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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our pool board helps the team set their budget, [b]hires the head coach[/b] and makes major decisions that impact the whole pool. The team itself handles the day to day through the treasurer and the team reps. The reps do not have seats on the board. [/quote]

This would be a disaster at our pool.  The team rep hires and manages the coaches.  A board would not.[/quote]

Our reps are on a 2 year cycle. First year, they shadow, second year they are being shadowed. Having them hire someone who will be there decades wouldn't necessarily work [/quote]

Your reps are out after two years?  I want to say our last rep was there for 7 or 8 years.  The current one is on year three.  The benefit is you can build a program and it shows (we have consistently moved up divisions)[/quote]

The point of summer swim should be for the kids to have fun, not to build a program.

(That, of course, is entirely separate from how long someone should serve as a rep.)  [/quote]

This is why we have trouble in MCSL. If anyone is building a program it should be the coaches. That program should still be a healthy balance of being fun and teaching kids to compete. The hyper focus on winning and glory leads to two things:
1) coaches recruiting to bring glory to their team and satisfy their reps who are ambitious
2) reps running their teams via proxy and deploy a win first strategy this way

Both are not what this league about. It’s about neighborhood kids learning life skills while making lifelong friends. [/quote]

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