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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, we'll bite.

From our perspective, things are better at VYS than we could have possibly hoped for after just one year of the new leadership:

- shortly after new TD hired, VYS core technical staff quits; at least one member of new staff replacing old staff then quits after a few months
- first club executive director quits before first anniversary on job
- president, several club officers, and almost half of the board all abruptly quit over past year without explanation
- longtime admin staff and volunteers who built up the club over past decade treated poorly and/or quietly cast aside by new TD
- significant portion of traditional VYS volunteer base of coaches, age group coordinators, and house commissioners alienated, frustrated, no longer motivated to volunteer, or stepping down
- well-liked and highly respected VYS professional coaches quitting, being fired or asked to accept reduced roles
- inability to attract or hire high-quality coaches under new TD’s leadership and direction 
- as PP noted, mass exodus of players from travel program to other clubs is accelerating rapidly and weakened remaining teams are struggling, creating a domino effect
- open war between house and travel interests, as TD allegedly seeks to redistribute money, resources and focus away from house towards travel to become more of a travel-first club
- NSCAA award-winning crossover program dismantled, degraded, and seemingly beyond repair
- beloved Friday Night Lights club pick-up program, which had been profiled in SoccerWire as an example of what VYS had been doing right previously, shut down on the premise that it was necessary to protect “the brand"
- adult volunteer and coaches’ pickup, which had been a VYS tradition for decades and served to build up a robust, cohesive VYS community of volunteers, forced to spin off from VYS and go it alone
- once-large offering of programs eliminated over the summer and cut to the bone this fall and winter as program quality plummeted
- huge club expenditure on TD and handful of senior executive salaries, at expense of critical needs, but little return on those out-sized $$$ investments; club paying more now for less
- unilateral decision to switch away from local business and to unproven Soccer.com experiment a complete disaster
- new finance direction to charge additional fees and to nickel and dime members who are already paying sky-high fees exacerbating member frustration
- erosion of respect for club in state and Northern Virginia soccer circles, making it hard for club to attract talent or engage strategically with other clubs and leagues
- rival clubs merging and moving into area, gaining access to VYS fields and facilities, and offering programs in Vienna locations that VYS apparently no longer wants to offer; players then move to those rival clubs providing services in Vienna that VYS does not
- complete lack of transparency; poor communication; over-reliance on generalities and platitudes in parent meetings instead of providing timely and necessary information, or a real, concrete plan
- club seemingly incapable of escaping downward spiral; unclear if issue is that the club does not realize or care about predicament, or if that it just doesn't know how to get out of it
- club morale extremely low and community spirit that always characterized VYS seemingly gone (the old, proud “community-based club” ideal seems to be fading from collective memory as a relic of a past era)

Regardless, we think that the trend over the past year should continue, at which point we can then absorb what's left of VYS into our club(s).

Sincerely, 
[b]Whiny parent who left VYS and would rather hide on an internet chat board spreading rumors[/b][/quote]

Fixed it for you.[/quote]

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