BRYC Elite Academy teams

[Anonymous]

Anything on U12 Pre-ECNL and U13 ECNL-RL boys?

Overall satisfaction: Are most parents happy and staying or leaving and going? Coaching experience - small sided games, 1v1, 2v1 3v3, lots of touches and minutes on the field? Over excessive use of rondos? How is the technical drills: first touch, off the ball movement, dribbling and passing?

Are practices disciplined and challenging or too relaxed and easy? Is the coach assertive, demands respect from the boys, but also fair and balanced.

Also can anyone tell me what the difference between Bryc ECRL vs Elite?

Just trying to get an overall sense of the atmosphere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any insight on the girls side, U9 & U10?

U10G head coach is a good guy, but he is very unclear about what his expectations are to allow a player to develop and move up to the first team. He has been like this for the last three years, and it is infuriating to get him to be clear about what needs to be worked on beyond "athleticism and technical skills." There are girls that have neither and are incredibly slow and have no handling skills, but pass often, that are on the first team, so it doesn't make much sense.

The U10G also lost their second team's coach since he is now the U7G/U8G head coach - and this is a huge loss for the girls, but great for the very littles. The new U10G second and third team coaches are new carry over dad coaches from Spring'25. The second team dad is is friendly to the parents but severely lacking and inconsistent with his coaching and heavily favoring his own daughter on the same team. He's less of a coach, and more of parent, and it's very obvious to us on the parent sidelines. The girls are great players and can easily play without him as a coach, but will thrive if they can find a better coach to replace him. The second team coach has also never coached before which also leaves much to be desired. The third team coach is effective with his strategic plays and calls, but needs to be more vocal/audible.

A lot of SYC left and joined the U10G this season, we also gained a few from the BRYC bridge, and one from TSJFC that was immediately put to the U10G first team.

why did a lot of SYC leave to join U10G this season? Curious because weighing between the two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t waste my time or money with BRYC. EVERY neighboring club is a better option.

Well, not Valor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any insight on the girls side, U9 & U10?

U10G head coach is a good guy, but he is very unclear about what his expectations are to allow a player to develop and move up to the first team. He has been like this for the last three years, and it is infuriating to get him to be clear about what needs to be worked on beyond "athleticism and technical skills." There are girls that have neither and are incredibly slow and have no handling skills, but pass often, that are on the first team, so it doesn't make much sense.

The U10G also lost their second team's coach since he is now the U7G/U8G head coach - and this is a huge loss for the girls, but great for the very littles. The new U10G second and third team coaches are new carry over dad coaches from Spring'25. The second team dad is is friendly to the parents but severely lacking and inconsistent with his coaching and heavily favoring his own daughter on the same team. He's less of a coach, and more of parent, and it's very obvious to us on the parent sidelines. The girls are great players and can easily play without him as a coach, but will thrive if they can find a better coach to replace him. The second team coach has also never coached before which also leaves much to be desired. The third team coach is effective with his strategic plays and calls, but needs to be more vocal/audible.

A lot of SYC left and joined the U10G this season, we also gained a few from the BRYC bridge, and one from TSJFC that was immediately put to the U10G first team.

why did a lot of SYC leave to join U10G this season? Curious because weighing between the two.

It is competitive to get on SYC top 2 teams. Usually it is mix of kids that are demoted and some 3rd team kid looking to move up are the ones who transfer. They all have potential, its move a case of limited slots. Now they will bump/ displace kids at the clubs they are going to.

[Anonymous]

Looking at last fall scores, wow their U13 and up boys teams were awful in the RL league.

[Anonymous]

Hard to look at any past scores or ranks because of the age change. Also curious why several leagues (SYC/FVU/BRYC) are having supplemental tryouts... did the age change really result in less talent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hard to look at any past scores or ranks because of the age change. Also curious why several leagues (SYC/FVU/BRYC) are having supplemental tryouts... did the age change really result in less talent?

Well, if your u13-u19 boys teams were all bad, the age change is just reshuffling deck chairs on the titanic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hard to look at any past scores or ranks because of the age change. Also curious why several leagues (SYC/FVU/BRYC) are having supplemental tryouts... did the age change really result in less talent?

My understanding is that the top teams at most of these places are filled so it must be for other level teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything on U12 Pre-ECNL and U13 ECNL-RL boys?

Overall satisfaction: Are most parents happy and staying or leaving and going? Coaching experience - small sided games, 1v1, 2v1 3v3, lots of touches and minutes on the field? Over excessive use of rondos? How is the technical drills: first touch, off the ball movement, dribbling and passing?

Are practices disciplined and challenging or too relaxed and easy? Is the coach assertive, demands respect from the boys, but also fair and balanced.

Also can anyone tell me what the difference between Bryc ECRL vs Elite?

Just trying to get an overall sense of the atmosphere.

