Capital Baller Recruiting Showcase - how was it?
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Anonymous
| If they have adults with your minor child, you should be able to be there. If not, makes you wonder why.... |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Kids need to learn and play without parents hovering over them. They need to be able to own the experience. These aren’t 5 yr olds, they are high schoolers. They need to develop the maturity to represent themselves. Especially when considering schools and managing their own lacrosse life. You won’t be there for them in college. Let them get an experience of that now.
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Anonymous
| I just watch because I’m bored. |
Anonymous
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Leaving them at the field allows them to learn to process how they played and to receive feedback from coaches and teammates. Interposing a parent on the sideline may impair the interpersonal skills and resiliency they will need to succeed at the next level and in life.
Make friends with another parent and get a coffee or a beer. Go for a walk. |
Anonymous
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In recent seasons, there was a persistent cadre of Capital dads who apparently assumed that repeated emails imploring parents to drop their girls off and leave did not apply to them. Nice guys, but...
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Anonymous
The top clubs in Maryland don't do this, so why does Capital think they are special? |
Anonymous
If you don't like the policy, then talk with your feet and play for another club!! |
Anonymous
| Why don't you ask Bill or Gussie, they should be able to give you the answer why they don't want you there. |
Anonymous
Do you want to watch your children at school too? |
Anonymous
Capital actively discourages parent sideline engagement / coaching with players. Md clubs do not. Capital tries to put a wall between the parents and the club and the players are much better for it. Capital players are able to play at practice without the watchful eye of their obsessive parents critiquing their every move. Teaches them to advocate for themselves if they need to address something with the coaches. Prepares them for recruiting camps too (which are almost always closed). Fun to watch the handful of psycho dads who disregard closed practice instructions at recruiting camps -- easy pickins' for college coaches to make mental notes of the players they should stay away from. |
Anonymous
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So it’s all or nothing? Psycho dads and clingy children or zero ability to watch something you drove over an hour to get to on Sunday morning? I feel like a compromise is at least possible without this over simplification. Remember, we are also not allowed to communicate in any way with kids, coaches or refs during games. I bet we could pull that off watching practice too.
Talk to Gussie and Bill - do you think that has ever helped or would help? It doesn't. Vote with our feet? Maybe we should go to Mad Lax? Or we can complain on an anonymous chatroom and move on with our lives - as our girls get scholarships to UNC, Syracuse, Denver, Notre Dame, etc. We don't like it, we're not going anywhere and we are totally content. Our girls are still in the best program around. We just don't like one single policy. |
Anonymous
Or maybe recognize Capital has a winning formula for a reason (based on its recruiting success) and just trust the process? |
Anonymous
| Just chill and wait till practice is at a different location. At the Field School you can watch from your car. Relax |
Anonymous
I’ve taken my daughter to over a dozen recruiting camps over a two year period and only one was closed - one of the six Ivies we visited. |