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Anonymous wrote:When is MU posting their coaching slate?

Hopefully soon. I'm still waiting for the roster too.

Maybe other people are waiting for you to be on the roster before THEY accept. I don't know how this all works at some many clubs across the area. Parents don't want to make a blind commitment, but if no one commits until they see the roster, then there is no roster to see. It's a circular problem... (Not just MU, but all the other big clubs too.)

Dad plays at local ECNL. Team is very good. Club is criticized. Roster has been set for a while. This MU situation isn’t normal.

The situation isn't normal but clubs almost never release the roster for the following year. Parents ask other parents if they are returning. That element is still the same at MU as it is anywhere else. The external factors that are guiding folks decisions are different and the amount of cuts and possible departures with the uncertainty are what makes this different. But the mechanism of communicating who is or who is not returning is no different than at any other club.

This is incorrect. Clubs release the roster. In fact McLean posts it with the tryout # of the player online, so if a parent knows the player's tryout numbers, you can view the roster publicly online.

There is no reason to be so secretive. They don't need to pst it online, but you should release it intraclub to the actual players

Most clubs, if not all, don’t post it. Even in the McLean case, parents are writing down the number of their own player, not the 100 others that came out. Posting the numbers is NOT posting a roster.

Only an insane, Beautiful Mind like parent that writes down every player and their number would be able to piece together an actual roster this way.

You missed my point. My point was that they have set the roster and gave ANY version of it online. To be secretive about the roster isn't good practice. Some clubs even have the confidence to post it names and all online.

But I'm not saying MU should do any of that. Just tell the freakin families involved. Especially given the past 2 years, it would raise confidence that this time really will be different.

You have missed the point entirely that in general most clubs simply do not post rosters until everyone has accepted.

Posting offers is one thing, and posting them via a pinny number is no more useful than not knowing. MU could post the offers made and how exactly would that help?

If you want to know, then you have to go grape vine like most folks do.

So you are saying that MU will intact release the roster in the next few days? How long exactly will they wait? Offers had 48 hours on them. All I want is to find out this week, NOT August who is on the team. And after the catastrophic mess of the past 2 years, they do have to prove themselves.

Because quite frankly, while I know ECNL and DA teams that get rostered officially no grape-vine told to the families, my focus isn't on that. That's just proof that it happens. I'm not going to post what I've been shown in confidence that other families in other clubs get. What matters is MU. I want THEM to do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. Show me.

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Anonymous wrote:When is MU posting their coaching slate?

Hopefully soon. I'm still waiting for the roster too.

Maybe other people are waiting for you to be on the roster before THEY accept. I don't know how this all works at some many clubs across the area. Parents don't want to make a blind commitment, but if no one commits until they see the roster, then there is no roster to see. It's a circular problem... (Not just MU, but all the other big clubs too.)

Dad plays at local ECNL. Team is very good. Club is criticized. Roster has been set for a while. This MU situation isn’t normal.

The situation isn't normal but clubs almost never release the roster for the following year. Parents ask other parents if they are returning. That element is still the same at MU as it is anywhere else. The external factors that are guiding folks decisions are different and the amount of cuts and possible departures with the uncertainty are what makes this different. But the mechanism of communicating who is or who is not returning is no different than at any other club.

This is incorrect. Clubs release the roster. In fact McLean posts it with the tryout # of the player online, so if a parent knows the player's tryout numbers, you can view the roster publicly online.

There is no reason to be so secretive. They don't need to pst it online, but you should release it intraclub to the actual players

Most clubs, if not all, don’t post it. Even in the McLean case, parents are writing down the number of their own player, not the 100 others that came out. Posting the numbers is NOT posting a roster.

Only an insane, Beautiful Mind like parent that writes down every player and their number would be able to piece together an actual roster this way.

You missed my point. My point was that they have set the roster and gave ANY version of it online. To be secretive about the roster isn't good practice. Some clubs even have the confidence to post it names and all online.

But I'm not saying MU should do any of that. Just tell the freakin families involved. Especially given the past 2 years, it would raise confidence that this time really will be different.

