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Well.... we did have parachuters at one of our tourney's last year ... or so everyone thought when they began dropping in around the park ... lol
LOL@ Sam!!!!!!!
Doug, you know darn well this is OK. It happens all the time. It's how most of the better teams fill their roster.
100% legit
I've had a coach of another organization ask me to drop a bunch of the girls on my team and form some super team with members of their team. It was during the season when these talks were going on. In hindsight, I am so very glad it did not work out. My team is much better off now and we have turned the corner as an organization.
It happens to us all. It is the nature of the beast and if you do your job, in most instances, the kids will stay.
To take this on a different vein....Do some of you also feel that some parents will team-hop every year in search of the one team that will showcase their dd and their dd only? I have not experienced turnover like this on my team, but I have seen it happen. On the tryout registrations, we ask for past teams and if they have a list and need to turn the sheet over, it screams buyer beware. Just saying, sometimes it can be the parent and not the snake.
My view is very much like Ringers. Its a 1 year commitment. Sure everyone wants to have a core group that carries over year after year, but if a kid/family wants to leave because they aren't getting out of the relationship what they want that needs to be ok.
Now if you could put on the tryout form, "Are you a parent that cause team problems?" and get them to answer that would scream buyer beware.
Has anyone else noticed that Stingrays weekend seems to be the start of free-agency talks? Late enough in the season, best players are usually together at one location. Always makes me laugh.
That's why I drive the golf carts... there's no witnesses.... Only Kidding!!!!! I have none playing.....