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No, you did not receive one. Coaches will always lock up their top players early and they will try and lock up outside players as soon as possible. When a coach tells an outside player "we'd love to have her on the team, register for tryouts", that is an offer. What do you think it means? A formal offer can't be made until the player is actually registered. When they do, the coach will tell the player and the parent to keep the offer to themselves until after tryouts.

When a coach tells a kid ON the team, "hey, don't worry about tryouts kid, I've seen you all year", that is also the offer. Once the player registers then the same scenario as above happens.

Most coaches know far more players outside of the club than you realize. They know who has reached out to them, they see who has registered. There are very few unknowns to the coaches going into a tryout. They know going in who they want. What they never know is who will click accept or not. And that is when they move down the list.

And for DA/ECNL teams the rolling nature of offers is prevalent because they need to lock up the top talent. Lower teams always need to wait for the top teams to fill out their rosters.

Pre offers also take form in reaching out to players in any number of ways. From checking in, to directly letting them know to to come to tryouts or practices or outright telling them that they would love to have them aboard. Tryouts are never a blind process. Coaches always leave open room for that kid who they have never seen before, that's why they do have tryouts.[/quote]

Ok, you're not totally ignorant, you're just annoying. An offer (pre or not) is a written commitment in my book and the clubs I have seen here do not do this. Sure, players get lots of verbal cues, and that's what I mean about the top half of the team not needing to worry. They've all heard similar things. Players in the bottom half have heard a range of less positive feedback so they know they're in a competition. [/quote]

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