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Anonymous wrote:The 2014 St James girls who have been practicing year round for 2-3 years, in the the St James Springfield facility are pretty dang good. They are supposed to feed into FCV's GA team, but it seems most of them will not want to drive out to Leesburg. Wonder if the St James will part away from FCV and just keep a program in Springfield?

Keeping the program in Springfield was probably always the desired outcome, but all the existing players near Loudoun and would have left if they did that. In a weird twist of fate, that's exactly what happened anyway, and now FCV is committed to Loudoun and has no players. And now it's too late for them to move to Springfield because there is now another GA team in Springfield and they don't have any fields there. What a cluster. Best move at this point would be to cut their losses in Loudoun and team up with SYC.

This makes too much sense, but watch come 9-12 months from now, the idiots in charge will annouce FCV as an ECNL club, further diluting the player pool in NoVA, 4 ECNL and 2 GA is the right number for elite girls clubs probably 1 too many ECNL still, but better. FCV should just merge with SYC if it wants to be in Alexandria, or with VRSC if it wans to be in Loudoun. This is too easy, why do they complicate it so much

SYC doesn't need FCV, VRSC probably won't work as former coaches left for a reason. No need for FCV to have GA at this point. Probably part of some sort of the agreement/settlement due to fear of lawsuit by the st. james.

Exactly. Why would syc even entertain that merge?

Not a merger but a “partnership” to get access to the indoor facilities at the st james. players would get discounts on gym memberships, trainers

FCV's own GA barely got access to their flagship, unlikely anybody else would get that benefit. That indoor field is to generate money, not for their soccer program.

Yup. They don't even let anyone in the South use those facilities. This isn't just a North problem. They bought fcv for the money they could get from it not to make the program better and let them use their facilities.

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Anonymous wrote:The 2014 St James girls who have been practicing year round for 2-3 years, in the the St James Springfield facility are pretty dang good. They are supposed to feed into FCV's GA team, but it seems most of them will not want to drive out to Leesburg. Wonder if the St James will part away from FCV and just keep a program in Springfield?

Keeping the program in Springfield was probably always the desired outcome, but all the existing players near Loudoun and would have left if they did that. In a weird twist of fate, that's exactly what happened anyway, and now FCV is committed to Loudoun and has no players. And now it's too late for them to move to Springfield because there is now another GA team in Springfield and they don't have any fields there. What a cluster. Best move at this point would be to cut their losses in Loudoun and team up with SYC.

This makes too much sense, but watch come 9-12 months from now, the idiots in charge will annouce FCV as an ECNL club, further diluting the player pool in NoVA, 4 ECNL and 2 GA is the right number for elite girls clubs probably 1 too many ECNL still, but better. FCV should just merge with SYC if it wants to be in Alexandria, or with VRSC if it wans to be in Loudoun. This is too easy, why do they complicate it so much

SYC doesn't need FCV, VRSC probably won't work as former coaches left for a reason. No need for FCV to have GA at this point. Probably part of some sort of the agreement/settlement due to fear of lawsuit by the st. james.

Exactly. Why would syc even entertain that merge?

Not a merger but a “partnership” to get access to the indoor facilities at the st james. players would get discounts on gym memberships, trainers

FCV's own GA barely got access to their flagship, unlikely anybody else would get that benefit. That indoor field is to generate money, not for their soccer program.

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Anonymous wrote:The 2014 St James girls who have been practicing year round for 2-3 years, in the the St James Springfield facility are pretty dang good. They are supposed to feed into FCV's GA team, but it seems most of them will not want to drive out to Leesburg. Wonder if the St James will part away from FCV and just keep a program in Springfield?

Keeping the program in Springfield was probably always the desired outcome, but all the existing players near Loudoun and would have left if they did that. In a weird twist of fate, that's exactly what happened anyway, and now FCV is committed to Loudoun and has no players. And now it's too late for them to move to Springfield because there is now another GA team in Springfield and they don't have any fields there. What a cluster. Best move at this point would be to cut their losses in Loudoun and team up with SYC.

This makes too much sense, but watch come 9-12 months from now, the idiots in charge will annouce FCV as an ECNL club, further diluting the player pool in NoVA, 4 ECNL and 2 GA is the right number for elite girls clubs probably 1 too many ECNL still, but better. FCV should just merge with SYC if it wants to be in Alexandria, or with VRSC if it wans to be in Loudoun. This is too easy, why do they complicate it so much

SYC doesn't need FCV, VRSC probably won't work as former coaches left for a reason. No need for FCV to have GA at this point. Probably part of some sort of the agreement/settlement due to fear of lawsuit by the st. james.

Exactly. Why would syc even entertain that merge?

Not a merger but a “partnership” to get access to the indoor facilities at the st james. players would get discounts on gym memberships, trainers

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Anonymous wrote:The 2014 St James girls who have been practicing year round for 2-3 years, in the the St James Springfield facility are pretty dang good. They are supposed to feed into FCV's GA team, but it seems most of them will not want to drive out to Leesburg. Wonder if the St James will part away from FCV and just keep a program in Springfield?

Keeping the program in Springfield was probably always the desired outcome, but all the existing players near Loudoun and would have left if they did that. In a weird twist of fate, that's exactly what happened anyway, and now FCV is committed to Loudoun and has no players. And now it's too late for them to move to Springfield because there is now another GA team in Springfield and they don't have any fields there. What a cluster. Best move at this point would be to cut their losses in Loudoun and team up with SYC.

