Not true at all. It is hard to get in these recruitment groups and events. They will not let any team/club in even if it is the best team for any year. Igloos 2021 team is learning this now. Clearly the best team in 2021 won't get into the best events without several good teams 9th grade and older to go with them.
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Bottom line right or not is. Wherever the best teams and clubs go the college coaches go. That will not include some clubs which will hurt the chances of those clubs keeping top kids
Igloo needs to change their reputation before anyone will let them play meaningful games. Word spreads pretty quickly when they bring in 6th graders just to win tourneys.
So it's ok for Legacy and 91 to do that, just not Igloo? You sound Hypocritical and rediculus!
You mean ridiculous, right? Either way, 91 Bandits only bring in the 6th grader when they're playing 6th grade teams. Could they win without him? Maybe. Probably. Who knows. But they are play 6th grade kids. That's the difference. Igloo brings in 6th grade kids to play 5th grade kids. You don't see how that's different? If you don't then you are part of the reason your kids team is a joke and not taken seriously by a single coach or parent.
In the opinion of most (other than a few Badgers parents), 91 Bandits are the top 2023 team out there, which they've proven time and time again.
However, when the 2022 kid with the June 2003 birthday plays with them in the B division of a 2022 tournament, they SHOULD win (as is the case when any of the top teams in an age group plays weaker teams in the grade above them -- now, if they started playing in tournaments with the real 2022 "A" teams and beat them consistently, that would be impressive). BUT, Bandits should stop talking about themselves as a 2023 team when they win these 2022 "B" brackets with the older kid -- and this includes when the coach tweets or posts something on Instagram about how proud he is of his "2023 Bandits playing up" -- because it's not a 2023 team playing up -- at that point it is a 2022 team of really talented and well-coached kids in the proper age group playing down in a B bracket or in a weaker tournament.
Exactly! A lot of smoke and mirror shenanigans going on!
