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[quote=Anonymous]Ideally - yes its best to develop your own players. At smaller clubs, if a handful of good players leave in an age group, the team becomes less competitive 1) making the team less appealing to other good players 2) it's also hard to find a great coach to work with a middle of the road or below team 3) the level of the team just lowers.. NCSL has many divisions, so you just play in a lower division. If your club is "locked in" to a league like CCL or VPL, if you have a weaker team or weaker age group, then you are just stuck playing harder teams all the time... the teams just have to do the best they can since there are no divisions. This is why NCSL is a fit for smaller clubs, which don't always have consistency in strength of teams at each age group.

Smaller clubs have to develop their own players, there is no other option. Large clubs, frankly don't have to in order to put together competitive teams at the younger ages purely because it's a numbers game.

When you have 300-400 kids in U8 house program, by factor of numbers you are going to have some good athletes and some talent.

When you have 100 kids or fewer in a U8 house program, maybe you can form 2 travel teams at U9. If 50-60 kids, you're looking at 1 team. Some clubs wait until U10 to form travel teams, or have a U9/U10 combined age group team. Then they form real teams at U11 or U12.

Smaller clubs have to act like the Netherlands - attention to detail, not letting anything slip, making sure everything is being run properly, because there is not much room for making mistakes. Larger clubs can be lazy and "wing it" with a lot of aspects of developing players and it won't show. The worst offenders of cutting corners with player development from U9-U12 are clubs that have DA or ECNL at U13, because outside players will want to migrate there at U13 anyway. Once you hit U13, a team has started to set its trajectory as far as how competitive it will be.[/quote]

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