Too Many Teams Forming In SoCal "WHO ARE YOU"

[Heyall]

what if you DD id not good enough to make a legit travel team and you don't want her to play rec ball. you want to be able to say my DD plays travel ball. start your own team. sounds like a plan

Every year, another team or three are started because a dad gets pi$$ed off.

If you're not good enough to make a team or you get cut, you learn from it and try again next year. Like all of us parents did before that friggin' communist kick ball game came around and let everyone play!

[Darkcloud]

Yes and our kids should walk 10 miles to school up hill one way. Then 10 miles up hill on the way home and blah blah blah. What does it matter if there are new teams forming and girls are outside playing softball?

[Gone in 2.6]

Wait.......is this thread from 2003?

[blackwidow]

I don't know about anyone else thoughts on this but I think it's too many damn teams forming in SoCal period 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U, 18 GOLD. It needs to be a committee that grants certain qualified people to coach in SoCal. Maybe something like what lawyers go through too pass "THE BAR" to be able to take a team. So many teams forming dilutes the talent pool. Maybe it's me but I hate seeing 2 or 3 great players on a team and the other 10 or so players are average.

Great idea, I was just thinking that the softball community is in need of collectivization and central control.
It all begins with a visionary leader who can pull the right group of people together. A qualified committee would cut out the dead wood, you know, weed out the weakly. It could be the solution.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU

[crowhopsoftball]

With all honesty, who died?, and made you the softball god to critisize and tell teams to go away, Etc. your on crack bro. no really!!!

BRO sound like you are one of the teams that need to go away!!! I said JMO BRO!!! We can agree to disagree BRO!!

[crowhopsoftball]

Yes and our kids should walk 10 miles to school up hill one way. Then 10 miles up hill on the way home and blah blah blah. What does it matter if there are new teams forming and girls are outside playing softball?

My point is the talent pool is diluting because of so many teams forming. I do believe we are the Mecca Of Softball period, but if this keeps up other states will be whipping our a$$ in years to come because we are spreading our talent pool too thin! Say what you want alot of these new teams are money driven and the girls get nothing out of it but empty promises but as long as they are outside playing softball it's okay??? Also its a lot of good teams in 16U and 18U and college coaches still don't know who they are! I wonder why??

[Whiteybro]

This thread is pointless. The girls that have the grades, skills, and determination, will do there homework and make sure they get noticed. The ones getting over looked may have the skills, but more than likely lack the aptitude to be resourceful and get themselves noticed. This will carry over into their study habits and affect their grades too. JMO

[smash]

Do you think all the players on the top gold teams started out there, I don't think so! If you do not have coaches developing these kids in the smaller organizations and teams there would not be so many great players in So Cal. Your top teams only take girls that are already at that level and help them to excell even higher, your coaches from no name teams have to take athletes and make them in to softball players. You have to have feeder teams where girls are developed and move on to bigger teams. Yes, there are to many teams and it does get watered down but most of those teams do not last very long.

[AlwaysImprove]

I do think it would improve the current system to have PGF or ASA actually certify "A" or Gold teams, certainly at the 18's, 16's and probably even 14's. Today's approach has too many families paying good money to join a team that is recruiting "A" only to find out there is no hope for them to go "A".

[crowhopsoftball]

I don't know about anyone else thoughts on this but I think it's too many damn teams forming in SoCal period 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U, 18 GOLD. It needs to be a committee that grants certain qualified people to coach in SoCal. Maybe something like what lawyers go through too pass "THE BAR" to be able to take a team. So many teams forming dilutes the talent pool. Maybe it's me but I hate seeing 2 or 3 great players on a team and the other 10 or so players are average.

If your organization or team hasn't done well in the last 5 years, please fold your organization or team and let your kids join a good organization or team.

Thank you!!!

JMO

Please read again :
If you don't have good coaching how are these players developing? It's a waste of time and money in my book.