Two B Teams same Org

[radness]

Obviously there are differences in Rec vs. Travel.
Top difference
Rec has playing time rules.
With a short commitment to a season of a couple months.
Travel is coach does what they want. With ongoing commitment. Ongoing season yearly'ish.

For the folks that keep talking about this huge money difference for travel ball
Remember you get to decide who you play for.
Or rather
You get to decide what YOU pay for.

The opinions read in these posts should clue everyone into the fact....
There are tons of options in travel. Multiple perspectives of whats out there.
With the many different goals people have...
Seems options are a good thing!
Best thing figure out what your own goals are. And find as close to that as you can.
Ask yourself what commitment level do you think you are because sometimes thats the biggest gap in finding the right fit.

One families 100% in is attending all team functions.
While other families/players are 100% in includes team functions PLUS putting in work on there own schedule.

Whats your 100%?

 

[Hawk_]

Those 11-12 girls are going to play somewhere....whether it's in your org or not, why not have them in your org?
We have 7 12u teams in the DFW area. Another org here has more than that.

 

[RedeemerKing]

Those 11-12 girls are going to play somewhere....whether it's in your org or not, why not have them in your org?
We have 7 12u teams in the DFW area. Another org here has more than that.

Interesting. How does your organization decide who falls on which team? Is it basically every team for themselves in terms of recruiting and tryouts or is there some sort of internal pecking order regarding who gets to make offer as to which girls?

 

[_MIA_]

If your kid's team has good coaching and plays a schedule which will challenge your kid I wouldn't worry about it at 12's. In 4 or 5 years nobody will care how good your kid's team was at 12's. Now if the team isn't able to play good competition (for your child's ability level) then it can be a bit of an issue.

 

[BT3100]

Our Org has 14 or 15 teams. 3 at 18U and 3 at 16U. Some of the growth has occurred with a coach bringing 10 girls to the organization and by way of tryouts adding 3 or 4 on younger teams up to 8 on older teams. During tryouts all coaches from the younger teams meet to discuss needs and how they will handle new talent so it's somewhat spread around evenly. At the 18U level the top team gets first dibs on anyone who attends try outs and wants to try to make the top team. I agree that all of the girls are going to find a home somewhere. That's the upside to so many teams, the downside is well documented as well.

 

[Hawk_]

Interesting. How does your organization decide who falls on which team? Is it basically every team for themselves in terms of recruiting and tryouts or is there some sort of internal pecking order regarding who gets to make offer as to which girls?

Every team recruits on their own. We have one team that is a A team, the rest fall into B and C. If we have an organizational try out, all of us can make an offer and then it's on the player/parents to decide.

 

[RedeemerKing]

Assuming an organization has enough kids for multiple teams at the same level:

What are thoughts on if it is in the best interest of the organization to push each team to align kids of similar skill levels on the same team vs. letting each team operate and recruit without organization input.

 

[radness]

Assuming an organization has enough kids for multiple teams at the same level:

What are thoughts on if it is in the best interest of the organization to push each team to align kids of similar skill levels on the same team vs. letting each team operate and recruit without organization input.

Probably 98% of travel teams in so cal are coaches doing there own thing with their team... Within ANY org!
Orgs take a fee to be part of org. Like $125'ish a month.
Some coaches (few)
are set up so that 'coach-person' gets a cut also.

Other than some coaches piggy backing for fields with other teams...
Its do it yourself antics

There is no way for any org to oversee what coaches are doing ...how they coach...or any other topic for that matter.
If a coach leaves one org there are a dozen more to move on to.

 

[_MIA_]

Assuming an organization has enough kids for multiple teams at the same level:

What are thoughts on if it is in the best interest of the organization to push each team to align kids of similar skill levels on the same team vs. letting each team operate and recruit without organization input.

DD's org has 2 or 3 first year 12U teams and 6 second year 12U teams. They all operate independently. Personally I like the Bandit's model of doing things but that model may not be possible for many (all) orgs for a number of different reasons.

 

[uncdrew]

I disagree with your opinion of the situation.

What you are looking for is not the what B level softball was created for. B level softball is for the development of any player that wants to play softball. You should have joined a legitimate A level team if you want everyone player to be a good softball player.

Around here C level ball is for any player who wants to play. Not much better than rec.

B level is pretty darn good players.

A is cream of the crop.