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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is frustrating in rec basketball when coaches scheme to keep teams together-telling their team not to show up for the skills evaluation, etc and then there are three teams who have played together for years and two teams of stragglers wondering why the teams are so unbalanced.[/quote]
Yes. This always happens but that doesn’t address the lack of parental involvement. [/quote]

NP-in a roundabout way it does. The same 3 coaches always coach and have "their" teams that they scheme to keep (in our league, the perennial move is having "your" team not show for the skills evaluation, or they have four assistant coaches and all 5 coaches have great players). Then the two coaches who get guilted into volunteering to coach at the last minute have a horrible experience with their teams of random kids getting beaten badly every game, and never volunteer again. And they are puzzled as to why the "draft" didn't create fair teams.

We are in a different part of Fairfax and agree that certain groups tend to be social users who never give back and just take, take, take. Coach John McWhitey gets tired of coaching fall soccer, winter basketball, and spring baseball--standing out in the cold coaching the kids whose parents want them to play every season but never volunteer and frankly, usually sit in their running car during practice or try to drop off. We had one team where only two families would sign up for snacks (I know DCUM yada yada on the snacks but the custom in this league was to have them). Did people think some kind of snack fairy dropped snacks out of the sky? [/quote]

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