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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CCL blows.  traveling 2-3 hrs for a non-competitive match sucks.  Who the f wants to go to Roanoke.  Pretty sure they aren't known for quality soccer.[/quote]

You are a provincial moron and your kid is getting the game he deserves even if he did not get the parents he deserved. Don’t go if you don’t like it.  Your priors will limit your ability to enjoy new environments. Don’t limit your kids in the same way. [/quote]

Yes, you should sacrifice your child’s experiences and enjoyment so that other people should benefit. How selfish of you. Time to start putting the Roanoke kids needs ahead of your kid. That’s why you do youth sports.[/quote]

So true.

I do NOT understand these dipsh*ts that just love to drive hours for games.  I grew up in travel and my parents (and my dad was a travel soccer coach for 20 years) about having to drive to Mt St Mary's to blow someone out 11-0.  The hours in a car for a kiddie match are useless.  Completely useless.  I say that as a family that had 3 D1 soccer full scholarships and one pro player.

Idiots wear the length they travel for a 60-90 min soccer match with pre-pubescent kids like a badge of honor.  All the while driving right on by Clubs that would offer better competition in a 30 min drive.[/quote]

I don't think anybody loves to drive to games, nor have I ever met anyone who wears the duration of the journey like a badge of honor.  Most parents groan as a long drive weekend approaches and plenty just ship their kid in someone else's car.  They drive those distances because they don't have a choice if they want that level of competition and the better coaches.  That's the way the leagues are structured - it's not the fault of the kids or the parents.

And the drive times for kiddie matches are not usually that bad.  Sure you might have to drive to VA Beach one weekend a year - but just make a weekend of it and go to the beach.  The more regular longer drives usually kick in around the time puberty starts.  And unfortunately that's when the kids start to need better competition - and NCSL does NOT provide it.

I think we all wish that all the clubs would just enter their teams into a national league pyramid which allows for promotion and relegation so that every team would find its level and all the teams at any particular level in a geographic area would end up in the same league.  Sadly that does not exist.  So if my DC is good enough to play for one of the top teams the area then she plays in that league and drives where the league tells her.

Playing NCSL is, sadly, not an option because the level is hugely different.[/quote]

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