SYC big announcement

[Anonymous]

What!? Is GF no longer going to exist?

[Anonymous]

a nonprofit cannot be sold.

[Anonymous]

Or is this yet another alliance/merger?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a nonprofit cannot be sold.

This happen in Richmond over the past 15 years. The Kickers and Strikers acquired everyone and the field space.

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Anonymous wrote:This set of comments raises a question. When ECNL Teams were traveling to NC & SC, we’re players required to take a bus and stay in team hotel? I remember hearing it was required for McLean teams but I don’t recall a similar requirement for BRYC.

For BRYC ECNL girls, yes - pre-COVID, players were required to travel and stay with the team. Parents who chose to come watch were asked to stay elsewhere. Since COVID, BRYC hasn't traveled to NC or SC. For Jeff Cup in Richmond, there was no team travel. Parents drove their own kids down, and were allowed to choose whether they stayed in the team hotel.

Thanks for the information. This approach adds up to a lot of extra expenses over and above paying club and team fees and seems very unnecessary.

This sounds helpful for parents that can’t make the trip to NC or SC for whatever reason.

Prices will run from $500-$800 a weekend of team travel.

Anything that involves a plane add another 1k

If this is correct, what is SYC thinking? Club fees and Teams fees already when up when the new Coaches/TD took over... and many families left.

We're starting to look like old LMVSC part II, where they only cared for top tier teams.

TThat's why blue and orange teams trained together? Please don't confuse top blue teams with the aligned player pools to form a new ECNL team.

You mean how the Blue and Orange teams scrimmage together (in 1/4 of a field) while the coaches stand on the side and chat for 1hr???? and now they want to rank up the price??? Lots of player development happening on the fields. Not!

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Anonymous wrote:This set of comments raises a question. When ECNL Teams were traveling to NC & SC, we’re players required to take a bus and stay in team hotel? I remember hearing it was required for McLean teams but I don’t recall a similar requirement for BRYC.

For BRYC ECNL girls, yes - pre-COVID, players were required to travel and stay with the team. Parents who chose to come watch were asked to stay elsewhere. Since COVID, BRYC hasn't traveled to NC or SC. For Jeff Cup in Richmond, there was no team travel. Parents drove their own kids down, and were allowed to choose whether they stayed in the team hotel.

Thanks for the information. This approach adds up to a lot of extra expenses over and above paying club and team fees and seems very unnecessary.

This sounds helpful for parents that can’t make the trip to NC or SC for whatever reason.

Prices will run from $500-$800 a weekend of team travel.

Anything that involves a plane add another 1k

If this is correct, what is SYC thinking? Club fees and Teams fees already when up when the new Coaches/TD took over... and many families left.

We're starting to look like old LMVSC part II, where they only cared for top tier teams.

TThat's why blue and orange teams trained together? Please don't confuse top blue teams with the aligned player pools to form a new ECNL team.

You mean how the Blue and Orange teams scrimmage together (in 1/4 of a field) while the coaches stand on the side and chat for 1hr???? and now they want to rank up the price??? Lots of player development happening on the fields. Not!

Name your club and we'll compare scores.

[Anonymous]

one club can certainly decide it wants to be in another's umbrella but you can't outright buy a nonprofit.

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Anonymous wrote:This set of comments raises a question. When ECNL Teams were traveling to NC & SC, we’re players required to take a bus and stay in team hotel? I remember hearing it was required for McLean teams but I don’t recall a similar requirement for BRYC.

For BRYC ECNL girls, yes - pre-COVID, players were required to travel and stay with the team. Parents who chose to come watch were asked to stay elsewhere. Since COVID, BRYC hasn't traveled to NC or SC. For Jeff Cup in Richmond, there was no team travel. Parents drove their own kids down, and were allowed to choose whether they stayed in the team hotel.

Thanks for the information. This approach adds up to a lot of extra expenses over and above paying club and team fees and seems very unnecessary.

This sounds helpful for parents that can’t make the trip to NC or SC for whatever reason.

Prices will run from $500-$800 a weekend of team travel.

Anything that involves a plane add another 1k

If this is correct, what is SYC thinking? Club fees and Teams fees already when up when the new Coaches/TD took over... and many families left.

We're starting to look like old LMVSC part II, where they only cared for top tier teams.

TThat's why blue and orange teams trained together? Please don't confuse top blue teams with the aligned player pools to form a new ECNL team.

You mean how the Blue and Orange teams scrimmage together (in 1/4 of a field) while the coaches stand on the side and chat for 1hr???? and now they want to rank up the price??? Lots of player development happening on the fields. Not!

Name your club and we'll compare scores.

I think they did? I don’t think anybody takes these scores seriously if you are using players from other clubs. And anybody who thinks this way about development generally is an absolute fraud as a coach.

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Anonymous wrote:This set of comments raises a question. When ECNL Teams were traveling to NC & SC, we’re players required to take a bus and stay in team hotel? I remember hearing it was required for McLean teams but I don’t recall a similar requirement for BRYC.

