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Since the other coaches aren't interested in group practices, I think you should issue a challenge: next year, just give you li'l lookout, and the 9 lowest-ranked kids, and you will still kick everyone's asses.
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Although that sounds like fun, I think I'll pass on volunteering for it. It will be pretty close to what happens anyway due to half my kids moving up to the next age bracket or taking the session off, anyway.
I pretty much did that a year and a half ago. Lil Lookout was forced out of the U6 league and into the U8 league before his 5th birthday because he was "scoring too much"
I started coaching U8 at that point and the director at that time didn't invite me to the evaluations. I ended up with a 4 year old lil lookout, five 6 year olds and four 7 year olds who had never played soccer before. I recruited our 7 year old neighbor just so I could have another player who could at least kick the ball without falling over. That first session we lost or tied our first nine games. Our tenth game we beat the other team 12-0. The kids all signed up for the next session and we went 5-3-2. Then I took a session off from coaching and they split those kids up. All but one still plays. Three of them have been invited to club level tryouts.
It's fun to do, but I can't do that again. It encourages my overly competitive Lil Lookout to be a selfish ballhog. It is hard to convince him to pass to someone who doesn't know what to do with the ball.