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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the Arlington boys side, kids seem to leave Arlington rather than come down to Red.  Also only ~1 boy a year goes from red to academy.  Academy coaches don’t seem to come to either red games or practices but are communicating with red team coaches directly.  Its basically a separate club[/quote]
Does anyone know why they do this? We have seen plenty of movement up and down on pre-ECNL age groups, but it seems once you get to academy/ECNL, it takes an act of god to change the original roster.

You know the coaches realize it too, when you see their frustration at the same kid for the same mistakes—or worse, the same attitude problem—for two or more years in a row. Meanwhile you’ve got kids on the second team who are obvious shoe-ins for the subpar top team players, so why would a coach who is tearing their hair out continue to do so?

Is it Arlington policy to keep the teams together after a certain age for continuity? Are the subpar top team player parents more difficult than the better second team player parents? It’s so…baffling.

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Def not Arlington policy on the girls side. They take in new kids every year and not just 1-2, several new players every year. It really depends on the team and their performance. There are kids getting cut every year and there’s usually at least 1 (if not more) move up from Red.

The speed of play is real though between ECNL and ECRL. Not that they can’t eventually adjust to it but I’ve seen girls that got moved up struggle. [/quote]

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