Anonymous
09/12/2024 19:42
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
And the nonstop promotion and recruiting never stops. They're just fine now with their recruiting connections. Thanks.Anonymous wrote:Here are among the local HS options for the top 2029 M&D DC players:
1) Go to Capital, which has a proven track record and a recruiting program second to none in the area.
2) Stay at M&D DC and hope they can create a program and culture comparable to Capital.
If the choice is #2, then I would love to know why. There's obviously much more risk in this scenario. What is the upside?
My opinion is the Capital process is viewed as being scary, and some, probably those on the bubble or below, prefer the idea of just riding the wave rather than having to find a new home without their friends.
Clearly, the success of this endeavor will be determined by the few elite-ish players on the team. Just hope they don't have other plans, I guess.
It's more like Cap knows they may be looking at a 2 year stretch of not getting their gals late. Which is an existensial threat to their business model. So I guess we'll keep seeing you on the M&D DC threads.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 19:37
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Lol. Ok. You convinced me to say it. They have the best recruiting director in the area. And it's been just 3 months and a lot has changed. And Cap certainly looks like they've taken notice by all indications here. Just as for them their year prior now has a skeleton crew. Good luck to Cap.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pretty funny. 7 of the top Pride players (on a pretty good squad) just moved over in 7th grade. That always happens with Cap's main feeder. For the 30s, a bunch, too but that's a different discussion.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What does few seem to be buying it mean? The Cap promotion team? They've been all over every thread going after the parents of the M&D DC 29s. They're telling you quite clearly what they're worried about. But of course you know that, as you're one of them.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someeone's not familiar with this summer's tryouts.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years. Capital's monopoly in the DMV is over.
It will be one day, but not by M&D DC. They have a decent team that cannot compete with MD teams at ‘29 and nothing really after that except B teams.
You think a few Pride kids are going to help them against M&D, Coppermine and Hero’s?
They are trying very hard to sell the dream, but few seem to be buying it. And I am sure the Capital 2026 recruiting results so far are not helping the situation.
M&D DC might well field some good middle school teams, but I think few are buying that “M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years”, which is what the original post said. The stakes are likely too high in school for top players to roll the dice on a far less certain outcome than Capital or top MD teams. Lose a few top players and it will all come crashing down, which everyone knows and probably makes the prophecy self fulfilling.
People are going to be pretty surprised it seems with 28 Cap Blue and 29 M&D DC fall ball.
FTR, I think the battleground is BLC's top players and where you should direct your energies. They're next door to M&D DC, after all. But knock yourself out.
So in 3 months they've pulled 7 top players from a very unusual place and a top 2 (to not upset the Cap community) recruiting director in the area. That happens to have a top 2 h.s. team, right there. Not in Alexandria. Hmmm...
Well congratulations on now being on a different feeder team. That is all that happened here. "Trust us, our recruiting will be great" is not going to convince anyone who raised a kid smart enough to be admitted to an Ivy league school.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 19:27
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Anonymous wrote:Here are among the local HS options for the top 2029 M&D DC players:
1) Go to Capital, which has a proven track record and a recruiting program second to none in the area.
2) Stay at M&D DC and hope they can create a program and culture comparable to Capital.
If the choice is #2, then I would love to know why. There's obviously much more risk in this scenario. What is the upside?
My opinion is the Capital process is viewed as being scary, and some, probably those on the bubble or below, prefer the idea of just riding the wave rather than having to find a new home without their friends.
Clearly, the success of this endeavor will be determined by the few elite-ish players on the team. Just hope they don't have other plans, I guess.
There is no good reason to take the risk, and nobody will even try because the attempt would sound ridiculous and be mocked hard.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 18:17
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Here are among the local HS options for the top 2029 M&D DC players:
1) Go to Capital, which has a proven track record and a recruiting program second to none in the area.
2) Stay at M&D DC and hope they can create a program and culture comparable to Capital.
