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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does Arlington Soccer  post tryout results online?  So instead of a caring phone call from a coach role model, young boys and girls find out online that their coach moved them down 1 or 2 teams, and then the family just goes the whole summer with no courtesy call from the coach and starts  up in the Fall with the new team/coach???  Wondering how it works from those who have already been through this.  I know players moving up get LOTS of contact and feedback pre-tryouts about their potential movement, but do the Arlington coaches really blow off the players moved down and never even five the player feedback or explanation?

Or maybe it is just the bad coaches?  Or maybe feedback is only for the players and families that bother to follow up and ask for an explamation , although I imagine most aren't apt to bother doing that for obvious reasons.  TIA.[/quote]

Some have been give no indication they will. E cut.  Evaluations don't include any helpful info.  In fact,  seen praise and then the following week demotion.  It's fucking weird.[/quote]

That's unbelievable to me.  You have a coach for an entire year, they say nothing before tryouts, move you down on some Internet public posting, say nothing after tryouts and nothing all summer.  Am I missing another point of view here?  How is this not outrageous?  [b]I would think coaches care about players.[/b]  There has to be some reason . . . [/quote]

From my experience in travel soccer, you would be wrong.[/quote]

My son tried out for travel for the first time this year and they separated the kids into those who were on travel now and those who were new. The ones who were new barely got a look. Why have everyone try out again if you aren't going to give consideration to all the players? It felt like such a farce. I know my kid is pretty good as he has made other teams but ASA is the most convenient for us and the whole thing was just a big fake show.[/quote]
It isn't the only fake show around. I am realizing it happens pretty much everywhere. My kid was on the lower end of a A team mainly due to lack of speed and aggressiveness at U9. His touch and technique are leaps above many on his team but he wasn't even paired with his own teammates at tryouts while new kids from a different club get new looks and their parents are offering themselves as a packaged deal bump off boys that don't help the  team win the U-Little World Cup. American Youth Soccer is a shit show all around. Clubs say it's all for development at this age but their nature is to develop the winning team even at the lowest of ages. The coaches might not even realize what they are doing. [/quote]

I get what you're saying about the process but are you also saying that if x number of new kids show and are better than your kid that they don't deserve to play on the higher team than your kid. Unfortunately if the try outs are open than your child does run the chance of being bumped down to a lower level team. Just because he was on the u-what ever team the last year he is not guaranteed a spot. The coach should offer feedback as to why though. [/quote]

If the new kids are better then they absolutely deserve to be on the team over existing players. It just goes back to what has been mentioned on this thread many times....define better? At the younger ages, speed/size will still beat slower/smaller technical players. So if the goal is to build a winning team this early then I absolutely understand why my DS would get bumped down for a more athletic, less skilled kid.[/quote]

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