Why would they want to play those teams?just to say their playing the best teams in that age group? Doesn't do any good for the coaches or the kids.. What kid or coach wants to get beat 15-1 What do u learn from that? The only teams that can hang with the top teams are those top teams..
As a coach, sometimes it helps us set expectations for parents and kids to see how far you need to go to be able to compete with the top teams.
Originally Posted by Anonymous
That's a ridiculous statement..as a coach you want to go into a game you know you can't win, have the boys get defeated all to show the parents that there not good enough?? ..hmm..how about playing challenging games against teams that are within your skill level..that 15-2 game isn't helping either team..here's a good idea: stay in your lane..
In absence of any other context, maybe. But, if you've got parents that think their boys are way better than they really are, and you have been dealing with that for a while to no avail, the above approach sometimes is the only thing that gets the point through! Considering the over involvement of LI lax parents and the level of that on display on these boards day in, day out, is it really surprising to anyone that this is necessary sometimes?!
"Stay in your lane" - really - are you THAT afraid that your son might lose to one of these teams that you think doesn't belong? Or let me guess, your son's team didn't make the playoffs in a fall tournament because all the other teams in his division team blew out the "team that didn't belong" and your son's team had a tough schedule - is that it?
Get a grip, pal. What happens when the team that doesn't belong is crushing all the teams in the B division and they need to step up to face "real" competition -- like you said, "that 15-2 game isn't helping either team."
Hopefully the tournament organizers do as good a job putting teams into the divisions that they belong in -- and if you keep going to tournaments where the host gets a ridiculously easy schedule compared to everyone else, either suck it up or tell your organization that you don't want to go back to that tournament. There are hundreds of tournaments each year within a five hour drive from Long Island and I'm sure you can find one that fits your the talent level of your son's team that doesn't give the organizers three games against B- teams while you have to play AA (or AAA if you're from Maryland) teams.
