VYS Soccer - better or worse?

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RantingSoccerDad wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Strikers were in town this weekend and VYS seemed to hold their own on the boys side.

09s, 05s, and 04s won.
10s,06s, and 02/03s lost.
07s and 08s didn't play.

Not bad.

How did the girls side do?

10s, 08s, 06s, 04s, 02/03s won.

09s, 07s, 05s lost.

This finishes out the Fall Regional League season for most of the VYS top teams. The girls did quite well overall.

Seems, they do much better when compared to the boys' side. Why is that?

4-3 vs 3-3 is “much better? “ Is that the basis of the question, on the assumption that Richmond strikers are equal on both? More generally, not true in our experience. About equal, with older girls teams and younger boys teams a little better.

I think they mean generally.

Maybe comes down to coaching. VYS has separate coaching directors for the girls and boys.
I'd assume that creates a different approach.

Bingo.

Ridiculous and doubtful. It's not even clear the underlying premise is correct, and there are hundreds of more credible alternative explanations than differences in coaching within the same club. Their boys are generally better than their girls at younger ages. Is that attributable to coaching? You really believe that?

Have you ever seen the boys play compared to the girls at the older age groups?
The girls must be smarter since it isn’t coaching.

Sure. It couldn’t be that top vienna boys fo elsewhere more often than the girls, or top athletic boys don’t go to baseball, football, basketball or lacrosse (vs girls going to lacrosse). I guess since you cannot compete against anybody else, you are now competing against Vienna boys? How much dumber could this be? This is the kind of mentality that keeps us away from VYS I am sure this is a board member to whom I am responding, if not now, then in the future. Another nutty girls soccer parent or, even worse, VYS coaches. I have watched girls soccer - the women’s national team. Let’s just say it did not interest me in watching more of it at younger ages.

Huh?
Not sure what I just read.

Yea, very incoherent. The poster must have had a couple of drinks too many.

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With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

That tournament gets more points than local ones. It will improve their rankings and help retain players

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

That tournament gets more points than local ones. It will improve their rankings and help retain players

It’s also nice to not play the usual suspects.

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

There is no need for u13 team to travel to NC for an event during these times just for a few gotsoccer points.

Are these boys any good anyways?

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

There is no need for u13 team to travel to NC for an event during these times just for a few gotsoccer points.

Are these boys any good anyways?

Well you know the U13 boys HAD to go to a COLLEGE showcase in NC to play in the 3rd division during a pandemic just so they didn't have to play the "usual suspects" which are a few of the possible dozens of clubs playing in the Columbia, McLean, or Hunt Valley tournaments.

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

There is no need for u13 team to travel to NC for an event during these times just for a few gotsoccer points.

Are these boys any good anyways?

Well you know the U13 boys HAD to go to a COLLEGE showcase in NC to play in the 3rd division during a pandemic just so they didn't have to play the "usual suspects" which are a few of the possible dozens of clubs playing in the Columbia, McLean, or Hunt Valley tournaments.

Is it possible it was a club-wide decision and not specific to an age group? Coaches often coach multiple teams and if they coach an older team that should be in a showcase tournament, it works out for the younger team to play there as well. More for future experience and exposure than a decision specific to sending one U13 team?

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

There is no need for u13 team to travel to NC for an event during these times just for a few gotsoccer points.

Are these boys any good anyways?

Well you know the U13 boys HAD to go to a COLLEGE showcase in NC to play in the 3rd division during a pandemic just so they didn't have to play the "usual suspects" which are a few of the possible dozens of clubs playing in the Columbia, McLean, or Hunt Valley tournaments.

Is it possible it was a club-wide decision and not specific to an age group? Coaches often coach multiple teams and if they coach an older team that should be in a showcase tournament, it works out for the younger team to play there as well. More for future experience and exposure than a decision specific to sending one U13 team?

Yes, it is possible, but it wasn't the case.

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

That tournament gets more points than local ones. It will improve their rankings and help retain players

Wow VYS takes the cake for the dumbest decision made by a club so far. MYS deserves a slice too bc of the fumbled Capital Cup spectator rule but VYS....

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local tournaments, why would the U13 boys travel to NC for a tournament?

There is no need for u13 team to travel to NC for an event during these times just for a few gotsoccer points.

Are these boys any good anyways?

Well you know the U13 boys HAD to go to a COLLEGE showcase in NC to play in the 3rd division during a pandemic just so they didn't have to play the "usual suspects" which are a few of the possible dozens of clubs playing in the Columbia, McLean, or Hunt Valley tournaments.

Is it possible it was a club-wide decision and not specific to an age group? Coaches often coach multiple teams and if they coach an older team that should be in a showcase tournament, it works out for the younger team to play there as well. More for future experience and exposure than a decision specific to sending one U13 team?

It wasn't a club-wide decision. The girls coaches took certain teams and the boys chose a few too. Only the stronger teams went

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RantingSoccerDad wrote:Is there really such thing as a "showcase" at U-13?

I think some teams just like to have one overnight trip in a given year, and maybe they didn't want to back out of this one. If it's me, I cancel.

Of course, I reffed a U-10 game between a team from Georgia and a team from Ohio last month.

No! There isn't a showcase at U13. and as to taking a "strong team"...they were in the 3rd division of this tournament.

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RantingSoccerDad wrote:Is there really such thing as a "showcase" at U-13?

I think some teams just like to have one overnight trip in a given year, and maybe they didn't want to back out of this one. If it's me, I cancel.

Of course, I reffed a U-10 game between a team from Georgia and a team from Ohio last month.

No! There isn't a showcase at U13. and as to taking a "strong team"...they were in the 3rd division of this tournament.

Girls U13 was in second division. Played ECNL teams which is something they don't get here

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You guys are stupid. Many, many Va teams were at the Ncfc tournament. It is nice to play non VA teams. Actually.

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Why is it nice for U13s in this case to play teams from other states? Not enough competition nearby? You guys pounding everybody? You can tell all of your Facebook friends how your superstar played a team all the way from North Carolina? Or it's just nice travel and stay in hotels and eat out in another state during a pandemic?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it nice for U13s in this case to play teams from other states? Not enough competition nearby? You guys pounding everybody? You can tell all of your Facebook friends how your superstar played a team all the way from North Carolina? Or it's just nice travel and stay in hotels and eat out in another state during a pandemic?

NC BBQ is delish.