This makes too much sense, but watch come 9-12 months from now, the idiots in charge will annouce FCV as an ECNL club, further diluting the player pool in NoVA, 4 ECNL and 2 GA is the right number for elite girls clubs probably 1 too many ECNL still, but better. FCV should just merge with SYC if it wants to be in Alexandria, or with VRSC if it wans to be in Loudoun. This is too easy, why do they complicate it so much

SYC doesn't need FCV, VRSC probably won't work as former coaches left for a reason. No need for FCV to have GA at this point. Probably part of some sort of the agreement/settlement due to fear of lawsuit by the st. james.

Exactly. Why would syc even entertain that merge?

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Anonymous wrote:The 2014 St James girls who have been practicing year round for 2-3 years, in the the St James Springfield facility are pretty dang good. They are supposed to feed into FCV's GA team, but it seems most of them will not want to drive out to Leesburg. Wonder if the St James will part away from FCV and just keep a program in Springfield?

Keeping the program in Springfield was probably always the desired outcome, but all the existing players near Loudoun and would have left if they did that. In a weird twist of fate, that's exactly what happened anyway, and now FCV is committed to Loudoun and has no players. And now it's too late for them to move to Springfield because there is now another GA team in Springfield and they don't have any fields there. What a cluster. Best move at this point would be to cut their losses in Loudoun and team up with SYC.

This makes too much sense, but watch come 9-12 months from now, the idiots in charge will annouce FCV as an ECNL club, further diluting the player pool in NoVA, 4 ECNL and 2 GA is the right number for elite girls clubs probably 1 too many ECNL still, but better. FCV should just merge with SYC if it wants to be in Alexandria, or with VRSC if it wans to be in Loudoun. This is too easy, why do they complicate it so much

SYC doesn't need FCV, VRSC probably won't work as former coaches left for a reason. No need for FCV to have GA at this point. Probably part of some sort of the agreement/settlement due to fear of lawsuit by the st. james.

Anonymous wrote:Adam and bigshot messed up big-time but Reston club failure gives insight into how poorly they make decisions.

Hindsight being 20/20, TSJ should have used those funds towards an FCV facility. Now they're going to have two failures on their hands.

Anonymous wrote:The 2014 St James girls who have been practicing year round for 2-3 years, in the the St James Springfield facility are pretty dang good. They are supposed to feed into FCV's GA team, but it seems most of them will not want to drive out to Leesburg. Wonder if the St James will part away from FCV and just keep a program in Springfield?

They’re 9.

Talk about living through your children.

Adam and bigshot messed up big-time but Reston club failure gives insight into how poorly they make decisions.

How is it a setup? TSJ dropped the ball on this one. Everything goes back to them, if they fulfilled their end and actually built a home base in Loudoun, I'd be curious if this happens at all.

The situation from an outsider feels like the following.

CZ knew field space was going to be an issue. He got out while he could for greener pastures. He also sold FCV to TSJ when money was tight to get out from that situation. Probably a great coach not business man. CZ never paid attention to the boys program so it wasn’t growing. Maybe TSJ was pushing him out….

CZ approached VRSC and GA with a promise to grow their program and push out FCV. It feels like GA was granted because FCV will lose the licenses next year after the program dismantles as is happening now.

BP gets word and leaves for VDA and AB takes over and since then it’s been a fire drill no communication and the best example of how to kill a program.

TSJ won’t get the GA license for Springfield as it’s too close to SYC and without fields between Loudon and Springfield and FVU in fairfax I don’t see enough strong players to make equitable teams.

It feels like a set-up and GA didn’t give ASA time to rebuild so they probably won’t give FCV

Anonymous wrote:Are there other examples of a nationally prominent program like FCV imploding so suddenly? It seems unreal to go from what they were literally only a few weeks ago to what its fate appears to be for next season.

Lonestar in TX went from top of GA like FCV to ecnl regional league next year after bunch of coaches left

Leadership at FCV proposing them getting into ECNL is just talk. Zero chance it happens, especially after everybody seeing the Union/Brave debacle. I don't see a new additional ECNL club here for a while, what's happened is addition by subtraction.

Are there other examples of a nationally prominent program like FCV imploding so suddenly? It seems unreal to go from what they were literally only a few weeks ago to what its fate appears to be for next season.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think BC did his market research prior to committing to FCV.

Appears the other coach they tried to hire from Chicago did his 😂

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Anonymous wrote:The 2014 St James girls who have been practicing year round for 2-3 years, in the the St James Springfield facility are pretty dang good. They are supposed to feed into FCV's GA team, but it seems most of them will not want to drive out to Leesburg. Wonder if the St James will part away from FCV and just keep a program in Springfield?

Keeping the program in Springfield was probably always the desired outcome, but all the existing players near Loudoun and would have left if they did that. In a weird twist of fate, that's exactly what happened anyway, and now FCV is committed to Loudoun and has no players. And now it's too late for them to move to Springfield because there is now another GA team in Springfield and they don't have any fields there. What a cluster. Best move at this point would be to cut their losses in Loudoun and team up with SYC.

This makes too much sense, but watch come 9-12 months from now, the idiots in charge will annouce FCV as an ECNL club, further diluting the player pool in NoVA, 4 ECNL and 2 GA is the right number for elite girls clubs probably 1 too many ECNL still, but better. FCV should just merge with SYC if it wants to be in Alexandria, or with VRSC if it wans to be in Loudoun. This is too easy, why do they complicate it so much

FCV doesn't have the players to become ECNL. Not many boys teams and the girls program is losing what remainder of players they have left. Dragging the process of offering players spots is hurting them in retaining players. My friend told me that the turnout for the tryouts in recent days was reduced down to about half.