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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know what the BRYC 2005 Boys A team is doing this year?[/quote]

They are in NCSL.[/quote]

That's their A team?  With a mediocre record in D4?[/quote]

Hereeee we go. Blowing a gasket over the record of a U12 team...[/quote]

I read that as surprise vs. gasket blowing, but I suppose written word can be interpreted in many different ways.[/quote]

Fair enough. Yea sometimes tone can be misinterpreted so my fault. You also gotta factor in though it could just be a group of undersized but technical players who try to play a proactive game but get trampled by bigger kids who rely on long balls and athleticism. Records can be very deceptive at U12 when some kids hit a growth spurt much earlier than others. [/quote]

It's U13. I agree that record isn't everything, but at this age things are starting to come together, and I would expect a club that considers itself "elite" and is moving to a regional league to have a top team that is better than D4 (being relegated to D5) in NCSL. But the PP's explanation makes sense re people leaving in the transition to ECNL or whatever. [/quote]

From what I understand, the directors decided to change the club a bit. They are only halfway through the first year of this new experiment. They are starting this new approach with U9-U12....They want fewer, better players and they want to go ECNL. So the U13s are the last 'vestige' of whatever they had previously done... I think even their odsl teams call themselves 'elite.'  It's silly....that's the old approach they are trying to shed. [/quote]

"BRYC Elite" is just what the "travel side" of BRYC is called. There's a rec side and a travel side (Elite). Traditionally the ODSL teams were under the rec side and were completely separate (these are unpaid coaches, usually parents). More recently they've started a "bridge" program where those former "rec side" ODSL teams can move over to the Elite side of the fence but still keep their coach, and if the coach is still unpaid keep the same low costs that they had before. You can't get into NCSL unless you move onto the Elite side, the "rec" side only has slots in ODSL. Hopefully that makes sense. [/quote]

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