Anonymous
05/07/2025 13:27
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Anonymous wrote:Newbie question about how to actually compare teams. Daughter will be U9 in fall and is doing tryouts. NCSL doesn't put the Fall 2024 standings/results on website. Is there anywhere I can see this? Can someone paste it in if you have it? I just don't want to put my daughter on a program that lost every single game last fall. Any leads appreciated.
Bad path to start down at this age. Development programs should be developing players (along with whatever outside development a family chooses to undertake). Playing to win is important, but winning at the expense of development is what brings toxicity to these clubs. Talking with one of our old coaches who is going through tryouts now, our club has a U11 first team, coach, and development director so focused on winning that they have created a brittle team and failed to develop the two teams underneath them. They're going to have tough times when they reach the higher age groups.
Instead, try to get a sense of how teams and players in the club evolve and mature from U9 to U14. Anyway, my 2 cents from a parent with a kid at U16.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 13:25
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
There is an app called Soccer Rankings that aggregates scores from publicly available data
Anonymous
05/07/2025 13:20
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Anonymous wrote:Newbie question about how to actually compare teams. Daughter will be U9 in fall and is doing tryouts. NCSL doesn't put the Fall 2024 standings/results on website. Is there anywhere I can see this? Can someone paste it in if you have it? I just don't want to put my daughter on a program that lost every single game last fall. Any leads appreciated.
You need to look at the coach not the results. If you are curious on soccer rankings there are apps and websites that will give tournament and some league data. 1st team lower age groups at Bethesda historically do well.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 13:13
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Bethesda U9 boys age group is extremely talented at the top. Obviously, very young and hard to say how they will develop. But an impressive group.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 12:51
Subject: Re:Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
NCSL intentionally does not post scores for U9 and U10, they start at U11. I think the reason is to avoid focusing on the result as opposed to development and the experience.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 12:47
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Parents looking for scores of games at the U8 level is mind blowing. WOW
Anonymous
05/07/2025 12:43
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Anonymous wrote:Question about boys tryouts last month -- did they waitlist everyone who did not receive an offer, or were some boys actually told that there was no spot for them?
I would assume that the everyone not offered a spot is put on the waitlist and then as players decline offers the club will pull people from the waitlist. I would also assume the waitlist is for the weakest team in the age group. Playing for the weakest team at BSC is typically not a great experience (young or inexperienced coaches, fewer tournaments, poor level of play, less focus from the management) and no better than a rec team.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 11:29
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Anonymous wrote:
Transforming Maryland Youth Soccer
email: mdclubsoccer@protonmail.com
A new organization for Maryland parents of current and/or former youth soccer players and coaches who are fed up with the win-at-all-costs, warm body for cold cash landscape in Maryland. We can and need to transform the club environment in Maryland. It is time to wage war against the educational malpractice that has failed to develop players (the scoreboard and trophy case are the wrong metrics to measure the competence of your child's coach/club/DOC/owner), the exorbitant salaries being paid to members of the Maryland club soccer mafia infrastructure and the ridiculous fees being charged.
Send me your stories and concerns. I will keep you posted on an upcoming community open house that will serve as a forum for parents and coaches to be heard, and an opportunity to develop Next Steps to make progress. The Beautiful Game and the next generation of Maryland youth players needs YOU! We can make an impact....join our group to help expose the unethical standards and behavior of clubs and to help create a model club that will offer an affordable "player development first" alternative to the Big Box offenders.
Please forward this message to others...
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Maybe create a registered account with DCUM so we know you are legit. You are spamming this forum otherwise. I have no problem with what you are trying to do but being anonymous with a Proton email is just shady.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 11:08
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Definitely a lot of electric car drivers in this post
Anonymous
05/07/2025 10:58
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Transforming Maryland Youth Soccer
email: mdclubsoccer@protonmail.com
A new organization for Maryland parents of current and/or former youth soccer players and coaches who are fed up with the win-at-all-costs, warm body for cold cash landscape in Maryland. We can and need to transform the club environment in Maryland. It is time to wage war against the educational malpractice that has failed to develop players (the scoreboard and trophy case are the wrong metrics to measure the competence of your child's coach/club/DOC/owner), the exorbitant salaries being paid to members of the Maryland club soccer mafia infrastructure and the ridiculous fees being charged.
Send me your stories and concerns. I will keep you posted on an upcoming community open house that will serve as a forum for parents and coaches to be heard, and an opportunity to develop Next Steps to make progress. The Beautiful Game and the next generation of Maryland youth players needs YOU! We can make an impact....join our group to help expose the unethical standards and behavior of clubs and to help create a model club that will offer an affordable "player development first" alternative to the Big Box offenders.
Please forward this message to others...
mdclubsoccer@protonmail.com
Anonymous
05/07/2025 10:38
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:08s: making playoffs
10s: making playoffs
11s: making playoffs
Not too bad
Let's give all of the information. All those teams made playoffs last year as well.
12s/6th
11s/1st and 1st last year?
10s/4th and will likely lose to Penn Fusion, could drop to 5th but are in playoffs because of winning NA Cup.
09s/10th and will likely lose to Penn Fusion. (1-7-2)
08s/3rd and will likely lose to Penn Fusion, Delco game results removed due to parent, players, and coaches actions on both sides, a loss to Pipeline will knock them out of playoffs since Pipeline likely to win over Ukies.
07-06s/5th which is an improvement.
The 11s are impressive and better than than the 10s and 09s. That is where Bethesda gained the most this year.
11's have gotten better every year so next year will be the true test. They said the same things about how amazing the 10s were a year ago too. That team at least has post season success to back up the claims. 5th place this year is not progress though. So time will tell what happens with the 11s. Every bethesda team drops off in HS for some reason. Is is the toxic coaching wearing thin? Pressures of recruitment? Other interests, sports, boys, theatre? Is i the constat inter team player and parent dramas? Is it the lack of field availability? Theire monopoly is losing its foothold with the GA entrants being added in MoCo. Its a slow decline but still a decline.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 10:33
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
PG, Carroll, and even Calvert Counties too. Don't forget the girls from Fairfax, Arlington, and sometimes even Loudoun counties coming from VA too. Monopolies work!
Anonymous
05/07/2025 10:09
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Anonymous wrote:Genuine question here, and I can't wait for the sarcasm.
The Bethesda u9 boys (B) team embarrassed our (A) team. What is BSC doing differently than other clubs at that age? Do they train 7 days a week or something?
Monopoly on a highly populated region, also drawing some from Howard and Frederick County.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 10:07
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Anonymous wrote:08s: making playoffs
10s: making playoffs
11s: making playoffs
Not too bad
Let's give all of the information. All those teams made playoffs last year as well.
12s/6th
11s/1st and 1st last year?
10s/4th and will likely lose to Penn Fusion, could drop to 5th but are in playoffs because of winning NA Cup.
09s/10th and will likely lose to Penn Fusion. (1-7-2)
08s/3rd and will likely lose to Penn Fusion, Delco game results removed due to parent, players, and coaches actions on both sides, a loss to Pipeline will knock them out of playoffs since Pipeline likely to win over Ukies.
07-06s/5th which is an improvement.
The 11s are impressive and better than than the 10s and 09s. That is where Bethesda gained the most this year.
Anonymous
05/07/2025 09:57
Subject: Bethesda Soccer On Way Down
Newbie question about how to actually compare teams. Daughter will be U9 in fall and is doing tryouts. NCSL doesn't put the Fall 2024 standings/results on website. Is there anywhere I can see this? Can someone paste it in if you have it? I just don't want to put my daughter on a program that lost every single game last fall. Any leads appreciated.