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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents and coaches don't seem to grasp that rec leagues are developmental at the elementary ages. The referees aren't going to call every travel or three second violation or every foul. You would be there all day and the kids wouldn't have fun.

Screaming "Travel" about opposing players when you are on the sideline of your 3rd grader's game makes you the AH.  [/quote]

That part doesn’t bother me. It’s the ridiculous imbalance in what are supposed to be evenly distributed teams [/quote]

It is very hard to make evenly balanced teams.

Kids want to play with classmates or be on a team with a friend. 
Practice days, times and locations don’t work for everyone. 
Parents request a coach that their kid liked in the past. 
Some new players are absolutely terrible, while others are natural athletes that immediately pick it up.
Some teams work well together and gel and improve over the season, others don’t. 
Kids grow and improve from before the season until the end.

All those things can contribute to wildly different teams. [/quote]

Has to be something you can do. Been to too many games where the end score is 50 to 6.[/quote]

We'll it depends. Are there enough teams to break rec into divisions. Thus, you have better teams in the top division, average in the next division below and terrible teams in a lower division. My kids leagues have coaches submit evaluations on their team talent level compared to others. Then the county runs seeding games in December to make sure a coach didn't sandbag his team. Generally, after 5th grade, everyone knows which teams are good and which teams aren't. [/quote]

Why are there pre-set teams? Most leagues do a skill evaluation and a draft.[/quote]

For a number of reasons. Mostly it starts off way back in 3rd grade when the county puts kids on teams generally based on the school you attend. There is obviously some logistical reason for this so parents can coordinate carpooling and the kids might already be friends.  After that year, you generally stay on the same team as you did the year before that unless you request to move to a different team. So by the random aspects of life, some teams will be good year after year because they players are good and stick together. Thus, the county has teams placed into a variety of divisions based on competitiveness.

There is always been talk of doing evaluations or assessments and having some type of draft or something like that but that generally is too much work (because it would be all volunteer - county staff isn't doing that) because you are talking about 250 boys and about 200 girls per grade, if not more. Then multiple that by 5 grades and you talking in excess of 2000 kids that need to be assessed. Where would you find the gym space for that? It is hard to find gym space for FFX tryouts that can fit 60-90 kids in it. No place can accommodate those numbers at the Arlington rec level.

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