I would like to pose this question to Carol Rose (in an admittedly cowardly anonymous fashion):
Now that I nderstand your loyalties to legacies, how do you explain preference for outsiders over kids on your second and third teams who have been working hard for years to get a shot at making your top team?
When you put a new outside player's name on a fall tournament roster before tryouts have even taken place, it just reeks. Maybe you thought that choosing a tournament that occurred AFTER tryouts would fool us (ie. T3 and Lax for the Cure)?
We may be silly enough to keep coming back year after year, but we are NOT fools.
You hit the nail on the head - you're silly enough to keep coming back year after year. She's NOT a fool either, so she knows that.
She is a brilliant business woman. All of these little moves to bring people in is very calculated to grow her business. The Top Gun kids on the Fall roster with the coach.... chink in the TG armor with hopefully more kids to follow. The South Shore PAL coach with a team....+1 in a smaller age group. Getting away from only 1 Blue team, keeps more top talent happy.... Going to 5 or 6 teams per age group..... Tryouts from 2 days to 1 (and bring your own ball ha).....Running most of the tournaments she sends her teams to so she can play both sides.... Sending teams to other tournaments her directors run to keep them happy and spread the wealth.... The clinics and winter league, the BBQ and on and on. YES the YJ's have the best talent and the most kids so they have the most and strongest commits. But they are also getting the most talented girls coming through the door. When you have the numbers she has, coaches come to watch and tournaments place her where she wants to play. And for all this we all pay $5,000 - $10,000 per year depending on the travel and extras. Brilliant
