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Anonymous wrote:And now STJ is going in on football.

Flag football is on the rise, which is fine of course for flag football/ sports families. But the problem that will further stymie the ST James FC (at the St James in Springfield) will be the increased competition for space in their field house -which cuts the size and availability for soccer players to use the space.

Not talking flag, they just hired a big name local HS coach, they're shooting to build a program like IMG has it appears. The question is, where are the resources? They have no space for all of this.

St James is a private for profit business that has been operating successfully for 7 years. I'm sure they hired a big name coach and put out press announcements without giving any thought to how the space will work. In businesses these things are planned out long in advance before they get funded. You have no idea of their business plan, nor should you because you don't work there. It's either arrogance or ignorance on your part to make comments on their business strategy from the cheap seats. I vote for the latter.

7 years is not an impressive length of time to stay in business. This football news is foolish at best and I venture to predict that it will bite them in the ass.

Ok Mr Business. It's not very difficult to see the strategy. It is part of their "academy" that began last year. Basically a private prep school for athletes of many sports: soccer, lacrosse, hockey, volleyball, baseball, and now football. There is a lot of money in football and bringing in an accomplished high school coach will attract athletes looking to get recruited to college. There are many of these around the country but nothing in the DMV area. It may or may not be successful but if you have the money to invest like St James, they are in as good a position as anyone in the DMV to build something like this given their facilities and existing programs.

Yes, I am aware of the overarching strategy and the academy business model they have entered. But football is a high-roster sport with pretty substantial needs for training time and space, none of which TSJ seems to have, especially when their academy purports to serve a good 8-9 sports simultaneously. It's a very high reach to expect that the requisite number of football players will be able to cough up $28K/year to attend a program that can't even meet a team's needs, no matter who is coaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Facilities? What facilities?

They promised soccer fields for years and got burnt by VRSC lol.

Have you been to Springfield? The facilities are quite nice. Full ice rink, basketball courts, swimming, batting cages, tennis, performance training. There is nothing else like it in the DMV.

Soccer facilities? not a big priority for their academy. there isn’t a lot of money in it

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Anonymous wrote:Facilities? What facilities?

They promised soccer fields for years and got burnt by VRSC lol.

Have you been to Springfield? The facilities are quite nice. Full ice rink, basketball courts, swimming, batting cages, tennis, performance training. There is nothing else like it in the DMV.

Soccer facilities? not a big priority for their academy. there isn’t a lot of money in it

What does having nice facilities with ice rinks have to do with building a football program? Where are the actual fields?

One field to their name, and between the other sports they offer, if they want to build an elite football program, something has to give if they're not going to put money into an actual facility.

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I think someone forgot this is about futball, not football.

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It applies IMO.

The whole debacle and downfall began with what appears to have been empty promises when they had bought FCV. That led to the whole program falling apart and coaches going their separate ways. Now they're going in on Football while also trying to run a national level soccer program with not a lot of resources field wise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It applies IMO.

The whole debacle and downfall began with what appears to have been empty promises when they had bought FCV. That led to the whole program falling apart and coaches going their separate ways. Now they're going in on Football while also trying to run a national level soccer program with not a lot of resources field wise.

We here on this forum equate The St James with their soccer program when in fact the soccer program is just a small part of their overall business. They made a bet on soccer when they bought FCV. It didn’t really pay off. Now they are making bets on a private high school for athletes (not just soccer) and football. Just because their soccer program isn’t succeeding does not mean their overall business is not.

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How many GA girls will be attending LS or VRSC tryouts in spring.

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Anonymous wrote:How many GA girls will be attending LS or VRSC tryouts in spring.

I'm sure all nearly all current GA and wanna be GA girls will try out for all GA programs from every club that now has one.

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Anonymous wrote:How many GA girls will be attending LS or VRSC tryouts in spring.

New GA club TBA......

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Anonymous wrote:How many GA girls will be attending LS or VRSC tryouts in spring.

New GA club TBA......

yet another "elite" team in this area?

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Anonymous wrote:How many GA girls will be attending LS or VRSC tryouts in spring.

New GA club TBA......

Where's this one going to be?

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Anonymous wrote:How many GA girls will be attending LS or VRSC tryouts in spring.

New GA club TBA......

Where's this one going to be?

Diluting VRSC to a midtier NCSL organization at best and making little to no impact on LS.

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VRSC is already there. They can’t even beat Delaware teams.

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Anonymous wrote:How many GA girls will be attending LS or VRSC tryouts in spring.

New GA club TBA......

Where's this one going to be?

3 getting cut and 2 new ones enter

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Heard we applied for MLS next is this true?