At the end of the day you can be on the #1 team or you can be on the #20 team, you will be seen regardless.
NAILED IT. If you are good, the coaches will find you.
However in both situations, in order for the coach to see you, you have to be in the field playing a significant amount of time. So regardless of the ranking find somewhere you can play and contribute
Nailed this as well. When teams don't sub at all, that doesn't help development or be seen in the recruiting time. Hopefully some teams realize this before its too late for the players sake.
My kid's club has a policy that its equal PT starting in HS, they actually did this through this summer
Which team is this?
How is equal playing time even possible. Yes, I'm sure (and would hope) all players would see the field but doubt it is equal playing.
Capital is the only club who claims equal playing time, but it is probably closer to 60/40. Also gets complicated when you have middies rotating through attack and D.
Most clubs will play their bench more during recruiting year. But will tend to play their high D1 players more early in the process (fall sophomore year, summer sophomore year) and their low D1/D3 players a bit more later in the process (fall junior year).
👆 this is how the top teams do it.
At this age and level there should no longer be the discrepancy of talent from top to bottom to warrant any player on the team getting little to no playing time. Regardless of whether or not you feel equal playing time is possible, if a coach does now see the player as one who can contribute on the field he or she should not take her on the team.
This does not reflect reality. Even at clubs like Heros or M&D, who probably have the deepest benches, there is a MAJOR difference between the top 5 players and bottom 5 players on every team.
Now to be fair, there is usually very little difference between the bottom 5 on the A team and top 5 on a B team, but that is a difference conversation entirely.
