling it hubris would be incorrect given that the initial recruiting coordinator would have worked out well. After she left to go coach at AU, it was the second one, a conflict of interested AD from a Baltimore Girl's private that was the problem. And just how many slots would have been available on Capital, not a particularly fun group to belong to, with many girls being relegated to the Orange team that dissolved after a few years. [/quote]

How was the second Pride 23 recruiting director from Baltimore conflicted?[/quote]
She was the Athletic director at Garrison Forest, an all girls school. Her first priority would be to get the athletes at her primary employer placed with colleges and then whatever time or chits she had leftover would go the Pride girls. Other than tell the girls how terrible they were, and take a lot of money off of KM, she did nothing to get any of them recruited.

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