Arlington Travel Tryouts

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Anonymous wrote:looks like the younger players have suffered most with the new age format.... lots of them moved down teams and being replaced with older kids who now fit the age group...

Yea tell me about... my sons whole red team was moved down to white but for 1 kid that made red and from what i hear the red team is all 2015s dropping down.... sucks

We’re seeing opposite for the girls. Most 2015 red girls are staying on U12 Red. Many made special deals with the coaches before travel tryouts bc they thought they’d get moved up to pre-academy.

special deals to stay... in the same place?
doesn't sound so... special?

Does it even occur to some of you that some families don't want their kids on the higher teams? It's baffling to me what blinders some people have. This idea that everyone is constantly gunning for more, more, more. Some families don't want the additional travel and practices or stress level.

i don't think that can be true. you aren't allowed to live in arlington with that mindset /s

This mindset pretty much sums up the public school system in Arlington, so if you're saying that Arlington parents want only the best, and will kill one another for the "elite" levels, then if that's true....how can we defend APS?

[Anonymous]

What team were those bigger better kids coming from and what team where they played on for next year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:looks like the younger players have suffered most with the new age format.... lots of them moved down teams and being replaced with older kids who now fit the age group...

Yea tell me about... my sons whole red team was moved down to white but for 1 kid that made red and from what i hear the red team is all 2015s dropping down.... sucks

We’re seeing opposite for the girls. Most 2015 red girls are staying on U12 Red. Many made special deals with the coaches before travel tryouts bc they thought they’d get moved up to pre-academy.

special deals to stay... in the same place?
doesn't sound so... special?

Offers before tryouts to stay on the same team in a year when 5 months of older, bigger kids (with more experience playing against older, bigger, better kids) are coming down. So, yeah, getting an offer to stay on that team before tryouts is a pretty good deal.

I bet the 2016B Red players wish they took an offer to stay red before tryouts lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:looks like the younger players have suffered most with the new age format.... lots of them moved down teams and being replaced with older kids who now fit the age group...

Yea tell me about... my sons whole red team was moved down to white but for 1 kid that made red and from what i hear the red team is all 2015s dropping down.... sucks

We’re seeing opposite for the girls. Most 2015 red girls are staying on U12 Red. Many made special deals with the coaches before travel tryouts bc they thought they’d get moved up to pre-academy.

special deals to stay... in the same place?
doesn't sound so... special?

Does it even occur to some of you that some families don't want their kids on the higher teams? It's baffling to me what blinders some people have. This idea that everyone is constantly gunning for more, more, more. Some families don't want the additional travel and practices or stress level.

+1

It’s for the same reason arlington moms
have pricey window treatments and global entry status for their one international trip every 5 years; to brag about something to give their life some meaning

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:looks like the younger players have suffered most with the new age format.... lots of them moved down teams and being replaced with older kids who now fit the age group...

Yea tell me about... my sons whole red team was moved down to white but for 1 kid that made red and from what i hear the red team is all 2015s dropping down.... sucks

We’re seeing opposite for the girls. Most 2015 red girls are staying on U12 Red. Many made special deals with the coaches before travel tryouts bc they thought they’d get moved up to pre-academy.

special deals to stay... in the same place?
doesn't sound so... special?

Does it even occur to some of you that some families don't want their kids on the higher teams? It's baffling to me what blinders some people have. This idea that everyone is constantly gunning for more, more, more. Some families don't want the additional travel and practices or stress level.

+1

It’s for the same reason arlington moms
have pricey window treatments and global entry status for their one international trip every 5 years; to brag about something to give their life some meaning

I think there are mostly perfectly normal people out there not taking any of this all that seriously and those of you obsessing over it don't even realize that you're the ones who are off. It's like the people that drive a super expensive car and think everyone else thinks it's super cool and a status symbol. When really, many people just think you're dumb and insecure for buying such an expensive car. But that thought never even occurred to you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:looks like the younger players have suffered most with the new age format.... lots of them moved down teams and being replaced with older kids who now fit the age group...

Yea tell me about... my sons whole red team was moved down to white but for 1 kid that made red and from what i hear the red team is all 2015s dropping down.... sucks

We’re seeing opposite for the girls. Most 2015 red girls are staying on U12 Red. Many made special deals with the coaches before travel tryouts bc they thought they’d get moved up to pre-academy.

special deals to stay... in the same place?
doesn't sound so... special?

Does it even occur to some of you that some families don't want their kids on the higher teams? It's baffling to me what blinders some people have. This idea that everyone is constantly gunning for more, more, more. Some families don't want the additional travel and practices or stress level.

