CYA and SYA merger?

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Anonymous wrote:Crap show at the club right now. 09 girls and 09 boys top teams from SYA are leaving. The coach left after not being assigned to take these teams so the kids are mostly leaving. CYA kids suck from what we can tell too so there won’t be much to see.

Leaving for where?

Loudoun is what I heard.

Unlikely SYA parents want to drive from clifton and centreville all the way out to wherever ??? Loudoun practices multiple times a week. Extremely unlikely.

I don’t think you know where SYA Park is. 10 mins from South Riding, 40 % of the club is from Loudoun County.

SR is still pretty far to get to loudoun soccer fields. The 09 red SYA team has multiple kids that don’t belong on the team. It was based on selections that Coach Adam (who was a horrible coach) picked from years ago. All he cared was how fast the kids were. Coach Gary.. current red coach pretty much just took those kids. He wasn’t offered a team, and most parents didn’t think he did a good job developing the kids. But he’s a very nice guy. Heard he’s moving away from area.

Adam being the U-little male coach who regularly lost his mind like a rabid mental patient at games. I am surprised they didn't fire him years ago.

[Anonymous]

The whole thing has been very ham-handed. Would it have been that hard to decide how to handle team mergers on a age group by age group basis? They’ve shuffled all the coaches around, so your kid is likely getting a new coach, the roster could be drastically different, so it’s potentially a whole new set of teammates and it seems like they are sticking with CCL while every other club seems to be jumping (or thinking about it). I was content with my kid’s current situation - solid, competitive team, pretty good coach, but things are changing so drastically, we’ll definitely be looking to move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing has been very ham-handed. Would it have been that hard to decide how to handle team mergers on a age group by age group basis? They’ve shuffled all the coaches around, so your kid is likely getting a new coach, the roster could be drastically different, so it’s potentially a whole new set of teammates and it seems like they are sticking with CCL while every other club seems to be jumping (or thinking about it). I was content with my kid’s current situation - solid, competitive team, pretty good coach, but things are changing so drastically, we’ll definitely be looking to move.

You want to be a sheep, follow the herd. We played sya and they had a good team and good coach. They could easily go to bryc and compete in ecnl. But don’t do it simply because ecnl is a better league. Know what you are getting into.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The whole thing has been very ham-handed. Would it have been that hard to decide how to handle team mergers on a age group by age group basis? They’ve shuffled all the coaches around, so your kid is likely getting a new coach, the roster could be drastically different, so it’s potentially a whole new set of teammates and it seems like they are sticking with CCL while every other club seems to be jumping (or thinking about it). I was content with my kid’s current situation - solid, competitive team, pretty good coach, but things are changing so drastically, we’ll definitely be looking to move.

You want to be a sheep, follow the herd. We played sya and they had a good team and good coach. They could easily go to bryc and compete in ecnl. But don’t do it simply because ecnl is a better league. Know what you are getting into.

If you wanna play ECNL, for the sake of all that is holy, don't go to BRYC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This epic merger of two mediocre clubs will take mediocrity to all new levels. Valor will be valiant at providing easy wins for the myriad better clubs , and the larger player pool will create many more opportunities for them to lose players to those clubs the second they show any symptom of above average ability

This prognostication is looking pretty good. Except the bit about providing easy wins for the better clubs, since the better clubs all left the league. Still they should be able to provide easy wins for the worse clubs which remained.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The whole thing has been very ham-handed. Would it have been that hard to decide how to handle team mergers on a age group by age group basis? They’ve shuffled all the coaches around, so your kid is likely getting a new coach, the roster could be drastically different, so it’s potentially a whole new set of teammates and it seems like they are sticking with CCL while every other club seems to be jumping (or thinking about it). I was content with my kid’s current situation - solid, competitive team, pretty good coach, but things are changing so drastically, we’ll definitely be looking to move.

You want to be a sheep, follow the herd. We played sya and they had a good team and good coach. They could easily go to bryc and compete in ecnl. But don’t do it simply because ecnl is a better league. Know what you are getting into.

Lol. Ok, bud. I’m sure there was a dude walking around the deck of the Titanic telling people getting into life boats that they were following the herd. Not going to BRYC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The whole thing has been very ham-handed. Would it have been that hard to decide how to handle team mergers on a age group by age group basis? They’ve shuffled all the coaches around, so your kid is likely getting a new coach, the roster could be drastically different, so it’s potentially a whole new set of teammates and it seems like they are sticking with CCL while every other club seems to be jumping (or thinking about it). I was content with my kid’s current situation - solid, competitive team, pretty good coach, but things are changing so drastically, we’ll definitely be looking to move.

You want to be a sheep, follow the herd. We played sya and they had a good team and good coach. They could easily go to bryc and compete in ecnl. But don’t do it simply because ecnl is a better league. Know what you are getting into.

Lol. Ok, bud. I’m sure there was a dude walking around the deck of the Titanic telling people getting into life boats that they were following the herd. Not going to BRYC.

Rumor is a bunch of say kids got into VDA for a couple of the age groups. Teams will be worse off based on what I’ve see from talent at CYA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure there was a dude walking around the deck of the Titanic telling people getting into life boats that they were following the herd.

I suspect there was no such dude.

Not going to BRYC.

Good plan.

[Anonymous]

What is VDA?

[Anonymous]

VDA plays in Woodbridge! No one is going from
Centreville to Woodbridge in traffic for practices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VDA plays in Woodbridge! No one is going from
Centreville to Woodbridge in traffic for practices.

Given I know several of the kids.. yes some SYA kids are going to VDA... This merger is a cluster combined with CCL dillution

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is VDA?

It’s Virginia development Academy. It’s a prince William collaborative DA club which is now ECLN. VSA and a couple of PW clubs generally feed it.

[Anonymous]

No one from centerville is driving to VDA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one from centerville is driving to VDA.

And that’s why the best kids do. You have no idea, and remember not all the kids live in Centreville.

[Anonymous]

LOL! I live in Centreville and I drive to Woodbridge once a year, for IKEA. I need days to recover. SYA is almost all Centreville/Clifton kids. No one wants to drive WITH rush hour traffic multiple times per week. No sane person.