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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS what the hell is Achilles and PPA thinking....their lower team plays SAM Select and their higher team plays EDP. How on earth can a kid go from playing against SAM Select players to EDP? It seems too big of a leap and sets those "second string" players up for failure if they ever want to leap to the next level. [/quote]

You are completely right. They like SAM because they can stick one coach at the Soccerplex all day long for many games instead of having the coach potentially have to drive from game to game. In the latter scenario, they can't cover as many games (less $). Sal could care less who the competition of the SAM teams is. He has essentially already written these kids off.  He appeases kids/parents (I would imagine that it is obvious at this point), by saying that "if they really try hard and do well," they can play up for EDP games which, of course, only happens when he is in a bind. I heard that for one 06 EDP game, most of the kids were away at a tournament. So, the 06 SAM team played the EDP and got destroyed. [/quote]

This isn't just SAM. There are travel leagues that will schedule all the away games for a club at the same time so that coaches have to do less driving.

Achilles may have its own, selfish reasons for putting some of its teams in SAM but there are legitimate advantages of SAM for the families. Since you don't have to drive very far it makes it easier to play multiple sports. The fields are great. And the competition is getting better and better. Fewer huge clubs where parents pay $3000 a year and more smaller diverse clubs. [/quote]

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