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Irish That's the problem. You spend 98% of your time dealing with finances, fundraisers, and scheduling. Have you ever thought that spending more time focusing on development? I mean 2% dealing with the political issues? Why are there political issues? If everything is running smoothly then no one w...

Irish says "I forgot the best come back in youth sports. In most cases the coach or board doesn't have a logical come back so they drop this...... "Why don't you step up to coach or be on the board"? Instead of just answering the questions, they defer to the cowardly response. Leaving...

Is there a reason why USA hockey didn't LOWER the checking age to Squirts? It seems more reasonable to lower the checking age to a point where most of the boys are close to the same body size, weigh substantially less, are much shorter, and more are playing the game. When these first year Pee Wees b...

In my coaching experience, the "dark side of youth sports" has been conflicts between coaches than between parents. I don't coach hockey, I coach baseball. For hockey season, I do everything other than coach (manage the website, arrange scrimmages, locker room duty, stats, etc). I've found...

Although I would like to see private schools like STA move up to AA what I would really like to see is for them to have their own section in each A and AA. Put them all in the same section and let them battle it out. I think it would change everyones views on transferring schools for hockey purpose...

Question for MNmade: If STA or any private school, only competed against other private schools, would their hockey program (or soccer, or football) attract students? I suspect the answer is No. The hockey and football programs at STA are recruiting tools. If someone chooses to go to a private school...

Whether STA moves to AA or stays in A is, in my opinion, irrelevant. I don't like to see so many private schools dominate the state tournaments. The great thing about the tournament is that communities are represented. It's the culmination of years of association work--hours and hours of volunteer t...

I think that the issue is greater than just STA (and even greater than hockey) The issue is about private schools (big or small) cherry picking top players out of an association. Youth associations in both large and small communities put a tremendous amount of time and effort into developing a progr...