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Anonymous wrote:Does the 2010 group provide a good experience?

Just because they have won the most games of any team does not make for a good experience. Still the same culture. Still the same lack of communication. Still the excessive roster. Still the crappy training, etc etc. Read the two threads on FVU boys. GM is still in charge and KJ is his pawn.

How large is the 2010 roster?

If you are legitimately asking you'll never get an unbiased answer here. This is the home of the entitled, left out and bitter.
Oh FVU boys have their problems for sure. Communication is definitely one of them. And rebuilding has been slow.
But if you don't know the history on the boys side, which most obviously don't, you don't get it's a rebuilding, that's what you are signing up for.
And GM is old school, in an 80s coaches way, he doesn't suffer fool parents and he doesn't cater to them. If you can't handle that, this is not a fit.
He is knowledgable and the majority of boys like him a lot.
But on DCUM it's rarely about the kids and mostly about parent ego.
Like I said, there are legitimate complaints to be had with FVU but some of these posts, especially from people at tryouts just have very little to do with the reality of being in the Club.
The 2010 roster is 21. KJ has been their coach for a long time, he's much less old school, much more approachable.
FVU works for us, and my son has gotten offers from other ECNL teams. It's year by year obviously, but isn't everything in NoVa soccer.
All I know is I was seeing 50-60 kids at tryouts, so not everyone has ruled them out. But obviously if they rule your kid out, your first stop is DCUM.

no your kid did not get offers elsewhere. As only moron would choose this as their first choice. Your kid is there because you want the ECNL hat. My kid got an offer last year and I told him hell no.

I have to agree. If a kid is good enough to play ECNL National or MLS Next they would get at least one offer elsewhere. Now if a kid is not there yet and did not get a 1st team offer anywhere else, but still wants to playin a 1st team he could get a spot at FVU. I’m sure there will be additional tryouts at FVU, at least until they get 22+ per team. That’s an unfortunate truth for a union that had potential to be great. Same coaches/leadership same results upcoming year.
Also about the 50-60 kids at tryouts that was most likely the 2010s and 2009s in one field, which is usual for clubs to do, with each team having 21+ kids it was mostly the two FVU teams.

09s had over 100 show. Everyone knows the club is shit. Unfortunately it makes it nearly impossible for them to see all the talent. They already made several questionable additions. Which they will soon see next season.

Is ECNL still considered a legit good league?

Yes of course it is….. dont be silly…

Many many college commits coming out of ECNL especially in this area—moreso than MLS next actually. 3 ECNL Arlington players just got scooped up with MLS

VDA is too 25 in the country according to TDS. ECNL is just fine…

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Anonymous wrote:Does the 2010 group provide a good experience?

Just because they have won the most games of any team does not make for a good experience. Still the same culture. Still the same lack of communication. Still the excessive roster. Still the crappy training, etc etc. Read the two threads on FVU boys. GM is still in charge and KJ is his pawn.

How large is the 2010 roster?

If you are legitimately asking you'll never get an unbiased answer here. This is the home of the entitled, left out and bitter.
Oh FVU boys have their problems for sure. Communication is definitely one of them. And rebuilding has been slow.
But if you don't know the history on the boys side, which most obviously don't, you don't get it's a rebuilding, that's what you are signing up for.
And GM is old school, in an 80s coaches way, he doesn't suffer fool parents and he doesn't cater to them. If you can't handle that, this is not a fit.
He is knowledgable and the majority of boys like him a lot.
But on DCUM it's rarely about the kids and mostly about parent ego.
Like I said, there are legitimate complaints to be had with FVU but some of these posts, especially from people at tryouts just have very little to do with the reality of being in the Club.
The 2010 roster is 21. KJ has been their coach for a long time, he's much less old school, much more approachable.
FVU works for us, and my son has gotten offers from other ECNL teams. It's year by year obviously, but isn't everything in NoVa soccer.
All I know is I was seeing 50-60 kids at tryouts, so not everyone has ruled them out. But obviously if they rule your kid out, your first stop is DCUM.

no your kid did not get offers elsewhere. As only moron would choose this as their first choice. Your kid is there because you want the ECNL hat. My kid got an offer last year and I told him hell no.

I have to agree. If a kid is good enough to play ECNL National or MLS Next they would get at least one offer elsewhere. Now if a kid is not there yet and did not get a 1st team offer anywhere else, but still wants to playin a 1st team he could get a spot at FVU. I’m sure there will be additional tryouts at FVU, at least until they get 22+ per team. That’s an unfortunate truth for a union that had potential to be great. Same coaches/leadership same results upcoming year.
Also about the 50-60 kids at tryouts that was most likely the 2010s and 2009s in one field, which is usual for clubs to do, with each team having 21+ kids it was mostly the two FVU teams.

