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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:31 pm
So wait the tier 2 AA team will have to play the tier 1 AA team? I don't get it. There really should just be the 1 AA team and if your kid doesn't make it you play single A until you are good enough to make AA. Having a tiered system isn't going to help the better AA team as they'll be playing weak compeition. Kind of like how it is now with these other centres that do not pull from the same pool of kids that London does. It's just a dumb decision all around. LJK has to keep those second tier teams for the $$$$. As if they care about development. If they truly cared the majority of these parent coaches would be gone! Or never selected in the first place. Look at the U13 White team. Coaches kid should never have made AA and yet because dad coaches he auto makes it. How stupid is that? Oh but better for development. Yada yada yada.
The development will come from competition amongst the players on the top team and playing with kids on your level every time you’re on the ice. You’ll also have better chances to compete in championships. Those on the second team will have increased competition amongst them to try and make that jump to the top team the next season. Also, the best kids on the second team will have an increased role instead of being a middle of the road player they are right now - that will also help their development. There is a lot of good to it.
Yes parent coaches are not always ideal, but how many non-parent coaches with good hockey knowledge do you think are around? They’re not easy to come by.
Guest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:31 pm
So wait the tier 2 AA team will have to play the tier 1 AA team? I don't get it. There really should just be the 1 AA team and if your kid doesn't make it you play single A until you are good enough to make AA. Having a tiered system isn't going to help the better AA team as they'll be playing weak compeition. Kind of like how it is now with these other centres that do not pull from the same pool of kids that London does. It's just a dumb decision all around. LJK has to keep those second tier teams for the $$$$. As if they care about development. If they truly cared the majority of these parent coaches would be gone! Or never selected in the first place. Look at the U13 White team. Coaches kid should never have made AA and yet because dad coaches he auto makes it. How stupid is that? Oh but better for development. Yada yada yada.
The development will come from competition amongst the players on the top team and playing with kids on your level every time you’re on the ice. You’ll also have better chances to compete in championships. Those on the second team will have increased competition amongst them to try and make that jump to the top team the next season. Also, the best kids on the second team will have an increased role instead of being a middle of the road player they are right now - that will also help their development. There is a lot of good to it.
Yes parent coaches are not always ideal, but how many non-parent coaches with good hockey knowledge do you think are around? They’re not easy to come by.
Qualified non-parent coaches are almost extinct at the AAA level let alone AA. You have to sacrifice a parent coach every now and then.
The towering system is a risk for sure but it will LJK a chance to compete for some tournament and OHF championships. We do not have enough talent for two AAA teams as most of our AAA teams are struggling to dominate but we should dominate AA for sure if we have a tiered teams.
Guest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:21 am
Thoughts? I am not sure I understand the rationale for having a Tier 1 and 2 AA system.
Its done this way so they can finally justify having a Single A calibre team under the LJK banner. The current situation is Kids tryout for LJK AA and 1 of the 2 LJK teams is so poorly picked or coached that they are auto demote to single A for the season and its NOT what the parents or kids signed up for! If i were parents cut from LJK AA tier 1, I would go straight to Mustangs. A farrrrrrrrr better Asociation and you get the same tourneys and league play.
Next year you won’t. Mustangs are moving from alliance. They’ll play smaller centres.
Going to 2 tiered AA teams is going to be so much better for kids development. There’s too many weak kids playing AA that shouldn’t be because of the two teams. Our family is happy about the change and others are as well. Anyone unhappy probably will be on the second team and knows it.
There is nothing confirming Mustangs are leaving Alliance
Guest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:21 am
Thoughts? I am not sure I understand the rationale for having a Tier 1 and 2 AA system.
Its done this way so they can finally justify having a Single A calibre team under the LJK banner. The current situation is Kids tryout for LJK AA and 1 of the 2 LJK teams is so poorly picked or coached that they are auto demote to single A for the season and its NOT what the parents or kids signed up for! If i were parents cut from LJK AA tier 1, I would go straight to Mustangs. A farrrrrrrrr better Asociation and you get the same tourneys and league play.
Next year you won’t. Mustangs are moving from alliance. They’ll play smaller centres.
