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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not part of SYC and just reading this thread. Just curious on the statement "I could care less where you take your kid and I'm not trying to convince you to stay with SYC but you are not really looking at the bigger picture properly and you will likely simply double down and make another bad decision because your overall logic is wrong."

What exactly is the bigger picture? Is it for the club to move to the next level/league? The kids are just conduits for the club to have a chance at the next level. Kids need to come in already skilled/developed and ready to go? Coaches are there just to sub in players and identify formation of play? . The issue becomes if a couple key people leave, half (or more) of the team may follow suit, but you don't care .[/quote]

Let's take it from the top and in little baby steps, because it is really simple:

1.  SYC got teams into MLS Next for U13 and !4 two years ago with little or no time to recruit during Covid.  The U13 team did well; the U14 team was less successful.

2.  SYC merged with McLean to form VA Union.

3.  SYC received MLS Next teams for all age groups.  ECNL teams for VA Union are also available for SYC players that do not make MLS Next.

4.  SYC's U14 and U15 teams continue to compete effectively.  Their U13 team is extremely good.  The older MLS Next teams are struggling because (a) none of the expanded age groups at any area clubs had time to recruit players, and (b) at older ages, most talented players have gone to DCU or elsewhere, and kids that form the backbone of rosters on younger teams outside areas like McLean tend to drop from all pay-to-play clubs as they get older.

My son is at a rival club, and I am not fond of SYC, but I sincerely don't understand why you don't follow this and see this as a pretty good record of expansion and success.  It is way too early to conclude that this will work, but it is preposterous to infer anything about the progression of younger teams recruited to MLS Next teams from older MLS Next teams that were not recruited.

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