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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems you are not a fan of the coaches at Cav's but you cannot have it both ways.  Critics claim and I feel this is true, many of the top kids leave for what they perceive are better programs.  Mostly this is VLC  and one or two to Blackwolf.  If the coaches that developed them were so horrible how did those players make these teams?  Do the VLC and BW guy get to then take credit?   [/quote]

My son played on Cavs for two years, then left for VLC. One answer I would give is, he is a good player because he spends a lot of time on the wall, and because I pay for a private coach. Obviously, Cavs don't get credit for that. He was definitely better, after playing for the Cavs, than when he just played rec, so Cavs do get credit for that. And perhaps some credit should go to the teams the Cavs played, which were tougher than the rec opponents, and forced my son to get better.

The problem at the Cavs was that the coaching, as such, had pretty much reached its limit after two years, and I could see that he wasn't going to get any better if he stayed there. The team was running the same limited repertoire of plays, and doing the same things - with maybe incremental improvement - every time. He tells me that the coaching is much better at VLC. He is getting more personal attention, more feedback on what to do better, is running more relevant and useful drills, is getting better at what he already knows, and is learning new things. I am not the only parent who felt his son had "topped out" at Cavs, because at least four other boys left the team for VLC, MadLax, and other clubs.

What you are sort of asking is, "if my kid gets into Harvard, who gets credit, his grade school teacher or his high school teacher?" Cavs are grade school, VLC is high school. Both sets of teachers need to be good, but the kid needs teaching beyond the grade school level in order to get into Harvard.[/quote]

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