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Anonymous
Please elaborate. |
Anonymous
https://vsaonline.org/former-virginia-premier-league-to-become-newest-ecnl-regional-league We all have to keep in mind that what is going on now hasn't been going on for that long in the big picture. ECNL and USCS are relatively new to the game changing what was around for years under a more team based model to a more club based model. When you do things like that and prioritize clubs as a whole vs individual teams you get what we have now. Clubs that market themselves to try to shore their entire club as a whole and poaching players to try to improve their club as a whole. And now here we are and is anything really that much more different? Are there any fully dominant clubs? There aren't. There are still pockets of individual teams that are strong in a huge sea of competition watering things down. |
Anonymous
My oldest quit HS after sophomore year and went to MLSNext. Too hard to juggle demands of HS coach, too much injury/poor play and not enough hours in the day for straight As with lots of AP courses in the most important junior year. MLSnext schedule was easy to balance with school. Get home at 3pm. Practice 7:30-9pm. Predictable. Weekend games. HS was all over the board 5-6 days per week and sometimes would arrive at school at 7am and not get home until 10pm (and was supposed to be juggling Club too). It is just not healthy. High risk of injury. Younger one is quitting HS soccer at same time--but an ECNL player. Fall season is the most important time for VA club and his HS is Fall season. |
Anonymous
In Virginia, the games are done for ECNL as of February (or early March). That's why they do them so early. This is because public high school soccer is in spring (Maryland is in Fall). It's not just VA--but other states are like this as well. ECNL schedules so that VA teams have majority of their games in Fall/Winter. |
Anonymous
That might be part of it but HS soccer being in the spring and ID sessions isn't making them put their ID sessions so early, its more to compete for players early to fill their rosters. Put the sessions out in March earlier than a lot of other VA clubs that don't participate in ECNL, market them as early as January/February, create the FOMO, reap the rewards. |
Anonymous
Because if the coach makes you feel special you'll go with them and not tryout elsewhere. Early commitments tie kids down and give programs an IDEA of how many spots they have left to actually fill before tryouts. Tryouts are a formality next to no one makes a top or second team by just showing up to tryouts. Those spots are filled already. |
Anonymous
these are the facts. Unspoken facts if ur kid is a top player u get the bonus of telling coaches who not to pick…. Only the top players get to vote. |
Anonymous
Players have been to blackball kids they know could take their spot or reduce their playing time and you will get the cliques. Players should never be involved in those decisions. |
Anonymous
| ^ that happened at our HS. |
Anonymous
How do other kids blackball other kids? I mean a kid’s skills show up in practice and games. |
Anonymous
It's not the kids it's the parents lol |
Anonymous
DP Come on. This happens all the time. Can’t show your skill if you don’t have the ball. |
Anonymous
that poster is partly right. Normally parents also have fingers n mouths in the blackballing. The cliques play themselves out on the field in the form of icing players and not passing. Good coaches Course corrext… bad coaches let it play out and the strong eat the weak. Sometimes its not about playing time. Some kids are headcases or their parents are sideline drama which overshadows the kids god given talent. If top tier players say were not playing w X if u bring em… and parents paid dues up front. Coaches know parents can leave… lose 4 for 1? That will never happen. And coaches talk to their teams and other coaches to confirm the headaches. No different from office drama leverage is leverage. And not every decision is black and white. Welcome to behind the scenes… jealousy also plays into it. Imo also agree they should get time off merit and practice. If ur kid is a strong willed independent thinker who speaks up to the coach they will WILL and out play their way to being s starter at ur club or another. If they as the kids say have that dog or wolf in em they will break through the cliques. And a real club will put a winning record over clicks and forcing squares in circles. Bottom line the blackballs do happen but it seem imo to be a bit more complex than just mean kids being mean. And this plays out all the way to the adult leagues lol. Now Bk to the slop |
Anonymous
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in poorly run tryouts they don't mix kids up, so you have the current team and some kids who don't know anyone trying desperately to make an impression.
yes, Messi jr. will be fine in that scenario, but a kid with maybe good enough skills to be on the team won't show will enough to be noticed. |
Anonymous
| If a team is only looking for 1 or 2 players that your version of a “poorly run tryout” works just fine. |