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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Loudoun our teams basically stay the same unless some new kid shows up and blows it out of the water.

We have fancy words and pizza ready for us but realistically our teams are made before tryouts start. We mixed them all up to give parents a fake impression but within 5-7 minutes we’ve already separated every one of the 6 colors in different sectors of the field.

Then we send you the offer and only give you 24 hours to respond. Otherwise we go to the next kid. We have to ensure the money keeps flowing so we max rosters out even if we know some kid might be warming the bench the entire season. That means our bank accounts also stay warm.

First color team does the roster, then next coach can begin the calls and like that all the way to gray. We’re thinking of calling tier 6/7 gold to make parents and kids not feel too bad about themselves. [/quote]

You realize that’s not unique to Loudoun—it’s done that way at Arlington, McLean, Alexandria, etc., etc..[/quote]

No - it's not.  That said - I don't know if it's truly done that way at Loudoun either :-).  But there are plenty of clubs that do not make roster offers to kids that will be warming the bench the entire season.  Instead they reduce the roster size if the nineteenth and twentieth kids are at a level where they are not good enough to see much playing time.[/quote]

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