For BRYC ECNL girls, yes - pre-COVID, players were required to travel and stay with the team. Parents who chose to come watch were asked to stay elsewhere. Since COVID, BRYC hasn't traveled to NC or SC. For Jeff Cup in Richmond, there was no team travel. Parents drove their own kids down, and were allowed to choose whether they stayed in the team hotel.

Thanks for the information. This approach adds up to a lot of extra expenses over and above paying club and team fees and seems very unnecessary.

This sounds helpful for parents that can’t make the trip to NC or SC for whatever reason.

Prices will run from $500-$800 a weekend of team travel.

Anything that involves a plane add another 1k

If this is correct, what is SYC thinking? Club fees and Teams fees already when up when the new Coaches/TD took over... and many families left.

We're starting to look like old LMVSC part II, where they only cared for top tier teams.

TThat's why blue and orange teams trained together? Please don't confuse top blue teams with the aligned player pools to form a new ECNL team.

You mean how the Blue and Orange teams scrimmage together (in 1/4 of a field) while the coaches stand on the side and chat for 1hr???? and now they want to rank up the price??? Lots of player development happening on the fields. Not!

Name your club and we'll compare scores.

Clearly PP is not happy how things are run at syc but will it be enough to leave? I often hear the same from other parents there and they are just afraid to leave and try something else. Like things will change or their kid will finally get an opportunity on a higher level team. Which will never happen.

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Anonymous wrote:This set of comments raises a question. When ECNL Teams were traveling to NC & SC, we’re players required to take a bus and stay in team hotel? I remember hearing it was required for McLean teams but I don’t recall a similar requirement for BRYC.

For BRYC ECNL girls, yes - pre-COVID, players were required to travel and stay with the team. Parents who chose to come watch were asked to stay elsewhere. Since COVID, BRYC hasn't traveled to NC or SC. For Jeff Cup in Richmond, there was no team travel. Parents drove their own kids down, and were allowed to choose whether they stayed in the team hotel.

Thanks for the information. This approach adds up to a lot of extra expenses over and above paying club and team fees and seems very unnecessary.

This sounds helpful for parents that can’t make the trip to NC or SC for whatever reason.

Prices will run from $500-$800 a weekend of team travel.

Anything that involves a plane add another 1k

If this is correct, what is SYC thinking? Club fees and Teams fees already when up when the new Coaches/TD took over... and many families left.

We're starting to look like old LMVSC part II, where they only cared for top tier teams.

TThat's why blue and orange teams trained together? Please don't confuse top blue teams with the aligned player pools to form a new ECNL team.

You mean how the Blue and Orange teams scrimmage together (in 1/4 of a field) while the coaches stand on the side and chat for 1hr???? and now they want to rank up the price??? Lots of player development happening on the fields. Not!

Name your club and we'll compare scores.

Clearly PP is not happy how things are run at syc but will it be enough to leave? I often hear the same from other parents there and they are just afraid to leave and try something else. Like things will change or their kid will finally get an opportunity on a higher level team. Which will never happen.

First of all, your price is only going up to that $2500 if your kid makes the new alliance Mclean ECNL team. Second, maybe your kid does have a crappy or lazy coach, but what you're describing isn't what I've seen at practice for the past 2 years. Almost universally across the teams, you see individual drills to start practice, many times individual dribbling/footwork, 1v1 of or a 3 person dribble/pass/trap exchange, moving into small sided (1v1/2v2/3v3) small goal high touch games, finishing with maybe an internal team scrimmage or occasional small sided 7v7 scrimmage against a similarly skilled team - I've seen 1-2 age apart blue teams scrimmage, boys vs girls, blue vs orange in these settings since as you mention many are done on a small sided 1/4 of a field. I don't know the age you're referring to and I'm sure there are exceptions, but with multiple kids at multiple fields for several years on both boys and girls side since the coaching changes 2-3 years ago, I'm fairly confident that *most* of the coaches follow this similar model. It keeps the kids moving with lots of touches on the ball and lots of movement. If you don't like it or think it's developing your kid, then by all means check out other practices, but personally I think the results the past 2 years are a positive trend and multiple kids out of those ages moving into starting ECNL roles on various teams is also an indicator that development is happening.

[Anonymous]

How much is SYC currently?

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Anonymous wrote:How much is SYC currently?

Pretty sure it was $1500 last fall.

[Anonymous]

That will be a huge jump in price for SYC families that want to play ECNL. $2500 is just the entry price too,

[Anonymous]

There is no need to worry for SYC parents. McLean ECNL teams will pick a handful of best players, but the majority of SYC players will stay with their current teams. There will be an opportunity for B team players to move up to the top SYC team, because some spots will open as a result of departures for McLean ECNL teams.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no need to worry for SYC parents. McLean ECNL teams will pick a handful of best players, but the majority of SYC players will stay with their current teams. There will be an opportunity for B team players to move up to the top SYC team, because some spots will open as a result of departures for McLean ECNL teams.

some younger SYC teams are probably better than the McLean equivalent.