Originally Posted by Anonymous
Yes "poaching" is a real thing. Your post is absurd and obviously you are on the poacher side as opposed to poachee. Here is what you are missing, when a player leaves a program to go to another that is fine, there could be many reasons for it. It could be playing time, dispute with coaching philosophy, the kid simply not enjoying himself, etc. etc. That type of departure is not "poaching". Poaching is when a program, in season, contacts a player already rostered on another team and offers that player to come "play in one tournament for us for free, see if you like it" or "how about your 2023 son come play in this showcase event for us". The poacher teams are playing on the system, convincing a parent that their child is getting college looks at the 23 level! That is a blatant lie.
This same program just advertised that they brought on a "college recruiting specialist" yet they have no teams older than 2023?? That is manipulative and a lie to lead these parents to believe their son is getting looks in 6th grade!
So to address your note, yes poaching is a real thing. The standard held by the vast majority of the clubs in Philadelphia is that we do not contact any player already rostered on another program. If they reach out to you that is fine but to actively recruit players off existing teams is a despicable thing only a few teams do. These teams have been called out on here numerous times but just to be clear, they are Brotherly Love and Rising Sons. Rising Sons has gotten a bit better about this but that is primarily because they have lost their luster after their 2021 team fell apart and now their 2020s are done. Brotherly Love has a guy working from them who pumps out propaganda like the Germans in the 1940s! One thing that Rising Sons and Brotherly Love have in common is that both have been caught cheating in the NXT Spring League for having unrostered players play up/down/on multiple teams. BL will fall apart like RS has, give it time.


Rising Sons was caught have 2, 2020 kids playing on their 2021 team.