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[quote=Anonymous]The real issue is that the sports businesses present the tryouts to parents as some kind of meritocracy where the best players make the best team. In fact, they are more like a MLM pyramid scheme. They try to lock down their first team by trying to get the kids to commit before the tryouts even start. Then, they are trying to figure out how to reel in new suckers (paying customers) without losing any old suckers (last years paying customers). So that might be dangling "guest playing with team 1" to a kid they want to place on team 2. Or taking too many kids per team to play reasonable minutes in the games. Or making a 4th or 5th travel team of kids indistinguishable from rec players. All that takes time to sort out, and the longer it takes to hear, the lower on the totem pole your kid is on that team. [/quote]
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