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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to put in a plug here for *efficiency.*

What I mean in general is a relatively high proportion of the overall time spent on soccer (including practice and game travel) to the time spent with a ball at your feet, with a higher premium on game time. So driving to Connecticut (4 or 5 hours each way) for 11 minutes of game time is atrociously inefficient. Driving to Connecticut for just about anything is inefficient. The longer I've been at this travel soccer thing, the more I'm convinced that it's not the actual time spent at practice and games that burns out the kids--it's 20 minutes of playing time in a "home" game taking up 4.5 hours (an hour each way to the game, hour warmup, 1.5 hr game). Burns out the parents, too.

Also, it's dumb. DCU academy has to go to NYCFC academy to find a team that can beat them? Dumb

ECNL teams have to go to the Carolinas to play games? Dumb (but not as inefficient as going to NYC and back for just one game)

Yeah, I value a club that values the time of their parents and players. Efficiency. [/quote]

+100

It’s gotten so damn out of hand—traveling to states far away for regular games.[/quote]

+1,000

I traveled  A LOT as a travel player. Canada, up and down the Eastern seaboard, farther West.  This was for Eastern Regionals, Nationals, tournaments, etc. only and nowhere near as frequently as my kids are expected to travel.   This was not for REGULAR season games.

This sh*t has gotten so far out of hand.

As a parent now 6-7 years in my kids' travel 'careers'....ha!  I just don't give a sh*t anymore.  They love the game and I drive all over, but I recently just decided to DRAWN THE LINE.

I have already seen the weekends where there is a regular season several states away and we are unavailable that weekend. I don't care about consequences.  I just don't.   It's not ECNL or some other super travel league I knew about far in advance when I signed up.

I am doing my part to opt out and try to bring reason back to US youth soccer.   Flame away.   My kid's education is what I care about more.  And, yes we were D1 players in my family---but the sport has jumped the shark these days...[/quote]

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