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At East Cobb, most teams play four of their five pool play games on remote fields at local high schools, colleges, or parks.

A college coach needs a specific reason--a known team or known prospects or a team that is unexpectedly making some noise by beating good teams and getting good write ups in the tournament blog--to motivate him to venture out from the East Cobb complex where he can see four games at once (and eventually see every team once) to go a school where he can see only one game at a time.

You can keep telling yourself that wins and losses don't matter, but a pick-up team with a losing record and a roster full of unknown players whose parents believed they needed to pay thousands of dollars for "exposure" simply is not going to motivate large herds of coaches to migrate over ten miles of North Georgia hills to watch them play.

When a franchise enters a half dozen teams in the same tournament, the college coaches will figure out pretty quickly which one is the "A" team and which ones are there to help cover expenses. If your son isn't on the "A" team, don't expect the brand name of the team to get him any extra looks.
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