four days a week is a lot. i would be worried about overuse injuries.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares, not having a club in Fairfax Co. would be financially irresponsible on behalf of ECNL. More likely adding one in Loudoun when Arlington goes GA in a year and all those girls try to latch on at FVU. FVU is very healthy and positioned for a steady rise to creating a monopoly in nova necessary to compete nationally

Financially irresponsible...Do you mean ECNL would lose too much money by kicking out a club from ECNL? If your primary concern is the financial aspect, then you are essentially are de-prioritizing standards and performance over slots in ECNL.

I think if Arlington goes GA next year, that would signal the tipping point in this region for ECNL. But yes, there will still be some Arlington families of female players who would transfer to the remaining ECNL clubs... but for how long? And if FVU and Arlington do not offer ECNL, there would only be so many who would chase down slots at VDA or VSA.

But again, I don't think there is any truth to the probation rumor.

If you think this is about anything but money than...

4x week is a value thing for you or is practicing 4x necessary for team dynamics, or is it something else?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see how FVU is positioning themselves to rise compared to the other options. Again, if your DC is looking to compete on a first team at a national level, why would you pay the same amount of money as competing clubs and get less? Less exposure, and less training sessions compared to VDA, Arlington, NVA, etc.

Don't understand why they train 3x week while all others are training 4x week, room for improvement there

Don't most of these teams do 3x per week and 1 additional of strength and conditioning to make it 4 training days?

Most teams at that level are on the field 4x a week at least. The only club that I've seen advertise strength and conditioning as their 4th is SYC but it's an additional cost per session.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see how FVU is positioning themselves to rise compared to the other options. Again, if your DC is looking to compete on a first team at a national level, why would you pay the same amount of money as competing clubs and get less? Less exposure, and less training sessions compared to VDA, Arlington, NVA, etc.

Don't understand why they train 3x week while all others are training 4x week, room for improvement there

NVA is GA not relevant in the convo anymore. Arlington has one good team so not that relevant either. Is FVU signifincantly worse than VDA/ Competitvely yes, with one age group exception. Being #2 is not bad especailly if Arlington goes boom

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see how FVU is positioning themselves to rise compared to the other options. Again, if your DC is looking to compete on a first team at a national level, why would you pay the same amount of money as competing clubs and get less? Less exposure, and less training sessions compared to VDA, Arlington, NVA, etc.

Don't understand why they train 3x week while all others are training 4x week, room for improvement there

Don't most of these teams do 3x per week and 1 additional of strength and conditioning to make it 4 training days?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see how FVU is positioning themselves to rise compared to the other options. Again, if your DC is looking to compete on a first team at a national level, why would you pay the same amount of money as competing clubs and get less? Less exposure, and less training sessions compared to VDA, Arlington, NVA, etc.

Don't understand why they train 3x week while all others are training 4x week, room for improvement there

Field space issues is my guess.

Anonymous wrote:I don't see how FVU is positioning themselves to rise compared to the other options. Again, if your DC is looking to compete on a first team at a national level, why would you pay the same amount of money as competing clubs and get less? Less exposure, and less training sessions compared to VDA, Arlington, NVA, etc.

Don't understand why they train 3x week while all others are training 4x week, room for improvement there

I don't see how FVU is positioning themselves to rise compared to the other options. Again, if your DC is looking to compete on a first team at a national level, why would you pay the same amount of money as competing clubs and get less? Less exposure, and less training sessions compared to VDA, Arlington, NVA, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Who cares, not having a club in Fairfax Co. would be financially irresponsible on behalf of ECNL. More likely adding one in Loudoun when Arlington goes GA in a year and all those girls try to latch on at FVU. FVU is very healthy and positioned for a steady rise to creating a monopoly in nova necessary to compete nationally

Financially irresponsible...Do you mean ECNL would lose too much money by kicking out a club from ECNL? If your primary concern is the financial aspect, then you are essentially are de-prioritizing standards and performance over slots in ECNL.

I think if Arlington goes GA next year, that would signal the tipping point in this region for ECNL. But yes, there will still be some Arlington families of female players who would transfer to the remaining ECNL clubs... but for how long? And if FVU and Arlington do not offer ECNL, there would only be so many who would chase down slots at VDA or VSA.

But again, I don't think there is any truth to the probation rumor.

Who cares, not having a club in Fairfax Co. would be financially irresponsible on behalf of ECNL. More likely adding one in Loudoun when Arlington goes GA in a year and all those girls try to latch on at FVU. FVU is very healthy and positioned for a steady rise to creating a monopoly in nova necessary to compete nationally

Does anyone have any actual proof or a direct source FVU is on probation?

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Anonymous wrote:People have made comments since tryouts began about how FVU coaches can't develop, can't identify and can't attract talent. They are retaining all the current players so how can they expect to pull the results out of the trash can? It's going to be another horrible year.

The lost a ton of talent at tryouts, and that was after losing unhappy players mid-season. The club has no real leadership, just a bunch of egomaniacal coaches who prioritize kick and run over development, retention, actual coaching or soccer IQ. And CW is old and not at all what he used to be. If they want to compete, changes need to be made at the top. That won’t happen.

No competitive team is developing anyone so put that notion aside but the kick and run is just not true about FVU. Try some other critique that can actually stick.

I think its a disgruntled MYS coach who keeps posting these things.

Anonymous wrote:People have made comments since tryouts began about how FVU coaches can't develop, can't identify and can't attract talent. They are retaining all the current players so how can they expect to pull the results out of the trash can? It's going to be another horrible year.

The lost a ton of talent at tryouts, and that was after losing unhappy players mid-season. The club has no real leadership, just a bunch of egomaniacal coaches who prioritize kick and run over development, retention, actual coaching or soccer IQ. And CW is old and not at all what he used to be. If they want to compete, changes need to be made at the top. That won’t happen.