Great Falls Reston Soccer
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Anonymous
seriously. it's not like suddenly every kid at gfr is gonna be driving to bethesda. it'll be like 3-4 kids per age group MAX but it'll be a pathway which is apparently what is important to a lot of people. |
Anonymous
| How does anyone at this point not understand that a "pathway" is complete bogus marketing BS? |
Anonymous
No clue but a bunch of people asked about it last night in the town hall. |
Anonymous
| Wow. Partnering with Bethesda would be galactically dumb. |
Anonymous
Who would you recommend they partner with and why? |
Anonymous
Yeah, seems pretty synergistic to me when you think high school seasons, coach overlap, etc. |
Anonymous
Also, isn’t the rumors say that Bethesda (and Arlington) are likely to switch over to GA to get their boys program in MLS Next? |
Anonymous
Bethesda is MLS for boys and ECNL for girls. |
Anonymous
Sorry doesn’t work that way. |
Anonymous
Thats the DCUM rumor. Bethesda is grandfathered in |
Anonymous
Did you check the website? Easy enough to fact check. |
Anonymous
That would be news to Bethesda. https://www.bethesdasoccer.org/teams/mls-next/ https://www.bethesdasoccer.org/girls-teams/ecnl/ |
Anonymous
So true. Unless it’s a direct pathway internal to the club or where the club is the major partner in an alliance, a “pathway” in an alliance just means you get to try out and go to a few practices. Of course everyone else has that same “pathway.” It’s just marketing. Did the NVA “alliance” actually help GFR or its players? Did anyone make a team they wouldn’t have made anyway by trying out at ID/practice sessions? Come on people, why so focused on this? If your DC is going to play RL, probably better to do so at a club where it’s the top team and not the second team. And if they’re good enough for NL/MLS, what’s stopping them? |
Anonymous
Not all "pathways" are the same and we don't know anything about what GFR is working on (or with who), so let's pump the brakes a bit. Having a pathway just to say you have a pathway is, of course, marketing. But there are certainly benefits to having a well-defined alliance/pathway/relationship if done right. Joint trainings, tournament teams, secondary leagues, play-ups, etc. before U13 get coaches familiar with players and can give pathway players a leg up on equivalent competition from outside. Alliances also often have soft quotas for team spots from their member clubs. Alliances can also provide double-rostering options that would not be available for kids outside the alliance. And the lack of a pathway can't be used against GFR in recruiting upper end RL kids. |
Anonymous
| Is GFR going to announce this new pathway soon so that it takes place next fall? or is this still just conceptual and going to happen later? |