My son only plays for Northport and it's a wonderful experience. Gelling together as a team, local practices, just a few hundred dollars instead of a few thousand for summer ball alone! When you have a program that works why change it. In UMASS they were undefeated against all of the elite travel teams and the state team of NH! Pretty impressive to say the least. We have remarkable college commitments from playing in your home town. Let's Go Tigers!
...and Northport has a lot of drama and politics as well. XYZ player trains with ABC coach so he is brought onto varsity.
Same story over and over. Sure it works great for about 12-15 of the top players. The rest of the kids get passed over, limited play time in season an in the summer. Can't get looks from college's cause coaches keep playing the same kids even in summer. Blah blah blah... Surely there are 40 kids who play for NP. Many of those kids who are not in the top 15 could get plenty of play time and exposure from and outside club. Maybe earn a spot a great D3 program. But hey, then one of the parents of the top 15 kids wouldn't be able to come on here and crow about beating travel teams...
How dare you not support the A-- H---s kid who happens to be a stud? You must be loyal, you must follow what they say, if you don't you will not play....
They don't want you to do anything their kid is not doing because your kid could improve. If they control everything and everyone does the same thing and has the same coaching there will be very little change to the depth chart.
Do what you can to kelp your son. Maybe it is playing on the town team maybe it is playing for a club team maybe it is going to clinics and private lessons to prepare for the Showcase events.
good luck to all.
And yes, it is a conflict of interest!
An how about the HS coach who wear their Club Team's jacket and sweat pants to practice every day?
No different...
How do AD's and schools let them get away with this? Imagine if the math teacher came to school every day wearing a T-Shirt that advertised their Tutoring Company.
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