Am I getting Old?

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Is it me this year, or has this been normal? I have noticed several orgs posting their tryouts through individual team threads versus an organizational thread.

Should every org start a thread for each team? and have an org thread?

 

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There is no method to the maddness that is tryout season. I have seen teams recruiting for weeks now. It is as bad as I have ever seen it. All this talk about the purity of developing players is nonsense. Coaches are approaching good players anywhere they see them.
One other disturbing trend that I have seen this year is how some teams (coaches) try to recruit by telling parents (especially in the younger age group) how bad the organization they are currenty playing with is, and how great it would be if they would come and join theirs instead. One particular organization in the Miami valley has no idea how much they have turned some of thier own players and parents with this tactic and I suspect they will be a little surprised when they see an exodus of players from their program who see them doing this every weekend. These type of coaches are always the last ones to see it coming. If they concetrated more on explaining to people why they might want to consider playing for them and spend less time degrading every other team and organization then more parents and players would have respect for them.

 

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Is it me this year, or has this been normal? I have noticed several orgs posting their tryouts through individual team threads versus an organizational thread.

Should every org start a thread for each team? and have an org thread?

Not only that but some keep creating new threads for teams and organizations that they already posted. I personally find it rather annoying, but with over 500 threads currently running (we'll easily get to around 900-1000 by the end of August) in the tryout forums I'm not going to try and keep up with the need to merge threads - so a word of caution to teams/organizations: the more threads you have, the harder it is to keep them current and correct. I will also be taking a dim view of those who post on these threads just to bump them - we have a TTT function under Thread Tools for that purpose.

 

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All this talk about the purity of developing players is nonsense.

Yep. I agree. In my opnion, the coaches who truely focus on developing players are hard to find.

 

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I wish the organizations would just pin the map. If would make everything smoother and definitely cleaner.

 

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I have seen a coach actually approach our players as they were walking off of the field from a championship game and hand them his card. His team was not even in that tournament. He came there just to recruit.

 

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BearMay,

I tried to exclude the "Ohio Teams trying to fill their rosters" forum under my "edit options" settings but it does not appear in the list of forum headers to exclude. This would help those people who use the tryouts map and don't want to see the continual TTT's of tryouts threads.

 

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BearMay,

I tried to exclude the "Ohio Teams trying to fill their rosters" forum under my "edit options" settings but it does not appear in the list of forum headers to exclude. This would help those people who use the tryouts map and don't want to see the continual TTT's of tryouts threads.

Try it now. While I had all of the individual forums set correctly, I had forgot to set the Forum Group as being able to be excluded.

 

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I agree with you Ohio Wave, there are some really underhanded people out there who will try anything to recruit players from other teams, this was a big discussion last year also. I hear these tactics are catching up with some though, ( thinking I know who you are refering to ). You are dead on, people don`t respect this kind of dirty play, but the organizations who are good quality organizations and do things the right way, will eventually come out on top.

 

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What about those teams out there that are still looking to complete their rosters? I know a lot of teams may need subs due to injuries and whatnot, but there are some teams out there looking to complete their roster last week and this week are posting tryouts!! What the heck is THAT all about?

 

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My favorite recruiting technique that made a comeback this year was offering spots on an 18U Gold team for one organization without a need to come to a tryout and comparing notes with other coaches to find out that this team could consist of 36+ players if everyone accepted the offers. Two teams had that offer extended to their ENTIRE roster via email. Pretty normal for that organization to form one good team and several bad teams and tell all the kids on the bad teams that they will be next in line for the good team if anyone gets hurt. Then periodically they will bring in new players throughout the year directly to the top team and push a few more kids out to the bad teams.