You have missed the point entirely that in general most clubs simply do not post rosters until everyone has accepted.

Posting offers is one thing, and posting them via a pinny number is no more useful than not knowing. MU could post the offers made and how exactly would that help?

If you want to know, then you have to go grape vine like most folks do.

So you are saying that MU will intact release the roster in the next few days? How long exactly will they wait? Offers had 48 hours on them. All I want is to find out this week, NOT August who is on the team. And after the catastrophic mess of the past 2 years, they do have to prove themselves.

Because quite frankly, while I know ECNL and DA teams that get rostered officially no grape-vine told to the families, my focus isn't on that. That's just proof that it happens. I'm not going to post what I've been shown in confidence that other families in other clubs get. What matters is MU. I want THEM to do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. Show me.

Quite frankly if you are sitting on an offer then you are the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:When is MU posting their coaching slate?

Hopefully soon. I'm still waiting for the roster too.

Maybe other people are waiting for you to be on the roster before THEY accept. I don't know how this all works at some many clubs across the area. Parents don't want to make a blind commitment, but if no one commits until they see the roster, then there is no roster to see. It's a circular problem... (Not just MU, but all the other big clubs too.)

Dad plays at local ECNL. Team is very good. Club is criticized. Roster has been set for a while. This MU situation isn’t normal.

The situation isn't normal but clubs almost never release the roster for the following year. Parents ask other parents if they are returning. That element is still the same at MU as it is anywhere else. The external factors that are guiding folks decisions are different and the amount of cuts and possible departures with the uncertainty are what makes this different. But the mechanism of communicating who is or who is not returning is no different than at any other club.

This is incorrect. Clubs release the roster. In fact McLean posts it with the tryout # of the player online, so if a parent knows the player's tryout numbers, you can view the roster publicly online.

There is no reason to be so secretive. They don't need to pst it online, but you should release it intraclub to the actual players

Most clubs, if not all, don’t post it. Even in the McLean case, parents are writing down the number of their own player, not the 100 others that came out. Posting the numbers is NOT posting a roster.

Only an insane, Beautiful Mind like parent that writes down every player and their number would be able to piece together an actual roster this way.

You missed my point. My point was that they have set the roster and gave ANY version of it online. To be secretive about the roster isn't good practice. Some clubs even have the confidence to post it names and all online.

But I'm not saying MU should do any of that. Just tell the freakin families involved. Especially given the past 2 years, it would raise confidence that this time really will be different.

You have missed the point entirely that in general most clubs simply do not post rosters until everyone has accepted.

Posting offers is one thing, and posting them via a pinny number is no more useful than not knowing. MU could post the offers made and how exactly would that help?

If you want to know, then you have to go grape vine like most folks do.

So you are saying that MU will intact release the roster in the next few days? How long exactly will they wait? Offers had 48 hours on them. All I want is to find out this week, NOT August who is on the team. And after the catastrophic mess of the past 2 years, they do have to prove themselves.

Because quite frankly, while I know ECNL and DA teams that get rostered officially no grape-vine told to the families, my focus isn't on that. That's just proof that it happens. I'm not going to post what I've been shown in confidence that other families in other clubs get. What matters is MU. I want THEM to do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. Show me.

Quite frankly if you are sitting on an offer then you are the problem.

The only problem is MU sitting on a roster.

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Anonymous wrote:When is MU posting their coaching slate?

Hopefully soon. I'm still waiting for the roster too.

Maybe other people are waiting for you to be on the roster before THEY accept. I don't know how this all works at some many clubs across the area. Parents don't want to make a blind commitment, but if no one commits until they see the roster, then there is no roster to see. It's a circular problem... (Not just MU, but all the other big clubs too.)

Dad plays at local ECNL. Team is very good. Club is criticized. Roster has been set for a while. This MU situation isn’t normal.

The situation isn't normal but clubs almost never release the roster for the following year. Parents ask other parents if they are returning. That element is still the same at MU as it is anywhere else. The external factors that are guiding folks decisions are different and the amount of cuts and possible departures with the uncertainty are what makes this different. But the mechanism of communicating who is or who is not returning is no different than at any other club.