If the choice is #2, then I would love to know why. There's obviously much more risk in this scenario. What is the upside?
My opinion is the Capital process is viewed as being scary, and some, probably those on the bubble or below, prefer the idea of just riding the wave rather than having to find a new home without their friends.
Clearly, the success of this endeavor will be determined by the few elite-ish players on the team. Just hope they don't have other plans, I guess.
1) Go to Capital, which has a proven track record and a recruiting program second to none in the area.
2) Stay at M&D DC and hope they can create a program and culture comparable to Capital.
If the choice is #2, then I would love to know why. There's obviously much more risk in this scenario. What is the upside?
My opinion is the Capital process is viewed as being scary, and some, probably those on the bubble or below, prefer the idea of just riding the wave rather than having to find a new home without their friends.
Clearly, the success of this endeavor will be determined by the few elite-ish players on the team. Just hope they don't have other plans, I guess.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 18:09
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Anonymous wrote:Pretty funny. 7 of the top Pride players (on a pretty good squad) just moved over in 7th grade. That always happens with Cap's main feeder. For the 30s, a bunch, too but that's a different discussion.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What does few seem to be buying it mean? The Cap promotion team? They've been all over every thread going after the parents of the M&D DC 29s. They're telling you quite clearly what they're worried about. But of course you know that, as you're one of them.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someeone's not familiar with this summer's tryouts.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years. Capital's monopoly in the DMV is over.
It will be one day, but not by M&D DC. They have a decent team that cannot compete with MD teams at ‘29 and nothing really after that except B teams.
You think a few Pride kids are going to help them against M&D, Coppermine and Hero’s?
They are trying very hard to sell the dream, but few seem to be buying it. And I am sure the Capital 2026 recruiting results so far are not helping the situation.
M&D DC might well field some good middle school teams, but I think few are buying that “M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years”, which is what the original post said. The stakes are likely too high in school for top players to roll the dice on a far less certain outcome than Capital or top MD teams. Lose a few top players and it will all come crashing down, which everyone knows and probably makes the prophecy self fulfilling.
People are going to be pretty surprised it seems with 28 Cap Blue and 29 M&D DC fall ball.
FTR, I think the battleground is BLC's top players and where you should direct your energies. They're next door to M&D DC, after all. But knock yourself out.
So in 3 months they've pulled 7 top players from a very unusual place and a top 2 (to not upset the Cap community) recruiting director in the area. That happens to have a top 2 h.s. team, right there. Not in Alexandria. Hmmm...
I wouldn't say they "pulled" because NL is somehow a now great place to be -- it's not. 7 players were poached and given free rides to play. 2030, 2031, 2032, ... are all middle of the road B teams. And what players is the recruiting director going to support for the next 3 years? Not the 2026s, 2027s, and 2028s who are not very strong. The delusion runs high among NL families.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 17:54
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Anonymous wrote:Pretty funny. 7 of the top Pride players (on a pretty good squad) just moved over in 7th grade. That always happens with Cap's main feeder. For the 30s, a bunch, too but that's a different discussion.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What does few seem to be buying it mean? The Cap promotion team? They've been all over every thread going after the parents of the M&D DC 29s. They're telling you quite clearly what they're worried about. But of course you know that, as you're one of them.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someeone's not familiar with this summer's tryouts.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years. Capital's monopoly in the DMV is over.
It will be one day, but not by M&D DC. They have a decent team that cannot compete with MD teams at ‘29 and nothing really after that except B teams.
You think a few Pride kids are going to help them against M&D, Coppermine and Hero’s?
They are trying very hard to sell the dream, but few seem to be buying it. And I am sure the Capital 2026 recruiting results so far are not helping the situation.
M&D DC might well field some good middle school teams, but I think few are buying that “M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years”, which is what the original post said. The stakes are likely too high in school for top players to roll the dice on a far less certain outcome than Capital or top MD teams. Lose a few top players and it will all come crashing down, which everyone knows and probably makes the prophecy self fulfilling.
