Based on the bold above, I would not consider this poaching. Of course it depends how those new players joined the organization. If you are running a quality team, other players/parents will have interest in joining. I do not consider that poaching.My daughter's team is 15u...highly ranked in 16u. 4 kids have been together since 10u, 1 joined in 11u, 4 more in 12u, 2 more in 13u in the craziness of the pandemic and 3 newcomers this year filling in some depth. Team has practiced once a week for 3 hours since 10u. Every single practice still for 2 hours....we throw and catch and field and work foot work and cut offs and situations. We don't hit much in practice other than some live modified scrimmage in the last hour. Kids obviously work hard on their own as well. Our organization has been one thats accused of poaching rather than developing but I'm not sure what developing means if its not what our team has done.
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At one point in time, I was labeled as a poacher. The truth is I never once reached out to a player that was already committed to another team. But if a player reached out to me, I would not refuse the conversation. My view is that each family should make their own decisions. I did not try to be a salesman for the teams I coached. I simply explained how we worked things and let the decision up to the player/parents. I never made any promises other than the player would have an opportunity to compete for playing time at their preferred position. Unfortunately some coaches have trouble understanding why any player would ever want to leave their team. The only reason they can come up with is that the coach of the new team must have poached them.