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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

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I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

You cannot be this stupid but apparently you are. Also, Hero’s is a non-profit organization you twit.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

You cannot be this stupid but apparently you are. Also, Hero’s is a non-profit organization you twit.

Devolved into name calling. Guess we are still at the elementary school level. Either raise your game to MS with swear words or be an adult.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

You cannot be this stupid but apparently you are. Also, Hero’s is a non-profit organization you twit.

Fees Hero’s directors use to pay themselves and fellow coaches.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

The Heros' Summer skills sessions are run by Howard County Parks and Rec - noting to do with the club teams. Hero's coaches are not there scouting for talent. Nobody is going to these sessions hoping to get a leg up on club tryouts.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

The Heros' Summer skills sessions are run by Howard County Parks and Rec - noting to do with the club teams. Hero's coaches are not there scouting for talent. Nobody is going to these sessions hoping to get a leg up on club tryouts.

Hero’s advertises its six-week session on its own website and brands it as being a club program.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

The Heros' Summer skills sessions are run by Howard County Parks and Rec - noting to do with the club teams. Hero's coaches are not there scouting for talent. Nobody is going to these sessions hoping to get a leg up on club tryouts.

Wrong - dozens of players attend these sessions to get exposure to the club.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

The Heros' Summer skills sessions are run by Howard County Parks and Rec - noting to do with the club teams. Hero's coaches are not there scouting for talent. Nobody is going to these sessions hoping to get a leg up on club tryouts.

Hero’s advertises its six-week session on its own website and brands it as being a club program.

Please send us all a link where you see that on heroslax.com

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

I am a Capital parent who has been through this process more than once. Nothing rivals the stress and tension leading up to Capital tryouts as far as I can tell. I love the program and the coaches but we all know that trying out for Capital exacts both a mental and physical cost as well as a financial one - the last of which other HS clubs do not impose. Don’t know a thing about Hero’s, M&D or Coppermine - I just know about the general grumbling I have heard from other parents but people put up with it and move on.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

The Heros' Summer skills sessions are run by Howard County Parks and Rec - noting to do with the club teams. Hero's coaches are not there scouting for talent. Nobody is going to these sessions hoping to get a leg up on club tryouts.

Wrong - dozens of players attend these sessions to get exposure to the club.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I'm a parent of multiple Hero's players over the years past and current - I'm not aware of anyone on their teams using that skills session to be discovered by the club. Best of luck to those employing that strategy though.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

+1

I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

The Heros' Summer skills sessions are run by Howard County Parks and Rec - noting to do with the club teams. Hero's coaches are not there scouting for talent. Nobody is going to these sessions hoping to get a leg up on club tryouts.

Wrong - dozens of players attend these sessions to get exposure to the club.

As someone who has a DD in Heros, and who know plenty of people in Heros program, nobody uses this to get noticed by the club coaches. The club coaches aren't even there. It's mostly run by college kids back for the summer.

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Face it, the current model for the top clubs in DC - Capital, Pride and Stars is for profit. That means they try to maximize their dollars for the owners anyway they can. The days of a more altruistic club scene in DC where maybe it was to prepare girls, play or just cover costs and pay coaches are over.

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Anonymous wrote:Face it, the current model for the top clubs in DC - Capital, Pride and Stars is for profit. That means they try to maximize their dollars for the owners anyway they can. The days of a more altruistic club scene in DC where maybe it was to prepare girls, play or just cover costs and pay coaches are over.

For profit and deliver a terrible product, the popular thing these days. Feel for those with young kids just starting out playing the game. The DC scene is horrendous.

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Anonymous wrote:Face it, the current model for the top clubs in DC - Capital, Pride and Stars is for profit. That means they try to maximize their dollars for the owners anyway they can. The days of a more altruistic club scene in DC where maybe it was to prepare girls, play or just cover costs and pay coaches are over.

Whatever the model, it’s working for Capital. The market ultimately decides success v failure. Recruiting is how every HS club’s strength is determined and Capital has proven it has that formula down.

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Anyone declining Capital orange or does the original round of orange offers seem to be sticking?