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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t you a journalist??  Go to the games and ask the parents.  Easiest data set you can obtain if you are really interested.  I’ve already stated no rec players on our squad, why would I lie about it?? Better for the kids of parents like me to have competing players think rec makes for an easy path, that’s less real competition for their starting spot.  [/quote]

I'm not sure parents would be thrilled to have a stranger turn up to their games and start asking them where their kids were playing at U9.

I'm frankly wondering how you got the info about your own club. Did you ask every single parent on all the DA or ECNL teams? Even the families that maybe couldn't afford to shell out $3,000 on their U9s?[/quote]

If you are a parent on a team and don’t know the other kids backgrounds by mid year, it’s odd.  On our team they all came from B or higher travel teams. I don’t know what to tell you, RSD.  People are free to believe whatever they’d like.  [/quote]

Does your club not recruit (or simply attain) players from other clubs coming into the DA program?

You say they all came from B or higher travel teams. But were they playing at that level at U9?

Again -- I don't doubt that the overwhelming majority were playing a decent level of travel at U9. But I'm not assuming anything. And plenty of parents on this board have attested that they've seen plenty of U9 A-teamers burn out (as have I) and are replaced by players at a lower level. Whether that "lower level" is sometimes rec league, I don't know. I've seen players go from U9 rec to decent travel teams but not DA or ECNL, but I have a limited sample size.

And I'm curious to know whether DA scouts are looking for people who are priced out of travel. Or are clubs' financial aid programs so robust that they're catching everyone at U9?

All interesting questions. But I'm not convinced we have answers.[/quote]

Agree with you on the u9 rec point. That’s fair and was not claimed, at least by me.  I was arguing against the guy why stated it was not hard to make DA or ECNL at u14 or u15 with a rec only background.  Kids can start at u9 and transition to higher level soccer at u10 or maybe even 11 and succeed more easily. But to go from pure rec to the highest level at u13-15 is not easy, as was claimed. [/quote]

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