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[quote=Anonymous][quote]As if this is not happening with club teams when the kids are younger than 11-12, I've had a DS and a DD play on "top" club teams at the younger ages and guess what - 90% of the kids act like 8-10 year olds act, playing hero ball, limited passing/assists and plenty of goofing off issues.[/quote]

Nah. My DS played both club and rec, and even at that age, goofing off, hero ball, and refusing to pass was overwhelmingly on the rec team not the club team. That's why kids who love the game want to play club - they get to be on a team that consists 100% of other kids who love the game and are motivated, rather than being on rec where it's 50% unmotivated dregs but they get to play anyway.

[quote]It is not like the kids are magically more mature once their parents pay $$$ for a club team. [/quote]

It's not the money that does it. They can and do grasp that being on a club team is not "automatic" like rec. They know that you get to be on the club team if you are skillful and motivated, and you will be cut if you're not.

[quote]You people just don't get it. Why on earth would you want to pay $250 a season and play games 10-15 min from your house or 45 min for away games when you can pay 3-5K per year and drive 2 hours to play in the HOCO league? You sound soft. Almost as if you are all a bunch of ungrateful quitters. [/quote]

Watching the rec team dregs fumble around on the field is so painful that I'd much rather pay 10x as much and drive 10x as far to watch club. And if I feel that way about watching kids who do not suck, my DS feels even more strongly about playing with kids who do not suck.

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