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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ our A team got all of this.  Now in the 2nd year, the 2nd team can routinely beat them in practice scrimmages.  It is the 'prima donna' effect.  The A team was used to being lauded for a year and 1/2 and being treated 'special' by the parents and the coaches.  The other kids had the benefit of practicing against them and possess the grit to want to beat the crap out of them because they are goddamn sick of hearing how 'special' they are.  The A kids were complete brats to all the other kids in the age group. Some wouldn't even talk to the lower team players.  It is fun to now watch them all turn on each other and start screaming at teammates when they lose to the lower team.  No unity amongst the masses.

Nobody is doing a kid any favors by anointing him/her at U8/9.  Always better to go up, then down.  Gives them something to work for.[/quote]

I don't like A or B label, but practice scrimmages don't mean much. I am sure some kids in B team are actually better than most of kids in A team though.[/quote]

I've always wondered, if the A and B team are in the same tournament division, but different brackets, and both end up in the championship - would the coaches ever let the B team win? or would they engineer the game for the A team to win?  At our tournament last year, both our A and B teams were in the same division, but our B team didn't make the finals.[/quote]

No. I have seen this scenario play out a few times and each time the games were coached straight up and the players on both sides played to win. [/quote]
I coached two teams academy style a few years back and the tournament put them both in the same division.  They met in the semi finals of our very first tournament.  The parents were wondering which team I was going to coach.  I coached my son's team which happened to be the "A" team.  I would never "throw it" or "engineer" anything. The rosters were set for the "A" team to be stronger and both teams played their hardest. The "A" team won pretty decisively, which is what should have happened. The parents of the "B" team were upset.  They thought that this would continue to happen for every tournament. I had to explain that both teams rarely get put in the same division.  [/quote]

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