This is incorrect. Clubs release the roster. In fact McLean posts it with the tryout # of the player online, so if a parent knows the player's tryout numbers, you can view the roster publicly online.

There is no reason to be so secretive. They don't need to pst it online, but you should release it intraclub to the actual players

Most clubs, if not all, don’t post it. Even in the McLean case, parents are writing down the number of their own player, not the 100 others that came out. Posting the numbers is NOT posting a roster.

Only an insane, Beautiful Mind like parent that writes down every player and their number would be able to piece together an actual roster this way.

You missed my point. My point was that they have set the roster and gave ANY version of it online. To be secretive about the roster isn't good practice. Some clubs even have the confidence to post it names and all online.

But I'm not saying MU should do any of that. Just tell the freakin families involved. Especially given the past 2 years, it would raise confidence that this time really will be different.

You have missed the point entirely that in general most clubs simply do not post rosters until everyone has accepted.

Posting offers is one thing, and posting them via a pinny number is no more useful than not knowing. MU could post the offers made and how exactly would that help?

If you want to know, then you have to go grape vine like most folks do.

So you are saying that MU will intact release the roster in the next few days? How long exactly will they wait? Offers had 48 hours on them. All I want is to find out this week, NOT August who is on the team. And after the catastrophic mess of the past 2 years, they do have to prove themselves.

Because quite frankly, while I know ECNL and DA teams that get rostered officially no grape-vine told to the families, my focus isn't on that. That's just proof that it happens. I'm not going to post what I've been shown in confidence that other families in other clubs get. What matters is MU. I want THEM to do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. Show me.

Quite frankly if you are sitting on an offer then you are the problem.

The only problem is MU sitting on a roster.

If you haven’t clicked accept there is no roster to sit on. Until people accept there is nothing to tell you. If you are an outsider I get it but if you are an insider then talk to other parents for Christ sake and get an idea.

If I was an outsider and was told some names it wouldn’t mean much to me. If I was an insider and I was told some names of kids who joined it still wouldn’t mean anything to me. The only thing I know are the kids I know anyone else is frankly just a name.

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I call BS on that poster. They are not affiliated with MU and do not have an offer. If they did, they’d have been in contact with George and/or Spencer and not whining on this board trying to stoke fear. It’s pretty obvious.

[Anonymous]

PP - ask yourself these questions (you can ask this for any club not just MU):

1. Is the DA better for your DD than her other option(s) in terms of speed and level of play, challenge for her, etc?

2. Will this opportunity provide her a better environment to grow than her other option(s) in terms of playing time and training? Try to picture the ID session training you saw versus where you are now.

3. Did the club have a positive and supportive culture at the sessions? Were the DA club players happy and having fun? Did they like each other and those trying out? Would your DD have fun in that environment?

4. Did you like the coaches? How they talked to the players? How they ran warm ups, session, feedback to players?

Answer those questions and if the club you are considering is better than where you are, you should join because others will feel the same way and therefore the talent will come. And meanwhile your DD is in the best environment to grow and have fun.

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Anonymous wrote:When is MU posting their coaching slate?

Hopefully soon. I'm still waiting for the roster too.

Maybe other people are waiting for you to be on the roster before THEY accept. I don't know how this all works at some many clubs across the area. Parents don't want to make a blind commitment, but if no one commits until they see the roster, then there is no roster to see. It's a circular problem... (Not just MU, but all the other big clubs too.)

Dad plays at local ECNL. Team is very good. Club is criticized. Roster has been set for a while. This MU situation isn’t normal.

The situation isn't normal but clubs almost never release the roster for the following year. Parents ask other parents if they are returning. That element is still the same at MU as it is anywhere else. The external factors that are guiding folks decisions are different and the amount of cuts and possible departures with the uncertainty are what makes this different. But the mechanism of communicating who is or who is not returning is no different than at any other club.

This is incorrect. Clubs release the roster. In fact McLean posts it with the tryout # of the player online, so if a parent knows the player's tryout numbers, you can view the roster publicly online.

