This is a serious question not a troll post. Unless your kid is a superstar on an elite team in eighth grade, what is the point of going to a private school for sports? (I get it if you have religious or education reasons.). It would seem to me that instead of spending $40,000 a year at Landon your pocketbook and your kid would have a much better time if you just bought a house in Bethesda and your son played for whitman or Churchill.
This is a joke. I know for a fact there are kids on AA/AAA HoCo teams that are better than Elite team starters. Parents know not to waste their time at try-outs, maybe can't drive that far, don't want their kid sitting behind dad coach's son (See FCA Blue and White, 91 and even Crabs), and the holdback movement is why you see elite players playing in AA/AAA. But hey.....my son plays elite for 3 minutes a game until his spot is gone next year.
As a A-level coach with a AAA kid.........yikes with the bitterness. Wildly incorrect about moving starters from AAA to elite starters. Yes you could switch out an elite team's 3rd line with AAA starters with no impact (or in some cases, do even better) but seriously, talent separation exists. You can measure it in reaction times for goalies, % groundballs and/or FO % for middies, and shuttle drill speeds for defensemen. There's far more overlap than Elite Dads would have you believe, but elite talent is a real thing.
As far as the teams you listed, yeah, you're not wrong about coach's kid's quasi-elite talents.....but.....again with the bitterness. For simplicity let's say all those coach's kids are attackmen. Sure they may be featured as the #1 ATT on the roster but I'd argue in all 4 cases, the kid would still be the #6 ATT or better on that same roster, without Dad weeble wobbling on the sideline. They are basically where they're supposed to be, talent wise. And to say that your AAA starter attackman is as good as FCA's Blue's or Crabs' top 3 is silly.
