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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was going to, because I felt that my son's coach could not maintain discipline over the kids, but I feel like he has made a change and that things have improved, so we are staying where we are.[/quote]

I'm not trashing you, but this is the problem with travel soccer.  Most of us talk about coming and going before tryouts even start.  It should be ID the teams first, tryout, offer made/not, and them decide.  Wish clubs would actually do a real tryout and not just take the kids from the previous year and add a few.  We use to be in a club in LA and the tryout scouts were not connected to the coach/team directly.  They would just group the kids into the levels, no favoritism, all had to work to earn/reearn their spots.[/quote]

Rule number 1 in business: don’t alienate your paying customers. Rule number 2: always look to improve your product and marketing (ie in this case team’s record and player quality). These two rules working together (sometime in conflict) result in what we have today with “tryouts”. In other words, if you can recruit behind the scenes to get better players while mollifying those that you want to keep and not replace a paying customer until you have a good handle on a replacement then you are doing well from a business perspective. And yes, travel soccer is a business. Our kids are the employees and the clubs and coaches are the beneficiaries. Yes, we pay for the right to have our kids work for them. But, our kids do get some benefits (the job is fun, they get exercise, they learn about competition, success, and failure, and on a rare occasion they get a scholarship). As long as you go into this whole process with your eyes wide open you’ll be fine. [/quote]

Travel soccer is a business, but yet packages itself as a non-profit.  It should be a business making business decisions and that means you employ the best possible players, the issue is that these are community organizations which is why need to play these games called tryouts.  [/quote]

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