Anonymous wrote:This 2029 thread just started today and the Capital locust have already infected it. Sorry for the 2029 parents.

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Anonymous wrote:A ls a parent who had to endure the insufferable sideline antics of the MNDDC parents during the BLC game, Capital would be wise not to infect their team with those families. Truly embarrassing — especially because they lost, yet again.

What happened on the sidelines? Club/Parents would be wise to tamp that down. doesn't fly at the HS level.

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Anonymous wrote:The Capital propaganda is tiring. Don’t you guys get tired?

They are really incredible. They exhausted the 28s, and they still ran to Maryland. It'll be funny to watch them squirm for the next 9-10 months though.

There were good 2028 players who left for MD teams before middle school. For the recent high school tryouts, ALL of the best remaining players tried out for Capital and every one who made the top team accepted the offer.

The 2028 Blue team surprisingly tied Hero's yesterday, so probably slightly less squirming today. Play day games mean nothing and Capital will still likely struggle this year, but there definitely seems to be potential to compete with top teams.

Question isn’t: why did Capital Blue 28 go winless this weekend … The better one to ask is: how did a brand new Capital team that’s never played together before, which supposedly lost its pipeline of DMVs best players to MD clubs back in middle school, tie a top-5-ranked legacy MD club during their first head-to-head match?

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Anonymous wrote:The Capital propaganda is tiring. Don’t you guys get tired?

They are really incredible. They exhausted the 28s, and they still ran to Maryland. It'll be funny to watch them squirm for the next 9-10 months though.

There were good 2028 players who left for MD teams before middle school. For the recent high school tryouts, ALL of the best remaining players tried out for Capital and every one who made the top team accepted the offer.

The 2028 Blue team surprisingly tied Hero's yesterday, so probably slightly less squirming today. Play day games mean nothing and Capital will still likely struggle this year, but there definitely seems to be potential to compete with top teams.

Question isn’t: why did Capital Blue 28 go winless this weekend … The better one to ask is: how did a brand new Capital team that’s never played together before, which supposedly lost its pipeline of DMVs best players to MD clubs back in middle school, tie a top-5-ranked legacy MD club during their first head-to-head match?

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Anonymous wrote:The Capital propaganda is tiring. Don’t you guys get tired?

They are really incredible. They exhausted the 28s, and they still ran to Maryland. It'll be funny to watch them squirm for the next 9-10 months though.

There were good 2028 players who left for MD teams before middle school. For the recent high school tryouts, ALL of the best remaining players tried out for Capital and every one who made the top team accepted the offer.

The 2028 Blue team surprisingly tied Hero's yesterday, so probably slightly less squirming today. Play day games mean nothing and Capital will still likely struggle this year, but there definitely seems to be potential to compete with top teams.

Nothing to be surprised about- every year Cap Blue teams tie or beat a heroes green team. It happened with the 24, 25s and the 26s... Both clubs are great and have wonderful families and players on them. Capital will be a top 10 team. Capital uses the equal playtime model, so that can reduce the ranking a bit where these other teams play the top players more so they will win more games, but at the end of the day college coaches are not really focusing on the ranking as much as how the team plays together and how the particular player that they're interested in recruiting plays.

The “we play everyone on the roster” excuse is lame. So does m&d and heros in HS, it is part of their sales pitch regarding college recruiting.

Equal playtime is very different than playing everyone some of the time. Capital's model is as close to splitting time as possible, which mans the best players sit roughly half the time. Hero's and M&D may try to give game opportunities to the whole team, but I am not aware they are as rigid as Capital on splitting time - especially with their stars. Right or wrong, Capital is more focused on recruiting than winning games, whereas other teams may place greater emphasis on winning.

Lol, this is just cope bc capital isn’t on the same level as m&d and heros.

The game in HS is recruiting and the smart local players know that Capital is second to none in this area. I hate to do this because there is an entire thread on the topic, but here is the tracker of the 2026 recruits. I think you are right - Capital does seem to be on a different level.

💙Capital Blue 2026 USCLUBLAX Rank #7
1 West Point ARMY M
1 Columbia D
1 Columbia D
1 Duke M
1 Dartmouth D
1 Yale A
1 Yale M/D
1 Princeton Left A
1 Harvard M/D/A/draw
1 Harvard M/A/D
1 Denver Draw/M
1 Michigan D
1 Virginia Tech A
1 Florida State Goalie
1 Florida State Draw/M
1 OREGON A
1 Bucknell Goalie
1 Mercer A
1 W&M A
1 Holy Cross A

M&D 2026 🖤 USCLUBLAX Rank #3
1 Notre Dame M
1 Boston College A
1 Drexel D/M
1 Saint Joseph University D
1 Arizona State D
1 UMBC D
1 JMU M
1 Clemson M
1 Florida M
1 Florida M
1 UVA D
1 Syracuse A
1 Syracuse
1 Ohio State A
1 West Point Army A
1 West Point Army D
1 Navy
1 Denver A

Hero Green 2026💚 USCLUBAX RANK #5
1 East Carolina University
1 Virginia Tech
1 Louisville M
1 Campbell University
1 Georgetown goalie*
1 Maryland
1 Univeristy of South Florida
1 University of South Florida
1 Virginia Tech
1 Oregon *goalie
1 Maryland A/M
1 Navy
1 Boston College
1 Vanderbilt
1 Kennesaw

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Anonymous wrote:A ls a parent who had to endure the insufferable sideline antics of the MNDDC parents during the BLC game, Capital would be wise not to infect their team with those families. Truly embarrassing — especially because they lost, yet again.

What happened on the sidelines? Club/Parents would be wise to tamp that down. doesn't fly at the HS level.

