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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, they will always take new players and drop old ones.  [/quote]
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My DC is on a team like this. Parents and adult siblings and other relations coaching their relatives (and making team placement decisions) and relatives friends. Even though there is a "tryout", it is definitely predetermined that those kids will be on the team and, further, on the A Team. My child could hit every metric for excellence in those tryouts and we already know where DC will be placed.

It's a bit of a morale killer, for sure. And pisses us off. But, there are not a lot of opportunities that are nearby to play the sport. And of the ones that are close, there is a lot of politics involved that could trickle over into the high school teams if we were to leave. So we are kind of stuck with it. DC loves to play so we just go with it. Nothing we can do. But, if you're that parent coaching your kid and kid's friends . . . just know that you suck. [/quote]

We dealt with this too with a coach turnover several years ago. A few established teammates cut to make way for sons and friends. Two Dad coaches that played their sons and the few recruited friends for most of game which kept several kids, (initially) equally talented, on the bench for much of the game. But by the end of season, the coaches' kids skills had developed to outpace the benchers. While we appreciated the time and effort put out by the two coaches, our DS (a bencher) was unhappy and under-played, and we were spending a lot of time driving to and waiting for games only to see DS play for minimal game time. Since DS was not developing, we ended up jumping towards the end of season to another team (not ideal but better).
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