background, LL minors softball coach here (10u basically, mostly 8s and 9s, most 10s are in majors). Our softball admin runs a TB team, and has a neice playing. local TB softball and baseball teams use our LL fields on sundays, and they pay for this, but pay lower fee if 80% (or something like that) of their players are registered in LL as well, so TB coaches really push to have girls play LL as well.
in our draft, I draft softball admins niece in first round, I picked last, she was only known pitcher left at that point (3 teams). softball admin went to districts a week ago, came back with schedule, all my LL teams home games will be Thurs evenings. a week or so later, about 8 practices in, 10 days before OD, he informs me that neither he nor his niece will be at most of our thursday games (knowing full well that I was depending on her as my #1 pitcher). Wont specify why, I suspect because his TB team practices then. I even offered to arrange a ride for her if this was the issue.
It seems entire softball LL was set up around his TB consisting of mostly 10/11s. virtually all 12s (like 14 out of 18) got moved from majors to juniors, including anyone with any ability at all, so they are now all ineligible for majors AS team, so guess who the best players in majors are, yep, all his TB team (only two majors teams), and since two majors coaches are parents of TB players, you know the AS will be the TB team, regardless of actual ability. all 10s with any talent got moved up, I feel so he could minimize any strife on his team (ie some players are majors, some are minors). All except his neice, she is still LA9, so she is in minors, on my team (minors only has 10 per team).
if a girl plays both LL/rec and TB, should TB practice be more a priority than a LL/rec game, or the reverse? I would think an actual game should be priority. My DD plays travel soccer as well as softball, and I know if there is socceer practice and a softball game, she is going to softball game rather than soccer practice.
in our draft, I draft softball admins niece in first round, I picked last, she was only known pitcher left at that point (3 teams). softball admin went to districts a week ago, came back with schedule, all my LL teams home games will be Thurs evenings. a week or so later, about 8 practices in, 10 days before OD, he informs me that neither he nor his niece will be at most of our thursday games (knowing full well that I was depending on her as my #1 pitcher). Wont specify why, I suspect because his TB team practices then. I even offered to arrange a ride for her if this was the issue.
It seems entire softball LL was set up around his TB consisting of mostly 10/11s. virtually all 12s (like 14 out of 18) got moved from majors to juniors, including anyone with any ability at all, so they are now all ineligible for majors AS team, so guess who the best players in majors are, yep, all his TB team (only two majors teams), and since two majors coaches are parents of TB players, you know the AS will be the TB team, regardless of actual ability. all 10s with any talent got moved up, I feel so he could minimize any strife on his team (ie some players are majors, some are minors). All except his neice, she is still LA9, so she is in minors, on my team (minors only has 10 per team).
if a girl plays both LL/rec and TB, should TB practice be more a priority than a LL/rec game, or the reverse? I would think an actual game should be priority. My DD plays travel soccer as well as softball, and I know if there is socceer practice and a softball game, she is going to softball game rather than soccer practice.