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[quote=Anonymous]I was a coach (ES & MS). I quickly realized that the director put all of the PITA and less involved and "less gifted" kids on the same team. Anyone with PITA parents was assigned to that team, too. Yes, parent personality weighs in a lot as well as difficulty and skill level of the child. They are supposed to be evenly distributed through the league but there is often little oversight. My year, they stacked teams to make the team with the coaches' kids more likely to be noticed or recruited. One team was all coaches' kids and their close friends, one was middling, the third team (mine) was the PITA/uninvolved team. It was so sad because the kids knew it. Actually, those uninvolved PITA kids were awesome and talented. It was finally realized because we actually individualized our coaching and enforced equal play time. The wonderful irony is we won all of our games. [/quote]
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