SYC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Only a matter of time until SYC is in the DA anyways.

Heard they were skipping DA and going pro. Messi and Ronaldo are both coming.

Messi and Ronaldo aren't SYC material. SYC is a whole other level!!!

Agreed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Estes is coaching the 2006 boys and 2007 girls. Both teams are stronger the LMV.

Strong teams will remain, weak teams will dissolve. That's my take!

[Anonymous]

Anyone attend the SYC Town Hall. If so how did it go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone attend the SYC Town Hall. If so how did it go?

The town hall was good. The most important things were; (1) The fall of 2019 leagues will be edp for blue, ccl2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. In 2020 it will be CCL1 for blue, CCL2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. This was good. (2) SYC is reducing the parent influence by volunteer parents in both coaching and management of teams. This will happen by removing the academy manager role and making sure there is a manager for every team. Current academy managers had a problem with this and spent the last 30 minutes arguing about this. I guess they don’t want to loose their benefits. They feel without them the age groups will fall apart. I think this is a good thing, I am tired of blue parents dictating what our teams do, that some how they know everything and we need their leadership to survive. This would be the most impactful change to my family’s experience at this club. (3) New uniforms in the fall and soccer.com rather than the soccer store we currently use. I think this is good too, things will be less expensive and we will have the convenience of being delivered to our home. (4) Tryouts in May and will be announced soon as well as who the coaches will be.

I feel am very optimistic.

[Anonymous]

Can we have an opinion from a parent other than the Commissioner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone attend the SYC Town Hall. If so how did it go?

The town hall was good. The most important things were; (1) The fall of 2019 leagues will be edp for blue, ccl2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. In 2020 it will be CCL1 for blue, CCL2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. This was good. (2) SYC is reducing the parent influence by volunteer parents in both coaching and management of teams. This will happen by removing the academy manager role and making sure there is a manager for every team. Current academy managers had a problem with this and spent the last 30 minutes arguing about this. I guess they don’t want to loose their benefits. They feel without them the age groups will fall apart. I think this is a good thing, I am tired of blue parents dictating what our teams do, that some how they know everything and we need their leadership to survive. This would be the most impactful change to my family’s experience at this club. (3) New uniforms in the fall and soccer.com rather than the soccer store we currently use. I think this is good too, things will be less expensive and we will have the convenience of being delivered to our home. (4) Tryouts in May and will be announced soon as well as who the coaches will be.

I feel am very optimistic.

Thank you for sharing. The parent influence is the gripe I hear about the most from other parents I know that have kids at SYC. Also read it on the board as well. I hope they can make it work and does sound promising if they can keep parent "coaches" at bay also. Did they mention which region of EDP they would play in? I dont know much about that league and assumed it was mostly for teams based in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

There seemed to be a fair amount of 'we'll have to see' responses from Dotty and Este in response to a number of questions. That includes a question related to whether the fees will be raised for the coming year. That, coupled with having to purchase all new uniforms, will be painful.

And the Commissioner's tirade was a bit much.

[Anonymous]

In reference to which EDP region, I believe the response was also 'we'll see'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There seemed to be a fair amount of 'we'll have to see' responses from Dotty and Este in response to a number of questions. That includes a question related to whether the fees will be raised for the coming year. That, coupled with having to purchase all new uniforms, will be painful.

And the Commissioner's tirade was a bit much.

What was the commissioner talking about? Sorry missed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There seemed to be a fair amount of 'we'll have to see' responses from Dotty and Este in response to a number of questions. That includes a question related to whether the fees will be raised for the coming year. That, coupled with having to purchase all new uniforms, will be painful.

And the Commissioner's tirade was a bit much.

What was the commissioner talking about? Sorry missed it.

His tirade was in response to parents' concerns about getting rid of the Academy manager (which will be replaced by individual team managers). Perhaps tirade is not the correct word to use, but I can't seem to find a better one. FWIW this particular topic was the one that received the most questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There seemed to be a fair amount of 'we'll have to see' responses from Dotty and Este in response to a number of questions. That includes a question related to whether the fees will be raised for the coming year. That, coupled with having to purchase all new uniforms, will be painful.

And the Commissioner's tirade was a bit much.

What was the commissioner talking about? Sorry missed it.

His tirade was in response to parents' concerns about getting rid of the Academy manager (which will be replaced by individual team managers). Perhaps tirade is not the correct word to use, but I can't seem to find a better one. FWIW this particular topic was the one that received the most questions.

DP but what is the academy manager. DS has only been at clubs that had individual team managers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There seemed to be a fair amount of 'we'll have to see' responses from Dotty and Este in response to a number of questions. That includes a question related to whether the fees will be raised for the coming year. That, coupled with having to purchase all new uniforms, will be painful.

