Leaving mid-season

[Anonymous]

DD's team has lost players mid-season every year for three years. How unusual is that? We didn't see this with older DS's teams where kids stayed the whole season like their contract requires. They are at the same club. DD has an excellent opportunity to go to another club and is probably going it to take it partly because it's been bothering her and us that kids seem to leave so often. We do not know those families that left well so we can't ask them.

Are we misjudging this? Is this more common on the girls' side?

[Anonymous]

What sport is this that has kids under contract? That sounds ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What sport is this that has kids under contract? That sounds ridiculous.

They probably mean the club won’t release the player card, or something similar. Which is usually spelled out in the agreement/contract with the club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What sport is this that has kids under contract? That sounds ridiculous.

They probably mean the club won’t release the player card, or something similar. Which is usually spelled out in the agreement/contract with the club.

What sport? What is a player card? My kid played grassroots basketball, and there was a lot of movement between teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What sport is this that has kids under contract? That sounds ridiculous.

They probably mean the club won’t release the player card, or something similar. Which is usually spelled out in the agreement/contract with the club.

What sport? What is a player card? My kid played grassroots basketball, and there was a lot of movement between teams.

What is grassroots basketball? There were kids leaving in the middle of the season?

[Anonymous]

What sport is this? Contracts?!

My kids play club baseball and softball, and leaving mid-season is fairly unusual (and highly frowned upon- damages reputation). Plenty of turnover on teams between seasons however.

[Anonymous]

Is this soccer related? There is a forum for soccer. Go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD's team has lost players mid-season every year for three years. How unusual is that? We didn't see this with older DS's teams where kids stayed the whole season like their contract requires. They are at the same club. DD has an excellent opportunity to go to another club and is probably going it to take it partly because it's been bothering her and us that kids seem to leave so often. We do not know those families that left well so we can't ask them.

Are we misjudging this? Is this more common on the girls' side?

Of course you can ask the families whose daughters left—just email them. Usually when I see players leave mid season it’s because their parents care mostly about winning and / or their DD’s position, team placement or playing time doesn’t jibe with what the coaches think—everyone thinks their DD is Mia Hamm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD's team has lost players mid-season every year for three years. How unusual is that? We didn't see this with older DS's teams where kids stayed the whole season like their contract requires. They are at the same club. DD has an excellent opportunity to go to another club and is probably going it to take it partly because it's been bothering her and us that kids seem to leave so often. We do not know those families that left well so we can't ask them.

Are we misjudging this? Is this more common on the girls' side?

Of course you can ask the families whose daughters left—just email them. Usually when I see players leave mid season it’s because their parents care mostly about winning and / or their DD’s position, team placement or playing time doesn’t jibe with what the coaches think—everyone thinks their DD is Mia Hamm.

If Mia Hamm didn’t believe in Mia Hamm, we wouldn’t all know the Mia Hamm that we know today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD's team has lost players mid-season every year for three years. How unusual is that? We didn't see this with older DS's teams where kids stayed the whole season like their contract requires. They are at the same club. DD has an excellent opportunity to go to another club and is probably going it to take it partly because it's been bothering her and us that kids seem to leave so often. We do not know those families that left well so we can't ask them.

Are we misjudging this? Is this more common on the girls' side?

Of course you can ask the families whose daughters left—just email them. Usually when I see players leave mid season it’s because their parents care mostly about winning and / or their DD’s position, team placement or playing time doesn’t jibe with what the coaches think—everyone thinks their DD is Mia Hamm.

If Mia Hamm didn’t believe in Mia Hamm, we wouldn’t all know the Mia Hamm that we know today.

And if she didn’t have the right support

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What sport is this that has kids under contract? That sounds ridiculous.

They probably mean the club won’t release the player card, or something similar. Which is usually spelled out in the agreement/contract with the club.

What sport? What is a player card? My kid played grassroots basketball, and there was a lot of movement between teams.

What is grassroots basketball? There were kids leaving in the middle of the season?

Grassroots is also called AAU, but it’s not really AAU because the teams/tournaments are not associated with the amateur athletic union. My kid played on a team sponsored by Nike, and they refer to their teams as grassroots.

[Anonymous]

The answers are obvious, the real question is; why do you not know the general reasons people have kids leave teams mid-season?

And - if you truly do not know - count yourself as part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What sport is this that has kids under contract? That sounds ridiculous.

They probably mean the club won’t release the player card, or something similar. Which is usually spelled out in the agreement/contract with the club.

You can go to a club with a different carding organization.