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Anonymous wrote:Another parent who cant wait to brag how their DD got offered to go to regional camp. Its ODP back in the day I remember it was hard just to make districts let alone State squad. Now all you have to do is sign up and bam! your in ODP. Let me ask you this

Is the talent pool good? Did top players from top teams even attempt to sign up for ODP at your age? Im guessing your kid is 2008? we have someone on the team now who made State and the parents will not stop bragging but everyone doesnt want to tell them how terrible ODP is now.

All I can tell you is they have been making a lot of changes this year to make ODP more relevant. The national level teams, U14 and up are fully funded and they have been playing against DA teams. They won every game last month at the ntc.

By national teams, I presume you mean the ODP national camp teams. What's funny about ODP is that the ODP national camps don't even feed into the YNT's, except unless a player happens to be scouted at one of these. It's nice that they're funding this, but they would really need to fund it at the state and regional levels to start to attract back the top talent. Even then, I don't see why DA players will be attracted to it, because they already have a pathway to YNT's. ODP is like the pathway for red headed step children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another parent who cant wait to brag how their DD got offered to go to regional camp. Its ODP back in the day I remember it was hard just to make districts let alone State squad. Now all you have to do is sign up and bam! your in ODP. Let me ask you this

Is the talent pool good? Did top players from top teams even attempt to sign up for ODP at your age? Im guessing your kid is 2008? we have someone on the team now who made State and the parents will not stop bragging but everyone doesnt want to tell them how terrible ODP is now.

All I can tell you is they have been making a lot of changes this year to make ODP more relevant. The national level teams, U14 and up are fully funded and they have been playing against DA teams. They won every game last month at the ntc.

Good to know! Thank you for sharing that info!

Anonymous wrote:Another parent who cant wait to brag how their DD got offered to go to regional camp. Its ODP back in the day I remember it was hard just to make districts let alone State squad. Now all you have to do is sign up and bam! your in ODP. Let me ask you this

Is the talent pool good? Did top players from top teams even attempt to sign up for ODP at your age? Im guessing your kid is 2008? we have someone on the team now who made State and the parents will not stop bragging but everyone doesnt want to tell them how terrible ODP is now.

All I can tell you is they have been making a lot of changes this year to make ODP more relevant. The national level teams, U14 and up are fully funded and they have been playing against DA teams. They won every game last month at the ntc.

Name any single organization where money is involved that there isn’t some level of corruption. Please just stop.

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Anonymous wrote:ODP is the worst combination of incompetence and corruption. But yeah, congrats on your DD making the regional team

Let’s go back to learning what you obviously didn’t in kindergarten: If you don’t have anything nice to say, you don’t need to say it at all.

Really? So more families can be fooled into wasting their time and money? No thanks, sis. I’ll say something. More people should.

DA's for anything below U14 is a money grab as well.

Anonymous wrote:Another parent who cant wait to brag how their DD got offered to go to regional camp. Its ODP back in the day I remember it was hard just to make districts let alone State squad. Now all you have to do is sign up and bam! your in ODP. Let me ask you this

Is the talent pool good? Did top players from top teams even attempt to sign up for ODP at your age? Im guessing your kid is 2008? we have someone on the team now who made State and the parents will not stop bragging but everyone doesnt want to tell them how terrible ODP is now.

They cut kids at my DD's age group for states. The talent pool on her state team is good. Great showing against other states at the NC and Va Friendlies. Just be because some kids don't play ECNL/DA doesn't mean they aren't talented enough do so- there are other reasons. And to head off your next comment- just because they had good showings doesn't mean the other state teams were sub par either.

As for the corruption and incompetence post, well you can read any string of posts about DA teams, ECNL teams and their coaches and TDs, etc on this forum and hear the same thing. Sounds like everyone is in the same boat then!

No one asked for your opinion and I don’t care What you think. It’s been a good experience for us so far and that’s all that matters to me.

It's a money grab and the top players are no longer in ODP.

Anonymous wrote:ODP is the worst combination of incompetence and corruption. But yeah, congrats on your DD making the regional team

Let’s go back to learning what you obviously didn’t in kindergarten: If you don’t have anything nice to say, you don’t need to say it at all.

ODP is the worst combination of incompetence and corruption. But yeah, congrats on your DD making the regional team

Anonymous wrote:Another parent who cant wait to brag how their DD got offered to go to regional camp. Its ODP back in the day I remember it was hard just to make districts let alone State squad. Now all you have to do is sign up and bam! your in ODP. Let me ask you this

Is the talent pool good? Did top players from top teams even attempt to sign up for ODP at your age? Im guessing your kid is 2008? we have someone on the team now who made State and the parents will not stop bragging but everyone doesnt want to tell them how terrible ODP is now.

I can’t speak for the other ages, but the VA 2008 girls State team are really good IMHO. The coaching has been excellent, and DD loves it. If you want to see who made it from what clubs, the rosters are all posted online as I’m sure you know.

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Anonymous wrote:How and when are regional camp offers issued? How does one get invited? Thank you

ODP? UGH.

Yeah, my kid wasn't good enough either. I feel yah. Hopefully your young'n is good at basketball, though?

Another parent who cant wait to brag how their DD got offered to go to regional camp. Its ODP back in the day I remember it was hard just to make districts let alone State squad. Now all you have to do is sign up and bam! your in ODP. Let me ask you this

Is the talent pool good? Did top players from top teams even attempt to sign up for ODP at your age? Im guessing your kid is 2008? we have someone on the team now who made State and the parents will not stop bragging but everyone doesnt want to tell them how terrible ODP is now.

Rosters will be posted in early May, although if you’re talking about MD they’ve already been determined based on who you know or how many times you tag them on social media.