People are going to be pretty surprised it seems with 28 Cap Blue and 29 M&D DC fall ball.
FTR, I think the battleground is BLC's top players and where you should direct your energies. They're next door to M&D DC, after all. But knock yourself out.
So in 3 months they've pulled 7 top players from a very unusual place and a top 2 (to not upset the Cap community) recruiting director in the area. That happens to have a top 2 h.s. team, right there. Not in Alexandria. Hmmm...
Well congratulations on now being on a different feeder team. That is all that happened here. "Trust us, our recruiting will be great" is not going to convince anyone who raised a kid smart enough to be admitted to an Ivy league school.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 17:47
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Please go to the "M&D acquires Next Level" thread where Capital backers will implore you to try out for Capital and go to their clinics.
Or in the alternative, you can read the legacy NL parents delusions about how M&D DC will have college recruiting on par with Capital.
OP here - If your daugther goes to a high school where the school coach handles the recruiting for their players, does the club really matter? VA Metro got plenty of girls recruited when they were around.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 17:45
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Pretty funny. 7 of the top Pride players (on a pretty good squad) just moved over in 7th grade. That always happens with Cap's main feeder. For the 30s, a bunch, too but that's a different discussion.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What does few seem to be buying it mean? The Cap promotion team? They've been all over every thread going after the parents of the M&D DC 29s. They're telling you quite clearly what they're worried about. But of course you know that, as you're one of them.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someeone's not familiar with this summer's tryouts.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years. Capital's monopoly in the DMV is over.
It will be one day, but not by M&D DC. They have a decent team that cannot compete with MD teams at ‘29 and nothing really after that except B teams.
You think a few Pride kids are going to help them against M&D, Coppermine and Hero’s?
They are trying very hard to sell the dream, but few seem to be buying it. And I am sure the Capital 2026 recruiting results so far are not helping the situation.
M&D DC might well field some good middle school teams, but I think few are buying that “M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years”, which is what the original post said. The stakes are likely too high in school for top players to roll the dice on a far less certain outcome than Capital or top MD teams. Lose a few top players and it will all come crashing down, which everyone knows and probably makes the prophecy self fulfilling.
People are going to be pretty surprised it seems with 28 Cap Blue and 29 M&D DC fall ball.
FTR, I think the battleground is BLC's top players and where you should direct your energies. They're next door to M&D DC, after all. But knock yourself out.
So in 3 months they've pulled 7 top players from a very unusual place and a top 2 (to not upset the Cap community) recruiting director in the area. That happens to have a top 2 h.s. team, right there. Not in Alexandria. Hmmm...
Anonymous
09/12/2024 17:38
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Anonymous wrote:They should be worried. M&D DC 29 is going to be spectacular. They will be a too 10 team come high school as long as they can keep the talent they acquired. This might be a sticky year getting to know one another but soon enough they’ll gel beautifully.
Are they going to continue to let the players they poached play for free all through high school? Are the toxic parents going to tone it down and not drive anyone else away?
Anonymous
09/12/2024 17:33
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Anonymous wrote:What does few seem to be buying it mean? The Cap promotion team? They've been all over every thread going after the parents of the M&D DC 29s. They're telling you quite clearly what they're worried about. But of course you know that, as you're one of them.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someeone's not familiar with this summer's tryouts.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years. Capital's monopoly in the DMV is over.
It will be one day, but not by M&D DC. They have a decent team that cannot compete with MD teams at ‘29 and nothing really after that except B teams.
You think a few Pride kids are going to help them against M&D, Coppermine and Hero’s?
They are trying very hard to sell the dream, but few seem to be buying it. And I am sure the Capital 2026 recruiting results so far are not helping the situation.
