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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

Did your son get decent amount of play time in the higher team or was he kind of low man on the totem pole?

NP. We had a similar experience (only newcomer in a top team - was originally an alternate for top team and declined the lower team offer because it wasn't worth the extra driving). Our kid was the low man on the totem pole and got very little playing time the first half of the first year. Things got progressively better than second half of the year when they gave him more opportunities. The second year with the club was great with tons of playing time.

Yeah, I am concerned, its a stretch for us financially and to pay all that money and not play in the games would really suck. He is used to playing the whole game.

I absolutely get that. It is really expensive, and there was a long side convo a few pages ago about how it only makes sense to pay for travel if you’re on the first team, maybe second.

For us, second team is a good match because I know my kid has a lot of room for improvement. The hope is that he’ll work hard, get some good coaching, and be able to move to first team within a couple of years. If not, we’ll move on.

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Anonymous wrote:To PP invited to practice, I am seeing this a lot in the club my daughter is trying out for. Two tryouts and then a group invited to a skills practice. Then a smaller group invited back to a scrimmage practice. Hope they will actually make an offer after what is essentially four tryouts! And I should say this is all for second team and that was made clear from the beginning. No newcomers made first team.

If they weren't charging for the tryouts, it's great that they did 4.

I’m the original poster of this side thread (non competitive son wanting to be closer to home lady) and I agree. My son tried out for a team that charged $25 to try out. There was a registration snafu and he had to switch numbers and pinnies and because of all this confusion he played for about 10 minutes of the 1hr and 15 min try out. I was LIVID. If he doesn’t make it because he’s not as good as the other players, that’s one thing. But if he doesn’t make it because he didn’t get a fair chance to try out, that’s another. And I paid $25 to boot! Now here we are at a free try out and he’s already going to try out #3.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

Did your son get decent amount of play time in the higher team or was he kind of low man on the totem pole?

NP. We had a similar experience (only newcomer in a top team - was originally an alternate for top team and declined the lower team offer because it wasn't worth the extra driving). Our kid was the low man on the totem pole and got very little playing time the first half of the first year. Things got progressively better than second half of the year when they gave him more opportunities. The second year with the club was great with tons of playing time.

Yeah, I am concerned, its a stretch for us financially and to pay all that money and not play in the games would really suck. He is used to playing the whole game.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

Did you say something along with your decline, like this team is too low for us?
I would think it would be someone declined team 2, and it opened up a spot.

No, the email just had a yes or no button, i clicked no. There was no communication either wat.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

Did your son get decent amount of play time in the higher team or was he kind of low man on the totem pole?

NP. We had a similar experience (only newcomer in a top team - was originally an alternate for top team and declined the lower team offer because it wasn't worth the extra driving). Our kid was the low man on the totem pole and got very little playing time the first half of the first year. Things got progressively better than second half of the year when they gave him more opportunities. The second year with the club was great with tons of playing time.

Anonymous wrote:To PP invited to practice, I am seeing this a lot in the club my daughter is trying out for. Two tryouts and then a group invited to a skills practice. Then a smaller group invited back to a scrimmage practice. Hope they will actually make an offer after what is essentially four tryouts! And I should say this is all for second team and that was made clear from the beginning. No newcomers made first team.

If they weren't charging for the tryouts, it's great that they did 4.

Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

Did you say something along with your decline, like this team is too low for us?
I would think it would be someone declined team 2, and it opened up a spot.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

Your child has a skill or position that the third team coach really needed, and maybe the second team already had players in that position. But rather than lose your business, they will sit your kid at the end of the second team bench.

Ugh, don't want that either. Not sure what to do.

I think you should reach out to the 2nd team coach and try to find out what the deal is.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

Did your son get decent amount of play time in the higher team or was he kind of low man on the totem pole?

Coach believed in near equal playing time

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

Your child has a skill or position that the third team coach really needed, and maybe the second team already had players in that position. But rather than lose your business, they will sit your kid at the end of the second team bench.

Ugh, don't want that either. Not sure what to do.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

Did your son get decent amount of play time in the higher team or was he kind of low man on the totem pole?

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

But in pp's story, there are 4 existing teams, they declined 3 and were offered 2.

That means that someone else was probably offered 3. If they want to field 4 teams, they need enough kids to field the fourth team. At least at our club that means they need to make sure that most of the kids who show up to try outs end up as paying customers.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused about something that happened. Big club with four teams, child coming from a house league. We received an automated "congratulations" email invitation to accept a spot on Team #3. We declined right away. Then, the next day, we received an automated email invitation for Team #2. Never spoke with any coaches or received any emails, explanations, etc. What is going on here?

They want your $ and saw you didn’t bite for the third team and somebody else probably declined 2nd team. One year they screwed my kid over and took a couple of bench warmers with loud mouth parents on next up and we declined so they scrambled and offered him a spot too. We declined that too because it said how they do business and kid wasn’t top choice. He went to a better team.

This happens especially if the numbers are close for forming the final team. We told a club that we didn't think a low team was worth the price they were charging and they upped the offer to the higher team. It was a small club that really needed people to take offers to have enough kids to field two teams.

But in pp's story, there are 4 existing teams, they declined 3 and were offered 2.

To PP invited to practice, I am seeing this a lot in the club my daughter is trying out for. Two tryouts and then a group invited to a skills practice. Then a smaller group invited back to a scrimmage practice. Hope they will actually make an offer after what is essentially four tryouts! And I should say this is all for second team and that was made clear from the beginning. No newcomers made first team.

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Anonymous wrote:Total newcomer here - what does it mean when the coach invites you to come practice with the team for a “closer look”? This happened to my son last night after his second try out. Son reports that they chose about 10 out of 50 or so kids to do this.

They weeded him out and now will compare against current team members and the other 9. They are using it to see where to place. Maybe 1-2 out of the 9 will go to the top team. Others may be slotted to lower teams.

Should we assume he will likely have a spot on some team with this club? He tried out to play/practice closer to home. We 100% do not care which team he makes - he loves playing and loves travel and we have the cash to foot the bill so we don’t care about competitiveness. We’re just sick of driving 40 minutes to practice.

How many teams do they have for his age?

Three

He will definitely make 1 of the 3 teams.

Thank you! You guys are so helpful. Not having to drive 40 minutes to practice will be life changing! Just trying to not get ahead of myself.

Congrats! Life will be much better (the only way our family makes it work is by staying close to home).