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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coaches are generally arrogant, they think they can coach up any kid that is naturally athletic which means big and fast.

My son has played many travel sports.

At tryouts all the kids are preselected, meaning the coach already knows them or a coach has called the development coach and given a recommendation. Every single tryout he has gone to ... the whole team was already preselected and possibly 2 kids will stand out and get a chance. They are always big and fast.

[b]My son actually came off the field once and said how sad it is to watch the really good kids try so hard and he knows they have no chance simply because they have not been given a recommendation or because the coach does not know them. He said, all these kids are not going to make the team and they are going to think they suck. It's really sad.
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My son has always made the team he wanted to be on, because of a recommendation from a former coach.

We went to a tryout cold, because he wanted to see if he was a "standout" kid and he did not make the team, he emailed the coach and told him the names of former coaches and asked if a recommendation would help and he made 1 out of 3 teams due to his followup... but it was not the best team.

He is going to play D1 in college, BTW. So this "development" stuff ... tryouts, it is really a crap shoot. [/quote]

This is interesting.  My son recently tried out for travel baseball, and in the final group who made the team, there were about 5 from the same rec team.  Turns out the coach of that team is also the travel coach!  In a way, I can understand how this makes sense because how much of a sense can coaches get from a seeing kids briefly at the travel tryouts? Obviously, the rec coach is going to have a much better understanding of what the kids can do after seeing them at practice and game.  But at the same time, it doesn't seem fair that the teams are already pretty much selected before they begin.  [/quote]

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