A general note to clubs about tryouts

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Anonymous wrote:To PP invited to practice, I am seeing this a lot in the club my daughter is trying out for. Two tryouts and then a group invited to a skills practice. Then a smaller group invited back to a scrimmage practice. Hope they will actually make an offer after what is essentially four tryouts! And I should say this is all for second team and that was made clear from the beginning. No newcomers made first team.

If they weren't charging for the tryouts, it's great that they did 4.

I’m the original poster of this side thread (non competitive son wanting to be closer to home lady) and I agree. My son tried out for a team that charged $25 to try out. There was a registration snafu and he had to switch numbers and pinnies and because of all this confusion he played for about 10 minutes of the 1hr and 15 min try out. I was LIVID. If he doesn’t make it because he’s not as good as the other players, that’s one thing. But if he doesn’t make it because he didn’t get a fair chance to try out, that’s another. And I paid $25 to boot! Now here we are at a free try out and he’s already going to try out #3.

Who charges to tryout!? I have never heard of that, just for ice hockey tryouts to pay for ice time which makes sense.

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If you ask, will they tell you if your child was their last choice and won't play much?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To PP invited to practice, I am seeing this a lot in the club my daughter is trying out for. Two tryouts and then a group invited to a skills practice. Then a smaller group invited back to a scrimmage practice. Hope they will actually make an offer after what is essentially four tryouts! And I should say this is all for second team and that was made clear from the beginning. No newcomers made first team.

If they weren't charging for the tryouts, it's great that they did 4.

I’m the original poster of this side thread (non competitive son wanting to be closer to home lady) and I agree. My son tried out for a team that charged $25 to try out. There was a registration snafu and he had to switch numbers and pinnies and because of all this confusion he played for about 10 minutes of the 1hr and 15 min try out. I was LIVID. If he doesn’t make it because he’s not as good as the other players, that’s one thing. But if he doesn’t make it because he didn’t get a fair chance to try out, that’s another. And I paid $25 to boot! Now here we are at a free try out and he’s already going to try out #3.

Who charges to tryout!? I have never heard of that, just for ice hockey tryouts to pay for ice time which makes sense.

The only reason my son tried out for this team is because my husband is 6 degrees separated from one of the coaches (they all played D1 back in the day) and his soccer buddy recommended the club. It’s a money grab, pure and simple. And we fell for it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To PP invited to practice, I am seeing this a lot in the club my daughter is trying out for. Two tryouts and then a group invited to a skills practice. Then a smaller group invited back to a scrimmage practice. Hope they will actually make an offer after what is essentially four tryouts! And I should say this is all for second team and that was made clear from the beginning. No newcomers made first team.

If they weren't charging for the tryouts, it's great that they did 4.

I’m the original poster of this side thread (non competitive son wanting to be closer to home lady) and I agree. My son tried out for a team that charged $25 to try out. There was a registration snafu and he had to switch numbers and pinnies and because of all this confusion he played for about 10 minutes of the 1hr and 15 min try out. I was LIVID. If he doesn’t make it because he’s not as good as the other players, that’s one thing. But if he doesn’t make it because he didn’t get a fair chance to try out, that’s another. And I paid $25 to boot! Now here we are at a free try out and he’s already going to try out #3.

Who charges to tryout!? I have never heard of that, just for ice hockey tryouts to pay for ice time which makes sense.

Bethesda does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, my dc got an email this morning from a big organization for the 3rd out of 4 teams. Tryouts ended late last week. Guess the 4th team kids are still waiting for awhile. Probably declining and will just stay in house league, there's a "requirement" to accept within 48 hours.

What does "house league" mean?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, my dc got an email this morning from a big organization for the 3rd out of 4 teams. Tryouts ended late last week. Guess the 4th team kids are still waiting for awhile. Probably declining and will just stay in house league, there's a "requirement" to accept within 48 hours.

What does "house league" mean?

Are you new to the country? It means recreational or rec league.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, my dc got an email this morning from a big organization for the 3rd out of 4 teams. Tryouts ended late last week. Guess the 4th team kids are still waiting for awhile. Probably declining and will just stay in house league, there's a "requirement" to accept within 48 hours.

What does "house league" mean?

Are you new to the country? It means recreational or rec league.

DP
That was mean. I’m new to the soccer world and I didn’t know what that meant either.

[Anonymous]

Its the same term in every sport, its not a soccer specific thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, my dc got an email this morning from a big organization for the 3rd out of 4 teams. Tryouts ended late last week. Guess the 4th team kids are still waiting for awhile. Probably declining and will just stay in house league, there's a "requirement" to accept within 48 hours.

What does "house league" mean?

Are you new to the country? It means recreational or rec league.

Unnecessarily rude. I’ve never encountered anyone IRL who calls it anything but rec.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its the same term in every sport, its not a soccer specific thing.

I don’t play any sports. Never have. Not up with the lingo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, my dc got an email this morning from a big organization for the 3rd out of 4 teams. Tryouts ended late last week. Guess the 4th team kids are still waiting for awhile. Probably declining and will just stay in house league, there's a "requirement" to accept within 48 hours.

What does "house league" mean?

Are you new to the country? It means recreational or rec league.

Unnecessarily rude. I’ve never encountered anyone IRL who calls it anything but rec.

I don't know where you live but house league and rec league are used interchangeably here in the DC area. House league is more common for basketball but it is used for all sports.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Its the same term in every sport, its not a soccer specific thing.

I don’t play any sports. Never have. Not up with the lingo.

Why are you reading the 17th page on a thread about sports tryouts, then?

[Anonymous]

I'm curious about the explanation the club gives to the kid who rejected team 3 then got offered team 2.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, my dc got an email this morning from a big organization for the 3rd out of 4 teams. Tryouts ended late last week. Guess the 4th team kids are still waiting for awhile. Probably declining and will just stay in house league, there's a "requirement" to accept within 48 hours.

What does "house league" mean?

Are you new to the country? It means recreational or rec league.

DP
That was mean. I’m new to the soccer world and I didn’t know what that meant either.

It's not generally a soccer term, it's a hockey term in my experience. It's a small rec league where teams from the same rink play against each other "in house".

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

Did your son get decent amount of play time in the higher team or was he kind of low man on the totem pole?

NP. We had a similar experience (only newcomer in a top team - was originally an alternate for top team and declined the lower team offer because it wasn't worth the extra driving). Our kid was the low man on the totem pole and got very little playing time the first half of the first year. Things got progressively better than second half of the year when they gave him more opportunities. The second year with the club was great with tons of playing time.

Yeah, I am concerned, its a stretch for us financially and to pay all that money and not play in the games would really suck. He is used to playing the whole game.

I absolutely get that. It is really expensive, and there was a long side convo a few pages ago about how it only makes sense to pay for travel if you’re on the first team, maybe second.

For us, second team is a good match because I know my kid has a lot of room for improvement. The hope is that he’ll work hard, get some good coaching, and be able to move to first team within a couple of years. If not, we’ll move on.

I'm paying for a lower level team, I think #6, because my kid wants the extra high level training to make the high school team. Plus without it, he is tearing up the carpet with his home training, so it might be saving money.