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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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No idea. It makes you wonder what power some parents have. My kid is high school age and it’s crazy. Some clearly don’t belong there (ecnl team) anymore.  [/quote]
Has anyone ever asked coaches or club staff directly? Like generally asking why every player on my kids’ team has been moved up year after year, even the ones that kinda suck (presumably without naming names.)[/quote]

money does the talking [/quote]
People keep saying this, but unless there are parents out there who are literally bribing their spot every year, it doesn’t quite make sense to just “follow the $.” Ok so maybe moving a team up as a block means guaranteed annual revenue…but what about the kids on the second team who should be moved up but don’t get that chance cause of the aversion to moving even the poorly skilled top team kids down? Those second team kids will just shop around at other clubs and then you’ll lose THEIR business.

If you have a bunch of kids on your top team that just suck, it seems like there’s always someone better to take that spot (at the big clubs anyway) whether internally or externally. If you really see the kids just as dollar signs, then why would you care? It’s not like that really good second team kid has to pay less than the sucky top team kid they are replacing.[/quote]

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