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But those are the very reasons that - no matter how could a job "Este's crew" does - SYC will never be considered an elite club.  
 
They aren't going to be able to attract and retain the best players.

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It sounds like you classify an elite club as only those that are topped off by a DA (i.e. Arlington, Loudoun, Bethesda). If that's the case, then you're right--SYC will probably not ever get there, as the best players will leave for DAs. However, they can get to the level of the best non-DA clubs in the region like McLean, Alexandria, LMVSC.

As far as the "raiding" question...There's no such thing as "raiding" for players. We don't sign multi-year contracts with clubs, and if we (as parents advocating for our players) don't like something, the club tells us to go f*ck ourselves. No parent or player owes a club a single thing beyond the fees which we agree to pay. Pay-to-play...it's a crappy system, but let's not pretend it should only work for the clubs.

Yeah, I think there will be lots of players and several coaches who go over to SYC. The worst part of that is that it seems that the coach of the teams at SYC that are already doing very well (06 and 07 Boys, both in their top brackets at the Jeff Cup) has already been fired. That seems pretty dumb.[/quote]

The issue isn't from the player side, it's from the coaching side. Este and whoever goes over most likely has a clause in their contract not to recruit from LMVSC. It's pretty standard language in coaching contracts. If at any point he recruits coaches to come over or players, they would be liable and SYC would be as well if they were aware of these clauses. Something they most definitely are since, again, it's standard language for contracts. [/quote]

I have to admit, I'm not sure what this means? If an LMVSC coach goes to SYC, holds tryouts, and their players from LMVSC show up, then what? 
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