Tryouts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest. In most organizations, the "tryouts" are a sham. Coaches already know who they are keeping from their current team and who they are moving up or down. And now that many teams allow visitors or guests players throughout the season to join practices, those players "trying out" from out from other teams have already been identified as selections or not. Behind closed doors, every coach I know admits that he already had his team picked rolling into tryouts. TBH, this coronavirus outbreak just eliminates the sham.

Or exposes the sham and politics

[Anonymous]

Or makes it harder for top-team coaches to articulate making changes when current players are unable to use the next few months to justify remaining on the team.

[Anonymous]

And completely ignores the developmental and physical changes that can happen in 6 months time...

[Anonymous]

The way things are going right now the most likely scenario is they offer you a spot on the same team for next year without tryouts. The large clubs have huge fixed costs and need millions of dollars per year to pay their full-time staff and loans. They can't wait until the fall to hold full-scale tryouts and start getting people back on payment plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The way things are going right now the most likely scenario is they offer you a spot on the same team for next year without tryouts. The large clubs have huge fixed costs and need millions of dollars per year to pay their full-time staff and loans. They can't wait until the fall to hold full-scale tryouts and start getting people back on payment plans.

And they will not take any financial risks with newcomers. If you paid them reliably this year, you stay on the team next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks are we have a virus outbreak and you are worried about tryouts? Go with the flow folks, all clubs are in the same boat.

Not worried about tryouts. But you can basically say the same thing about many things. We have a virus outbreak, and you are on a soccer forum? We have a virus outbreak, and you are playing videogames? We have a virus outbreak, and you are watching netflix? We have a virus outbreak, and you are trying to pitch financial services? We have a virus outbreak, and people want to vote? Or talk about race and class? What's your point? That we are diverting you from the ER or the vaccine labs? If you'd been through crises before, or taken a broader historical view, and I seriously doubt you have done either, then you might understand that life can, does and must go on, subject to the prudent safeguards that people should observe.

NP. As they used to say around here--and I really do think this might help--please unclench. You sound like an angry suburban dad in Ashburn or some such place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks are we have a virus outbreak and you are worried about tryouts? Go with the flow folks, all clubs are in the same boat.

Not worried about tryouts. But you can basically say the same thing about many things. We have a virus outbreak, and you are on a soccer forum? We have a virus outbreak, and you are playing videogames? We have a virus outbreak, and you are watching netflix? We have a virus outbreak, and you are trying to pitch financial services? We have a virus outbreak, and people want to vote? Or talk about race and class? What's your point? That we are diverting you from the ER or the vaccine labs? If you'd been through crises before, or taken a broader historical view, and I seriously doubt you have done either, then you might understand that life can, does and must go on, subject to the prudent safeguards that people should observe.

NP. As they used to say around here--and I really do think this might help--please unclench. You sound like an angry suburban dad in Ashburn or some such place.

i'd say you are pretty far off in every respect. The whole point was to tell people to relax and stop judging people who don't carry or introduce anxiety about this into every part of life. Glad to see you've moved past any unity right to stereotyping genders, neighborhoods -- and doing so pretty badly. I'll unclench now and be grateful fopr yet another lecture from people who have absolutely no business lecturing or doing much else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The way things are going right now the most likely scenario is they offer you a spot on the same team for next year without tryouts. The large clubs have huge fixed costs and need millions of dollars per year to pay their full-time staff and loans. They can't wait until the fall to hold full-scale tryouts and start getting people back on payment plans.

And they will not take any financial risks with newcomers. If you paid them reliably this year, you stay on the team next year.

If you can afford it. The economy will take a big hit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks are we have a virus outbreak and you are worried about tryouts? Go with the flow folks, all clubs are in the same boat.

Not worried about tryouts. But you can basically say the same thing about many things. We have a virus outbreak, and you are on a soccer forum? We have a virus outbreak, and you are playing videogames? We have a virus outbreak, and you are watching netflix? We have a virus outbreak, and you are trying to pitch financial services? We have a virus outbreak, and people want to vote? Or talk about race and class? What's your point? That we are diverting you from the ER or the vaccine labs? If you'd been through crises before, or taken a broader historical view, and I seriously doubt you have done either, then you might understand that life can, does and must go on, subject to the prudent safeguards that people should observe.

NP. As they used to say around here--and I really do think this might help--please unclench. You sound like an angry suburban dad in Ashburn or some such place.

i'd say you are pretty far off in every respect. The whole point was to tell people to relax and stop judging people who don't carry or introduce anxiety about this into every part of life. Glad to see you've moved past any unity right to stereotyping genders, neighborhoods -- and doing so pretty badly. I'll unclench now and be grateful fopr yet another lecture from people who have absolutely no business lecturing or doing much else.

Sounds good.

[Anonymous]

Is it ok for a director of a club to contact parents of another clubs about bringing their child over for tryouts? Is this the Covid-19 recruiting process?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it ok for a director of a club to contact parents of another clubs about bringing their child over for tryouts? Is this the Covid-19 recruiting process?

The world doesn’t stop, players will still leave clubs in the summer, clubs will still add players. For the most part ECNL clubs in our area played a full season in the fall, with those players typically in high school now it does not make a big difference to timeline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it ok for a director of a club to contact parents of another clubs about bringing their child over for tryouts? Is this the Covid-19 recruiting process?

The world doesn’t stop, players will still leave clubs in the summer, clubs will still add players. For the most part ECNL clubs in our area played a full season in the fall, with those players typically in high school now it does not make a big difference to timeline.

+1

We were moving club in the summer before CV and will be after CV

[Anonymous]

Assuming in May/June things settle down and there are tryouts during the summer (and assuming you’re not financially crushed by this) do you push forward with travel soccer if there is a chance COV re-emerges (ie no vaccine in place and no miracle drug)? In particular, if your kid is in HS, do you bother with club when your kid’s one club season might get shut down or reduced?

[Anonymous]

Like other businesses soccer clubs have to keep moving forward, some clubs will no longer exist in a few months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Assuming in May/June things settle down and there are tryouts during the summer (and assuming you’re not financially crushed by this) do you push forward with travel soccer if there is a chance COV re-emerges (ie no vaccine in place and no miracle drug)? In particular, if your kid is in HS, do you bother with club when your kid’s one club season might get shut down or reduced?

For us the answer is “no” to travel next year for our HS Freshmen. He will play for his private HS team in the Fall.

Our younger one— moving to a Club closer to home and cheaper if it looks viable that there will be league play in the Fall.