Can local soccer clubs survive without a merger or alliance?

[Anonymous]

With all these club mergers/alliances happening in the area, I wonder about the small soccer club of BRYC and smaller clubs. Do they need an alliance to compete? Don't know much about them (BRYC). Granted they aren't doing great in the ECNL, but they are located in a great location to attract new players, have a known history and don't have to answer to anyone else. But is it enough? Are these alliances mutual beneficial or do they really only benefit one club?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]With all these club mergers/alliances happening in the area, I wonder about the small soccer club of BRYC and smaller clubs. Do they need an alliance to compete? Don't know much about them (BRYC). Granted they aren't doing great in the ECNL, but they are located in a great location to attract new players, have a known history and don't have to answer to anyone else. But is it enough? Are these alliances mutual beneficial or do they really only benefit one club? [/quote]

Bryc is run so bad and have so many subpar coaches. The only way a merger works is if they purge the Bryc staff. The boys side rarely brings in talent they keep the first team they put together at U9 and suck their wallets dry until you decide to leave.

[Anonymous]

Depends on what is meant by survive. Attracting enough players is the #1 challenge for smaller and newer clubs. The alliances and consolidation are necessary to compete with the giant clubs. If survive means find enough bodies to roster a team and pay the bills, maybe. But attacking enough players to keep competitive teams across multiple age groups is difficult. Especially difficult with girls teams because fewer players that clubs are competing for.

[Anonymous]

Can’t speak to the boys side, but the coaching staff on the girls side at BRYC is actually quite strong. When DA came along, many players bolted for the “greener pasture,” but now that ECNL is top dog again, I suspect that BRYC will be having girls trying out in numbers again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can’t speak to the boys side, but the coaching staff on the girls side at BRYC is actually quite strong. When DA came along, many players bolted for the “greener pasture,” but now that ECNL is top dog again, I suspect that BRYC will be having girls trying out in numbers again.

Let me tell you the boys side is the biggest sham in the area. They will keep selling future promises with mediocre results. At the younger levels the the lead coach cares more about walking around with his backpack on then actually working to improve the boys. The older ECNL coaches a more about shaking hands with opposing coaches cashing parents checks. They aren't worried about losing talent because they haven't developed any.

[Anonymous]

To be fair if you take DCUM posters at their word every club in the area is poorly managed, trying to steal your money, lying to you or otherwise awful in some way.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all these club mergers/alliances happening in the area, I wonder about the small soccer club of BRYC and smaller clubs. Do they need an alliance to compete? Don't know much about them (BRYC). Granted they aren't doing great in the ECNL, but they are located in a great location to attract new players, have a known history and don't have to answer to anyone else. But is it enough? Are these alliances mutual beneficial or do they really only benefit one club? [/quote]

Bryc is run so bad and have so many subpar coaches. The only way a merger works is if they purge the Bryc staff. The boys side rarely brings in talent they keep the first team they put together at U9 and suck their wallets dry until you decide to leave. [/quote]

Girls coaches are great. Don't know about the boys, but the younger girls ECNL age group have decent dudes. Good people too.

[Anonymous]

To those giving the rave reviews to the girls side, are you relating this to other girls coaching you’ve had your DD in? If so, what do you like so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair if you take DCUM posters at their word every club in the area is poorly managed, trying to steal your money, lying to you or otherwise awful in some way.

🤣🤣🤣 true!

[Anonymous]

Haha! The girls coaching at BRCY is beyond terrible, especially at the younger ages. In fact, they aren't even certified - all the coaches are player's parents. It's a rec club now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair if you take DCUM posters at their word every club in the area is poorly managed, trying to steal your money, lying to you or otherwise awful in some way.

And unfortunately that is more or less true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To those giving the rave reviews to the girls side, are you relating this to other girls coaching you’ve had your DD in? If so, what do you like so much?

I am relating it to both experiences of siblings at other clubs and my
own playing experience. They are tough on the players, encourage them to excel/work to improve outside of practices, teach them to be smart players with a value placed on soccer iq, actually explain tactics, etc. Plus they don’t coach to the least common denominator- they coach to the top and expect the girls to rise to the occasion. Players are actually being developed. This is the girls side- again, not sure about the boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To those giving the rave reviews to the girls side, are you relating this to other girls coaching you’ve had your DD in? If so, what do you like so much?

I am relating it to both experiences of siblings at other clubs and my
own playing experience. They are tough on the players, encourage them to excel/work to improve outside of practices, teach them to be smart players with a value placed on soccer iq, actually explain tactics, etc. Plus they don’t coach to the least common denominator- they coach to the top and expect the girls to rise to the occasion. Players are actually being developed. This is the girls side- again, not sure about the boys.

+1 and not one of the PP's. They are teaching at the tactical level within a season where it took me several years within rec to try to get most players because they don't coach to the least common denominator (as you need to in rec); and there are kids with more tactical awareness than I see on bridge and other boys travel teams in the area who are 3-5 years older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haha! The girls coaching at BRCY is beyond terrible, especially at the younger ages. In fact, they aren't even certified - all the coaches are player's parents. It's a rec club now.

BRYC Elite - Academy, U12, U13, U14, U15, U16, U17 U18/19 Girls All licensed, all certified. No relation to players. No clue what you're talking about.
Maybe the Bridge Teams and really young, but not Academy or ECNL

[Anonymous]

What about Stoddert and PPA?