We have two kids whose parents make them try out for a sport every season. They have never made a team. When they came to the first day of JV tryouts, and I told everyone that every kid who tried out for JV would make it, and that our goal for this year for JV was "participation", they said, "You mean we made the team?" My "yes" was greeted by "Mom is not going to believe this!"
If you can't smile when this happens, you are dead. Those two kids are going to do something in life, soccer, or something I guarantee.
Find a way for it to work, instead of finding a way for it not to work. It's for the kids, not the coaches and parents, after all.
More WE, less me.
