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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.[/quote]

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information.  Isn’t that the point of this forum?  Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful.  In your experience is this isolated to a single coach?  Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

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Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses. [/quote]

Not the OP, but every player at this level is pretty good, no true standouts at the U-little level. The more they play, however, the more they standout because they’re developing their game iq. I don’t have experience with AK personally, but have heard horror stories. [/quote]

I have experience with AK at the younger ages. All players play at least half the game. The strongest players play most of the game. This sounds like parents of kids who weren’t deemed to be the strongest. [/quote]

Parent of a current U10 (2016). My daughter is a starter and plays the entire game without substitution (along with a few others). While I appreciate that greatly, it is sadly not true that “all players play at least half the game”. I’m happy for my daughter, since she is one of the ones AK is investing in greatly right now, but sympathize with the families whose daughters don’t play much. He has had 3-4 2015s guest with us almost every game this year, and they definitely play more than rostered 2016s. We get the sense he wants to win, but then again, who doesn’t?[/quote]

Yeah see this is the problem with Arlington. If parents are enamored with the concept of "Arlington" and want their girls to go play for AK and their girls are decent, they'll probably hardly play at all, compared to the playing time they would get on other other decent to good teams in the area. It's always ideal to be one of the top 3-5 players on a team, to both get enough intra-squad competition but also to get the "favored playing time." Unless you're already one of AK's "favored" 2016s, like the prior poster's daughter, or one of the incoming 2015s referenced, I would say it would not be wise to join the team.[/quote]

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