Bethesda Soccer On Way Down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tryouts were packed !! Tons of kids coming our way! If BSC was on its way down, it isn’t happening anytime soon.

Until they learn the hard way. So yeah you will get them on the hook for maybe a year or two and then the will be right back here posting about their horrible BCS experience. But hey, as long as you get their money for 1-2 years, BCS management success!

[Anonymous]

Pulisic is definitely the top team. Cohorts were created to satisfy JC ego, if you know what I mean

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who said McKennie was the B team? And how does a club have two A teams? Do the same kids play on both teams? I'm genuinely interested in what Bethesda soccer is doing differently than our kids team. I would take my kid there for a tryout but it is too far away.

Anonymous wrote:U9 bethesda parent here. Pulisic and McKennie are both first teams. Please stop saying B team. My son is on McKennie and he’s first team not second.

It's all a marketing gimmick. Everyone in the know is aware of why the tiering system was changed for the current U9 boys. Everyone also knows who the top players are.

[Anonymous]

Correct. IYKYK!

[Anonymous]

Your rationale is not applicable to the 2017s, who are also adopting the cohort approach.

There are certainly players on McKennie that would start for Pulisic - even if you may be correct that Pulisic is, at this point in development, the stronger team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U9 bethesda parent here. Pulisic and McKennie are both first teams. Please stop saying B team. My son is on McKennie and he’s first team not second.

McKinnie is weaker than Pulisic so it is a B team, if not now, then eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U9 bethesda parent here. Pulisic and McKennie are both first teams. Please stop saying B team. My son is on McKennie and he’s first team not second.

McKinnie is weaker than Pulisic so it is a B team, if not now, then eventually.

McKennie isn’t a weaker team. Why because they are ranked a little lower 😂. All the 2016 u9s are talented. Sure there are standouts like any age group but unless you go to a practice or game and watch you have no clue what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Jedi Robinson is better than all of them

[Anonymous]

We played both Pulisic and McKennie. Pulisic was better, more well rounded overall. Because of that our team immediately assumed Pulisic was A team. Just saying…

[Anonymous]

Agreed. And that happened even despite the fact that JC picked Gyau to coach McKennie and make it better - if you know what I mean.

Anonymous wrote:We played both Pulisic and McKennie. Pulisic was better, more well rounded overall. Because of that our team immediately assumed Pulisic was A team. Just saying…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your rationale is not applicable to the 2017s, who are also adopting the cohort approach.

There are certainly players on McKennie that would start for Pulisic - even if you may be correct that Pulisic is, at this point in development, the stronger team.

It is applicable. Only changing it for one birth year would be too “obvious.” So there is a trickle down effect, for however long that lasts. Bethesda boys are now attempting to market “pods” for the u-littles to mask that one is actually A1, A2, A3, and so on. (“X and Y team are pod 1, B and C team are pod 2,” etc). It is clever, and people are falling for it and don’t realize initially that their kid is actually on the fourth team. And yes, it began with a specific cohort for a very specific reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For U-Littles on boys side, BSC players now train as a "cohort."

Coaches try to create multiple, even-strength teams at top for league/tournament play. Hence, two top teams.

Right, two top teams, both equal, both paying top dollar (or less, because, entry level teams, not yet revenue teams), all parents thinking their kids are tops. Sure

[Anonymous]

Are there really two top boys teams for the U12 year at Bethesda?

[Anonymous]

No, for the the 2014 teams for the 25-26 season, Academy I White, coached by Chris Morgan is the top team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, for the the 2014 teams for the 25-26 season, Academy I White, coached by Chris Morgan is the top team.

It doesn’t matter. Everything will change next year.

[Anonymous]

Change how?