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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Without that, wtf is there to be interested IN?
Kids are either cut out for it or they're not. There's nothing wrong with "not" but don't bastardize the sport into something unrecognizable.
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Youth sports have already been bastardized Jon. There are two distinctive camps in youth sports now. Pay to Play and Recreational. Yes you still are paying for the recreational leagues but you get the idea. That coach is in the Pay to Play camp. He is asking more of the recreational league structure than the recreational league structure can provide him. Most of the kids who are more talented and/or more competitive for the recreational structure will go the Pay to Play route eventually. I am not throwing shade at them. That is what my son has done. My suggestion for the coach and the kids that wanted to win that badly is to go and join or even better yet start their own 8U team and compete against kids and coaches that are in a similar camp as he is. Nothing is wrong with that either. He does not need to try and turn the recreational league into something it is obviously not.
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