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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Paramount boosting here is nauseating.[/quote]

My family is very new to all of this, and we have zero preferences or allegiances to anyone. I've read every page of this thread, and I don't see anything as "Paramount boosting".  If you're talking about all the negative posts about Metro, I'll also say that in the limited competing our child has done, we have heard from [b]many[/b] players in both travel teams and regional teams, and also had several side conversations last summer with coaches at reputable clinics, that most of what is said here about Metro is totally true.  So I hope you're not equating "critical of Metro" with "Paramount boosting".  Also I've learned from this thread that Paramount yells at their players a lot and is also a stressful environment.

I really am not coming away from the 16 pages so far with a view of Paramount (or Metro!) as clubs we'd want to belong to, but we're still early in the game and learning all this. We'll see how things progress if our kids do well in the younger age brackets.[/quote]

+1 about the boosting. I would say there is pretty much an equal amount of love/hate being proclaimed about Metro, Paramount and VAE. Every parent/family is going to have a different experience, and everything that is being said by posters has to be taken with a grain of salt. In general, while some people in this thread obviously have strong feelings about Metro/Paramount/VAE, I would say that it's pretty clear that there is a consensus that Metro, followed closely by Paramount, are clearly the two top dogs in the region, and everybody else is a step below. Some people have strong feelings about Metro ( the poaching and the lining of Silvia's pockets), Paramount (that they're too tough, which I personally disagree with since their results speak for itself), and VAE (good recruiting, but lots of money for a lot of losing, which I personally see as a somewhat unfair characterization). However, my best recommendation to parents when deciding what club to play for is to look at all the tournament results from the previous season (those don't lie), to look at the college commitments page on each club's website), and to talk with current/former parents/players at each of these clubs to get a sense of what it's really like to play for them. [/quote]

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