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[quote=Anonymous]Your son must be on the top team at your club?  Hope your national ranking is in the top 50, where you're flying to play better competition than the few tougher local opponents.

Part of the reason the team flies is because the club doesn't want to play local teams.  Play a better team and get your players poached.  Play a lower ranked team, lose to them and the parents leave because it's all about the wins.

So you fly out West to play those California or Texas teams.  If you win, you say those teams should actually be ranked higher but have tough local competition.  You feel good and pay for next year.  If you lose to a lower ranked team in those states, you say they're artificially ranked low because of the tough local competition and you feel good competing with these under ranked teams which are better than local competition.  You feel good and pay for next year.  Play local teams and the parents leave.  Play teams where trips are expensive means the parents can afford the trip and they stay next year.  Weeds out the poor families in the process.

This is a business catering to wealthy families.  The development of your son matters somewhat in the club's thinking I guess.[/quote]

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