FVU is on probation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not speak for all Union girls parents, but for myself, but I would welcome the albatross of the boys program gone. I have other wishes and wants, but I am the parent not the coach.

that would mean end of ECNL though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not speak for all Union girls parents, but for myself, but I would welcome the albatross of the boys program gone. I have other wishes and wants, but I am the parent not the coach.

that would mean end of ECNL though

The ECNL for this club ended years ago lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not speak for all Union girls parents, but for myself, but I would welcome the albatross of the boys program gone. I have other wishes and wants, but I am the parent not the coach.

that would mean end of ECNL though

Nope. see: highlands. only boys. The benefit (maybe only one) to this union is that it is easier to slough the boys. They can all go play MLSN3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not speak for all Union girls parents, but for myself, but I would welcome the albatross of the boys program gone. I have other wishes and wants, but I am the parent not the coach.

that would mean end of ECNL though

Nope. see: highlands. only boys. The benefit (maybe only one) to this union is that it is easier to slough the boys. They can all go play MLSN3

nope incorrect with current rules.. the MLSN and GA partnership killed a single gender ECNL.. just ask NVA. ECNL said no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not speak for all Union girls parents, but for myself, but I would welcome the albatross of the boys program gone. I have other wishes and wants, but I am the parent not the coach.

that would mean end of ECNL though

Nope. see: highlands. only boys. The benefit (maybe only one) to this union is that it is easier to slough the boys. They can all go play MLSN3

highland was also promoted based in a history of winning at all age groups. Which is opposite of FVU.. and as other poster stated the MLSN partnership and ECNL denying NVA would not end well for FVU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:four days a week is a lot. i would be worried about overuse injuries.

This is interesting to hear coming from a different sport. I did 10 practices a week the last two or three years of high school (I forget). 90 min 2 days a week before school, 2 hours every day after school, 3 hours on Saturday, 3 hours on Sunday. I missed one day of training the entire calendar year when I was a junior. I did have overuse injuries to some extent, but most of us did and we managed them by icing and PT exercises. I guess the difference was we competed less frequently and not a contact sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:four days a week is a lot. i would be worried about overuse injuries.

This is interesting to hear coming from a different sport. I did 10 practices a week the last two or three years of high school (I forget). 90 min 2 days a week before school, 2 hours every day after school, 3 hours on Saturday, 3 hours on Sunday. I missed one day of training the entire calendar year when I was a junior. I did have overuse injuries to some extent, but most of us did and we managed them by icing and PT exercises. I guess the difference was we competed less frequently and not a contact sport.

Oops, I meant 3 practices before school per week to get to 10. We “only” had two in college. I am tired thinking about that now. Young people have so much more energy than we do especially if they are future D1 caliber. I don’t think we can project our middle aged feelings about training frequency onto them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do kids have any semblance of a life with training four times a week (and sometimes two matches on weekends?)

They don't, their lives revolve around soccer. And so do ours.

[Anonymous]

FVU Boys 
Year: W-L-D (GD)
2012: 1-18-1 (-65) 14th/15
2011: 2-17-1 (-56) 14th/15
2010: 9-6-2 (4) 6th/15
2009: 4-12-4 (-11) 11th/15
2008: 4-16-3 (-19) 15th/15
2006/07: 6-8-3 (-2) 13th/15

[Anonymous]

Its kind of crazy that the only ECNL club for boys in all of Fairfax has such a terrible record. There are so many good players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its kind of crazy that the only ECNL club for boys in all of Fairfax has such a terrible record. There are so many good players.

I submit it is because alliances are purely for show and marketing. Does FVU now having 6 feeders FIX the problem, or does it compound the problem even worse, or does it not matter since the number of feeders are irrelevant and being in a feeder means nothing for selection?

[Anonymous]

the number of feeders are irrelevant, but in such a populated area, you'd think the teams would all be good!

the fact that they are almost all terrible seems like a club/coaching/systemic problem with FVU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its kind of crazy that the only ECNL club for boys in all of Fairfax has such a terrible record. There are so many good players.

The talent was there, but the coaching was suspect for many of the teams. During the Brave rebuild it began to improve then the craziness of of the Union merger took them 10 steps back. They tried to keep the top players from each group instead of just picking the top 20 or so that showed up for tryouts. They might be the only ECNL team in FFX, but they are competing with a lot of clubs outside of ECNL including some very good small clubs and MLS Next clubs. Arlington and VDA steal a ton of FFX players because they are destination clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its kind of crazy that the only ECNL club for boys in all of Fairfax has such a terrible record. There are so many good players.

True, but also true that they will go play for clubs outside of Fairfax for better clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to topic at hand. FVU blows and will lose ECNL.. They have standards and dont seem to understand how to ID and develop boys

ECNL sucks.