From prior tourney and early Naptown results, it seems like the True National team has fallen off. Any current or former True families have insight? Just a small sample size? Were they previously buoyed by the Chesapeake team that fell apart?
in our home town...and the club dues are less...and the players really seem to like the coaches...maybe it's better than what we're getting at True."
The collapse of True Ches was brutal, and clearly made it difficult to put back together a Mid-Atlantic based national team for 8th grade. In general, parents of players at every level from B to Elite become more savvy every grade year, and (except for a few hard heads), aware of the realistic range of their kid's play. "OK he's the featured shooter at AA but would ride the bench at Elite." Once you really have this info as a parent, the True sales pitches don't hold much water.
"Really....you're going to get my son "more exposure" than the Instagram Clippers? How would that even be possible."
"We train more!"
"OK, but my son played 2nd line True AAA last year, and he's playing 2nd line True AAA this year, and the team somehow got worse and should be in AA."
"Ahh maybe you don't understand - we train more!"
It's a far more appealing sales pitch when the boys are in 3rd-5th grade.
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