09s had over 100 show. Everyone knows the club is shit. Unfortunately it makes it nearly impossible for them to see all the talent. They already made several questionable additions. Which they will soon see next season.

Is ECNL still considered a legit good league?

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Anonymous wrote:Does the 2010 group provide a good experience?

Just because they have won the most games of any team does not make for a good experience. Still the same culture. Still the same lack of communication. Still the excessive roster. Still the crappy training, etc etc. Read the two threads on FVU boys. GM is still in charge and KJ is his pawn.

How large is the 2010 roster?

If you are legitimately asking you'll never get an unbiased answer here. This is the home of the entitled, left out and bitter.
Oh FVU boys have their problems for sure. Communication is definitely one of them. And rebuilding has been slow.
But if you don't know the history on the boys side, which most obviously don't, you don't get it's a rebuilding, that's what you are signing up for.
And GM is old school, in an 80s coaches way, he doesn't suffer fool parents and he doesn't cater to them. If you can't handle that, this is not a fit.
He is knowledgable and the majority of boys like him a lot.
But on DCUM it's rarely about the kids and mostly about parent ego.
Like I said, there are legitimate complaints to be had with FVU but some of these posts, especially from people at tryouts just have very little to do with the reality of being in the Club.
The 2010 roster is 21. KJ has been their coach for a long time, he's much less old school, much more approachable.
FVU works for us, and my son has gotten offers from other ECNL teams. It's year by year obviously, but isn't everything in NoVa soccer.
All I know is I was seeing 50-60 kids at tryouts, so not everyone has ruled them out. But obviously if they rule your kid out, your first stop is DCUM.

no your kid did not get offers elsewhere. As only moron would choose this as their first choice. Your kid is there because you want the ECNL hat. My kid got an offer last year and I told him hell no.

I have to agree. If a kid is good enough to play ECNL National or MLS Next they would get at least one offer elsewhere. Now if a kid is not there yet and did not get a 1st team offer anywhere else, but still wants to playin a 1st team he could get a spot at FVU. I’m sure there will be additional tryouts at FVU, at least until they get 22+ per team. That’s an unfortunate truth for a union that had potential to be great. Same coaches/leadership same results upcoming year.
Also about the 50-60 kids at tryouts that was most likely the 2010s and 2009s in one field, which is usual for clubs to do, with each team having 21+ kids it was mostly the two FVU teams.

09s had over 100 show. Everyone knows the club is shit. Unfortunately it makes it nearly impossible for them to see all the talent. They already made several questionable additions. Which they will soon see next season.

Anonymous wrote:Offers were still send last week, some are still pending accept.
They need the numbers

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Anonymous wrote:FVU Boys 
Year: W-L-D
2012: 1-17-1 (14th/15)
2011: 2-16-1 (14th/15) 
2010: 7-6-1 (7th/15)
2009: 3-9-2 (12th/15)
2008: 1-11-2 (15th/15)
2006/07: 4-7-3 (12th/15)

whats worse at two age groups they passed over kids that are absolute studs. They just can’t evaluate.

Anonymous wrote:FVU Boys 
Year: W-L-D
2012: 1-17-1 (14th/15)
2011: 2-16-1 (14th/15) 
2010: 7-6-1 (7th/15)
2009: 3-9-2 (12th/15)
2008: 1-11-2 (15th/15)
2006/07: 4-7-3 (12th/15)

Anonymous wrote:If they are in ECNL RL it would make sense to partner with FVU. Will depend on new TD

Anonymous wrote:Well there are now 5 feeder clubs and may be more (GFR?)

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Anonymous wrote:It is a great team..and I'm sure FVU would love some of those kids but if they didn't go to tryouts then they don't want to come.
The idea is to get the kids on that team back when they were U12s and have them go to FVU.
This isn't a merger like BRAVE and Mclean when you had 2 ECNL teams that had to become one.

Let's say you have a player who is going to be on a U12 pre-ECNL team next year at one of the clubs that feeds into FVU. Is it better to be part of a certain club over others? For example, do players at BRYC and Vienna have an advantage over the other feeders because they are the "founder" clubs so to speak? I know tryouts are open to everyone, and being part of one of the feeder clubs is no guarantee. But is it easier to get on the radar of the FVU coaches if you're already part of a specific feeder club/team? Do the coaches care at all about the records of the pre-ECNL teams the players are coming from, or do they evaluate strictly on what they see from an individual player at ID sessions? Does the reputation of a club or an age group factor in to who makes the team at U13? This feels like an interesting experiment coming up for the rising U12s.

100% feeder clubs will get first look let alone communication between feeder club coach and FVU coach. The issue is there are a growing number of feeder clubs so there will be leakage of players who are looked over and end up with another club

100%? Really? How many 2013 McLean girls made FVU this year? Seems like FVU staff could care less about feeder club’s players.