Anonymous wrote:Timing of the rolling out and communicating the cost wasn't ideal. Would have been better if decision was made before the start of the season and roll the cost into the club fee. SYC did offer financial assistance for those interested to offset the costs.

The financial assistance is nice, but how many people actually were awarded it? Also, I don't want my DS to loose a day of field training. As, an additional training, YES, we're fine going for 3 or 4 days of field practice and 1 day of EDGE. But we didn't get that option.

Timing of the rolling out and communicating the cost wasn't ideal. Would have been better if decision was made before the start of the season and roll the cost into the club fee. SYC did offer financial assistance for those interested to offset the costs.

Wait!.........Are you saying SYC is led by a management group whose main concern is to make as much money as possible from their travel team parents? That they did a "bait and switch" on their contract with parents?

Well welcome to the world of SYC Travel soccer. A few years ago, SYC did a very similar thing when they were given MLS Next after tryouts had already been held for the next season and payments were already received by SYC. Rather than just give the MLS Next to the top team of players, they decided to reopen tryouts and dropped kids from the promised top "blue" team. How did they get around this from a contractual standpoint? They called their top team MLS Next and the second team was renamed the "blue" team. They now call this second-tier team MLSNextII.

The next year SYC did it again, when they "partnered" with McLean and sent half of each MLSNext team to McLean ECNL to form Virginia Union, but SYC still collected the funds from the player's parents. These parents had paid to play on the MLSNext team, but they were sold on more field time for their players by playing on an ECNL team. Very few players that moved from SYC that first year were left after 1 year of the Virginia Union partnership.

Now, SYC has done it again. They have sold EDGE as an extra training session, that parents are paying for, when in fact it is a replacement for field time. Now the fields are open for additional teams in the future, and more parents can empty their bank account for the sake of increasing SYC management salaries.

And I'm sure once the dust has settled from EDGE, SYC will have some new "bait-and-switch" to collect more money from the parents. Maybe they will charge extra if you want a coach to show up to practice. Or maybe they will require all players to have the same set of cleats so they can get a kickback from Nike or Adidas. Or maybe they will have teams bid on field space for practice, so the teams that bid the most get the largest practice field space/and those teams that bid the least get to practice in the parking lot.

I think GA is worse. They got dropped to 2 practices and now paying for a 3rd EDGE.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone complaining? Are they really expecting free services? Other clubs just roll this into their yearly fee, yet here people are acting like it’s a scandal because it’s listed separately.

Honestly, it’s not a big deal. Injury prevention is essential, film review sessions are extremely valuable, and this is far more productive than having players do rondos four times per week. Complaining about this just doesn’t make sense!!

It wasn’t just listed separately, it was added after an initial price was agreed to and paid.

These posts are clearly from SYC. They are missing the point as to why parents are upset. Nobody is arguing the EDGE program isn't beneficial for the players. The issue is the communication and how it is managed. They communicated it would be included in the team fees. Then they drop the GA practice down to 2 practices a week and replace the 3rd one with EDGE. Then they are charging each player for EDGE. This seems very dishonest and misleading. We signed up for SYC and pay our annual fee expecting a certain amount of practices a week. Nobody would be arguing if they communicated and added a 4th day for Edge and charged each player. However, they remove a practice that we are clearly paying for already and decide to double charge by adding EDGE. I don't know who in management thought this was going to be a great idea and thought families would be on board with this.

I don't know about GA but it's worse for the MLS Next parents. The MLS Next program is four practices per week (three up to U-14). We paid for those practices. Now SYC is taking one away and making us pay for another practice in its place.

We had 4 practices outside now it dropped to three.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone complaining? Are they really expecting free services? Other clubs just roll this into their yearly fee, yet here people are acting like it’s a scandal because it’s listed separately.

Honestly, it’s not a big deal. Injury prevention is essential, film review sessions are extremely valuable, and this is far more productive than having players do rondos four times per week. Complaining about this just doesn’t make sense!!

It wasn’t just listed separately, it was added after an initial price was agreed to and paid.

These posts are clearly from SYC. They are missing the point as to why parents are upset. Nobody is arguing the EDGE program isn't beneficial for the players. The issue is the communication and how it is managed. They communicated it would be included in the team fees. Then they drop the GA practice down to 2 practices a week and replace the 3rd one with EDGE. Then they are charging each player for EDGE. This seems very dishonest and misleading. We signed up for SYC and pay our annual fee expecting a certain amount of practices a week. Nobody would be arguing if they communicated and added a 4th day for Edge and charged each player. However, they remove a practice that we are clearly paying for already and decide to double charge by adding EDGE. I don't know who in management thought this was going to be a great idea and thought families would be on board with this.

It's almost like girls aren't a priority for this club (or any others, FWIW)

If this is true, I’d be pretty angry too. But someone upthread said it’s on top of 3 field practices, not in place of 1 of the field practices, so which is it? Does it differ by age group / team / gender?

90% of the negative comments are from 1 poster who's sole purpose in life appears to be to engage in dialogue with himself in an attempt to talk s#it about this club.

Every club has someone like this lurking on their boards.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone complaining? Are they really expecting free services? Other clubs just roll this into their yearly fee, yet here people are acting like it’s a scandal because it’s listed separately.

