Take Back Tryout Season!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the team you are currently on has tryouts in February, and you don't make it. So the entire spring season is like, a lame duck season where the coach doesn't give a crap about your development and you get no play time? You are paying for a full year of soccer.

Yes. And even worse, if you make and choose another club your current club knows this (because you obviously didn’t accept their offer). So you sit the whole spring season on a team where the club knows you have no future.

Isn’t it great!!! Oh and make sure you accept in 24 hours!!!

That is such bullshit. Especially if the club doesn't make you an offer back for your own team, and then you have to go find another team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents...i'm here to pump you up. Claim what is rightfully yours and take back tryout season! Don't let these clubs have power over you...visit as many clubs as you want! You are a customer and can test drive as many clubs as there are hours in a day. Go visit some practices! Go talk to some coaches! Stop being used...you can do it.

We need to stand up to these businesses and organizations that are making money off of us and then making us feel guilty if we don't keep spending money with them. Have a backbone!

If you can go to practices before the tryouts. Will give you a way better idea of the team than the tryout. Target a few clubs, send an email and see which clubs will let you practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents...i'm here to pump you up. Claim what is rightfully yours and take back tryout season! Don't let these clubs have power over you...visit as many clubs as you want! You are a customer and can test drive as many clubs as there are hours in a day. Go visit some practices! Go talk to some coaches! Stop being used...you can do it.

We need to stand up to these businesses and organizations that are making money off of us and then making us feel guilty if we don't keep spending money with them. Have a backbone!

If you can go to practices before the tryouts. Will give you a way better idea of the team than the tryout. Target a few clubs, send an email and see which clubs will let you practice.

This is ideal. That’s why I don’t understand the OP saying to tryout as much as possible. Again, I get the gist but not the literal logic. If you need to practice with a team to really have a chance and to get to know who you think will be the coach next year, it’s very difficult to invest in more than one other option. Sure you can just show up and hope it works but we all know that’s very unlikely. With the age change, it’s that much harder. My advice is if you have a coach you like and they will be the coach next year, then stick with the greatest level of predictability. Everything else seems like a real crap shoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents...i'm here to pump you up. Claim what is rightfully yours and take back tryout season! Don't let these clubs have power over you...visit as many clubs as you want! You are a customer and can test drive as many clubs as there are hours in a day. Go visit some practices! Go talk to some coaches! Stop being used...you can do it.

We need to stand up to these businesses and organizations that are making money off of us and then making us feel guilty if we don't keep spending money with them. Have a backbone!

If you can go to practices before the tryouts. Will give you a way better idea of the team than the tryout. Target a few clubs, send an email and see which clubs will let you practice.

This is ideal. That’s why I don’t understand the OP saying to tryout as much as possible. Again, I get the gist but not the literal logic. If you need to practice with a team to really have a chance and to get to know who you think will be the coach next year, it’s very difficult to invest in more than one other option. Sure you can just show up and hope it works but we all know that’s very unlikely. With the age change, it’s that much harder. My advice is if you have a coach you like and they will be the coach next year, then stick with the greatest level of predictability. Everything else seems like a real crap shoot.

You sound like the perfect customer! OP here…my point is only to be brave and do what you want. People feel pressure to stay or they will be punished. Screw that. You are in control and you should check out other clubs if you want to.

[Anonymous]

This year will be tough to get a feel of a team because of the age change. Attending a practice before helps you decided if you like a coach or the way a practice is run. But the team could be very different with girls playing school year coming down and moving down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year will be tough to get a feel of a team because of the age change. Attending a practice before helps you decided if you like a coach or the way a practice is run. But the team could be very different with girls playing school year coming down and moving down.

This is why communication is key. People need to know where they would stand if they go someplace new OR stay. Best clubs are honest with their families.

[Anonymous]

Make sure you demand the coach tells you who else accepted offers before you accept yours. It’s b.s. that clubs will pull offers after 48 hours for some kids but not others.

[Anonymous]

You have to go to practices with other teams before tryouts. If you go to a tryouts without knowing if you are on team A for the club it doesn't matter how the tryout goes you will not be on the first team if the team is a good team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you demand the coach tells you who else accepted offers before you accept yours. It’s b.s. that clubs will pull offers after 48 hours for some kids but not others.

They never really pull offers. And when coaches tell you who has and hasn’t accepted make sure they do it in WRITING!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you demand the coach tells you who else accepted offers before you accept yours. It’s b.s. that clubs will pull offers after 48 hours for some kids but not others.

They never really pull offers. And when coaches tell you who has and hasn’t accepted make sure they do it in WRITING!

Why does it matter if it’s in writing or not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you demand the coach tells you who else accepted offers before you accept yours. It’s b.s. that clubs will pull offers after 48 hours for some kids but not others.

They never really pull offers. And when coaches tell you who has and hasn’t accepted make sure they do it in WRITING!

Why does it matter if it’s in writing or not?

I don’t care about who has accepted offers or not, but my child was directly lied to during the recruiting process by a coach in the past. Since then, we 100% get what we want in writing.

The contracts are voidable on any major terms the club does not deliver. For example, my contract states the specific team. If they tried to change our team, I no longer have to pay and play. That is why I would get everything in writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you demand the coach tells you who else accepted offers before you accept yours. It’s b.s. that clubs will pull offers after 48 hours for some kids but not others.

They never really pull offers. And when coaches tell you who has and hasn’t accepted make sure they do it in WRITING!

Why does it matter if it’s in writing or not?

Lies. Clubs say anything to get you to sign. Having something in writing would give the customer a bit of leverage in this case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you demand the coach tells you who else accepted offers before you accept yours. It’s b.s. that clubs will pull offers after 48 hours for some kids but not others.

They never really pull offers. And when coaches tell you who has and hasn’t accepted make sure they do it in WRITING!

I'm, yes, they do. Especially if another more talented player comes along, but also sometimes because the parents are difficult and it's an easy way to get rid of someone. This happened to a friend of my player, who's parent delayed signing, and had the offer pulled because someone better showed up. They were offered a spot on a lower level team, but ended up leaving the club

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you demand the coach tells you who else accepted offers before you accept yours. It’s b.s. that clubs will pull offers after 48 hours for some kids but not others.

They never really pull offers. And when coaches tell you who has and hasn’t accepted make sure they do it in WRITING!

I'm, yes, they do. Especially if another more talented player comes along, but also sometimes because the parents are difficult and it's an easy way to get rid of someone. This happened to a friend of my player, who's parent delayed signing, and had the offer pulled because someone better showed up. They were offered a spot on a lower level team, but ended up leaving the club

If your child isn’t one of the bottom three on the roster then you shouldn’t have to worry about your offer being pulled. And even if they are, so what go play in a lower league for a year and comeback stronger next year.

But it’s about the parents ego, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the team you are currently on has tryouts in February, and you don't make it. So the entire spring season is like, a lame duck season where the coach doesn't give a crap about your development and you get no play time? You are paying for a full year of soccer.

Agree. I think this is going to be super disruptive this year. The age change means so many kids are going to be moving around. How engaged will the kids who got cut? My experience is that the kids who get dropped usually start missing practices and leave the club at the end of the season.

From a parents perspective, if your kid gets cut from a team, are you going to pay for travel to a showcase or playoffs that require thousands of $ to attend? Spring season might be a shit show.