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I agree  that the roster size is very important at this age. [b]Are most clubs honest/upfront about the numbers before you accept[/b]? I have heard there is a 31 team with a 30 player roster. That is obviously something you would want to be aware of before you tried out. So much about the elementary/middle school programs are about number of game and practice reps. [/quote]

I mean that is the age old question of how honest they are and you doing your research. A good club/coach will be open and honest about where you child stands with respect where they fit on the roster. I overheard one of those conversations at a tournament last weekend. Where a dad was talking about the team for next year, his son's playing time (much reduced from last year because other kids had gotten better) and how he'd like his son to drop to the B team next year to play more. The coach was very open about what the programs/teams goals were...to find upgrade talent at all positions and that was conveyed last year. (My take - his son just didn't grow physically this year and his stickwork didn't improve like other kids - that's travel). The coach also said he would work with him and his son to get to where he wanted. This wasn't any type of yelling situation about playing time where the dad was mad about it or anything like that. It was a pretty frank conversation with the dad wanting to get his son playing on the right team. I was talking with the club director and this father just came up and started talking about about it with club director.

But, not all of them will be. Some will be more about the numbers. This is where I tell my kids what people tell you is important but what is just as important is what people don't tell. If a coach is being overly praiseworthy or obscure than that is an issue. This is where your research will come in.

One other thing to do is go to the tryouts and talk to the parents of players that were already on the team. They will give you a sense of where the team stands from a parents perspective. My other son hopped programs last year and during the tryouts I had conversations with parents and all they talked about was getting more kids on the roster because they would lose games because their boys were exhausted from playing too much. One a team with 30 players, there will surely be parents that will talk about the prior season and that not happening. They will also talk about their strengths and weaknesses on the team (I know exactly what positions need to be improved on my son's teams), what players are coming back and what players aren't. Many of the parents that hang out at these tryouts will have inside knowledge on these types of things. They will also likely want to talk because there is only so many ground ball drills they'll want to watch. Most will also pretty open about it. If there isn't that type of openness or they seem like jerks, the question becomes - do I want to hang out with this people for 10-12 hours in a field in the middle of nowhere on a hot June/July weekend?[/quote]

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