M&D DC might well field some good middle school teams, but I think few are buying that “M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years”, which is what the original post said. The stakes are likely too high in school for top players to roll the dice on a far less certain outcome than Capital or top MD teams. Lose a few top players and it will all come crashing down, which everyone knows and probably makes the prophecy self fulfilling.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 17:12
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Take away the top 6 players from Cap and what do you have? Normally, they may lose 3-4 to HG and M&D, but not 10. We're going to find out if those normally Cap Orange 50 and 60th ranked teams actually do have players who should be on Blue.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The parents of the kids who likely will not make Capital are paranoid that the good players are going to leave M&D DC . . . which they all (or most) will to go to Capital. Regardless of what happens with ‘28s bc by then they will already have tried out for Capital.
I don't really understand the commentary directed at the 2028 Capital Blue team. It seems like a fairly normal Capital team to me. It is true that at the 2028 level a good number of talented girls left for Hero's Green and M&D Black before the start of 7th and 8th grades. The girls that remained played for Pride, Stars, NL, etc. through middle school. Pride Red finished their 8th grade summer ranked #7 and then the majority of those players went to Capital and were joined by good players from Starts, NL, etc. I think they will likely struggle to find their footing like any new team does, but over time I don't see how they could be that much worse than the Pride 8th grade team.
‘28 Capital Blue will be a top 10 team by next summer and their girls will have very similar recruiting success as the ‘26s.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 17:08
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
They should be worried. M&D DC 29 is going to be spectacular. They will be a too 10 team come high school as long as they can keep the talent they acquired. This might be a sticky year getting to know one another but soon enough they’ll gel beautifully.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 16:50
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
What does few seem to be buying it mean? The Cap promotion team? They've been all over every thread going after the parents of the M&D DC 29s. They're telling you quite clearly what they're worried about. But of course you know that, as you're one of them.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someeone's not familiar with this summer's tryouts.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years. Capital's monopoly in the DMV is over.
It will be one day, but not by M&D DC. They have a decent team that cannot compete with MD teams at ‘29 and nothing really after that except B teams.
You think a few Pride kids are going to help them against M&D, Coppermine and Hero’s?
They are trying very hard to sell the dream, but few seem to be buying it. And I am sure the Capital 2026 recruiting results so far are not helping the situation.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 16:45
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Not Hero's, but no one is challenging them. Already ran with Coppermine. And it's 7, not a few. Good luck this fall.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someeone's not familiar with this summer's tryouts.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:M&D DC will be on par with Capital in a few years. Capital's monopoly in the DMV is over.
It will be one day, but not by M&D DC. They have a decent team that cannot compete with MD teams at ‘29 and nothing really after that except B teams.
You think a few Pride kids are going to help them against M&D, Coppermine and Hero’s?
Anonymous
09/12/2024 16:25
Subject: What is M&D DC and are they any good?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The parents of the kids who likely will not make Capital are paranoid that the good players are going to leave M&D DC . . . which they all (or most) will to go to Capital. Regardless of what happens with ‘28s bc by then they will already have tried out for Capital.
I don't really understand the commentary directed at the 2028 Capital Blue team. It seems like a fairly normal Capital team to me. It is true that at the 2028 level a good number of talented girls left for Hero's Green and M&D Black before the start of 7th and 8th grades. The girls that remained played for Pride, Stars, NL, etc. through middle school. Pride Red finished their 8th grade summer ranked #7 and then the majority of those players went to Capital and were joined by good players from Starts, NL, etc. I think they will likely struggle to find their footing like any new team does, but over time I don't see how they could be that much worse than the Pride 8th grade team.
‘28 Capital Blue will be a top 10 team by next summer and their girls will have very similar recruiting success as the ‘26s.
This reads like a troll post. Any new Capital team takes some time to gel. Top 10 in their final year seems reasonable, but not by next summer. 2026s are putting together a special recruiting class, so that could be out of reach, but the 2028s will probably have a normal/average recruiting class when the time comes.