Going to 2 tiered AA teams is going to be so much better for kids development. There’s too many weak kids playing AA that shouldn’t be because of the two teams. Our family is happy about the change and others are as well. Anyone unhappy probably will be on the second team and knows it.
There is nothing confirming Mustangs are leaving Alliance
Wouldn't be a terrible idea for them to move to the BB loop - LJK then takes over with one AA and one A and both play within alliance.
Guest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:31 pm
So wait the tier 2 AA team will have to play the tier 1 AA team? I don't get it. There really should just be the 1 AA team and if your kid doesn't make it you play single A until you are good enough to make AA. Having a tiered system isn't going to help the better AA team as they'll be playing weak compeition. Kind of like how it is now with these other centres that do not pull from the same pool of kids that London does. It's just a dumb decision all around. LJK has to keep those second tier teams for the $$$$. As if they care about development. If they truly cared the majority of these parent coaches would be gone! Or never selected in the first place. Look at the U13 White team. Coaches kid should never have made AA and yet because dad coaches he auto makes it. How stupid is that? Oh but better for development. Yada yada yada.
The development will come from competition amongst the players on the top team and playing with kids on your level every time you’re on the ice. You’ll also have better chances to compete in championships. Those on the second team will have increased competition amongst them to try and make that jump to the top team the next season. Also, the best kids on the second team will have an increased role instead of being a middle of the road player they are right now - that will also help their development. There is a lot of good to it.
Yes parent coaches are not always ideal, but how many non-parent coaches with good hockey knowledge do you think are around? They’re not easy to come by.
LJK waters it down so much. And sadly, just down the road, EMC has NO AA option. So everyone goes back to Shamrock A to D, and Shamrock is a mess too. There are some B C or D teams that would clobber some of the A teams.
Guest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:21 am
Thoughts? I am not sure I understand the rationale for having a Tier 1 and 2 AA system.
Its done this way so they can finally justify having a Single A calibre team under the LJK banner. The current situation is Kids tryout for LJK AA and 1 of the 2 LJK teams is so poorly picked or coached that they are auto demote to single A for the season and its NOT what the parents or kids signed up for! If i were parents cut from LJK AA tier 1, I would go straight to Mustangs. A farrrrrrrrr better Asociation and you get the same tourneys and league play.
Next year you won’t. Mustangs are moving from alliance. They’ll play smaller centres.
Going to 2 tiered AA teams is going to be so much better for kids development. There’s too many weak kids playing AA that shouldn’t be because of the two teams. Our family is happy about the change and others are as well. Anyone unhappy probably will be on the second team and knows it.
There is nothing confirming Mustangs are leaving Alliance
Wouldn't be a terrible idea for them to move to the BB loop - LJK then takes over with one AA and one A and both play within alliance.
So what do the GLHA associations become? HL only? Mustangs is carded A and is a decently successful A program. C'mon.
Guest wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:21 am
Thoughts? I am not sure I understand the rationale for having a Tier 1 and 2 AA system.
Its done this way so they can finally justify having a Single A calibre team under the LJK banner. The current situation is Kids tryout for LJK AA and 1 of the 2 LJK teams is so poorly picked or coached that they are auto demote to single A for the season and its NOT what the parents or kids signed up for! If i were parents cut from LJK AA tier 1, I would go straight to Mustangs. A farrrrrrrrr better Asociation and you get the same tourneys and league play.
Next year you won’t. Mustangs are moving from alliance. They’ll play smaller centres.
Going to 2 tiered AA teams is going to be so much better for kids development. There’s too many weak kids playing AA that shouldn’t be because of the two teams. Our family is happy about the change and others are as well. Anyone unhappy probably will be on the second team and knows it.
There is nothing confirming Mustangs are leaving Alliance
Wouldn't be a terrible idea for them to move to the BB loop - LJK then takes over with one AA and one A and both play within alliance.
So what do the GLHA associations become? HL only? Mustangs is carded A and is a decently successful A program. C'mon.
In a perfect world from a competitive standpoint:
One LJK AAA
One LJK AA
One Mustang A
GLHA would have their BB/MD teams and then HL below them
Say what you want about LJK two AA teams, Mustangs having two A teams is just as bad. They were semi-successful when they first started, but they are not very competitive anymore... 6 out 16 teams are .500 or better on the season and a lot of those teams under .500 are very weak.