Let's be honest. In most organizations, the "tryouts" are a sham. Coaches already know who they are keeping from their current team and who they are moving up or down. And now that many teams allow visitors or guests players throughout the season to join practices, those players "trying out" from out from other teams have already been identified as selections or not. Behind closed doors, every coach I know admits that he already had his team picked rolling into tryouts. TBH, this coronavirus outbreak just eliminates the sham.

Anonymous wrote:Folks are we have a virus outbreak and you are worried about tryouts? Go with the flow folks, all clubs are in the same boat.

Not worried about tryouts. But you can basically say the same thing about many things. We have a virus outbreak, and you are on a soccer forum? We have a virus outbreak, and you are playing videogames? We have a virus outbreak, and you are watching netflix? We have a virus outbreak, and you are trying to pitch financial services? We have a virus outbreak, and people want to vote? Or talk about race and class? What's your point? That we are diverting you from the ER or the vaccine labs? If you'd been through crises before, or taken a broader historical view, and I seriously doubt you have done either, then you might understand that life can, does and must go on, subject to the prudent safeguards that people should observe.

Folks are we have a virus outbreak and you are worried about tryouts? Go with the flow folks, all clubs are in the same boat.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No tryouts this year, fellas.

Why were your kids together ?—social distancing.

School won’t go back until the Fall.

Soccer is done for the year.

This will not have peaked by May/June.

Hundreds of kids and parents at a tryout: not happening.

Social distancing is not quarantine.

Yes, school is done until autumn.

Yes, your travel soccer team won't play until the fall.

Nobody says tryouts require that design. See question at beginning of thread.

Let's see how quickly your family falls apart before you emerge from the bomb shelter in the fall. Staying together? Not happening.

The entire state of California is on lock down

Yep, and we are not. Yet. And we will see how long that goes in California. Even the Post today poked around the idea that we may need to pursue more of a South Korean approach once testing becomes more ubiquitous. Which means rapid and aggressive testing once available, isolating the sick, mitigating the risk of high-risk populations and related workers, and getting on with life as best as we can. This is the decision we will face in 2-4 weeks. All this is fine for people for one or two weeks. There are millions of people for whom it will not be fine after two to four weeks, so we need to do whatever we can in the interim and think through what may be feasible and effective thereafter.

It’s too late for that. Planes are still flying spreading the virus all over the country.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No tryouts this year, fellas.

Why were your kids together ?—social distancing.

School won’t go back until the Fall.

Soccer is done for the year.

This will not have peaked by May/June.

Hundreds of kids and parents at a tryout: not happening.

Social distancing is not quarantine.

Yes, school is done until autumn.

Yes, your travel soccer team won't play until the fall.

Nobody says tryouts require that design. See question at beginning of thread.

Let's see how quickly your family falls apart before you emerge from the bomb shelter in the fall. Staying together? Not happening.

The entire state of California is on lock down

Yep, and we are not. Yet. And we will see how long that goes in California. Even the Post today poked around the idea that we may need to pursue more of a South Korean approach once testing becomes more ubiquitous. Which means rapid and aggressive testing once available, isolating the sick, mitigating the risk of high-risk populations and related workers, and getting on with life as best as we can. This is the decision we will face in 2-4 weeks. All this is fine for people for one or two weeks. There are millions of people for whom it will not be fine after two to four weeks, so we need to do whatever we can in the interim and think through what may be feasible and effective thereafter.

Arnold is staying home with his pony and donkey.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No tryouts this year, fellas.

Why were your kids together ?—social distancing.

School won’t go back until the Fall.

Soccer is done for the year.

This will not have peaked by May/June.

Hundreds of kids and parents at a tryout: not happening.

Social distancing is not quarantine.

Yes, school is done until autumn.

Yes, your travel soccer team won't play until the fall.

Nobody says tryouts require that design. See question at beginning of thread.

Let's see how quickly your family falls apart before you emerge from the bomb shelter in the fall. Staying together? Not happening.

The entire state of California is on lock down

Except for the surfers and the migrant workers ... and Aahhrnoold.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No tryouts this year, fellas.

Why were your kids together ?—social distancing.

School won’t go back until the Fall.

Soccer is done for the year.

This will not have peaked by May/June.

Hundreds of kids and parents at a tryout: not happening.

Social distancing is not quarantine.

Yes, school is done until autumn.

Yes, your travel soccer team won't play until the fall.

Nobody says tryouts require that design. See question at beginning of thread.

Let's see how quickly your family falls apart before you emerge from the bomb shelter in the fall. Staying together? Not happening.

The entire state of California is on lock down

Anonymous wrote:No tryouts this year, fellas.

Why were your kids together ?—social distancing.

School won’t go back until the Fall.

Soccer is done for the year.

This will not have peaked by May/June.

Hundreds of kids and parents at a tryout: not happening.

Social distancing is not quarantine.

Yes, school is done until autumn.

Yes, your travel soccer team won't play until the fall.

Nobody says tryouts require that design. See question at beginning of thread.

Let's see how quickly your family falls apart before you emerge from the bomb shelter in the fall. Staying together? Not happening.

Let see I would move tryouts to August. Break the kids into different group and rotate them through different areas. One group would be put through skill, speed of play and possession drills. Another group would do small side games in tight spaces. The last would play full field(for the age group).

I am thinking soccer will start back up spring of next year with the same teams they ended with. This is so clubs will bring their customers back to their business/club and then start putting out the tryout dates. But unfortunately, this year will be lost.

I am thinking spring of next year for tryouts.

No tryouts this year, fellas.

Why were your kids together ?—social distancing.

School won’t go back until the Fall.

Soccer is done for the year.

This will not have peaked by May/June.

Hundreds of kids and parents at a tryout: not happening.

Typically, tryouts are held during May. I can see it be delayed to June or even July.

Another parent asked me earlier this week as our kids played together whether this will affect the timing of tryouts. It probably will. Or maybe we will see a more enduring overhaul to the nature and timing of tryouts. Like maybe something a little more like the residential matching system for med school grads. If we had to design a tryout system from scratch for travel soccer in the area, what would it look like? Assume all the clubs would follow the protocols.