The Brine Nationals are upcoming. They held the LI regional - but if you missed it you can attend the Connecticut or Jersey regional upcoming in 2 weeks.
We all know where the Brine event has gone when local coaches are involved in the selection process. What other events are out there.
There are local coaches involved in all event tryouts, if your child is talented, it doesn't matter who is evaluating. The showcases have various coaches from all over and even some local LI but at that point, it is playing and showing your talent.
We all know there is abundance of talent on LI. There are also some of the best teams in the country like Extreme, Terps, and others. When talking about the best players there are a number that come to mind. Some of the best and very good players have been lucky to be involved in the best programs on LI from an early age. No one team has all the best players because there are some who don't play travel and because there are so many travel teams the players get spread out. So on some of these elite teams there very good players that fit in to the system and they do well because they are surrounded be great players. These players because of their association with these elite teams reap the benefits and also the accolades. Are they good yes are they worthy of being selected to every showcase, no. So when a coach who makes a living on his travel team is involved in the selection process of course they select their player. There is a lot of money at stake here. It looks great at events when their helmets are all over the field. It only brands their product even more. Do good players get overlooked, all the time. If these events like Brine brought in unbiased evaluators there would be less favoritism and true showcase teams. Just my 2 cents and observations.
