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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m really looking forward to seeing how DC Soccer Club approaches recruitment. People can knock the level, but there are always levels within levels. Even looking at ECNL, there is significant differentiation of talent within the same age group division. Just look at DCSC’s younger ECNL teams. The 2014’s are world beaters and the 2013’s are bottom third at best. The 2012’s have been solid since they were young, and anything older suffers from the years of neglect by the club. [/quote]

Very hit or miss by BY.  Our 2015s are also poor, bottom 1/3 of a watered down VPSL.   No idea how BY to SY will change that though.  [/quote]

It looks like the school year reshuffle will, in some cases, completely upend teams. It’s fine, but many will get a total reset will happen making any backward looking comparisons worthless. The SY move does totally reset everything going forward [/quote]

I am starting to see how much this sucks for my kid who is going from the middle to one of the youngest. When I came back to pick them up from one of the tryouts recently, I thought I was looking at a field of players a year older until I spotted my kid. I assume the big clubs have a lot of kids who can repeat an age group. My kid is tall, but skinny. A kid who has started to hit their growth spurt and has 30 pounds on them is going to be able to push him off the ball pretty easily. Now I feel like they will be lucky to hold their spot let alone move up a level.[/quote]

He just needs to find his edge. It only sucks if he allows it to stay in his head. Every kid is going to be totally shaken up by the change. There will be bigger/faster kids, kids that have a year more experience already playing at the level and kids that have to re-learn how to play together. It’s a massive setback, but since it’s happening to everyone it should be more manageable. Reasonable in theory, but in implementation we’ll just have to see what happens.

I’m looking specifically at DCSC and wondering if they’re getting out of the business of soccer-for-all. [b]Field space sucked this year, and if you’re adding elite levels then what happens to the bottom when space only goes to the top teams?[/b][/quote]

That gets to the heart of the decades old problem rooted in red line maps and the typical DC Soccer consumer.  DC has more futsal courts in the city than all of the neighboring counties combined. Every new school that I am aware of in the last five years has a soccer field that is unused after 5pm.  DPR almost held up the DC Soccer fall campaign because they held so much field space at such a discount rate.  There is no problem with field space in this city.  There is only a problem with field locations and policies but the space is easily available.  That is a problem only leadership and a vision can solve.[/quote]

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