What is the City your club is located in? Also note that Great Park has 5 different fee categories. Non-Irvine based teams (Category C) are allocated fees IF space is available and pay rates slightly higher that Irvine based teams (meeting residency requirements) (Category A). Tournaments pay market rates (Category E). In addition, at $100 per game, with 7 games possible in the Summer that is $700-800 per field for the day, similar to Silverlakes, so not really that much cheaper.
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The last time I was involved in securing field space at OCGP, this was not the case but its been a while. Things may have changed.
What's articulated is probably true for Irvine city fields but OCGP belongs to the county and not the city. The county contracts the city of Irvine for the operations.
Hope you really didn't buy this hook line and sinker....
There are ad hoc occasional and few scouts at DA games, but I have never seen any scouts at SDCSL or CSL showcase, playoffs or any league games. I'm only talking about the top tier in both.
Scouts do attend DA showcases and playoffs by huge numbers. Probably ECNL girls too (but probably not the boys). If a player is of interest to a particular coach, he/she may come to the game but that would happen regardless of location, if the interest is strong enough.
This whole thing of SCDSL losing SL fields sounds like fake news. The fields are like airlines. If not occupied, its not making money. During the fall league, there are no tournaments on the weekends so who would occupy the fields? CSL and their Premier games? Maybe but that would be odd, given who the Silverlakes owners are....
OrangeCountyDad
SILVER ELITE
That $10... jeez. I don't mind paying for a tournament but for a league game? ridiculous. Even more so, I saw something on their website about a $5 walk-in fee. that's really scrounging for cash.
Good365
BRONZE
I recently read an article about more concerts at Silverlakes. Here's one that mentions 24 events per year.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...anagement-group-at-silverlakes-300791891.html
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...anagement-group-at-silverlakes-300791891.html
Try doing basketball where you pay $10 to park and $10 per person to just watch the game. Travel basketball is the worst.
Raggamufin
BRONZE
As we discussed at the meeting, we no longer have Silverlakes for the SCDSL season. They terminated our contract December 11, 2018. We are hoping that through Josh Hodges we can continue a positive diagloue with the venue but we are exploring other options for a back-up venue(s) for the league. Once we know whether the discussions will continue with Silverlakes or not, we can plan accordingly. The Discovery Division will continue and may become home/away games but, as I said, we are still exploring options. It's early in the year and we have time to sort this out.
The result of the Silverlakes situation is two-fold:
1. Clubs need to make sure they have fields secured for home games every Sat and every Sun (all-day) during the season. Our clubs did this the first 3 years of the league and it's a membership requirement so clubs need to make sure they meet this requirement and have home fields secured.
2. Because we do not have the field rental expense we are able to reduce the team fees from $450/team to $400/team for the 2019 season. The cost of the Discovery Division may be reduced too depending on the outcome of the field situation but for now, budget for the same $1000/team.
Another discussion is that referee fees are going up .10/minute. The referee associations held their prices for the league for last season but we have to pass along the increase for this upcoming season.
Registration is open for the SCDSL Spring Colelge Showcase. This is a FREE event for the current Discovery Division teams and we are offering the showcase to any other team in the 2004 and older age group for a reduced entry fee of $500. Make sure your teams get registered. The deadline to register is March 7th. To register, go to the front page of the SCDSL website and click on the link. The dates are March 30-31 at the Del Mar Polo Fields. Referee fees are covered by the league for this event.
We have elections this year too. Nominations for the following positions must be submitted, to me, by April 1, 2019
BOARD POSITIONS (nominations, including the position of President do not have to be current board members)
SCDSL President
SCDSL Treasurer
SCDSL Member-at-large
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
4 positions on the Technical Committee are up for either re-election or a new nomination can be submitted, The 4 TC members up for re-election are:
Reggie Rivas
Dob Ebert
Gus Casteneda
Tad Bobak
A secret ballot will be submitted after the Aprint 1st nomination deadline.
Should anyone have any questions, please let me know. I will keep you all updated as details for the upcoming season are finalized.
Team registration for the 2019 fall season will open on March 15, 2019. I'll send an email with registration specifics when registration opens.
Thank you all for your continued support.
Michelle
Thanks. Its an interesting email and its clear that SCDSL has accepted it by reducing fees. The challenge now for the SCDSL teams without good fields is that many are going to be scrambling and playing on crap middle schools and high school fields and poorly maintained parks. The I.E. SCDSL teams will have a harder time of it. Both the I.E. Surf complex is out and so is the newly renovated San Bernardino Soccer Complex, which is under contract with Coast.
Primetime
SILVER ELITE
SCDSL lost the contract with SilverLakes because they failed to fill the fields they had reserved which was specified in the contract. After numerous warnings from SilverLakes they decided to terminate their contract. SCDSL had too many reserved fields empty. Why does SilverLakes care if the fields are paid for? you might ask. Well more than field money they want the parking and food revenue. So empty fields means their losing out on anywhere from $300-$400 per game just in parking. Not including food and beverage money. So Basically SilverLakes thinks they can do a better job of filling the venue on their own rather than SCDSL which has proven not to.
If it turns into a concert venue, you might want to start taking a metal detector to seep the fields before games scheduled there.
Therefore, SilverLakes can take bids from the individual clubs, who will then pass the cost onto us. First up, the turf fields!
Whooooaaa there little buck-a-roo. Let's take a step back. When a boy duck likes a girl duck, sometimes the two ducks go out to behind the reeds and make a baby duck (or 8). Now, when a club needs to pay for something, they pass the costs onto the people that write the checks, which in this story is the mommy and daddy duck. That kinda how it all work.
Right after filming a duck snuff-porn video?
Soccer1234
BRONZE
I heard CRL are taking the space and expanding the league through the fall so it’s more meaningful and not just take place on random weekends.
Also Legends are part of a NPL league group that is also expanding to a pre-academy league because of the DA dropping the 12s. That league will likely take space there too when they open up to a 9 month season
Also Legends are part of a NPL league group that is also expanding to a pre-academy league because of the DA dropping the 12s. That league will likely take space there too when they open up to a 9 month season
Not_that_Serious
GOLD
this is correct. City of Irvine manages the fields and rates decrease for Irvine Based Teams - Clubs that practice at the fields have to meet certain residency requirements to get discounted rates. Other cities have similar practices, but some cities (like Irvine) seem to enforce it more - as they probably have enough bored city staffers that actually check rosters. You will notice some teams from clubs listed to be from a certain City/Chapter but actually practice somewhere else so they do not have to meet those guidelines.