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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread started out great but then went to total BS after about page 2. The distinction between rec and travel for playing time the first few years of travel should not exist. They are kids developing and they signed up to play not to sit on the bench. If you're a coach and you don't want to play all your players don't have them on your team. You don't take a 10 year-old on your team and then tell them they're not good enough to play. Some of these people on here are disgusting and have absolutely no business being around children. [/quote]

Everyone acts as though the kid did not practice all week. Yes, minutes matter but so does practice. So does committing to get better and the parents need to recognize that it is a process and it takes time. Playing time in travel is not a guarantee, you must know that going into a travel team. You are free to disagree with the minutes and you May have your own philosophy regarding playing time but it must be the same as the coach.

The choices now are:
Take ownership and talk with the coach about what the player needs to do to earn more playing time.

Seek out a coach next year who plays everyone half a game no matter how much or how little they work in practice.

And if you do leave to find a coach who agrees with you, you will have wasted an opportunity to find out what weaknesses your kid can improve upon. You will have denied your kid the opportunity to truly develop. [/quote]

Just curious PP, and all the others in the "tell your kid to work harder" camp, do you have older children?

I probably felt as you do when my kids were U9 and U10, but over the years, things tend to play out in ways you might not expect. Winning seems so important at that age, but no 9 year old should be accepted on a team and then not play at least half a game.  How is the kid supposed to get better without game experience? It is not all about practice. Heck, many clubs with multiple teams in an age group have only a quarter of the field to use in practice.

Not to mention, teams in larger clubs often scrimmage in practice against other teams, and the weaker players will sit out in those scrimmages.[/quote]

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