@HSDad22 posted:I think if you are going to have winter practices you should also be having conversations with those participating in them, since these are the real tryouts anyway. Expectations and evaluations can be handled in private with goals.
They are absolutely real tryouts. Firmly convinced that the coaches last year knew heading into official tryouts what they wanted to do, based on how it played out. The coaches had very much already sized up the boys based on the winter workouts.