God the amount of complaining is ridiculous . Your kid didn’t make it because she didn’t impress the evaluators . It’s just that simple. Everyone so bent over Jesters coach, that team is way better than anyone expected, and everyone sounds really bitter over it. The focus seems to be on Jesters having 5 players , YJ has 15 and everyone butthurt with Jesters coach ?! Lmao YJ has more than half the team and everyone else got scraps. Stop complaining. Anyone of these teams could beat each other on any given day. Move on
Agree, the complaining is ridiculous. That said, it goes on every year. Back in 2016 CR was not involved and I do not recall YJ coaches being involved in the selection process. Back then there was only 1 team, they selected 24 players and the majority were YJ. There were 16 (2016's) 6 (2017's) and 2 (2018's) The same complaints all from the delusional parents. Just about all for those players did / are doing very well in college at many of the best programs. Of the 16 (2016's) I believe 11 or 12 are captains of their college teams. Every year there are a handful of players who are just as deserving but there just isn't room due to roster size. In most cases, the players selected are the same players who the best college programs recruit. Just look at any given year and see how many Long Island Players go on to play at the perennial Top 15 - 20 programs. Maybe 20 - 30 players from Long Island are offered spots at the Top 15 - 20 programs (and SBU skews those numbers.) The Top Programs consistently bring in the majority of the top players, that is why they are always on top. There are some parents who have a legitimate argument but most are not realistic about their daughters ability.
Complaining is ridiculous? Not saying yes, not saying no, but in looking over these posts, there seems to be some real questions/observations. Reputations, suckers, CR past history, biased selections, etc. Jesters coach is the coach? 2 Jesters evaluators and 1 YJ? Or vice versa? 14 YJ make and 5 Jesters make out of a roster of 23? 2 goalies so only 2 other field positions? YJ for the past few years in the 23 class has been good, not great. They would be in B+ brackets in tournaments and not win much or at all in these tournaments. Then they had the merge. Not much changed. Did they plateau? Maybe, happens all the time - players are good early and when everyone else starts to grow, and get better, stronger faster, the talent gap closes quickly. Probably a combination of both? No club is immune to it. No one is questioning CR getting players to great schools, and banking on it going forward, can't blame anyone for thinking that way, but the 23's are not the same collection of talent of her A teams of the past. The merged team last summer, if the talent I keep hearing is loaded, stacked, etc, then why did they not roll through everyone last summer (and lose to Jesters this summer) is a fair question? With the exception of maybe a few, it is pretty hard to say anyone had a chance to create a reputation to make UA on reputation alone. When you factor everything in, 19 out of the 21 field positions went to players who the evaluators coach, or are club affiliated with, is almost a statistical impossibility. It seems a bit disingenuous to level labels of whiners, etc when taking all into consideration.
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