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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a great discussion. I don't know of any of the big clubs that really develop players from the ground up. I think most try to focus on producing winning teams at u16 and older. Those teams produce college players and YNT players, which attracts more kids and money. Bethesda and Pipeline are the only successful teams I know who tend to have players from their youth teams move up to the older clubs. FCV doesn't and I doubt you will find more than four or five players.[/quote]

This is another easy and tired trope that clubs don't develop players. They certainly do, it's just that players move on more than in the past. The real reason players are so transient is the huge number of options available, and the constant push to play on the best teams.[/quote]

Part of what makes a great team is having consistency.  You see this with kids who play together for years.  When you have the constant club hopping, you lose the ability for the kids to learn the style of the coach and the strengths/weaknesses of their teammates.  By pipeline encouraging this behavior with rolling tryouts and letting anyone jump on a team at any time, it does not allow for team development, let alone individual player development.  As a parent (and a pipeline parent), I am paying a ridiculous amount of money to have a quality coach help to train my child and develop him into a better soccer player.  I am not paying pipeline to get another star on their jersey.  The wins are nice but not at the expense of my child actually learning how to improve.

As others have said, it is a toxic environment and one that I think will come to kick them in the a$$ eventually.  We will be leaving at the end of the fall season after several years with the club.[/quote]

Agreed.  We're all familiar with the local clubs and know none are perfect.  However, mentioning how pipleline is toxic is right on!  [/quote]

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