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Anonymous wrote:Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

I kind of find it hard to believe that they’d have trouble completing their MLSNext rosters. Why do you think that is? I imagine so many players are trying out to get on those teams at least at U13 when MLSNext starts. I mean that’s how Bethesda stays at the top of the competition in the area, just by sheer number of players who want to play at Bethesda.

Its been awhile since Bethesda was "top of the competition" sadly, at least on the boys side. The directors and the board are rather lazy (been around since the 80's but they dont have enough field space for some of their MLSNext teams to practice more than twice a week, my younger sons EDP team has done a film review session that none of the MLSNext teams do, etc) and are neither soccer nor business people. Its a failing model propped up by a lack of serious competition. If Potomac would get themselves a complex they would lap Bethesda. There are more unhappy families than happy ones here.

If your unhappy, wouldn’t other MLSNext teams welcome MLSNext players from Bethesda? That’s crazy though that an MLSNext team would lack field space to practice - isn’t it required that they practice at least 4 times a week?

There is nothing close enough to us to switch. Potomac or Paragon would be the only other decent clubs to go to and the levels just aren't high enough there yet.

Potomac isn’t high enough yet, but getting ECNL this year has brought a lot of talent their way. They’re on the right track.

Did they get higher level coaches than they had before or did they just join a new league?

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Anonymous wrote:Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

I kind of find it hard to believe that they’d have trouble completing their MLSNext rosters. Why do you think that is? I imagine so many players are trying out to get on those teams at least at U13 when MLSNext starts. I mean that’s how Bethesda stays at the top of the competition in the area, just by sheer number of players who want to play at Bethesda.

Its been awhile since Bethesda was "top of the competition" sadly, at least on the boys side. The directors and the board are rather lazy (been around since the 80's but they dont have enough field space for some of their MLSNext teams to practice more than twice a week, my younger sons EDP team has done a film review session that none of the MLSNext teams do, etc) and are neither soccer nor business people. Its a failing model propped up by a lack of serious competition. If Potomac would get themselves a complex they would lap Bethesda. There are more unhappy families than happy ones here.

If your unhappy, wouldn’t other MLSNext teams welcome MLSNext players from Bethesda? That’s crazy though that an MLSNext team would lack field space to practice - isn’t it required that they practice at least 4 times a week?

There is nothing close enough to us to switch. Potomac or Paragon would be the only other decent clubs to go to and the levels just aren't high enough there yet.

Potomac isn’t high enough yet, but getting ECNL this year has brought a lot of talent their way. They’re on the right track.