if you are on Curcios team and never see the field in big games how do you expect your daughter to get recruited? When coaches show up they want to see you play in crunch time not standing on the sidelines cheering with your war paint on
The coaches always do show up to see the top YJ teams, and its not always to the short bench games, so there will be plenty of opportunity for kids to get seen. Another option may be to go play for another club/team where you are now the go to player in crunch time. This would obviously be a much weaker team, would the coaches ever show up? That's the hard choice here, the answer will be different for different people.
Much weaker? One minute someone is saying that the whole team is stacked. Next minute, if a girl leaves, she can only be the go to girl on a much weaker team. Which one is it?
Do you honestly think that coaches will only go see YJ Blue? Please. Many kids get recruited by many different schools, not just YJ. My older daughter is playing for a mid D1, the school that she wanted. She sent an email and the coaches came and saw. Wasn't as complicated as many travel directors would like you to think. They requested that she attend a clinic at the school and the rest is history. Granted that she wasn't interested in the Marylands of the world. But then again most schools aren't in that position.
Completely agree. In fact, if you have a short list of desired schools, the camp/clinic at that school is the best way, by far, to be noticed. Way better than a coach coming to watch a tournament game. They get to work with the player directly, sometimes over multiple days. They get to know more about their personality and work ethic, and it shows them how truly interested the player is in their school. The tournament thing and the emphasis by some clubs on promoting their championships as a way to prove recruiting prowess is nonsense. The reason why YJ Blue girls get recruited is because they r great athletes and players. But the reason they are great athletes and players has very little to do w YJ. They likely would be that wherever they played. It reminds me of an IMG academy director I met in another sport. He said "We get 100 players come through here each year. 90 of them are what they are. With the ten truly great ones, if we haven't screwed them up by the time they leave we have done our job."
If the girls are good, they will find their way to the college that fits.
