last summer the 2015 Express Orange team won the U15 nationals and a month later one of the two goalies (who is excellent and goes to St A's) did not make the team and played for the Blue team this year. so stop the BS, They want to win and are going to take the kids on the "A" team that will help them win. A second 2015 who played on the white team last summer made the orange team this summer and has already committed to a good D1 program. They take the top players on the "A" team if anything they take to many kids. If you want to make the top team in a grade level - play well in the tryout. kids will make the team on the field not on BOTC
Wow - what a statement about Express' inability to judge talent and the whole Express tryout chirade. There is nothing left to say other that a kid was so bad in the eyes of the Express that he was placed on the worst team one year but then committs to a D1 program the next. Bunch of buffooons!
no matter what they do they are buffoons? if they keep the same kids every year the teams are locked and tryouts are a sham, if they make changes and kids improve year to year and a kid moves up then they are idiots for cutting him the year before............is it at all possible that the kid was an OK player had a bad tryout and made the white team and the next year he grew, vastly improved, had a great tryout and made the orange team? ...probably not possible, right?
Are you joking? Do you realize how ridiculous you sound trying to defend this? You and the Express belong with eachother. There's no excuse other than one of the worst examples of cronyism and a horrendous mis-judgement of talent that a new kid to the program got steamrolled by. 2nd team - yes, maybe but there is nothing that you can say that can excuse these buffoons from putting him on the third team. If you believe that a kid can go from a 3rd string team to a D1 commit in a year then I have a bridge to sell you and the Express. Please, it's simply horrible how they "evaluated" that kid initially and I'm shocked the parents put up with it and came back for more. Thankfully everything worked out fine despite the huge setback for a year. Are the rest of you willing to take that chance that your kid will be misjudged so horrendously? Ejoy the schenanigans, the lack of transparency and the outright ineptness of the "evaluation" money grab process. [/quote]
Over time these clubs are toast anyway with so many high school and college coaches doing their own events.
