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Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better 🤣🤣

Heros losing a few tight games, big deal. It should be apparent now more than ever, winning holds no value outside of bragging rights. If winning lets you keep talent or add talent, great.

The end goal for rising Soph teams must be to play close games against top competition so that next year when coaches are watching, you are in that top bracket or close to it.

Heros won’t have a problem.

Teams that traditionally win start to lose more during recruiting as they try to get everyone playing time P

They are not in recruiting year so this is not the case for the 27s

Our 2027 teams has been doing equal PT for over a year.

in other words, we have no depth since our “subs” are weak

How is Sky Walkers 27 doing?

A lot better than the previous versions.

I would say they are right there with MDU locally, and the Prime Time, Capital, Steps tier.

Rumor has it there is a coaching change happening??

At SW? In their final year essentially?

They have arguably the best HS coach in the state. With a ton of college connections. Why in the world would they make a change before recruiting? This has to be someone stirring the pot.

This is a very fair statement. SW would win matchups against these teams 45%-50% of the time. 98% of their scoring comes from the new girls to the team.

Not a rumor.
It has been confirmed by a patent on the team.

That doesn’t sit well as a current member of the team… what’s the plan? Some coach who doesn’t know my kid going to come in and try and sell her to college coaches? Please tell me the male coach isn’t going to be the only one staying. This information needs to be public NOW for the good of the girls on the team!

Where are the coaches going? Are they leaving the program.

Where are the coaches going?

If I was them and this move was not their choice-
I would be leaving. Wonder what impact this will have on that team?

To be fair, the "selling" is done more by the club directors than age group coaches. However, will Mike gone, the question is how will Molly step up?

As a parent of a SW 24, I can tell you that our team's head coach (Crissy/Daniela) had little to no involvement talking to college coaches except for one they had a personal relationship with.. It was all done by Mike.

Their starters are as good as any team not named Heros, M&D or YJ. When the bench gets PT, things get interesting.

Clearly not a parent on the team. All girls/families have been informed of the plan moving forward.

Not at the time of this message but sure

CR’s new club once his non-compete with 3Step is up?

I hear one to M and D. Not sure about the other

Not a SW parent but I don’t understand this move. These coaches turned this team around. Sounds like a situation of a few unhappy parents.

Or unhappy kids. "Turned the team around." Lol trolls be trollin'.

Skywalkers has plenty of talented coaches at all ages and rotating coaches isn’t something new at the program. At the next level coaches and teammates change a lot so this speed bump will help them prep for college

lol that’s some great spin

When was the last time SW changed coaches going into 10th grade recruiting year? Their model changes coaches at certain ages which isn’t a bad idea. But this one has a LOT more to do with parent influence than it does the model.

Literally the worst possible take of all time. Yes, let's prep them for college by making sure they will struggle to get recruited due to making such a drastic change for recruiting year. Because, "hey, college players and coaches change all the time". SMH. Not affiliated with SW in any way, but as a parent I would be livid with this decision. Now the team has to learn new offensive and defensive philosophies on the fly this fall, and try to execute in front of coaches, with very little practice time. Expect play to decline significantly, and players/parents to struggle with direction and plans to showcase all the kids equally. Just my thoughts...

Stop. The sky isn't falling. The girls will have the old and new coaches to advocate for them if need be. You act as if girls ever changing clubs is an insurmountable death nell for recruiting. It isn't. Girls will show up in showcases or id camps, coaches will watch and things will be status quo.

The offense and defense will be no worse than before any change. Defense was pretty solid and straight forward with man2man- that travels from coach to coach unless they switch to zone. Offense was mostly solid, but was based off of simple motion, so added concepts shouldn't be a big drag. These are competitive 27s, not 29s; girls are athletic and skilled in their own right. They should be able to get up to speed with good coaching pretty quickly.

If it bothers you too much, focus on your own team- assuming you aren't a SW parent stirring the pot.

They did it to the 26 Whites last season.

If a club's style changes as a result of a coaching change, the blame needs to be at the club directors/owners, not the coach. The best clubs play similar (though not identical) styles across all teams and ages.

What noone here is saying, but I think most parents are thinking, though, is "Will SW be able to recruit as effectively without mike? The 26s should give an early sign, but that is the uncertainty, not who is coaching.

Like someone else mentioned, recruiting coaching calls are made my directors not age group coaches.

I am curious what the parents on the actual team think. It’s great that all these people are jumping in with their opinion but none of it matters unless you are on the team.

Who coaches this team?

New 2027 coach was a part of the SW 2025 staff and is also an assistant at SPSG

Prediction for tryouts … any moves on top teams?

I wouldn't expect much movement. You are really rolling the dice moving clubs with about 14 months until recruiting happens.

Any movement at 2027? Heard SW added some talent?

Heard their their coach walked, is that true?

They will have new coaches this year. The coaches did not walk. Most people, including the coaches, are not happy with this change. There were a lot of tears yesterday at the end of the tournament as the girls said goodbye to the coaches. They will be sorely missed next year.