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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HS soccer is not the highest level of play. It's just fun for the kids. Let DD enjoy the time outside and camaraderie of HS sports. That's really what she's getting out of it.[/quote]

Yeah--that stops working for them eventually when they have to sit on the bench and watch absolute crap on the field week after week.  Most kids would rather be doing something else besides wasting so many hours a day and not playing.  Some kids just aren't cut out for the bench or the boosters.[/quote]

100%  my kids have spent time on the bench over their youth career and it's fine when you know the person playing your position is a better player.  When my kids were frustrated, I was dead honest. I would tell them 'you aren't going to play until you can show you are better at that position than the kid playing it'.  See---that doesn't work in high school.  It will work on a high level team with intelligent well-trained and licensed coaches.  It is working this Fall for my one son when the coach just announced that there is going to be a change in starting line up since the kids (new kids not starting) our not getting scored on and not losing the ball and it is a noticeable difference.  My neighbor's daughter was cut from her high school team and went on to play for UNC :lol:  :lol:

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For the system the coach is playing, the kids playing are better. In basketball, the most skilled player may be a center, but if the coach plays a positionless uptempo, they may ride the bench in favor of better athletes. In football, you may have a great pure passing qb, but if the coach runs the option, that QB is riding the bench. The teams to boot and run play the strongest fastest players because those players work in that system. You may hate that system, but that doesn't mean your kid is going to start over a kid better suited to it. [/quote]

That's fine if your kid then goes onto play for UNC.  My neighbor's daughter gets a kick out of it now. It wasn't 'so fun' when it was happening.[/quote]

The coaches don't care if the kid will play for UNC if they aren't suited to their system, although I doubt a kid good enough to play for UNC was cut (they presumably have more fitness and strength than other kids on the team) unless they had a terrible attitude [/quote]

Come on! It happens all.of.the.time.  Nepotism and politics is even more rampant in HS than club. [/quote]

A player recruited to play at UNC will be faster and have a stronger foot than any other kid at tryouts. They may be technical, but they are also perfectly suited to kick and run. Unless they have a terrible attitude. No coach wants to hear what then should be doing from a player. Screaming nepotism and politics is an excuse for your kid getting cut or benched- most coaches do not have full rosters worth of kids they have personal connections to every year throughout a multi-decade career [/quote]

Believe what you want to believe.  [/quote]

Many high school coaches are complete arrogant d*cks.  [/quote]

We know several instances where they only took kids from certain clubs.  There are also a few known to select only from clubs where they coach too. It didn't matter about athleticism.  Our school did fitness tests that had zero bearing on the team selections. Several kids that were top in the mile and beep test (skilled as well) did not make the team.

It is a nice world when you think everything is fair.  The world doesn't work that way.[/quote]

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