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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Wow. Did BRYC play it all up, or was it just a minor point???? So damn outside the box . . .
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know McLean and Md United don't for the ECNL teams on the girls side (ie, the older teams), and on the boys side, Loudoun, McLean and Arlington have younger DA teams . I think the difference for BRYC is that NONE of their top teams would be in CCL, plus the fact that BRYC doesn't have two teams in most of the older age groups.

Makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Wow. Did BRYC play it all up, or was it just a minor point???? So damn outside the box . . .
Luv it

Evergreen is a Tournament only club. Small pockets of clubs are starting to do this. The difference is BRYC is an established club with a proven track record doing this.

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Like Evergreen's tourney only model, they will be able to take any interested player at any time during the year. No restrictions. They won't even need to rely 100% on tryouts. All these local ccl U-Littles can just go out there and train with the BRYC team any time they want to check out the difference between what BRYC is doing and what goes on on their own overpacked fields without enough lights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Interesting. However, I'm wondering...what motivates kids to train? Usually games/competition. Will they be happy training with their reward being a few scrimmages? I'm not so sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Interesting. However, I'm wondering...what motivates kids to train? Usually games/competition. Will they be happy training with their reward being a few scrimmages? I'm not so sure.

Scrimmages are the same as games to little kids. It's the parents that push to be able to see standings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Interesting. However, I'm wondering...what motivates kids to train? Usually games/competition. Will they be happy training with their reward being a few scrimmages? I'm not so sure.

I think the model sounds great for the U10s and under, but I share the concern about competition for the U11s and U12s. I don't think scrimmages provide the same game training that league games do, and I'm not sure kids will be as prepared for the tournaments.

I also would be uneasy if I were a boy parent during the recruiting years, because I'm not at all convinced that the ENPL is going to take off in a meaningful way. I suppose if it doesn't though, kids can head to a DA team or hope to make a high level ODP team to help with the recruiting. I know BRYC has had a number of players involved in ODP through the years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Interesting. However, I'm wondering...what motivates kids to train? Usually games/competition. Will they be happy training with their reward being a few scrimmages? I'm not so sure.

Scrimmages are the same as games to little kids. It's the parents that push to be able to see standings.

+1 at our club..the age group will mix up players and have mini scrimmages---winners move right, losers move left. These little kids fight to the death to stay moving right. I see them working harder than they do in the full 60 minute games.

they can wear uniforms to scrimmages and they will see it as 'official'. It's the parents that have to have the results on a website so they can tell everyone how great their kid is and what an elite club they play for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Interesting. However, I'm wondering...what motivates kids to train? Usually games/competition. Will they be happy training with their reward being a few scrimmages? I'm not so sure.

Scrimmages are the same as games to little kids. It's the parents that push to be able to see standings.

+1 at our club..the age group will mix up players and have mini scrimmages---winners move right, losers move left. These little kids fight to the death to stay moving right. I see them working harder than they do in the full 60 minute games.

they can wear uniforms to scrimmages and they will see it as 'official'. It's the parents that have to have the results on a website so they can tell everyone how great their kid is and what an elite club they play for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Interesting. However, I'm wondering...what motivates kids to train? Usually games/competition. Will they be happy training with their reward being a few scrimmages? I'm not so sure.

Scrimmages are the same as games to little kids. It's the parents that push to be able to see standings.

Maybe true for some but not to all. My 9 yr old son son wants to go to a different basketball league next year because his current league doesn't have playoffs or a champion. Believe me...I can care less about this. I'm just happy he's running around in the winter.

[Anonymous]

Kids don't really know the difference between a league game and a scrimmage. BUT, the concern is for both the kids and parents the possibility of just getting bored seeing the same faces every other week. A league at least provides some variety of competition.

[Anonymous]

They are still entering tournaments (hence the still able to strive for that medal). They are having scrimmages against various local clubs. My kid in CCL2 played the same 4-5 teams twice each season. Also, in the younger years there are no playoffs in the leagues.

So all of this no competition shit is bs.

My boys compete over everything in every part of their day---who brushed their teeth the fastest, who made it to the bus stop the quickest, who juggled the most, etc. If you have a competitive kid they are competitive all the time whether there is pomp and circumstance--which the tournaments should provide anyway.

A good coach is using competition all of the time in practices to spur players on anyways---even it if is to get the cones picked up the fastest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are still entering tournaments (hence the still able to strive for that medal). They are having scrimmages against various local clubs. My kid in CCL2 played the same 4-5 teams twice each season. Also, in the younger years there are no playoffs in the leagues.

So all of this no competition shit is bs.

My boys compete over everything in every part of their day---who brushed their teeth the fastest, who made it to the bus stop the quickest, who juggled the most, etc. If you have a competitive kid they are competitive all the time whether there is pomp and circumstance--which the tournaments should provide anyway.

A good coach is using competition all of the time in practices to spur players on anyways---even it if is to get the cones picked up the fastest.

Agree, I just think the same four or five clubs can get a bit boring but if that is the worst hing about it then it is still a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't really know the difference between a league game and a scrimmage. BUT, the concern is for both the kids and parents the possibility of just getting bored seeing the same faces every other week. A league at least provides some variety of competition.

In Spain--the neighborhood Club plays local neighborhood clubs (the teams they play don't change). They don't drive half-way across Spain. There are wonderful little neighborhood soccer clubs. The team pools from the kids that live in their neighborhood. The quality/talent varies greatly among the players on the teams as we saw when we lived there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What BRYC is doing is giving soccer back to the kids. Gotsoccer is nothing in this model. There is no pushing for the physicality of play and reliance on it in the younger years. A model like this allows for development of players. Nobody is caring how many tournament wins or league rankings. It's perfect.

Let the douchey parents that like to sit around the water cooler bragging about little Jimmy's prowess and medals take it to the other Clubs. This takes the wind out of the sails of a lot of the jerks that come in and ruin Clubs by their focus on recruiting and winning with young kids.

Interesting. However, I'm wondering...what motivates kids to train? Usually games/competition. Will they be happy training with their reward being a few scrimmages? I'm not so sure.

Scrimmages are the same as games to little kids. It's the parents that push to be able to see standings.

Maybe true for some but not to all. My 9 yr old son son wants to go to a different basketball league next year because his current league doesn't have playoffs or a champion. Believe me...I can care less about this. I'm just happy he's running around in the winter.

agree. sounds like having to do juniors u8 in mclean with only scrimmages against the same 40-50. all the boys and parents try to just survive and make it through that one year.