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Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I will never understand how people think that just because a kid has played on a team for years, he should stay there. Why? The best kids should be on the top team. There is no loyalty? are you saying that teams should be based on the coach's favorites? the most tenured kids? Makes no sense.

I don't have a kid in this age group and I have no problem with coaches recruiting a player or two to improve the roster at certain positions and moving down a couple of under performing players, but when you bring the whole team from outside the club and send down 10 player from your top team, that's pretty much an indictment on your ability to develop players. I hope they are bringing the new coach too along with the new players.

It happens all the time. In a year no one will remember what happen only that they win. It stupid but it’s travel soccer. Most parents in the u littles have no clue what goes on and think winning u16 = great program.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I will never understand how people think that just because a kid has played on a team for years, he should stay there. Why? The best kids should be on the top team. There is no loyalty? are you saying that teams should be based on the coach's favorites? the most tenured kids? Makes no sense.

I don't have a kid in this age group and I have no problem with coaches recruiting a player or two to improve the roster at certain positions and moving down a couple of under performing players, but when you bring the whole team from outside the club and send down 10 player from your top team, that's pretty much an indictment on your ability to develop players. I hope they are bringing the new coach too along with the new players.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I would expect this for competitive teams in leagues that want to be competitive. There is no tenure in sports, especially youth sports. The other way of looking at this is that those BSC kids gave those long time McLean players the ability to play at McLean on the first team while at BSC South.

How is McLean evaluating the BSC South kids without tryouts?

Well the coach saw bethesda south beat that McLean team in the fall so I suspect they are familiar with the players.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I would expect this for competitive teams in leagues that want to be competitive. There is no tenure in sports, especially youth sports. The other way of looking at this is that those BSC kids gave those long time McLean players the ability to play at McLean on the first team while at BSC South.

How is McLean evaluating the BSC South kids without tryouts?

The coaches know those kids, and the parents probably have a ton of game film to send over. I've seen them play. They know how to play and they have been competing for some time at elite levels against better clubs than McLean 06 has been playing. I am not saying that would suffice to displace first team players. But of course if you have no system you can simply throw athletes and gifted players onto the field and hope for the best, which is what most clubs do around here.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I will never understand how people think that just because a kid has played on a team for years, he should stay there. Why? The best kids should be on the top team. There is no loyalty? are you saying that teams should be based on the coach's favorites? the most tenured kids? Makes no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I will never understand how people think that just because a kid has played on a team for years, he should stay there. Why? The best kids should be on the top team. There is no loyalty? are you saying that teams should be based on the coach's favorites? the most tenured kids? Makes no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I would expect this for competitive teams in leagues that want to be competitive. There is no tenure in sports, especially youth sports. The other way of looking at this is that those BSC kids gave those long time McLean players the ability to play at McLean on the first team while at BSC South.

How is McLean evaluating the BSC South kids without tryouts?

Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I would expect this for competitive teams in leagues that want to be competitive. There is no tenure in sports, especially youth sports. The other way of looking at this is that those BSC kids gave those long time McLean players the ability to play at McLean on the first team while at BSC South.

Anonymous wrote:Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

Are they staying with the club after being moved down?

I think they have called the players already.

Yes-very true. And most annoying to those who have been at McLean for years. Something like 7-10 boys being incorporated.

I saw this info on a post on another thread, too. I think it mentioned how many players on that thread.

So someone mentioned that the BSC South 06 team was disbanding and most of the kids are moving over to McLean and and several of the kids on the current ECNL team are getting bumped down. Is this true? How many spots are going to former BSC South kids?