Originally Posted by Anonymous
not down. other new clubs taking kids away


This way everyone gets to be on an "A" team! Years ago playing travel anything meant something and that has been watered down by the amount of money people can make running all these teams, so the natural progression is that travel recently became meaningless unless you're an "A" team player, which was true to a certain degree, but now that there are a dozen or more "A" teams per grade in any given sport it's no longer the case. clearly they are all watered down and some are downright horrible excuses for "A" teams, but mom and dad can tell everyone that their kid is on the top travel team of whatever sport they play. I've ben to AAU games, travel lax, soccer and baseball games and some of the teams are hard to watch to put it kindly.