Lame Duck Cup Season is here!!!!!

timbuck

timbuck

It's that time of year again.
Coaches secretly making deals to leave. Possibly even taking some players (or an entire team) with them.
Players with one foot out the door.
Parents conspiring to try and move the "best" kids to a new club together.

Who will win Vegas Cup and State Cup? Who would rather have saved the money and stayed home since you are leaving the team as soon as you get knocked out? How many ECNL patches will we see at President's and Governors Cup?

As soon as Lame Duck Cup Season ends, then we will have the "New Tryouts for Impact Players Season" begin. A team gets blindsided by their ringer or goalkeeper leaving for greener pastures will now have to find (poach) someone to fill the role.

And then you'll have the "Oh Crap It's June and we only have 8 players Season" when your team isn't able to fill those 8 open spots and everyone scrambles to see where they can find a spot on a team.
 
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I actually had one coach recently comment to me that he didn't like "club hoppers" - meaning players who changed teams a lot. That was from a coach who had changed clubs about every two years. We'd still be with the same team since 2014 if not for the age-group change, then a new win-at-all-costs-at-U9 coach forced on us, then another coach leaving, along with most of a team leaving (good riddance anyway), then another coach leaving. This is the first year we left first. Heck if we are going to wait for state cup to look for a new team.
 
timbuck said:
It's that time of year again.
Coaches secretly making deals to leave. Possibly even taking some players (or an entire team) with them.
Players with one foot out the door.
Parents conspiring to try and move the "best" kids to a new club together.

Who will win Vegas Cup and State Cup? Who would rather have saved the money and stayed home since you are leaving the team as soon as you get knocked out? How many ECNL patches will we see at President's and Governors Cup?

As soon as Lame Duck Cup Season ends, then we will have the "New Tryouts for Impact Players Season" begin. A team gets blindsided by their ringer or goalkeeper leaving for greener pastures will now have to find (poach) someone to fill the role.

And then you'll have the "Oh Crap It's June and we only have 8 players Season" when your team isn't able to fill those 8 open spots and everyone scrambles to see where they can find a spot on a team.
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you forgot the older ages - who will decide to skip it all together due to Coachella, Prom and Graduation because they play late and someone still hasn't figured out why so few teams are playing Lame Duck Cup Season or why so many older teams are playing with less than 10 player's :eek:
 
They don’t have this problem in DA. Everyone is under contract through July. They get to sit back and chill eating popcorn watching grown men freak out about their little kid’s soccer league.
 
timbuck said:
For the most part. I know of a few DA players that are planning their next move. Especially as they are hearing about coaching changes.
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Aren’t you at Pats? It wouldn’t surprise me. They had quite a few flee after last season. Did they announce coaching assignments next year? Or are you referring to another club?
 
I am not at Pats.
But I have heard they are making a DA coaching change on the girls side.
I think Pats has a good program for DA. Since they are fully funded, they added some strong players this past year. I’ve also heard they are trying to bring players up from DPL before they will look at outside players. I like this philosophy.
OC Surf has some changes too. On the DPL side. Not sure how that impacts their DA teams/coaches.
 
I don’t think any programs DPL teams or coaches affect their DA program.

I thought you were 04 pats.

Pats two oldest teams are 10-12-8 and scraping the bottom of the standings. Their u15s are 6-10-1.

Not quite lighting it up. Of course last year the probably didn’t even with that many games in a whole season I don’t think (I could be wrong).

I guess they had nowhere to go but up.

As for OC surf, which ages had changes. I don’t think coach Pilifovic leaving will cause ripples in any program much less the DA program there.
 
To be fair, Pats are building a program from the ground up. Their Teams prior to DA weren’t powerhouses and usually lost talent to one of the ECNL options. So once they got DA, they had to begin building. They are putting the pieces together.
 
Kicker4Life said:
To be fair, Pats are building a program from the ground up. Their Teams prior to DA weren’t powerhouses and usually lost talent to one of the ECNL options. So once they got DA, they had to begin building. They are putting the pieces together.
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Hearing they are trying to do it right. Putting the blocks in the right places just going to take a bit of time to find them.
 
Woodwork said:
I actually had one coach recently comment to me that he didn't like "club hoppers" - meaning players who changed teams a lot. That was from a coach who had changed clubs about every two years. We'd still be with the same team since 2014 if not for the age-group change, then a new win-at-all-costs-at-U9 coach forced on us, then another coach leaving, along with most of a team leaving (good riddance anyway), then another coach leaving. This is the first year we left first. Heck if we are going to wait for state cup to look for a new team.
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Ditto. Got caught up in age group change, then 2 clubs dropped coaches we would have stayed with.
 
timbuck said:
I am not at Pats.
But I have heard they are making a DA coaching change on the girls side.
I think Pats has a good program for DA. Since they are fully funded, they added some strong players this past year. I’ve also heard they are trying to bring players up from DPL before they will look at outside players. I like this philosophy.
OC Surf has some changes too. On the DPL side. Not sure how that impacts their DA teams/coaches.
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What changes on the DPL side at surf?
 
What happened to GPS OC? Formerly United, right? Will this still exist next year? I think I saw an email or a social media posting for their tryout.
 
timbuck said:
I’ve also heard they are trying to bring players up from DPL before they will look at outside players. I like this philosophy.
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I can confirm this. Also, I think the coaches rotate almost every year but I think its always the same team of coaches for all the age groups.
 
Starts the day tryouts are announced or the fall season ends for some...

Players and parents conspiring and dreaming where they can jump to next... especially acute when players preannounce they are going to the xyz league next and thus the team starts to breaKup before the winter Tournaments or springs ones are even over.

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