Interesting how there are no responses from any of theses organizations??? Seems as though there is always two or three newb's signing up and then firing back something in the hopes of explaining why it's all a big missunderstanding
IMO: I think the fact that you haven't seen any of that means....
#1. The Coaches that see this hope it goes away SOON!
#2. The parents that read this know they've made a mistake, or know they have been taken advantage of.
#3. Some parents don't read this and either don't know any better...or are happy because they have finally found a place that the coach (for a fee
) thinks their DD's are as good as those parents have been try to tell everyone a along.
I don't know anything about the Strokes, however i did see the Academy 14's play last weekend in Suboba. We had played them last year and i wanted to see if they were holding the team together. For what it's worth, they did have a pretty good pitcher back then...but she's no longer with the team. In fact, I did talk to one of the parents and was told that they had lost several of their "better players" to other San Diego organizations.
I would imagine that most of the better players, that do start at the TB level on these type of teams, only last the one season.