centurian wrote:Defty wrote:centurian wrote:The "nomads" could form a team of their own.
Can see the heybucket add read.
New team forming.
Wear your old uniform.
Practices on Saturday,
If you want to show up.
3 months of softball
From may thru july
Schedule.
3 Friendly's
3 tournaments
If we end up tolerating each other
will discuss entering a qualifier.
Who would coach them. Is it:
1) COACH A who just left to start their own org (like we need more)
2) COACH B who just told everyone on the team that they have to try out again at the beginning of the regular season, or even right at the end of going dark, because they don't have the guts to cut a girl/family, even for a solid reason.
3) COACH C who just left org B for org C, after having just left org A two years ago because they "didn't see eye-to-eye" with the head of the org"
4) COACH D who just expanded from 1 team to 3-4 teams because they had "success" over the last few seasons and they see $$ signs that they can't pass up
5) COACH E who can't keep girls on his/her team because they have over promised and under delivered.
6) COACH F who just "moved down from 18u gold" because they "had so much success at that level that they wanted to coach at 10u/12u" not because their lack of success caused them to not be able to bring in/retain girls, but because they "want to give back."
7) COACH G who is also a high school coach, give lessons and has a full time job so you don't get even 1/4 of their time.
Point being, it is super easy to forward the narrative that "leaving a team makes you a bad person" but in the current travel landscape their isn't wide-spread opportunity to even stick with one team if you want to. Money has changed this game immensely. The negative effects of early verbals still reverberates throughout the sport even though it has been curbed (i.e. parents pressuring their kids to stand out and have it all together by 12u, coaches dragging teams to showcases when they no they have no place being their, etc). In my opinion the lack of a way to transfer down legacy knowledge to newbie coaches and parents is a major reason that all of these problems perpetuate, or even worsen, from year to year. Of course the overall "problem" can not be summarized in one sitting, but that's why I feel that always trying to point the blame finger in the direction of the parents or kids is a detriment towards working towards improving the system as a whole.
5)Coach E promises can't deliver.
3 month schedule promises won't matter team breaking up anyway when cant deliver. Just enough time to prove failure. No harm done. No expectations.
I can't argue with the logic.