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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][code][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The RDS at DCU, like all other things DCU does us totally garbage. It is a pure money grab plain and simple.  Very few, if any, kids from the RDS are going to make it to the DCU squad.  And to be honest, making the DCU squad is not what it may seem.  It is a half a## academy system with no ambition, no money and even less of an idea in how to develop players for the modern game.  Dont waste your time or money on DCU.  They will disappoint you time and time again and the only one who will be missing out on real development opportunities is your son.  DCU is a badge only academy.  If you want the badge because that makes you feel good inside, do that.  If you want to really progress at the sport to become a pro, DCU is not the place for that.  It is that simple.

To the PP talking about pace...of course European academies look at pace of youth players when bringing them into their systems.  The modern game is built on pace.  But they don't take pace above all else.  The best players have speed of thought/decisions/action and can couple that with pace and strong technique.  But to say European academies don't focus on pace is wrong.  In some positions it is all they focus on at youth ages because they believe they can teach the technical side but you can't teach someone with poor fast twitch muscles and poor genetics for speed how to be fast.  You can't turn a Honda into a Ferrari...[/quote]

The parents who's kids left DCU and are now in top colleges or playing professionally in Europe may tend to disagree with your assessment that it's a badge only

If your kid failed to make it at DCU or after DCU, it's your fault and the kids fault.

Blaming the school where others got passing grades when you failed isn't solely the school's fault [/quote]

It is badge only - the badge gave them opportunities but I bet most will say they were truly developed elsewhere.

But it’s a useful badge, that’s the point. Don’t knock it if you will benefit from having it regardless [/quote]

A empty badge gives opportunities? 
How is that?

Yeah, my kid was at DCU for 4 years after leaving a small club in Manassas. 
He's now in the Premier League

All the development credits go to the Manassas club from 8 to 13 
13 to 18 at DC was just passing time

Anyway, waste of time conversation.

This is about RDS pre-academy [/quote]

Whoa! That’s great! Who were the coaches that developed them at DCU? Are they still there?  [/quote]

Will they be coaches at the RDS
pre-academy?[/quote]

The majority of coaches at DCU don't hold high USSF licenses and stay for a  couple years or less because they see quickly it is a dead end for them. You don't necessarily need a license to be a good coach, that is for sure.  But at a minimum, with a license, you know they at least have some baseline knowledge on how to TEACH the game other than having just played the game themselves.   So basically you have coaches that didn't play at a high level, didn't learn the game at a high level, didn't educate themselves at a high level about the game, arent paid well by DCU, AND aren't incentivised to become better coaches because there is minimal money in it from DCU, and you think k the coaching will be amazing?  Coaching generally in the US is subpar. At DCU it is even lower than that. Some good guys coaching there that are good people, but we are taking about progressing players and a history of progressing players.  This is what DCU just doesn't have. So don't expect much. [/quote]

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