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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're assuming that there is any organizational continuity between the top teams and bottom teams at large clubs. The D team is not practicing with the A team. The A team coach will not even know your kid exists. The technical director and any age group coordinators do not care about that team. When you kid shows up for tryouts the next year, they are already labeled. Meanwhile, smaller clubs  care about their teams and if the team happens to be one of their better teams, they will get attention from the TD. They aren't automatically slotted (can't have the C team rising above the B team), so they'll play as high as they are capable of playing both in league play and in tournament brackets [/quote]

Agreed.  A lot of it is just neglect.  Too much hard work for one person to get to know a large age group.  Too much hard work for the coaches to actually communicate with each other (in a large organization they don't even know each other that well) on a regular basis regarding placement.  When tryouts come along, the A-team coach doesn't have any idea about most of the players in the age group.

There are exceptions.  I've seen A-team coaches occasionally observe lower teams.  Also,  adjacent tiers often practice together.

You would think that there would be a least one person (age group TD?) whose job it was to get at least a brief eyes on all the players in an age-group to make sure the placements are still making sense, but....no.  Just think how much the parents would appreciate seeing the age group TD get out to the team practices once in a while.  Most families (not all of course) are just looking for the opportunity to get looks here and there, it would go a long way.

Having said all this, is it a good idea for DC to get placed onto an A-team?  So much stress can be avoided by avoiding that goal based on a realistic assessment of DC's developmental status/potential/interest etc.  I know some parents on this forum disagree, but playing on a well-managed and decent C or D team can be a good experience for the child (although expensive!).[/quote]

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