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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What VYS can do to keep our top players? [/quote]

Let me offer two quibbles with the question and then try to answer it.  First, it does retain a lot of the top players it has.  When we talk about VYS top player migration to other clubs, it is not all their top players.  It's some.  But it is often two or three at the high end of the roster.  Second, a lot of top clubs don't retain all their players.  We've moved from VYS to another club, but also saw a few players leave the top team at this club for a variety of reasons.  It's not necessarily bad.  It can be healthy or even necessary for both the players and the team.

More broadly, the question assumes that VYS is somehow failing if it does not retain all of these players.  But it serves its mission well, and it is not a club or organization like some (Achilles or FCV) really looking only at high end talent and players.  Who cares if they lose a few really good players every year when most teams and clubs also do?  Most people are happy there and have no reason not to be.

If you want to retain that handful of top players leaving for other clubs, the real question is how do you grow a talent pool that enables you to offer teams comparable to BRYC, McLean and others.  At older ages, you have to combine.  So I would joint venture top teams with other clubs like GFR/PAC/Chantilly/Herndon.  Retaining top talent requires you to bring in top talent or connect those players to other top players.  It is very difficult for really good players to lose to other really good teams when they know they could be on those teams.  So you need to get better teams to retain top talent, and you cannot do that organically given the size of the VYS service area.  You may even want to consider doing these top teams U9-12.

The reason it becomes really important after U13 is roster expansion.  Smaller area clubs can survive U9-10 at 7 v 7 if they are areas like VYS, with a huge youth athlete population and inevitably a few really good players at U9.  But roster depth is a lot more important as the fields, roster and gametime expand.

So VYS and GFR are already pretty competitive U9-10.  Combination or collaboration could make them competitive with almost all clubs at that age on the boys side.  If you establish a longer track record of top teams playing the right way, maybe you can parlay that into a different league.  I don't know.  But is it really worth all of that drama to retain a few top players?  Probably not.

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