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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Honestly they should just eliminate rec at U13.  If you are not on travel by then your kid is really just pretending to play a sport and likely doing it just to placate the parents.  [/quote]

Nope--- rec players at U13 and higher are there because they enjoy the game and the social aspects of being on a team.  Look at Arlington-- they have a huge HS program (26 teams on the boys side and 23 on girl side for the spring.[/quote]

After U10 rec teams just consolidate the better players into one team and then beat up on the remaining teams leftover players and start to believe they are really good. It's really kind of lame and pathetic. The only time you might see some mid level soccer playing is at an all-star rec tournament... and even that is nothing to behold.[/quote]

You have some encyclopedic knowledge of every rec program?

In the league we are discussing, SFL and now NCSL rec, U11 and up play teams from other places. So the better teams play in D1 and the other teams play in D2, and hopefully everyone finds a good level of competition. The age groups span multiple years and teams are mixed age,usually.

In NCSL travel, there are one year age brackets and within those, age groups divided up into a ridiculous number of divisions, all so a Division 7 parent can say, proudly, at least we aren't division 9! Its completely ludicrous and frankly, those teams would probably lose to a regular old "lame and pathetic" as you call them, rec team.[/quote]

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