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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, they will always take new players and drop old ones.  [/quote]

Not necessarily if it is a parent coach. Watch for that too. [/quote]

If they’re changing a tryout fee for a parent coach league, don’t bother.  It’s a scam.[/quote]

What constitutes parent coach? All the teams so far have had some type of parental involvement-whether it is head coach, assistant coach or team manager.  Where does one find a basketball team without any of this? [/quote]

DD has gone to tryouts where the head coach is one of the player’s parents and the majority of the team is the same group of friends who has been together for years and years. Are they really good and would make it anyway? Maybe but maybe not.  She has gone to other tryouts where the head coach is not related to any players. The tryouts seemed more legit. These teams do exist. [/quote]

My DC is on a team like this. Parents and adult siblings and other relations coaching their relatives (and making team placement decisions) and relatives friends. Even though there is a "tryout", it is definitely predetermined that those kids will be on the team and, further, on the A Team. My child could hit every metric for excellence in those tryouts and we already know where DC will be placed.

It's a bit of a morale killer, for sure. And pisses us off. But, there are not a lot of opportunities that are nearby to play the sport. And of the ones that are close, there is a lot of politics involved that could trickle over into the high school teams if we were to leave. So we are kind of stuck with it. DC loves to play so we just go with it. Nothing we can do. But, if you're that parent coaching your kid and kid's friends . . . just know that you suck. [/quote]

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