Alot of conjecture Station26 on your part. It has nothing to do with parental ego. You are compartmentalizing and generalizing for something you don't know everything about. Why don't you just try talking to the Wild Cat Parents? I am sure that you will discover their motivation. Why don't you research the current Wildcat Tier Programs to discover the facts? Did you know that in the tier program you can get 6 hours or more[/size] of[/size] high quality on-ice training along with 5 hours or more of dryland training per week? It's an open practice schedule with one of the best coaches in Southern California. So as often as one can attend, one determines the extent of the benefit. So, the focus is different from other clubs. In life, one does not win all the time. In fact it is quite the opposite. Character development is important, facing difficult challenges is paramount toward that end.
Conjecture--- (Synonyms--Speculation, guesswork, surmise, presumption and assumption)... Yes, I am generalizing, that much is true. I'm generalizing that for example there are in fact parents out there who put their kids in higher levels of hockey than they should. Some should not even be in Tier hockey as they seriously need to still develop their Hockey IQ at the lower levels (like one of my sons for example)! But to say I'm using conjecture, well no not really. Been around a little while. Seen some things, over and over and over. Seen some coaches fleece people (and still doing it) while telling them their kid is on the cusp of almost being great!! Just stick with it!!! Can you believe the human ego would actually allow that? Of course, what a rhetorical question.
As a couple people already responded with, the end result hardly justifies what you are apparently trying to justify. Fowl if you want to spend your money on that and claim you are getting a good return because of ice time hours, dry land, etc, then by all means its your freewill. Do as you please. But Have you ever played sports as a kid? Did you ever get your ass kicked in a sport as badly as those poor kids are? Do you really think they want to stay with this? Do you think this is fun? So while you seemingly brag about why WC parents do what they do and why they do it, I will respond there is no conjecture at all. The trained eyes already know what its about and have drawn their conclusions. Again, BF needs people like you to believe and a few parents need BF to tell them their kid is as great as THEY think they are!! By the way, is this BF I'm presently talking to..?
I don't personally have a problem with BF other than it just seems so unfortunate that he's selling something that he calls development but young kids don't really know what that necessarily is and they definitely don't like how it feels. But I have to admit, that part may be conjecture as I haven't personally asked any of the 11 or 12 year olds lately.