There is no reason to be so secretive. They don't need to pst it online, but you should release it intraclub to the actual players

Most clubs, if not all, don’t post it. Even in the McLean case, parents are writing down the number of their own player, not the 100 others that came out. Posting the numbers is NOT posting a roster.

Only an insane, Beautiful Mind like parent that writes down every player and their number would be able to piece together an actual roster this way.

You missed my point. My point was that they have set the roster and gave ANY version of it online. To be secretive about the roster isn't good practice. Some clubs even have the confidence to post it names and all online.

But I'm not saying MU should do any of that. Just tell the freakin families involved. Especially given the past 2 years, it would raise confidence that this time really will be different.

You have missed the point entirely that in general most clubs simply do not post rosters until everyone has accepted.

Posting offers is one thing, and posting them via a pinny number is no more useful than not knowing. MU could post the offers made and how exactly would that help?

If you want to know, then you have to go grape vine like most folks do.

So you are saying that MU will intact release the roster in the next few days? How long exactly will they wait? Offers had 48 hours on them. All I want is to find out this week, NOT August who is on the team. And after the catastrophic mess of the past 2 years, they do have to prove themselves.

Because quite frankly, while I know ECNL and DA teams that get rostered officially no grape-vine told to the families, my focus isn't on that. That's just proof that it happens. I'm not going to post what I've been shown in confidence that other families in other clubs get. What matters is MU. I want THEM to do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. Show me.

Quite frankly if you are sitting on an offer then you are the problem.

The only problem is MU sitting on a roster.

If you haven’t clicked accept there is no roster to sit on. Until people accept there is nothing to tell you. If you are an outsider I get it but if you are an insider then talk to other parents for Christ sake and get an idea.

If I was an outsider and was told some names it wouldn’t mean much to me. If I was an insider and I was told some names of kids who joined it still wouldn’t mean anything to me. The only thing I know are the kids I know anyone else is frankly just a name.

Not an outsider. Again, I'm not saying to publicly post the. Email INTRAclub. Most everyone in this town knows everyone, unless you are new here.

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Then email the coaches.

They are not going to post anything until some welcome email comes out later in the process.

If you are an insider then ask parents.

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Tell us the coach for u13 as every other club has their coaching slate for next year. How am i supposed to decide about this club or evaluate anything if I still don't know the coach.

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Anonymous wrote:When is MU posting their coaching slate?

Hopefully soon. I'm still waiting for the roster too.

Maybe other people are waiting for you to be on the roster before THEY accept. I don't know how this all works at some many clubs across the area. Parents don't want to make a blind commitment, but if no one commits until they see the roster, then there is no roster to see. It's a circular problem... (Not just MU, but all the other big clubs too.)

Dad plays at local ECNL. Team is very good. Club is criticized. Roster has been set for a while. This MU situation isn’t normal.

The situation isn't normal but clubs almost never release the roster for the following year. Parents ask other parents if they are returning. That element is still the same at MU as it is anywhere else. The external factors that are guiding folks decisions are different and the amount of cuts and possible departures with the uncertainty are what makes this different. But the mechanism of communicating who is or who is not returning is no different than at any other club.

This is incorrect. Clubs release the roster. In fact McLean posts it with the tryout # of the player online, so if a parent knows the player's tryout numbers, you can view the roster publicly online.

There is no reason to be so secretive. They don't need to pst it online, but you should release it intraclub to the actual players

Most clubs, if not all, don’t post it. Even in the McLean case, parents are writing down the number of their own player, not the 100 others that came out. Posting the numbers is NOT posting a roster.

Only an insane, Beautiful Mind like parent that writes down every player and their number would be able to piece together an actual roster this way.

You missed my point. My point was that they have set the roster and gave ANY version of it online. To be secretive about the roster isn't good practice. Some clubs even have the confidence to post it names and all online.

But I'm not saying MU should do any of that. Just tell the freakin families involved. Especially given the past 2 years, it would raise confidence that this time really will be different.

You have missed the point entirely that in general most clubs simply do not post rosters until everyone has accepted.

Posting offers is one thing, and posting them via a pinny number is no more useful than not knowing. MU could post the offers made and how exactly would that help?