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Anonymous wrote:The Capital propaganda is tiring. Don’t you guys get tired?

They are really incredible. They exhausted the 28s, and they still ran to Maryland. It'll be funny to watch them squirm for the next 9-10 months though.

There were good 2028 players who left for MD teams before middle school. For the recent high school tryouts, ALL of the best remaining players tried out for Capital and every one who made the top team accepted the offer.

The 2028 Blue team surprisingly tied Hero's yesterday, so probably slightly less squirming today. Play day games mean nothing and Capital will still likely struggle this year, but there definitely seems to be potential to compete with top teams.

Nothing to be surprised about- every year Cap Blue teams tie or beat a heroes green team. It happened with the 24, 25s and the 26s... Both clubs are great and have wonderful families and players on them. Capital will be a top 10 team. Capital uses the equal playtime model, so that can reduce the ranking a bit where these other teams play the top players more so they will win more games, but at the end of the day college coaches are not really focusing on the ranking as much as how the team plays together and how the particular player that they're interested in recruiting plays.

The “we play everyone on the roster” excuse is lame. So does m&d and heros in HS, it is part of their sales pitch regarding college recruiting.

Equal playtime is very different than playing everyone some of the time. Capital's model is as close to splitting time as possible, which mans the best players sit roughly half the time. Hero's and M&D may try to give game opportunities to the whole team, but I am not aware they are as rigid as Capital on splitting time - especially with their stars. Right or wrong, Capital is more focused on recruiting than winning games, whereas other teams may place greater emphasis on winning.

Lol, this is just cope bc capital isn’t on the same level as m&d and heros.

Anonymous wrote:A ls a parent who had to endure the insufferable sideline antics of the MNDDC parents during the BLC game, Capital would be wise not to infect their team with those families. Truly embarrassing — especially because they lost, yet again.

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Anonymous wrote:The Capital propaganda is tiring. Don’t you guys get tired?

They are really incredible. They exhausted the 28s, and they still ran to Maryland. It'll be funny to watch them squirm for the next 9-10 months though.

There were good 2028 players who left for MD teams before middle school. For the recent high school tryouts, ALL of the best remaining players tried out for Capital and every one who made the top team accepted the offer.

The 2028 Blue team surprisingly tied Hero's yesterday, so probably slightly less squirming today. Play day games mean nothing and Capital will still likely struggle this year, but there definitely seems to be potential to compete with top teams.

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Anonymous wrote:The Capital propaganda is tiring. Don’t you guys get tired?

They are really incredible. They exhausted the 28s, and they still ran to Maryland. It'll be funny to watch them squirm for the next 9-10 months though.

There were good 2028 players who left for MD teams before middle school. For the recent high school tryouts, ALL of the best remaining players tried out for Capital and every one who made the top team accepted the offer.

The 2028 Blue team surprisingly tied Hero's yesterday, so probably slightly less squirming today. Play day games mean nothing and Capital will still likely struggle this year, but there definitely seems to be potential to compete with top teams.

Nothing to be surprised about- every year Cap Blue teams tie or beat a heroes green team. It happened with the 24, 25s and the 26s... Both clubs are great and have wonderful families and players on them. Capital will be a top 10 team. Capital uses the equal playtime model, so that can reduce the ranking a bit where these other teams play the top players more so they will win more games, but at the end of the day college coaches are not really focusing on the ranking as much as how the team plays together and how the particular player that they're interested in recruiting plays.

The “we play everyone on the roster” excuse is lame. So does m&d and heros in HS, it is part of their sales pitch regarding college recruiting.

Equal playtime is very different than playing everyone some of the time. Capital's model is as close to splitting time as possible, which mans the best players sit roughly half the time. Hero's and M&D may try to give game opportunities to the whole team, but I am not aware they are as rigid as Capital on splitting time - especially with their stars. Right or wrong, Capital is more focused on recruiting than winning games, whereas other teams may place greater emphasis on winning.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if M&D DC will be the program to break Capital, but the wait until HS model is dying on its own. Look what is happening to Skywalkers. They used to wait until 9th and would start poaching players, but when Coppermine started attracting talent from 2028 down, SW had to start putting effort into the lower age groups but it was too late.

Except all the good talent fled Coppermine for other clubs so your proof point disproved your theory.

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Anonymous wrote:The Capital propaganda is tiring. Don’t you guys get tired?

They are really incredible. They exhausted the 28s, and they still ran to Maryland. It'll be funny to watch them squirm for the next 9-10 months though.

There were good 2028 players who left for MD teams before middle school. For the recent high school tryouts, ALL of the best remaining players tried out for Capital and every one who made the top team accepted the offer.

The 2028 Blue team surprisingly tied Hero's yesterday, so probably slightly less squirming today. Play day games mean nothing and Capital will still likely struggle this year, but there definitely seems to be potential to compete with top teams.

Nothing to be surprised about- every year Cap Blue teams tie or beat a heroes green team. It happened with the 24, 25s and the 26s... Both clubs are great and have wonderful families and players on them. Capital will be a top 10 team. Capital uses the equal playtime model, so that can reduce the ranking a bit where these other teams play the top players more so they will win more games, but at the end of the day college coaches are not really focusing on the ranking as much as how the team plays together and how the particular player that they're interested in recruiting plays.

The “we play everyone on the roster” excuse is lame. So does m&d and heros in HS, it is part of their sales pitch regarding college recruiting.

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if M&D DC will be the program to break Capital, but the wait until HS model is dying on its own. Look what is happening to Skywalkers. They used to wait until 9th and would start poaching players, but when Coppermine started attracting talent from 2028 down, SW had to start putting effort into the lower age groups but it was too late.