And the Commissioner's tirade was a bit much.

What was the commissioner talking about? Sorry missed it.

His tirade was in response to parents' concerns about getting rid of the Academy manager (which will be replaced by individual team managers). Perhaps tirade is not the correct word to use, but I can't seem to find a better one. FWIW this particular topic was the one that received the most questions.

DP but what is the academy manager. DS has only been at clubs that had individual team managers.

To be fair, that is what the Commissioner was saying - that no one has academy managers except SYC. And that there have been complaints regarding those managers showing clear favoritism to certain players. The idea of team managers should help with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone attend the SYC Town Hall. If so how did it go?

The town hall was good. The most important things were; (1) The fall of 2019 leagues will be edp for blue, ccl2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. In 2020 it will be CCL1 for blue, CCL2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. This was good. (2) SYC is reducing the parent influence by volunteer parents in both coaching and management of teams. This will happen by removing the academy manager role and making sure there is a manager for every team. Current academy managers had a problem with this and spent the last 30 minutes arguing about this. I guess they don’t want to loose their benefits. They feel without them the age groups will fall apart. I think this is a good thing, I am tired of blue parents dictating what our teams do, that some how they know everything and we need their leadership to survive. This would be the most impactful change to my family’s experience at this club. (3) New uniforms in the fall and soccer.com rather than the soccer store we currently use. I think this is good too, things will be less expensive and we will have the convenience of being delivered to our home. (4) Tryouts in May and will be announced soon as well as who the coaches will be.

I feel am very optimistic.

(1) Great for SYC!
(2) LOL.. You have a board that pushes their kids agenda and removes barriers for their children. SYC is not a big club and the community is what makes it work. From what I see, most parents that complain are the ones that do not know anything about soccer and will never be happy. Nor would they step up to help out. These volunteers put more time and deal with more drama for $25 or $50 off a season. STFU!
(3) Again, SYC will stop supporting the local Springfield Soccer Store to move to soccer.com. A great way to support the local community. I guess the parents will lose their discount (Pro tip: BRYC still uses them) Great news for the board and getting free gear and discounts at soccer.com. I remember when we were at the club Woody would use the Adidas points to give the volunteers at the Rec level gear through a raffle at the end of the year. Those days are gone and I heard SYC stopped investing in Rec.
(4) Why not April?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone attend the SYC Town Hall. If so how did it go?

The town hall was good. The most important things were; (1) The fall of 2019 leagues will be edp for blue, ccl2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. In 2020 it will be CCL1 for blue, CCL2 for orange and NCSL for white and lower. This was good. (2) SYC is reducing the parent influence by volunteer parents in both coaching and management of teams. This will happen by removing the academy manager role and making sure there is a manager for every team. Current academy managers had a problem with this and spent the last 30 minutes arguing about this. I guess they don’t want to loose their benefits. They feel without them the age groups will fall apart. I think this is a good thing, I am tired of blue parents dictating what our teams do, that some how they know everything and we need their leadership to survive. This would be the most impactful change to my family’s experience at this club. (3) New uniforms in the fall and soccer.com rather than the soccer store we currently use. I think this is good too, things will be less expensive and we will have the convenience of being delivered to our home. (4) Tryouts in May and will be announced soon as well as who the coaches will be.

I feel am very optimistic.

(1) Great for SYC!
(2) LOL.. You have a board that pushes their kids agenda and removes barriers for their children. SYC is not a big club and the community is what makes it work. From what I see, most parents that complain are the ones that do not know anything about soccer and will never be happy. Nor would they step up to help out. These volunteers put more time and deal with more drama for $25 or $50 off a season. STFU!
(3) Again, SYC will stop supporting the local Springfield Soccer Store to move to soccer.com. A great way to support the local community. I guess the parents will lose their discount (Pro tip: BRYC still uses them) Great news for the board and getting free gear and discounts at soccer.com. I remember when we were at the club Woody would use the Adidas points to give the volunteers at the Rec level gear through a raffle at the end of the year. Those days are gone and I heard SYC stopped investing in Rec.
(4) Why not April?

3. Also sad that we are no longer supporting Springfield Soccer. Este did say that soccer.com is cheaper (can't speak to that) but some parents complained that soccer.com is not responsive. Este said we will have a single point of contact (? I could have misinterpreted his statement on that) so it should not be an issue.

4. Este thinks all tryouts (all clubs area wide) should be in June, after the season is over. He said May was he best they could do.

[Anonymous]

2. Many parents did say that it is impossible to get people to volunteer and don't see how they will fill all positions (treasurer, manager, fundraiser, etc.) at the individual team level.