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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any stories of similar club agreements that parents have encountered, and how did those pan out? From the outside looking in, it seems like it will be pretty chaotic for the players/teams and parents during this transition. Does this happen a lot in youth sports? [/quote]

Yes. Armour was a “partnership” between SAC and Pipeline. It was a disaster in terms of partnership. On the boys side practices were at Covenant, SAC’s complex, about an hour w/ traffic from Baltimore. Pipeline coaches told players not to go, that their training was as good as Armours and that they’d build a competitive schedule as good as DA. Few Pipeline boys left for Armour. On the girls side Pipeline dominated the coaching staff and Pipelines players would play Pipeline preacademy team and for the DA, created bad feelings for SAC parents as they felt their DD was being treated unfairly (sometimes true, sometimes not) and that Pipeline players were taking minutes but not paying academy fees.

The reality is that if this isn’t a merger, which both clubs have clarified it isn’t, don’t see how it’ll work.[/quote]

Mentioned in another thread, but really curious about how this will work in terms of practices, as these teams do not practice in the same area of  Baltimore and no matter how you slice it, some players are going to have to travel 45 to an hour to get to practice.  This was a big issue for the BA team, I know parents of Pipeline boys who didn’t want to drive an hour to SAC fields due to beltway traffic 4x a week when the Pipeline field was five minutes away and they had other kids playing there.  I’m sure that some of the SAC families felt the same once BA girls starting practicing and playing in Baltimore.

I just don’t see them being able to find fields that would keep all the players from both clubs on a top team, it’s going to be easier logistically for some of these kids to move to Pipeline, SAC/BA, or even Coppermine/Premier, which is particularly popular on the girl’s side.[/quote]

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