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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not an easy choice: Move to a harder team/ league therefore playing less minutes and facing tougher competition or stay with the easier team and fill in gaps left open from teammates who left and play far more minutes.

--We did have a coach on our team who recently returned from playing D1 college ball and he said it was tough and cut-throat.  He had to re-compete for his spot often.  He said he wished he would have went and played D3 ball, as his buddies said it was a great experience with little stress...he said they loved D3 where as he was not sure D1 wasn't worth it.  He works as a government contractor and doesn't have time to coach this year and feels his organized soccer days are     at an end.  He said he would have not chosen the harder soccer path to D1 if he were to do it over again.

[b]Realistically assess your kid [/b]and see if they are tops in 4 areas that scouts use to evaluate players.  Are they the best Technically, Physically, Mentally and Socially on their teams?  If so, move them up.  Making the next higher team, should be an easily transition.  If not, let them enjoy the ride and let them initiate the conversation to change teams if you can support it.

Also, I agree that if you do switch teams, try not to encourage others on your team to leave also.  Kids will talk and make that decision for themselves, but you also don't necessarily want to burn bridges by encouraging a team to break up.

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Preferably let neutral objective knowledgeable coaches/scouts evaluate your kid
Parental bias is strong [/quote]

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