Is that a good thing that they are fielding 2 5th grade teams. Do they really have the talent to compete?
BOTC spoke with Chris Roberts on Tuesday and Wednesday, just before there was a full club meeting to decide how to handle their age groups.
Each and every player was individually reviewed from all of the observers who "graded" the players. True Blue did not make a decision to expand the team count before the review of the players. Chris was very weary of any expansion plan and told us that he would only do so if the Board of Directors/Coaches at True Blue truly believed that they had the right level of talent and coaching bandwidth to handle an expansion.
If this age group was expanded, the club clearly feels that they are doing the right thing by these particular players and their families - and that the talent level is present to justify this expansion for the club itself.
One final thought : with hundreds of candidates attracted to their True Blue tryouts (to the point that preregistration was closed here on BOTC), it would have been "easy" to just form as many teams as possible. True Blue is maintaining the quality of both the coaching and the program itself; BOTC wishes the program and its players a wonderful season.
