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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP, and wanted to add that I don't necessarily agree with the idea that bench kids are holding the top players back. With the right coach, and where expectations are laid out, it can work. Maybe you tweak playing time for tournaments, but everyone should get a chance to play.

When my daughter was first starting out, she was on a team where she was one of the best players. There was a huge gap between the top of the roster and the bottom, and yes, I'll admit that in my mind, I dreaded when those bottom girls came into the game. I'm pretty sure that the team lost almost every game that season, but all but one girl came back the next season. The girls are all in high school now and all of them still play soccer, at various levels. Some are on highly competitive teams and others have moved down, but they are all still playing. You absolutely can develop kids the kids in front of you with the right coaching and right attitude. My daughter was lucky to have a coach who did everything right. [/quote]

Agree, unfortunately as I said previously most of these clubs are about winning because it drives in more "talent" and money when you can say your teams are ranked top whatever in the state based on whatever system.  You don't hear a lot of clubs boasting about getting beat 2-9 all year, but being better at developing players vs bringing in talent through tryouts.

Top talent wants to play with top talent immediately and parents sometimes think short sighted of going to the team that is better vs better at developing.  If you can find the right coach and the right club that focuses on development and is competitive, especially at the younger ages, it is a win-win, but most of those clubs are few and far between.  I think Pipeline is probably "guilty" of the same stuff other clubs do and focus on winning, but that is not necessarily bad.  From what I have seen the club seems to generally care about developing winning teams.  Some of that may be developing what they have, but unfortunately that also involves bringing in talent from elsewhere.  I don't fault them for that one bit and how I want my child's club doing things as well.  If that is too harsh or you don't think it's right there are plenty of clubs out there.

Unless you are just being a hater it's hard to say Pipeline isn't a very successful club throughout their entire program. [/quote]

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