Since everyone is discussing tryouts
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Anonymous
| For all but the youngest kids, why do so many parents stay and watch? |
Anonymous
| ID-ing fellow competition... |
Anonymous
| See how my kid is playing. Looking at the level of play generally. Trying to get a feel for the coaches. Live too far to go home and come back. |
Anonymous
| I enjoy watching my child play soccer. |
Anonymous
What else should we do? Plenty of tryouts are not local so now we have to plan out this time at some random shop/restaurant instead of watching our child compete? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| You want to make sure the team is a good fit. If everyone isn’t very good, you would look at another team |
Anonymous
| All of the above, and I enjoy hanging out with the other parents so why not? For older kids, I can see where parents might not stay especially if they can drive. |
Anonymous
| Often the coaches come over and talk to parents before the first tryout so you learn about them and their plans for the next year. |
Anonymous
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I have no idea why anyone would stay and watch. ODP and DCU open tryouts did not allow parents to watch and yet there were still parents out there with binoculars.
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Anonymous
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OMG DCU Academy tryouts were hysterical. Parents trying to look through the fence. Some trying to get to higher elevation to watch from there. And ODP every year is pretty funny, too. People getting their early to get prime parking so they can watch fields with binoculars. We parents are funny!
But as to original question, I watched when my kids were first trying out for U9 just because I had no idea what to expect, especially with my oldest. That tends to peter off as they get older for most of us. |
Anonymous
| Control freaks |
Anonymous
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NEVER has a coach came to talk to the parents to tell us about their plans next year. NEVER!
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Anonymous
| I wonder if all the parents watching would have wanted their own parents hovering when they were teens? |
Anonymous
^^ this |