If your kid was recruited to play in college
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gkahpaul
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The bolded is the absolute truth - I remember head coaching youth baseball, both T-ball and coach pitch for Fall/Spring seasons and as well for the coveted Summer All-Stars for years in a volunteer role. I never got the "nod" ever for coaching the 'A' teams, only the 'B' teams (I have my suspicions why, but that's another story). First observations, I always recieved the kids who were a bit raw however they were pretty good athletes, but from more disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Second observation, our team had to consistently fundraise way more aggressively to support summer travel. Third observation, any kid who the 'A' team whiffed on and overlooked during evaluations or just simply they developed ahead of schedule could be taken from my team and moved up to 'A' team with very minimal notice given to me and whether or not this hurt my 'B' team was an afterthought. My 'B' team actually had a better win/loss record than our 'A' team and more tournament wins against other rival parks' 'B' teams - You think our home park cared? Nope! They were only laser-focused on what the 'A' team accomplished - Their posts, social media, and overall engagement was just so much higher and they were respected more. Point of my post is that I don't think it's ever worth it to "stick it out" on a 'B' team with the hopes of moving up to an 'A' team as changing initial impressions of your youth athlete is very difficult - I believe it's best to either accept the 'B' team offer to gain the additional development reps then promptly move to another park/team/organization to be reevaluated or decline a 'B' team offer althogether. |
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| Yes. This isn’t baseball but it’s totally right. Nearly impossible to move up, and no matter how good you are, you won’t club help for recruiting. To PPP on moving: for field sports like soccer and lax, practices are local multiple times per week. So no, people generally don’t live far away and join a non local club… you have to be at all the practices. I do know families that do this but they are super rich and have drivers or fly in and out regularly. Or home/online school. |
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A team always better
Clubs just consider B and lower teams as revenue widgets |