If you want to know, then you have to go grape vine like most folks do.

So you are saying that MU will intact release the roster in the next few days? How long exactly will they wait? Offers had 48 hours on them. All I want is to find out this week, NOT August who is on the team. And after the catastrophic mess of the past 2 years, they do have to prove themselves.

Because quite frankly, while I know ECNL and DA teams that get rostered officially no grape-vine told to the families, my focus isn't on that. That's just proof that it happens. I'm not going to post what I've been shown in confidence that other families in other clubs get. What matters is MU. I want THEM to do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. Show me.

Quite frankly if you are sitting on an offer then you are the problem.

The only problem is MU sitting on a roster.

If you haven’t clicked accept there is no roster to sit on. Until people accept there is nothing to tell you. If you are an outsider I get it but if you are an insider then talk to other parents for Christ sake and get an idea.

If I was an outsider and was told some names it wouldn’t mean much to me. If I was an insider and I was told some names of kids who joined it still wouldn’t mean anything to me. The only thing I know are the kids I know anyone else is frankly just a name.

Not an outsider. Again, I'm not saying to publicly post the. Email INTRAclub. Most everyone in this town knows everyone, unless you are new here.

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Anonymous wrote:PP - ask yourself these questions (you can ask this for any club not just MU):

1. Is the DA better for your DD than her other option(s) in terms of speed and level of play, challenge for her, etc?

2. Will this opportunity provide her a better environment to grow than her other option(s) in terms of playing time and training? Try to picture the ID session training you saw versus where you are now.

3. Did the club have a positive and supportive culture at the sessions? Were the DA club players happy and having fun? Did they like each other and those trying out? Would your DD have fun in that environment?

4. Did you like the coaches? How they talked to the players? How they ran warm ups, session, feedback to players?

Answer those questions and if the club you are considering is better than where you are, you should join because others will feel the same way and therefore the talent will come. And meanwhile your DD is in the best environment to grow and have fun.

Lol. Yay!

[Anonymous]

The same old PR campaign is here to defend no matter what. I posted that big rosters and play ups were hurting Spirit and I was right. Now MU wants to change that.

Now I say show the roster and coaching slate. I'm right about that too. I would love to be able to come back on here and say that has been solved too. For now, it's all a big secret. Transparency is the answer.

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Anonymous wrote:The same old PR campaign is here to defend no matter what. I posted that big rosters and play ups were hurting Spirit and I was right. Now MU wants to change that.

Now I say show the roster and coaching slate. I'm right about that too. I would love to be able to come back on here and say that has been solved too. For now, it's all a big secret. Transparency is the answer.

Let’s try it this way.

I click accept and you don’t click accept. I then email the coach and ask “who is on the roster?” Will he be able to tell me your DD is on the team?

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Anonymous wrote:The same old PR campaign is here to defend no matter what. I posted that big rosters and play ups were hurting Spirit and I was right. Now MU wants to change that.

Now I say show the roster and coaching slate. I'm right about that too. I would love to be able to come back on here and say that has been solved too. For now, it's all a big secret. Transparency is the answer.

Let’s try it this way.

I click accept and you don’t click accept. I then email the coach and ask “who is on the roster?” Will he be able to tell me your DD is on the team?

Practice is tonight. Ask on the sideline and find out what you want to know. You'll get a better answer than what you do from coaches anyway, as some people, like you who, who haven't yet clicked accept, will at least be able to tell you how they are leaning. We know pretty solidly who has accepted in our age group. Not sure for some of the others, and we know a few folks on the fence. But we know enough to be dangerous.

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Anonymous wrote:The same old PR campaign is here to defend no matter what. I posted that big rosters and play ups were hurting Spirit and I was right. Now MU wants to change that.

Now I say show the roster and coaching slate. I'm right about that too. I would love to be able to come back on here and say that has been solved too. For now, it's all a big secret. Transparency is the answer.

Let’s try it this way.

I click accept and you don’t click accept. I then email the coach and ask “who is on the roster?” Will he be able to tell me your DD is on the team?

That's fine. Email the people who accepted with whose on the team. Anything other than nothing.