[quote=Anonymous] Trivia... what does the Hornets coach and the director for My lacrosse tourney have in common? I love travel lax. It’s so shameless at times in my opinion.
Wait - it get's better - he has to be at these tournaments anyway. He's coaching a travel team without giving up a single weekend he wasn't already working. Maximize that profit. Brilliant!
That 91 B team is a joke. Completed money grab! Express at least develops their B teams. 91 B teams never last and they don’t care about them. To charge that much money and be in all 91 tournaments is a joke and if you don’t see that as a sign, best of luck to you!
I agree, but honestly Express is no different. Total money grab. Chan overloads his team to make as much as he can, and Reilly is left with hardly anything to choose from. And they flounder through the season. These big organizations dont care at all about their second and third teams.
There should only be one team per age group for any organization. If you dont make an organizations top team, then look somewhere else. There are so many other clubs now to choose from
I will give some blame to parents as well. There are parents more and more who just pay to be on a team they couldn’t make. They pay to practice and play meaningless minutes. If I owned a club, I would say thanks! Sorry, but I’m my opinion, this is just dumb on the parents part. There is no depth chart that your son is magically climbing and one day he’ll be first line. Yeah, likely improving, but so are the starters.
That blame if a child should not have made a team, should be on the directors snd coaches selecting the kids at tryouts. They are the professionals who select the kids. Parents look to them to determine if there child has the ability to play at the teams level. But most of these organizations just care about the money and not about the kids. They are robbing parents.
But also lets be real here. There is also nepotism in these clubs as well, and problematic dad asst coaches (im not saying all, because some are actually very good) who box good kids out. Crazily this actually occurs as well.
And kids do learn at different speeds. Some kids can adapt to the game and learn much faster, eventually outperforming the kids who were originally standouts. I have absolutely seen this happen. And in the end good coaches should be able to see a childs inate ability to learn the game as well as their current exoerience level when making their decision.
