Anonymous wrote:college sports = sharing locker rooms, team travel by bus or airplane, sharing rooms in hotels, sharing equipment, being in close proximity... etc etc.

This is totally different than youth soccer.

Take out the locker rooms and your description sounds a lot like a typical DA or ECNL team.

Anonymous wrote:I believe that the main worry of most colleges, universities, and conferences is legal risk. If they play and someone(s) gets seriously sick, then they will get sued. Why? Because they have a lot of money. Youth sports have no real money. They live on a shoestring, so someone suing them would be wasting their time. Hence youth sports clubs/leagues can take more risk and must take more risk to stay viable. Hence, unless governors take us back to phase 2 or 1, there will be fall travel sports.

No it’s because a college or university main mission is education. You can not close down the school to students(online course etc) but have the athletes on campus and playing sports. Travel soccer is only about playing soccer. They will try to play even if middle school and high schools are closed. If they roll back to phase 2 or phase 1 fields will be closed and travel will be shut down.

Anonymous wrote:I believe that the main worry of most colleges, universities, and conferences is legal risk. If they play and someone(s) gets seriously sick, then they will get sued. Why? Because they have a lot of money. Youth sports have no real money. They live on a shoestring, so someone suing them would be wasting their time. Hence youth sports clubs/leagues can take more risk and must take more risk to stay viable. Hence, unless governors take us back to phase 2 or 1, there will be fall travel sports.

If a kid gets sick, I can see the parents (or their lawyer) naming everyone in the lawsuit which includes State, County, City, League, Club and the venue (ie Soccerplex, etc.). Why would they just sue the club?

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta love all the whistling past the graveyard in here. The season’s cancelled already, you folks just don’t know it yet.

Let’s just be clear. You want us to lock down until a vaccine. Otherwise tell us when you think it is ok to play.

I’m not the PP but to answer your question, YES.

I believe that the main worry of most colleges, universities, and conferences is legal risk. If they play and someone(s) gets seriously sick, then they will get sued. Why? Because they have a lot of money. Youth sports have no real money. They live on a shoestring, so someone suing them would be wasting their time. Hence youth sports clubs/leagues can take more risk and must take more risk to stay viable. Hence, unless governors take us back to phase 2 or 1, there will be fall travel sports.

Anonymous wrote:Gotta love all the whistling past the graveyard in here. The season’s cancelled already, you folks just don’t know it yet.

Let’s just be clear. You want us to lock down until a vaccine. Otherwise tell us when you think it is ok to play.

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Anonymous wrote:how much of colleges postponing has to do with leagues not wanting to force schools to bring kids back on campus? I think parents separately driving to fields where less than 30 kids play on a field and then driving home separately is not the same level of risk as a coach filled with dozens of students and staff traveling to a stadium, having a game and then returning to drop the kids off at dorms

That makes sense. Could be. I have read that some local private high schools were considering allowing sports on as long as all participants provided their own transportation. No buses. Whether that will happen remains to be seen.

At a private high school generally all the kids have their own cars by 16, so this should be no issue. If my kid’s public instituted this rule my kid would’ve had to quit.

Anonymous wrote:7-12 schools? I think my daugheter’s team is three

Must be a rec team.

Gotta love all the whistling past the graveyard in here. The season’s cancelled already, you folks just don’t know it yet.

7-12 schools? I think my daugheter’s team is three

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Anonymous wrote:college sports = sharing locker rooms, team travel by bus or airplane, sharing rooms in hotels, sharing equipment, being in close proximity... etc etc.

This is totally different than youth soccer.

Youth travel soccer = players from 7-12 different schools on one team. Coach and assistant coach coaching 3 similar types teams. Traveling out of the area and the state to play other teams with similar make up, staying at hotels, dinning out, being in close proximity, etc etc.

Huh? Not for 95% of travel soccer players. You are either not a soccer parent or have an ulterior agenda. It’s hard to figure out which. Maybe both. These kids won’t be in school this fall anyway.

Anonymous wrote:college sports = sharing locker rooms, team travel by bus or airplane, sharing rooms in hotels, sharing equipment, being in close proximity... etc etc.

This is totally different than youth soccer.

Youth travel soccer = players from 7-12 different schools on one team. Coach and assistant coach coaching 3 similar types teams. Traveling out of the area and the state to play other teams with similar make up, staying at hotels, dinning out, being in close proximity, etc etc.

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Anonymous wrote:how much of colleges postponing has to do with leagues not wanting to force schools to bring kids back on campus? I think parents separately driving to fields where less than 30 kids play on a field and then driving home separately is not the same level of risk as a coach filled with dozens of students and staff traveling to a stadium, having a game and then returning to drop the kids off at dorms

Here is the thing. Most people can not go to work because their place of business is closed, reduced to essential employees or working at home- ie it is not safe. Now they are trying to open schools. Many school districts will stay closed and do DL- ie not safe. Colleges are doing DL and canceling fall sports- ie not safe. Some how youth travel sports will buck the trend and continue? Does not seem likely.

Let’s face it. Youth travel sports are flying under the radar right now. If you make a list of things you should not do during a pandemic, travel sports will check a lot of boxes in the no column.

Look at it the opposite way. There is a logic where you can say all these other things are restricted and closed, why shouldn't youth soccer be as well. After all it is hardly the most important thing.

Another way to look at it is we are restricting and blocking all these activities, what can we allow youth to do that provides some exercise, fun, socialization? Maybe allow some outdoor sports while following protocols to mitigate risk. The thing is we really don't know the extent of risk of COVID-19 transmission in youth soccer. We can make all official decisions in the direction of no risk is allowed. That approach made more sense early on but it is a marathon at this point. Youth are out there doing much riskier things whether they are allowed or not.

Anonymous wrote:college sports = sharing locker rooms, team travel by bus or airplane, sharing rooms in hotels, sharing equipment, being in close proximity... etc etc.

This is totally different than youth soccer.

Everyone has trouble reading. Not one person said they were the same.

college sports = sharing locker rooms, team travel by bus or airplane, sharing rooms in hotels, sharing equipment, being in close proximity... etc etc.

This is totally different than youth soccer.