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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a family member who's coached metro regional teams in last 5 years, (not Central), but they have helped with Central tryouts up to last year and you are SO wrong that they take players getting low level offers or none at all! The line is usually out the door for those coach conferences and most players offered a spot take it on the spot and there is no trend of accepting on the spot then rejecting when the written offer comes in.[/quote]
Quick check on your statement: Line out the door + immediate accepts should mean an easy job filling a 12 person roster. In fact, based on this comment they should have been done on day 1.  So why did they add extra tryouts for most of the regions?

As a Metro regional parent with several years of experience the posts here really aren't that off base.  With the exception of North, most players good enough to play above the Metro regional level go to other club tryouts on Friday and Saturday.  Many of those clubs have multiple teams that you try out for at the same time. Those tryouts overlap with the first round of Metro tryouts which is why Metro typically adds tryouts for most of their teams on Tuesday.

Half of those make-up tryouts this year ended at the same time the open tryout period ended at 10 PM (15 & 17s).  The players there either didn't have an offer or were willing to give up an existing offer to take a chance at making a Metro Regional team.  The players that had an offer from a close equivalent or even lower team would never be willing to give up a certain offer for a chance of an offer at a Metro regional.

None of this means that those Metro teams are bad. We've enjoyed our time with them. But the PP wasn't really wrong, even if it was an aggressive comment.  Based on national ranks Central really is the lowest ranked Metro region.  And there are certainly examples of players with low level club offers or no offers at all taking Metro offers, because the Metro makeup tryout schedule actually forces that to happen for certain age groups.[/quote]

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