Goldball4 wrote:Two of the top teams in Norcal have just announced, they are becoming Oc batbuster teams! Gomes who went from grapettes, to west coast intensity, is now batbusters. Kg hitters also announced they will be batbusters also. Lost a ton of respect for these two guys, who soldout their roots, to lay in bed with pgf. Still the same coaches though, so lets see if they make this work.
....."sold out their roots, to lay in bed with pgf". How dramatic.
There is a recurring, current pgf thread on this board about teams who's parents/coaches feelings are hurt because their teams end up in Whittier for pgf showcase tournaments. Go to that thread, and read Always Improve's synopsis. There are effectively three tier's of teams now, and pgf tends to place the tier 1 teams on the best fields. Tier 2 teams that are making noise and winning also get good fields. Those are the facts of life.
NorCal teams are mostly tier 3. In years past there have been a few tier 1 NorCal teams, but they are gone.
I suspect that these two coaches that you are complaining about have figured this out. They want their players to get recruited by top colleges, and to do that, their kids need to be playing on top fields. Being an OC Batbuster team will help. Yes, you can say that they are just OC Batbuster's in name only, but that will still be WAY better than being west coast intensity or kg hitters......If you think this won't help these guys get good field locations, you are confused. I also suspect that parents are figuring this out, and they will be trying to get their kid on one of these teams.
Hopefully Gary won't be stockpiling Batbuster teams like the FC have done over the last year; time will tell.