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The bigger problem is parent coaches. Some clubs have five with the manager! Their kids have friends on the team so that’s ten spots booked up before any tryout. Good bad or ugly these ten get ice time over your kid.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 7:38 pm The bigger problem is parent coaches. Some clubs have five with the manager! Their kids have friends on the team so that’s ten spots booked up before any tryout. Good bad or ugly these ten get ice time over your kid.

Seemed to work for a certain u10 gthl west A team who won their west division.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 7:38 pm The bigger problem is parent coaches. Some clubs have five with the manager! Their kids have friends on the team so that’s ten spots booked up before any tryout. Good bad or ugly these ten get ice time over your kid.

So what's your solution?

There aren't enough people volunteering to coach so you basically have to take whoever volunteers.

I've seen great volunteer coaches and horrible paid coaches.

The system is broken, we all know that but we have to work with what we got.
Are you getting the best coaches? No
Are you getting teams where the coaches kids shouldn't make the team? Yes
Would paying coaches get more interested? Probably
Do you want your fees to go with by paying more for coaches? No

I know the Hamilton Steel only have non-parent head coaches but that's tough to do year after year.

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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:53 am How's the fight going against tampering? Anybody get hit yet?

The biggest farce ever.

EVERY SINGLE COACH at the AAA level tampered. Every single one, and if they didn't their team would be AWFUL.
But I can confirm every single coach on OMHA AAA East has players committed prior to tryouts.

So to nail anyone for that, is WACK.

Yup, either myself or good friends are locked into positions on every single one of the teams prior to tryouts. What are we doing here? We all know. If one single coach gets nailed, that's insane.

Gotta start somewhere. Will be better for everyone involved to have the porper tryout procedure rather than the nonesense going on now. Cheaper too. These teams are really milking the birthday skate costs to make money

I think people underestimate how hard it is to put a team together, it isn't a matter of grabbing 17 kids. You need the right amount of defence/forwards, left handed vs. right handed defence, kids that are coachable, kids that get along with each other, kids that fit the team style of game the team plays, and parents that aren't crazy.

Many coaches are volunteers, It is insane to think a coach would want to or be able to pick an entire team from kids that happen to show up for your tryout skate. Some of these skates have 40-50 kids, it is impossible to be fair and pick a team that works. It might work in North Ontario or other centers where you know the kids well, but it would be a complete gong show in the GTHL.