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Anonymous wrote:Love this idea, come on NCSL make it happen!

+1 on just go ask travel team coach for a friendly if your team has record to support game being worth it for both the rec and travel players otherwise most rec parents would want to drive any distance for the “opportunity” to get beat 27-0?

Anonymous wrote:Love this idea, come on NCSL make it happen!

Anonymous wrote:Believe me, the top rec team in any division that finishes first in the league will absolutely thrash the bottom teams in the bottom division of travel

Anonymous wrote:If you think low level NCSL parents are bad imagine the hysteria coming from the sidelines when those rec parents think there is a chance their DC has a chance to beat a real travel team! Those types that cheer like crazy when someone boots it or their team finally dribbles onto the offensive half.

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Anonymous wrote:Make Rec the Bottom Division and the winners can get promoted into the travel divisions if they want. Travel division teams can then get further demoted into the 6th tier of NCSL, the rec divisions!

Good luck finding parents willing to pay $3k for the chance to be bumped to a rec league! Here’s a crazy idea, pay for travel if you want travel. Pay for rec if you want rec.

Promotion and Relegation is a normal part of soccer globally. Kinda makes those bottom level travel coaches perform to justify the expense right!? How brilliant would that be? I mean this is the same argument we don't have actual promotion and relegation between leagues here in the US. 'We paid to be an MLS team, so no, we will never play a lower level team." This stunts the growth of US soccer completely.

If NCSL is managing rec and travel, this could be done easily! Also, rec kids could get scouted and join travel clubs as most travel teams have funding for low income players. Most rec families don't even know this.

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Anonymous wrote:Make Rec the Bottom Division and the winners can get promoted into the travel divisions if they want. Travel division teams can then get further demoted into the 6th tier of NCSL, the rec divisions!

Good luck finding parents willing to pay $3k for the chance to be bumped to a rec league! Here’s a crazy idea, pay for travel if you want travel. Pay for rec if you want rec.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you are in rec

Anonymous wrote:Make Rec the Bottom Division and the winners can get promoted into the travel divisions if they want. Travel division teams can then get further demoted into the 6th tier of NCSL, the rec divisions!

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Anonymous wrote:Make Rec the Bottom Division and the winners can get promoted into the travel divisions if they want. Travel division teams can then get further demoted into the 6th tier of NCSL, the rec divisions!

I really don’t mean this in a condescending or negative way, so don’t take it as that at all since it has nothing to do with anyone other than my mom.

But just to add insight on a possible blind spot, I was a top 2 player on my rec team, top 5-10ish in the league. We won the league 4 seasons in a row, So this would be my team.

My mom bounced checks for the $55 participation fee ($110 for me and my brother), and my coach just started paying it. My grandparents bought our jerseys. I look back on it all as fun, a good time, but I specifically remember things getting weird for those instances.

Anyways, with that said, some people play rec for reasons other than their talent. This idea would potentially cause way more problems than it would solve.

You’d be either taking my rec team minus me and my brother. Which it’s still a good team but basically a different team at that point, I’m not sure the team would have even preferred that over staying together in rec.

And to top off a less fun travel than rec experience for the team, Now my brother and I wouldn’t have any team to play on. So this is kind of just disrupting the one good thing the peasant kids had figured out. (Being half sarcastic for effect but you get it)

And I know some of you will think of offering paying our way? I appreciate it but I don’t want your money, not because I’m better than that but because you had to exchange your time, you had to exchange your life to get the money. That’s your money. Also I don’t know you and you don’t know me, that would be weird. I got unideal gifts as a kid, I’d probably have been mad if I found out someone paid $2000 for us to play tbh. Back then I’d have much rather had something else.

Again, definitely dont feel sorry or guilt or any type of blame. This isn’t a hate post. It was simply a situation I thought I could offer perspective on that wasn’t being considered. Hope that helps.

Getting promoted would not change the rec team status. It wouldn't even change the fee structure. You could still play on the same team, but now you could get promoted and play other teams for the same price. Except for longer drives to some of the games. #respect for the humble roots player.

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Anonymous wrote:Make Rec the Bottom Division and the winners can get promoted into the travel divisions if they want. Travel division teams can then get further demoted into the 6th tier of NCSL, the rec divisions!

I really don’t mean this in a condescending or negative way, so don’t take it as that at all since it has nothing to do with anyone other than my mom.

But just to add insight on a possible blind spot, I was a top 2 player on my rec team, top 5-10ish in the league. We won the league 4 seasons in a row, So this would be my team.

My mom bounced checks for the $55 participation fee ($110 for me and my brother), and my coach just started paying it. My grandparents bought our jerseys. I look back on it all as fun, a good time, but I specifically remember things getting weird for those instances.

Anyways, with that said, some people play rec for reasons other than their talent. This idea would potentially cause way more problems than it would solve.

You’d be either taking my rec team minus me and my brother. Which it’s still a good team but basically a different team at that point, I’m not sure the team would have even preferred that over staying together in rec.

And to top off a less fun travel than rec experience for the team, Now my brother and I wouldn’t have any team to play on. So this is kind of just disrupting the one good thing the peasant kids had figured out. (Being half sarcastic for effect but you get it)

And I know some of you will think of offering paying our way? I appreciate it but I don’t want your money, not because I’m better than that but because you had to exchange your time, you had to exchange your life to get the money. That’s your money. Also I don’t know you and you don’t know me, that would be weird. I got unideal gifts as a kid, I’d probably have been mad if I found out someone paid $2000 for us to play tbh. Back then I’d have much rather had something else.

Again, definitely dont feel sorry or guilt or any type of blame. This isn’t a hate post. It was simply a situation I thought I could offer perspective on that wasn’t being considered. Hope that helps.