A lot of the boys from the BRYC pre-ECNL team will be on FVU next year. So the U13 team may look pretty different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything on U12 Pre-ECNL and U13 ECNL-RL boys?

Overall satisfaction: Are most parents happy and staying or leaving and going? Coaching experience - small sided games, 1v1, 2v1 3v3, lots of touches and minutes on the field? Over excessive use of rondos? How is the technical drills: first touch, off the ball movement, dribbling and passing?

Are practices disciplined and challenging or too relaxed and easy? Is the coach assertive, demands respect from the boys, but also fair and balanced.

Also can anyone tell me what the difference between Bryc ECRL vs Elite?

Just trying to get an overall sense of the atmosphere.

A lot of the boys from the BRYC pre-ECNL team will be on FVU next year. So the U13 team may look pretty different.

It seems both the U12 Pre-ECNL team placed (6th out of 22 teams) in VPSL and the U13 ECRL boys team (8th out of 19 teams) are performing well overall, with both teams posting more wins than losses and staying close to competitive with the higher ranked teams I’m only seeing losses with 1-2 goal ratios and a few divided. Assuming around 50% of the roster ages up while the remaining core stays intact, the overall level of performance should likely remain fairly consistent moving forward with U13. Do I have that fairly close?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking at last fall scores, wow their U13 and up boys teams were awful in the RL league.

The U13 ECRL boys are ranked 8th of 19 teams.

* 1–0 loss to #1 ranked
* 1–0 loss to #4 ranked
* 2–1 win over #3 ranked
* 2–2 / close games with top 9
* occasional 3–1 / 5–3 type matches

Seems like they are doing fairly well IMO. Am I missing something.

Just curious, what does success look like to you. Not the best team, but far from the worst.

[Anonymous]

2008 boys won 0/9 games, last in standings, scored ONE GOAL ALL SEASON

2009 boys won 0/9 games, last in standing, scored 3 goals all season

2010 boys won 0/9 games, last in standings, scored 6 goals all season

2011 boys won 0/9 games, last in standings, scored 7 goals all season


2012 boys won 4/17 games, rated 17th out of 19
2013 boys won 7 out of 16 games, rated 8th out of 19.

So the pp's statement that the U13 and up teams were "awful" was certain accurate if you averaged this result. The U13s were the best of the bunch by a long shot.

[Anonymous]

What about U12 for girls? How’s that looking for next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2008 boys won 0/9 games, last in standings, scored ONE GOAL ALL SEASON

2009 boys won 0/9 games, last in standing, scored 3 goals all season

2010 boys won 0/9 games, last in standings, scored 6 goals all season

2011 boys won 0/9 games, last in standings, scored 7 goals all season


2012 boys won 4/17 games, rated 17th out of 19
2013 boys won 7 out of 16 games, rated 8th out of 19.

So the pp's statement that the U13 and up teams were "awful" was certain accurate if you averaged this result. The U13s were the best of the bunch by a long shot.

Thats rough. I didn’t bother looking at 2012 and up since I’m just looking at U12 Pre-ECNL and U13 ECNL-RL. I know the U13 ECNL team didn’t do well either. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything on U12 Pre-ECNL and U13 ECNL-RL boys?

Overall satisfaction: Are most parents happy and staying or leaving and going? Coaching experience - small sided games, 1v1, 2v1 3v3, lots of touches and minutes on the field? Over excessive use of rondos? How is the technical drills: first touch, off the ball movement, dribbling and passing?

Are practices disciplined and challenging or too relaxed and easy? Is the coach assertive, demands respect from the boys, but also fair and balanced.

Also can anyone tell me what the difference between Bryc ECRL vs Elite?

Just trying to get an overall sense of the atmosphere.

A lot of the boys from the BRYC pre-ECNL team will be on FVU next year. So the U13 team may look pretty different.

It seems both the U12 Pre-ECNL team placed (6th out of 22 teams) in VPSL and the U13 ECRL boys team (8th out of 19 teams) are performing well overall, with both teams posting more wins than losses and staying close to competitive with the higher ranked teams I’m only seeing losses with 1-2 goal ratios and a few divided. Assuming around 50% of the roster ages up while the remaining core stays intact, the overall level of performance should likely remain fairly consistent moving forward with U13. Do I have that fairly close?

Not sure what you mean about 50% of the roster aging up. I would not expect 50% roster turnover due to the age group change -- maybe 25%. The current U13 roster is probably more stable because few players move up from RL to ECNL. The U12 is where there will be more change due to the best players leaving for ECNL + the age group change. I don't know if you can predict performance very well because that assumes all players are roughly the same. It's possible that the best 5 players, for example (especially in 9v9), were the key to the team's success, and losing them will make a big difference. I do not have any specific knowledge here; just giving a hypothetical.