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[quote=Anonymous]Wait!.........Are you saying SYC is led by a management group whose main concern is to make as much money as possible from their travel team parents? That they did a "bait and switch" on their contract with parents?

Well welcome to the world of SYC Travel soccer. A few years ago, SYC did a very similar thing when they were given MLS Next after tryouts had already been held for the next season and payments were already received by SYC. Rather than just give the MLS Next to the top team of players, they decided to reopen tryouts and dropped kids from the promised top "blue" team. How did they get around this from a contractual standpoint? They called their top team MLS Next and the second team was renamed the "blue" team. They now call this second-tier team MLSNextII.

The next year SYC did it again, when they "partnered" with McLean and sent half of each MLSNext team to McLean ECNL to form Virginia Union, but SYC still collected the funds from the player's parents. These parents had paid to play on the MLSNext team, but they were sold on more field time for their players by playing on an ECNL team. Very few players that moved from SYC that first year were left after 1 year of the Virginia Union partnership.

Now, SYC has done it again. They have sold EDGE as an extra training session, that parents are paying for, when in fact it is a replacement for field time. Now the fields are open for additional teams in the future, and more parents can empty their bank account for the sake of increasing SYC management salaries.

And I'm sure once the dust has settled from EDGE, SYC will have some new "bait-and-switch" to collect more money from the parents. Maybe they will charge extra if you want a coach to show up to practice. Or maybe they will require all players to have the same set of cleats so they can get a kickback from Nike or Adidas. Or maybe they will have teams bid on field space for practice, so the teams that bid the most get the largest practice field space/and those teams that bid the least get to practice in the parking lot.     [/quote]

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