Honestly, it’s not a big deal. Injury prevention is essential, film review sessions are extremely valuable, and this is far more productive than having players do rondos four times per week. Complaining about this just doesn’t make sense!!

It wasn’t just listed separately, it was added after an initial price was agreed to and paid.

These posts are clearly from SYC. They are missing the point as to why parents are upset. Nobody is arguing the EDGE program isn't beneficial for the players. The issue is the communication and how it is managed. They communicated it would be included in the team fees. Then they drop the GA practice down to 2 practices a week and replace the 3rd one with EDGE. Then they are charging each player for EDGE. This seems very dishonest and misleading. We signed up for SYC and pay our annual fee expecting a certain amount of practices a week. Nobody would be arguing if they communicated and added a 4th day for Edge and charged each player. However, they remove a practice that we are clearly paying for already and decide to double charge by adding EDGE. I don't know who in management thought this was going to be a great idea and thought families would be on board with this.

It's almost like girls aren't a priority for this club (or any others, FWIW)

If this is true, I’d be pretty angry too. But someone upthread said it’s on top of 3 field practices, not in place of 1 of the field practices, so which is it? Does it differ by age group / team / gender?

90% of the negative comments are from 1 poster who's sole purpose in life appears to be to engage in dialogue with himself in an attempt to talk s#it about this club.

Every club has someone like this lurking on their boards.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone complaining? Are they really expecting free services? Other clubs just roll this into their yearly fee, yet here people are acting like it’s a scandal because it’s listed separately.

Honestly, it’s not a big deal. Injury prevention is essential, film review sessions are extremely valuable, and this is far more productive than having players do rondos four times per week. Complaining about this just doesn’t make sense!!

It wasn’t just listed separately, it was added after an initial price was agreed to and paid.

These posts are clearly from SYC. They are missing the point as to why parents are upset. Nobody is arguing the EDGE program isn't beneficial for the players. The issue is the communication and how it is managed. They communicated it would be included in the team fees. Then they drop the GA practice down to 2 practices a week and replace the 3rd one with EDGE. Then they are charging each player for EDGE. This seems very dishonest and misleading. We signed up for SYC and pay our annual fee expecting a certain amount of practices a week. Nobody would be arguing if they communicated and added a 4th day for Edge and charged each player. However, they remove a practice that we are clearly paying for already and decide to double charge by adding EDGE. I don't know who in management thought this was going to be a great idea and thought families would be on board with this.

It's almost like girls aren't a priority for this club (or any others, FWIW)

DD’s northern virginia club makes the girls the priority.

That's interesting... is that even allowed with the GA? My DD's club practices 4 times week.

Anonymous wrote:That may be the MLS side. GA got dropped to 2 practices a week.

If it makes GA families feel any better, lower level teams now pay more for 2x a week than the top team used to pay for 3.

That may be the MLS side. GA got dropped to 2 practices a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone complaining? Are they really expecting free services? Other clubs just roll this into their yearly fee, yet here people are acting like it’s a scandal because it’s listed separately.

Honestly, it’s not a big deal. Injury prevention is essential, film review sessions are extremely valuable, and this is far more productive than having players do rondos four times per week. Complaining about this just doesn’t make sense!!

It wasn’t just listed separately, it was added after an initial price was agreed to and paid.

These posts are clearly from SYC. They are missing the point as to why parents are upset. Nobody is arguing the EDGE program isn't beneficial for the players. The issue is the communication and how it is managed. They communicated it would be included in the team fees. Then they drop the GA practice down to 2 practices a week and replace the 3rd one with EDGE. Then they are charging each player for EDGE. This seems very dishonest and misleading. We signed up for SYC and pay our annual fee expecting a certain amount of practices a week. Nobody would be arguing if they communicated and added a 4th day for Edge and charged each player. However, they remove a practice that we are clearly paying for already and decide to double charge by adding EDGE. I don't know who in management thought this was going to be a great idea and thought families would be on board with this.

It's almost like girls aren't a priority for this club (or any others, FWIW)

If this is true, I’d be pretty angry too. But someone upthread said it’s on top of 3 field practices, not in place of 1 of the field practices, so which is it? Does it differ by age group / team / gender?

This was not handled very well...

2 field practices a week is a rec team schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone complaining? Are they really expecting free services? Other clubs just roll this into their yearly fee, yet here people are acting like it’s a scandal because it’s listed separately.

Honestly, it’s not a big deal. Injury prevention is essential, film review sessions are extremely valuable, and this is far more productive than having players do rondos four times per week. Complaining about this just doesn’t make sense!!

It wasn’t just listed separately, it was added after an initial price was agreed to and paid.

These posts are clearly from SYC. They are missing the point as to why parents are upset. Nobody is arguing the EDGE program isn't beneficial for the players. The issue is the communication and how it is managed. They communicated it would be included in the team fees. Then they drop the GA practice down to 2 practices a week and replace the 3rd one with EDGE. Then they are charging each player for EDGE. This seems very dishonest and misleading. We signed up for SYC and pay our annual fee expecting a certain amount of practices a week. Nobody would be arguing if they communicated and added a 4th day for Edge and charged each player. However, they remove a practice that we are clearly paying for already and decide to double charge by adding EDGE. I don't know who in management thought this was going to be a great idea and thought families would be on board with this.

It's almost like girls aren't a priority for this club (or any others, FWIW)