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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]irrelevant bc pipeline holds back their best players on both the boys and girls sides[/quote]

That isn’t true, on the girls side, 2 to 3 players a year move up.  On the boy’s, they seem to leave more all at one time.  For example, pipeline preacademy 2007 was combined with Pipeline North 2007  two years ago because a bunch of boys moved to da as soon as they were eligible, with pipeline preacademy being the surviving team.  There is now another Pipeline 2007 team, but with entirely different player and coach.  [/quote]

The 07 boys who moved to Armour 2 years ago were all from Pipeline North which was for all intents and purposes not even a Pipeline team, other than name and uniform. That team had their own field, their own coach, and came from another club a couple years prior. No players from the "pre-academy" team went to Armour, not did they go this past year. [/quote]

That may be.  There were, however, some boys from that North team that joined the preacademy team when their old teammates moved to da.[/quote]

True, which kind of proves the point. Pipeline didn't send any kids to DA that year. North did, and North sent kids to Pipeline, so Pipeline got better. Pipeline Pre-academy wasn't the "surviving" team, it was an improved team (and it's a damn good team). And the Pre-academy team didn't send any players to Armour for U13 this past year. Zero. Obviously all moot now, but does point to Pipeline holding back their best players.[/quote]

Players have free will. Pipeline can’t “hold players back”. They can convince them to stay but it is a persuasive sales pitch and not a unilateral decision to make. [/quote]

You're correct. Families have free will. The coach of the 07 Pipeline preacademy team had a meeting with parents and told them there was no need to play for Armour, that they'd receive just as good training at Pipeline w/o the commute, and play just as competitive and high level schedule. From the start, on the boys side, Pipeline coaches, signed off by Rush & Santino, have strongly discouraged any of their players from moving to Armour.[/quote]

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