NCSL divisions released for spring

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.

Okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.

...who provide plenty of competition for each other and for those other teams within the same brackets. NCSL provides plenty of high level competition comparatively for the teams within the league--there isn't a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.

...who provide plenty of competition for each other and for those other teams within the same brackets. NCSL provides plenty of high level competition comparatively for the teams within the league--there isn't a problem.

+1. This notion that there's no value to playing at anything but the highest level in your age group is really tiresome. Far more kids are having fun, keeping their bodies healthy, and developing valuable skills like teamwork and goalsetting while playing on those "lesser" teams than are doing the same thing on the very top teams. That should be celebrated, not looked down upon.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

When does the schedule usually come out?

[Anonymous]

Next week. It's on the calendar section of the website

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.

...who provide plenty of competition for each other and for those other teams within the same brackets. NCSL provides plenty of high level competition comparatively for the teams within the league--there isn't a problem.

+1. This notion that there's no value to playing at anything but the highest level in your age group is really tiresome. Far more kids are having fun, keeping their bodies healthy, and developing valuable skills like teamwork and goalsetting while playing on those "lesser" teams than are doing the same thing on the very top teams. That should be celebrated, not looked down upon.

+10000

[Anonymous]

Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.


...who provide plenty of competition for each other and for those other teams within the same brackets. NCSL provides plenty of high level competition comparatively for the teams within the league--there isn't a problem.


+1. This notion that there's no value to playing at anything but the highest level in your age group is really tiresome. Far more kids are having fun, keeping their bodies healthy, and developing valuable skills like teamwork and goalsetting while playing on those "lesser" teams than are doing the same thing on the very top teams. That should be celebrated, not looked down upon.



+10000

I agree. That being said, your goal should be to improve beyond your own current ability, to whatever level you personally can achieve. That doesn't have ever to be a top team, but honestly, some kids on my son's team seem to be there mostly to goof off. To me, that's not worth spending $2K on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.


...who provide plenty of competition for each other and for those other teams within the same brackets. NCSL provides plenty of high level competition comparatively for the teams within the league--there isn't a problem.


+1. This notion that there's no value to playing at anything but the highest level in your age group is really tiresome. Far more kids are having fun, keeping their bodies healthy, and developing valuable skills like teamwork and goalsetting while playing on those "lesser" teams than are doing the same thing on the very top teams. That should be celebrated, not looked down upon.


Ok understand then leave your team move to another one where the cynical staff is driven by his own ambitions and runs the team with dishonest practices.
+10000

I agree. That being said, your goal should be to improve beyond your own current ability, to whatever level you personally can achieve. That doesn't have ever to be a top team, but honestly, some kids on my son's team seem to be there mostly to goof off. To me, that's not worth spending $2K on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When does the schedule usually come out?

Friday, March 12 at 3:45 PM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.


...who provide plenty of competition for each other and for those other teams within the same brackets. NCSL provides plenty of high level competition comparatively for the teams within the league--there isn't a problem.


+1. This notion that there's no value to playing at anything but the highest level in your age group is really tiresome. Far more kids are having fun, keeping their bodies healthy, and developing valuable skills like teamwork and goalsetting while playing on those "lesser" teams than are doing the same thing on the very top teams. That should be celebrated, not looked down upon.



+10000

I agree. That being said, your goal should be to improve beyond your own current ability, to whatever level you personally can achieve. That doesn't have ever to be a top team, but honestly, some kids on my son's team seem to be there mostly to goof off. To me, that's not worth spending $2K on.

How old is he? Maybe it's just the age? We saw a number of clubs like that during tryouts. If you have too many kids bunched together, it can look like a daycare.

[Anonymous]

Yea, NCSL's Promotion and Relegation is desired. The problem with NCSL is the lack of high level teams and high level competition. Sure NCSL D1 has some high level teams from smaller clubs, like S'Dor, but at the upper age groups it is full of the bigger clubs C, D and E teams.


...who provide plenty of competition for each other and for those other teams within the same brackets. NCSL provides plenty of high level competition comparatively for the teams within the league--there isn't a problem.


+1. This notion that there's no value to playing at anything but the highest level in your age group is really tiresome. Far more kids are having fun, keeping their bodies healthy, and developing valuable skills like teamwork and goalsetting while playing on those "lesser" teams than are doing the same thing on the very top teams. That should be celebrated, not looked down upon.



+10000


I agree. That being said, your goal should be to improve beyond your own current ability, to whatever level you personally can achieve. That doesn't have ever to be a top team, but honestly, some kids on my son's team seem to be there mostly to goof off. To me, that's not worth spending $2K on.


How old is he? Maybe it's just the age? We saw a number of clubs like that during tryouts. If you have too many kids bunched together, it can look like a daycare.

He's a U12. I don't think some of them are into it, but they're not unathletic, and their parents want them to keep doing it. Too much messing around at practices, then everyone is sad when the games don't go well.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about that. Sounds like they are having fun. Maybe you’re the one who’s sad and those other kids have moved in as soon as they are in the car for the ride home.

Maybe the coach will cut the goof offs if you’re lucky.

[Anonymous]

FPYCparent wrote:I've been away for a while, so my apologies if this is old news. I didn't think it was worthy of a new/separate thread.

http://www.odsl.org/no-scheduled-matches-for-the-spring-of-2021

Not much content ... or comment necessary.

There was a separate thread that is now pushed to page 4 in the forum: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/948228.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone happy or upset if your team was promoted on relegated ?

The pro/rel between fall and spring is pretty tough to argue. Sometime NCSL gets it wrong with the Fall division structure, but that's usually because there is so much movement between teams.

What I would love to see is pro/rel between leagues all the way up to the Dev Academy level.