+1

It’s for the same reason arlington moms
have pricey window treatments and global entry status for their one international trip every 5 years; to brag about something to give their life some meaning

I think there are mostly perfectly normal people out there not taking any of this all that seriously and those of you obsessing over it don't even realize that you're the ones who are off. It's like the people that drive a super expensive car and think everyone else thinks it's super cool and a status symbol. When really, many people just think you're dumb and insecure for buying such an expensive car. But that thought never even occurred to you.

The 21 pages of this thread, all about people getting caught up in their feelings about not making a “top team” and moving to McLean etc say otherwise.

[Anonymous]

How long does one have to reply to an offer? We heard of players who still have not responded after the 72 hours deadline. SYC has a supplemental tryout tonight. Any possibility of waiting until Monday to respond to offer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:looks like the younger players have suffered most with the new age format.... lots of them moved down teams and being replaced with older kids who now fit the age group...

Yea tell me about... my sons whole red team was moved down to white but for 1 kid that made red and from what i hear the red team is all 2015s dropping down.... sucks

We’re seeing opposite for the girls. Most 2015 red girls are staying on U12 Red. Many made special deals with the coaches before travel tryouts bc they thought they’d get moved up to pre-academy.

special deals to stay... in the same place?
doesn't sound so... special?

Does it even occur to some of you that some families don't want their kids on the higher teams? It's baffling to me what blinders some people have. This idea that everyone is constantly gunning for more, more, more. Some families don't want the additional travel and practices or stress level.

+1

It’s for the same reason arlington moms
have pricey window treatments and global entry status for their one international trip every 5 years; to brag about something to give their life some meaning

I think there are mostly perfectly normal people out there not taking any of this all that seriously and those of you obsessing over it don't even realize that you're the ones who are off. It's like the people that drive a super expensive car and think everyone else thinks it's super cool and a status symbol. When really, many people just think you're dumb and insecure for buying such an expensive car. But that thought never even occurred to you.

The 21 pages of this thread, all about people getting caught up in their feelings about not making a “top team” and moving to McLean etc say otherwise.

You think 21 pages is a representative sample of all the parents with a kid in Arlington travel soccer?

[Anonymous]

I think this thread stopping to take a breather at wine time is very representative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Arlington’s problems derive from coaches and directors who want to make money. Sure, many of them are meatheads who couldn’t do much outside of teaching kids how to kick a ball, but I don’t think they’re motivated by money. The problem is simpler: that they’re not motivated at all.

There is zero accountability built into the club structure, and so naturally there is zero expectation for success. Thus there is no picture of what success looks like. Because defining success means you might not achieve it, at which point the mirror becomes uncomfortable.

The DC/NOVA area is filled to the brim with people who live in the world of accountability, metrics, success, and advancement. Arlington Soccer sticks out like a sore thumb because of how casually it accepts incompetence and failure. The soccer leadership is one giant circle-jerk where the ethos is “it may be someone’s fault that we swim in the shallow end but it isn’t mine, and if I tell you who’s fault it is, next year you’ll come for me.” It’s the stark contrast between a consumer population that knows what it could be and a soccer program that is held captive by a middle management that is extremely confident in its mediocrity.

Yes

[Anonymous]

Are they still filling teams? Does a waitlisted player have any chance at this point, or are the teams pretty much done?

[Anonymous]

Lol Arlington is the claw machine at the arcade. They’ll find a way to take your money over and over, and deliver you nothing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What team were those bigger better kids coming from and what team where they played on for next year?

It does seem that next year’s Girls’ U12 teams are still heavily 2015 at the top. If the system had developed under SY that would not be the case. The Pre-Academy teams have maybe 5-6 2014 girls dropping down (all on Pre-A or Red before), and then the Red team is ALL 2015 (existing Pre-A2 and existing Red) except the goalie. Then any 2014 Red, White or Blue team girls that did not make Pre-Academy were put on next year’s U12 White.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What team were those bigger better kids coming from and what team where they played on for next year?

It does seem that next year’s Girls’ U12 teams are still heavily 2015 at the top. If the system had developed under SY that would not be the case. The Pre-Academy teams have maybe 5-6 2014 girls dropping down (all on Pre-A or Red before), and then the Red team is ALL 2015 (existing Pre-A2 and existing Red) except the goalie. Then any 2014 Red, White or Blue team girls that did not make Pre-Academy were put on next year’s U12 White.

I have the feeling it’s not going to matter as much as you think it will for next year. Red/White, Blue/Black will probably operate in a fashion of playing in the same division or against similar level opponents, to figure out what the teams should look like at U13.

[Anonymous]

Are the u12 boys teams filled up by now?