Anonymous wrote:The mate at BRYC sees the writing on the wall. Unless there is a complete over haul on the boys side. A merger is a last ditch effort to save himself and his lack luster staff. The people over at the spirit have been putting feelers out on behalf of BRYC to different people about leadership at the club.

With ODSL kaput, BRYC elite now has an opportunity to fully control the pathway to travel under the BRYC brand and finally getting access to the full player pool that rec generates. There are multiple boys' bridge teams now, and most of them have players playing up and many girls bridge teams have similar set-ups. If they could truly consolidate the player pool at age levels they could overnight strengthen the Elite teams by augmenting the best players in the ECNL pool with the best of those two-dozen or so players at each age level scattered across the U14-U16 bridge teams.

But as always it will come down to money.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no need to announce anything now since it’s not a part of the Spring season. Maybe announce in May or June when tryouts gear back up.

You do realize that it's tryout season now (for fall).....

No it's not, not for the majority of the BRYC travel teams. Many are trying to fill rosters now for Spring but some are turning away players until they conduct tryouts for the next cycle in May/June because they are full.

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun and a few other clubs may be panicking now, I know some families wanted to move to FCV. What stoped them? The uncertainty of the GAL. They saw direct access to NT recruitment via the STJ/FCV.

Lol. You parents...I tell ya.

Your kids isn’t getting national team recruitment unless she is national team material. I don’t care where they play. And FCV doesn’t have a lock on this. They historically had a lock of being a destination club which allowed the best to flow their way. It’s not hard to look good when the best players flock your way.

Loudoun and a few other clubs may be panicking now, I know some families wanted to move to FCV. What stoped them? The uncertainty of the GAL. They saw direct access to NT recruitment via the STJ/FCV.

I don't see what's in it for bryc. If the kids want to leave for ecnl, they can leave. Merging clubs does not guarantee that any of the kids stay with the merged team. Perhaps TSJ can sell more memberships to people who live at least in the same county as the facility?

The mate at BRYC sees the writing on the wall. Unless there is a complete over haul on the boys side. A merger is a last ditch effort to save himself and his lack luster staff. The people over at the spirit have been putting feelers out on behalf of BRYC to different people about leadership at the club.

Getting in bed with St. James is a mistake-and with the powers that be at FCV too. Hopefully BRYC will be smarter than this. It would only benefit FCV and their players.

Anonymous wrote:This is completely untrue. Not even kinda true. FCV would love it because they are banished from ECNl but there is nothing but drama in this for BRYC.

It would be a smart move by BRYC

This is completely untrue. Not even kinda true. FCV would love it because they are banished from ECNl but there is nothing but drama in this for BRYC.

Anonymous wrote:And what Loudoun families will drive to Robison for practice?

Many would.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no need to announce anything now since it’s not a part of the Spring season. Maybe announce in May or June when tryouts gear back up.

You do realize that it's tryout season now (for fall).....

This would be a great long term move for both clubs. It would benefit The St. James because it's location. Both clubs have dwindling player pools and not enough coaches. Would limit dilution and give the strong players currently at FCV a pathway to play in ECNL. Would be a tough merger for established older teams because there are good players on both and no one team would fully displace another, but they would have strong B teams too for ECNL regional league or GA.

Anonymous wrote:There is no need to announce anything now since it’s not a part of the Spring season. Maybe announce in May or June when tryouts gear back up.

You do realize that it's tryout season now (for fall).....

There is no need to announce anything now since it’s not a part of the Spring season. Maybe announce in May or June when tryouts gear back up.

Nothing has been said to the parents or players about this at either FCV or BRYC. It seems very farfetched-FCV is owned by the St. James which is for profit while BRYC is a nonprofit under the larger umbrella of BRYC sports clubs. Perhaps this is an unofficial merger of player pools and coaches? Either way, if happening it has not been made official by the two clubs.

Anonymous wrote:Hunger games between bryc and fcv top teams?

We could the merged team Valor. Wait that is taken already.