If your kid gets a call back

[Anonymous]

If your kid gets an invite back from an open session, can you give me odds of making the team?

If he's one of 3-5 invites?
If he's one of 6-8 invites?

Haven't dealt with larger second looks than that

[Anonymous]

I think this is hard for anyone to answer. What age? What level team? DS being called back almost always meant an offer when he was young. But now that he’s older and looking at high level teams, it feels like it’s routine to be invited 2-3x. These are team trainings though rather than official tryouts/ID sessions.

A few years back he had a crazy experience. He contacted a coach about training with his team. The coach asked him back after the 1st session. Then asked him back after the 2nd. Then the coach suggested he would like to have him train with him for the entire season. It was stressful because he was already playing on 2 teams but DS kept show up once a week. Then when tryouts rolled around he complimented DS and indicated an offer was coming. It didn’t. I suspected the entire process was meant to keep DS on the back burner. He didn’t even have the decency to provide a response after all that. DS missed out on trying out elsewhere that year because the process tied him up. So I guess my point is, you never know what a callback means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is hard for anyone to answer. What age? What level team? DS being called back almost always meant an offer when he was young. But now that he’s older and looking at high level teams, it feels like it’s routine to be invited 2-3x. These are team trainings though rather than official tryouts/ID sessions.

A few years back he had a crazy experience. He contacted a coach about training with his team. The coach asked him back after the 1st session. Then asked him back after the 2nd. Then the coach suggested he would like to have him train with him for the entire season. It was stressful because he was already playing on 2 teams but DS kept show up once a week. Then when tryouts rolled around he complimented DS and indicated an offer was coming. It didn’t. I suspected the entire process was meant to keep DS on the back burner. He didn’t even have the decency to provide a response after all that. DS missed out on trying out elsewhere that year because the process tied him up. So I guess my point is, you never know what a callback means.

Good points. To add, more than once have I had a child told an offer was coming on the field and was left waiting. Once, it never came. The other time, it came but not until a few weeks later after more ID sessions and some hemming and hawing from the coach (in fairness to the coach, he was new and it was clear he didn’t have the final say) when my DC asked him when the offer would arrive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is hard for anyone to answer. What age? What level team? DS being called back almost always meant an offer when he was young. But now that he’s older and looking at high level teams, it feels like it’s routine to be invited 2-3x. These are team trainings though rather than official tryouts/ID sessions.

A few years back he had a crazy experience. He contacted a coach about training with his team. The coach asked him back after the 1st session. Then asked him back after the 2nd. Then the coach suggested he would like to have him train with him for the entire season. It was stressful because he was already playing on 2 teams but DS kept show up once a week. Then when tryouts rolled around he complimented DS and indicated an offer was coming. It didn’t. I suspected the entire process was meant to keep DS on the back burner. He didn’t even have the decency to provide a response after all that. DS missed out on trying out elsewhere that year because the process tied him up. So I guess my point is, you never know what a callback means.

Good points. To add, more than once have I had a child told an offer was coming on the field and was left waiting. Once, it never came. The other time, it came but not until a few weeks later after more ID sessions and some hemming and hawing from the coach (in fairness to the coach, he was new and it was clear he didn’t have the final say) when my DC asked him when the offer would arrive.

It’s terrible when they make a verbal offer and then don’t follow through. This happened to my son at 2 big well respected clubs. I’m not sure if it’s lack of organization or as you said the coach doesn’t have the authority to make the offer. But we’ve now learned to only consider it an offer when it’s in writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets an invite back from an open session, can you give me odds of making the team?

If he's one of 3-5 invites?
If he's one of 6-8 invites?

Haven't dealt with larger second looks than that

In general? More than 50%. Sometimes this is about "making sure" sometimes it's about whittling the field down between a handful of people. In either case your kid just needs to undeniable.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the club. Some club are looking for specific position(s) to fill and will have kids continue to come to practices.

[Anonymous]

This happens more often than not especially during ID and try out season. Our club has invited players to come practice knowing they will only keep one of the players but stringing the other one along.


 

Anonymous wrote:I think this is hard for anyone to answer. What age? What level team? DS being called back almost always meant an offer when he was young. But now that he’s older and looking at high level teams, it feels like it’s routine to be invited 2-3x. These are team trainings though rather than official tryouts/ID sessions.

A few years back he had a crazy experience. He contacted a coach about training with his team. The coach asked him back after the 1st session. Then asked him back after the 2nd. Then the coach suggested he would like to have him train with him for the entire season. It was stressful because he was already playing on 2 teams but DS kept show up once a week. Then when tryouts rolled around he complimented DS and indicated an offer was coming. It didn’t. I suspected the entire process was meant to keep DS on the back burner. He didn’t even have the decency to provide a response after all that. DS missed out on trying out elsewhere that year because the process tied him up. So I guess my point is, you never know what a callback means.