Anonymous wrote:A clear example of groups who RUIN the sport.
BSC are a group of thieves!
Trump would be proud.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I don't know what the rationale was for including so many teams but development was not a major part of the discussion.
Tournaments have nothing to do with development. They are huge fundraising events for the hosting clubs. That's it. The motivation to provide a good experience is only because it's a competitive market. With the sheer number of tournaments being offered now, teams have many options. But it is all about making money, and there's nothing wrong with that. The clubs are non-profits, so after paying the operating expenses (including sometimes professional tournament directors), they have to pour that $$ back into the clubs.
Where does it go? Some goes for training and equipment, which offsets costs for the players. A lot of it also goes into field improvement, including providing funding for more turf fields, many of which have been paid for by public-private partnerships between soccer clubs and local governments.
It would take a lot of bake sales and car washes to come close to the amount of money that can be raised from a tournament with hundreds of teams playing $900-1200 each.
Anonymous wrote:
I don't know what the rationale was for including so many teams but development was not a major part of the discussion.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:For younger ages stick with the local VA tournaments who tend to do a nice job even if they don't have the same name cache as a tournament (i.e. Arlington, McLean etc).
They operate on nice fields (many turf, and/or maintained grass), and the younger crowd is the primary focus vs. getting gross fields that they can't put older kids on.
I will have to ask our coach to consider playing in these VA tournaments instead of the pathetic BSC tournament. The only thing that’s “premier” for the BSC tournament is in the name.
There's no "instead of". Both of those are spring tournaments.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The premiere girls lacrosse tournaments have been cancelled in all or part the past three weeks, each was sponsored by a different entity and involved a large number of out of state teams, and college coaches. Bethesda soccer may be horrible, but the weather has caused havoc to more than just their tournament this month.
But you said it yourself...those tournaments were cancelled.
If I was a local, I’d rather play as much as possible, even if it’s a day or two.
If I’m from out of town, I’d rather the Tournament was cancelled.
They should think long and hard about what to do this coming weekend if the forcast is correct.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wags
WAGS doesn’t exist anymore.
Bethesda owns rights to numerous turf fields at high schools for practices. It’s strange that they couldn’t book any of those fields for tournament play. Most high school sports are over now for the season?
Money money money moneeeyyyty! Money!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wags
WAGS doesn’t exist anymore.
Bethesda owns rights to numerous turf fields at high schools for practices. It’s strange that they couldn’t book any of those fields for tournament play. Most high school sports are over now for the season?
Money money money moneeeyyyty! Money!
Anonymous wrote:A clear example of groups who RUIN the sport.
BSC are a group of thieves!
Trump would be proud.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:For younger ages stick with the local VA tournaments who tend to do a nice job even if they don't have the same name cache as a tournament (i.e. Arlington, McLean etc).
They operate on nice fields (many turf, and/or maintained grass), and the younger crowd is the primary focus vs. getting gross fields that they can't put older kids on.
I will have to ask our coach to consider playing in these VA tournaments instead of the pathetic BSC tournament. The only thing that’s “premier” for the BSC tournament is in the name.
Anonymous wrote:For younger ages stick with the local VA tournaments who tend to do a nice job even if they don't have the same name cache as a tournament (i.e. Arlington, McLean etc).
They operate on nice fields (many turf, and/or maintained grass), and the younger crowd is the primary focus vs. getting gross fields that they can't put older kids on.