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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

If your A and B team is anything like ours, B team would never win that tournament even if they are in the same divisions, since B team's top players are "borrowed" by the A team - so that A team can win the tournament, even if the B team had a fighting chance.[/quote]

When I coached, both "A" and "B" teams trained together.  I didn't run around calling them "A" and "B" kids.  We trained together but broke out based on ability often when we worked in smaller groups...think 4v1 rondos or something. I used "club pass" often to move kids between the "A" and "B" games based what I felt the kids needed.  For example, if an "A" kid was struggling, I'd roster him on the B team that week.  maybe the next two weeks to hopefully build some confidence.  If a "B" kid was kicking butt that week, I move him up that week to see if he could do it in the "A" game.  For tournaments, the "A" team was the 10-11 kid that I thought formed the strongest team that weekend.  I hope no one thought I was "stealing" kids from the "B" team.  That's a weird way to look at things. But yes, I used Club pass quite a bit...which is just guest playing kids between teams of the same club during NCSL league play.[/quote]

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