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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So thinking about changing clubs. Kid is on the second. No problem with that but man ....I usually hang at practice because practice is in the middle of rush hour. The coach coaches the A & B teams. The B team really just scrimmages by themselves. I mean it’s like 99% of the time the coach is with the A team while the B team just does their own thing on the other 1/2 of the field. It’s a big club. Most parents do not hang around. I do not even think they know what’s going on. I feel like I am paying to subsidize the A team and getting no instructions for my kid. [/quote]

You are doing exactly that.  We laughed, it was so blatantly obvious at our former Club.  The field didn’t have lights and in the Fall when it would get dark at practice, the A team practiced on the portion of the field that caught light from adjacent baseball field and the B-D teams literally practiced in the pitch black dark?.  They were 10.  They were so enamored with that A team and every other kid felt like a second-class citizen.  The services were not equal.

Some kids have a good tryout, some have a bad one.  You sometimes get a kid on the A team that then sucks it up for the next 9 months.  Kids also change frequently.  I like the concept of an Academy where kids can move throughout the year and it’s not put in a bad light—they can quickly move back up as well.  Child player development doesn’t fit in the travel Club model.  It does not allow for these changes throughout the year or for kids to even play up ages or down if needed periodically as they grow physically and mentally.  Too much focus is on “colors”.  It can make for a toxic environment some places.[/quote]

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