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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds really obnoxious.

I think the only thing you could really do is start another travel team. How big is the town? If this team really makes it impossible for anyone new to join, and there's enough interest outside that clique, it wouldn't even be that hard.

Where I live there are lots of travel teams and other problems (people being hyper competitive between teams, an ever spiraling competition to spend more and more money, a weird fixation on having travel teams go to games well outside the area even though there are tons of competitive teams locally, etc.) but this particular issue doesn't arise because you can try out for multiple teams.

Also a lot of teams here have hired coaches, not parent volunteers, which changes the dynamics somewhat. But not that much, as there is still often a core group of parents who are close to the coach and still control the team for the most part. But good coaches will not turn down excellent players just to appease that group, there's usually some churn on teams as kids quite or move and others come in.[/quote]

True, we could- this year about 30 boys tried out for a 15 (I think?) player roster.  So if they'd taken all of the kids, they could have had 2 teams.  But to be honest, the second team would include some boys who really shouldn't be on a travel team, or who wouldn't even be interested in the commitment once the season started.  I think if a second team had been formed way earlier, it would have worked, but a lot of boys gave up trying to try out after the first 2 years. Also, when my husband offered his coaching services he said he floated the idea of two teams and the other dads shot it down (two of them run the whole league both rec and travel, and they;re good at running the league if I'm being honest so that's fine, but they said the town only has resources for one team per grade- I think in the past they'd tried to have 2 teams in some grades where there was a ton of interest, but it became a lot to manage).

What you describe also sounds pretty miserable so maybe I should be happy that the drama involves this one town team, and not myriad expensive teams. [/quote]

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