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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the competitive pressure even for developmental teams is not only coming from the club but also from parents and even players themselves. There is typically a larger aspirational imbalance. I don’t think it is as straightforward to manage all these tradeoffs as we may think.[/quote]

I agree. Both players and parents would like to win some games and they don't like when players with much lower skill level make it on the court. That happens even at rec level. Early on we had a middle who made it on the roster because she was tall. Other than that, she was extremely slow and had two left hands. She still got court time, even though another middle was the starter. She was contributing almost nothing and in many cases was in the way. We lost points because she could not read the court and she was just standing there between the setter and the ball without getting out of the way. The setter had to find a way around her, but in some cases she would simply block the setter's access to the ball. The players were visibly going down when she was on the court and the parents (including myself) were very frustrated. But I don't blame the player or her family: the mistake happened at the tryouts - that player should have received a spot on a lower team, along with players at the same skill level. It is the club's fault that they extended an offer that was clearly not a good match for her skill level. [/quote]

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