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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At this point spring can’t come soon enough. Valor’s bad reputation is catching up with it and now any parent with a decent player my kid’s age knows not to go there. They can’t even put together one good team in the age group. It’s incredibly frustrating for the kids who can play. I don’t even think the best coach ever could turn it around. It feels like a lost year. [/quote]

Understand what your saying about spring but the Pre ECRL (1st team) seems to be doing to just fine. The jump  to U11 is where the gap between 1st and 2nd, 3rd teams for clubs is more transparent. Of the top 15 of 24 teams, half are NOVA clubs holding 4 of the top 5 spots w/the other half down south (Richmond, Charlottesville, etc.)

Clubs need to find ways to keep the competition level for the 2-4th teams close enough to preserve player and or a team’s actual and often times “perceived” development. The most common strategy is coaches entering their team into lower level events and requesting lower tiered brackets. Often times unless it’s very clear a team doesn’t belong in the requested tier tournament directors (TD) will go with the request.

Once the TD is forced to move teams review requests based on their need to move teams around based the needs of scheduling or convenience of the TD. More often than not, nothing changes based on the request so usually the initial request is honored and the coach is able to preserve the player, parents, perception of development, growth, etc. by continually being in lower tiers.

Until the TD’s start doing a better job of sniffing it out this registration strategy (which most clubs engage in) it’s not going to change. The times when the TD’s are really doing there job you see a difference. The real challenge is TD’s have hundreds of team to bracket. Unless it’s clearly obvious it doesn’t get adjusted unless other coaches bring it up when draft brackets are released to coaches only where coaches/admins have 24-48 hours to request changes. By this team it becomes more difficult to argue moving a team up because this forces TD’s to move another team down. [/quote]

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