Goes back to the idea that there is plenty of talented competition here on LI that a travel team need not ever go outside the confines of LI to play against teams to get better. You know that the reason travel programs play at distant destinations is because they don't want to play against each other and get beat, thus hurting the bottom line...rather play against some third rate "C" team in Pennsylvania or Mass. than against one of the local LI squads--who cares if you lose to that team?..parents get to boast to coworkers about how many weekends they have spent on the road this summer with their daughters travel team
Trust me - DK does not want his Elevate teams losing to all these long Island clubs. He would much rather lose to some team in New England that nobody ever heard of. Like this weekend at Hofstra, Elevate lost to many teams from LI (Bengals, Igloo, TG, Jesters, Icon, etc.).So now as its time for people to look at tryouts and where they want to go next year and people see that Elevate has some week teams in 2022/23/24 age groups -is that a good thing for a club director? No! No matter how many pictures you post on Instagram and Facebook you cant cover up those losses. If those bad losses. If those losses took place in the middle of nowhere MA against teams nobody knows, it doesn't really have an impact on his business. By playing other LI teams your product becomes exposed. Make sense?
