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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If CLC keeps taking 50%+ of Pride’s A team every year, Pride should get smart and start carrying 26-27 players, double the fees to $5K-$6K and make parents sign a $10K breakup fee option that is exercised only if their kid leaves and goes to CLC. Maybe this will stop the bleeding. For the last two years now, Pride Black kids have a 50% chance of making Capital Blue. Pretty good odds.[/quote]

Clearly, you are new to club lax.

Why on earth would a girl at the end of the bench have her family pay 50% more to not play?   Right now, Pride had 4-6 girls who only play in blowouts.   This would raise that number to more than 10.

Also, if you put a breakup fee option in, that also means you need to guarantee a roster spot multiple years out, which doesn't work either and would prevent them from adding more talented girls.   I remember one time the owner gave a couple 5th grade girls some crap about going to another team's clinic.   One of them responded, "I won't go to anymore if you guarantee me a roster spot for the next couple years."   She shut up pretty quickly then and never mentioned it again

The only realistic option for Pride would be to invest heavily in its B (White team), start playing them in better tourneys and groups and attract a high caliber player so they can more easily backfill spots.

If it makes you feel any better, next year Pride's success rate at Capital will be well below 50% with all of the BLC talent in this class.   May not be more than 5 girls who make Capital. [/quote]

Maybe Pride should not have entered the competitive high school market and instead took the approach of Stars which seems to be we will have a high school option for those of you that don't make Capital.  Encourage the relationship with Capital so that you attract middle school talent.  You will not compete with Capital so make them your friend.  Much like what BLC is trying to do.  Although it is obvious BLC is only doing so because Capital wants those 27s and doesn't want anymore of them going to Hero's.[/quote]

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