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[quote=Anonymous][quote=NOVASoccerCoach][quote=Anonymous][quote=NOVASoccerCoach][quote=Anonymous][quote=NOVASoccerCoach][quote=Anonymous][quote=NOVASoccerCoach]Hello everyone I am NOVASoccerCoach. Some of you may remember me a couple months ago, where I did a Q&A and shared my insight on a couple of threads. Obviously a lot has changed since I was last on this forum and I just wanted to share some of my frustrating opinions about the landscape of youth soccer as well as offer you some insight.

[b]1. No Tryout BS[/b] 
A lot of clubs seem to be guaranteeing spots to players and doing this "no tryouts" thing. All I'm going to say is that its total bs. Players are now getting placed on teams without tryouts and there's an ABSURD amount of behind-the-scenes recruiting going on. I've even heard some directors/coaches have conducted "Social Distancing Tryouts" where they go to the kids' house and they do a ball mastery tryout. It's absolutely ridiculous and sad. Kids who have spent years at the club are getting dropped without a proper tryout for these outside club players who just had an illegal "social distancing" tryout.

[b]Clubs are just robbing people[/b] 
First off, clubs should be refunding parents for the spring. It's absolutely ridiculous. The "virtual season" does not count as a season. It should not be awarded a % credit or stipend or anything. It's bs. I can really dive into this but clubs, tournaments, etc. are just robbing families that have been loyal to clubs for so long. It's f*cked up. I don't want to even get into how they are handling the fall season...

If you have a coach that you are fond of, really lean and tap into those coaches in this time. Ask them to be honest with you and they will. Coaches unfortunately are stuck in the middle right now between the bs upper leadership is doing and actually caring for what's best for the kid. Most of the time, I would hope the coach will tell you his/her honest opinion on what's best for your kid.[/quote]

What is so wrong with a coach "recruiting" a player and dropping another without tryouts?  The coach obviously knows the kid that he is dropping and, hopefully, saw the kid that he is recruiting in the Fall/Winter.  I'm not so sure that a trainer/coach working with a player is illegal, so I don't think a 1 on 1 tryout is therefore illegal. Plus, there is no loyalty in youth soccer from either the parent or the club side.  I don't see why you are so upset about all of this.  I'm sure you've seen it all a million times before.[/quote]

Imagine you are a kid. You just played a fall season on the 1st team. COVID happens. You get told there will be no tryouts. You get an email from your parents that you are being moved to the B team. Ok...who from the B team is taking my spot? No one. It's a player from the outside who had a tryout, after being told there are no tryouts. The kid doesn't even get a chance to fight for the spot. Even if there were actual tryouts and that kid would have been dropped anyways, at least that kid feels they had a chance and maybe looks at themselves saying, I need to improve, my tryout wasn't good enough. [/quote]

Kids need to understand that he had an entire year to "try out" for next year.  I understand that COVID happened and he lost Spring, but, if his work through the winter didn't cut it, then it didn't cut it.  If a kid joined the club (regardless if he was recruited or just joined), he should be placed on the team that most suited to his ability.  Let this be a lesson that kids need to treat every day like it's a try out....Ok maybe not every day but you get my point.  The hypothetical kid that got cut had his chance.  Hopefully, he uses this to to motivate him.  I honestly do not see anything wrong with this...and my kid is only 12.  The only problem I would have is if he got cut and had no where else to go, but if there is a B team, so be it. He drops to the B team.[/quote]

You would be fine if your kid got cut to the B team for an outside player who tried out when you were told there would be no tryouts? [/quote]
Yes, I would.  They don't even have to explain to me that they went to his house and gave him a tryout.  All they would have to say is that the [insert a position that my kid plays] from [insert another club] decided to join our team and unfortunately he makes our team stronger than with your your kid, so we are bumping your kid down to the B team.  I don't understand how that isn't understandable.  What do you think should happen...should I say, but there wasn't a tryout?  They watched my son play all year! Hopefully, my kid would understand and this would make him better.  That's why I tell my kid he needs to play hard all the time and ALWAYS do his best, so there are no regrets.  Plus, you never know who might be watching.[/quote]

I agree with your points here, but as a counterargument- your player has been scrutinzed every single training session, game and for a whole fall season. No youth player is perfect. You would still be ok with your kid getting replaced from an individual ball mastery evaluation? That kid could easily not be as good as your kid and has only been evaluated by that ball mastery tryout and maybe they had one good game where some director was watching. Not every youth player is going to have 10 good games in a row. [/quote]

Hey Coach, I'm the poster who you replied to here.  I just cannot honestly image that this coach would cut a kid (is this on a top team) and replace him with someone he knew NOTHING about other than one ball mastery session. However, you are bringing a director into the picture now.  Are you saying this wasn't the coach's decision and this was all done by a director that popped in and watched one game?  If this is the case, then, yes, I'd have a very big problem with it and I would hope every parent on the team would have a big problem with it.  But if it's as I described and the team coach who sees the kid every session and game cut him and replaced him with no tryout with a kid that was known to the coach (I'm thinking a player that played on a team they played against. Maybe a neighboring club, something like that and he was solid) then I don't have a problem with that, but if a director stepped in and made these changes, I'd be upset for sure.[/quote]

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