Coach Movement and 2018 Assignments

People need to be careful.
DA doesn't have open "tryouts" and season doesn't end until July.
ECNL doesn't end until May.
I don't know why I am hearing about 04 telling people they made a DA or ECNL team.
Also the good old "you can practice with the DA team (lie) or the ECNL team( gasp)"
No it's called the c team
 
Monkey said:
Now that Surf tryouts are over, what are people being told about coaching assignments? Is the coach that is going to be coaching next seasons team the one making the call?
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What about girls that were at tryout hoping to make the DA team? Can they be offered a spot this week?
 
If someone is on a DA team or ECNL team they would not have been at that tryout at all.
The only ones at a tryout would be girls on non affiliated clubs and teams.
Hypothetically a person not on an affiliated team could be added to a DA roster but I believe that conversation would have occurred on day one because it would have been very obvious to that Coach.
As far as ECNL I find it interesting that people are claiming to have been offered spots. I find it interesting because I know of many DA girls looking to go down to an ECNL team and are ethical and adhering to behavior standards and waiting until the season is over. I also assume here could be some ECNL girls who would like to maybe join the DA so they would have that chance. Unless you are a star I can't see an outsider breaking that bubble until the club makes it own internal shuffling which it can't do until July.
There is a lot of talk about ethics and transparency on this board. It would be nice if clubs who had early tryouts let families know what they were trying out for.
If I am wrong please let me know- specifically how can a club offer someone an ECNL spot when their season isn't over and they have a roster of 18? Does this seem kosher ?
 
Girls from other DA and ECNL teams were at Surf tryouts. A DA parent told me that they could tryout for the ECNL team without breaking DA rules. They said they could practice with both DA and ECNL teams until DA tryouts but at least would be offered a spot on the ECNL team come summer.

I would appreciate knowing the rules and ramifications because we would like to tryout in a year from now but if timing is going to be an issue that could affect which type of team to join this year.
 
Monkey said:
Girls from other DA and ECNL teams were at Surf tryouts. A DA parent told me that they could tryout for the ECNL team without breaking DA rules. They said they could practice with both DA and ECNL teams until DA tryouts but at least would be offered a spot on the ECNL team come summer.

I would appreciate knowing the rules and ramifications because we would like to tryout in a year from now but if timing is going to be an issue that could affect which type of team to join this year.
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How can surf offer spots right now to this many girls on an ecnl team with a full roster? I hope all the parents in this situation are smart enough to have a Plan B.
 
chargerfan said:
How can surf offer spots right now to this many girls on an ecnl team with a full roster? I hope all the parents in this situation are smart enough to have a Plan B.
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Almost every ECNL team has a roster of 20+ players. So if this offer is being made to a few, no big deal. But what are they telling the current ECNL players?
 
Monkey said:
Now that Surf tryouts are over, what are people being told about coaching assignments? Is the coach that is going to be coaching next seasons team the one making the call?
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Monkey said:
Girls from other DA and ECNL teams were at Surf tryouts. A DA parent told me that they could tryout for the ECNL team without breaking DA rules. They said they could practice with both DA and ECNL teams until DA tryouts but at least would be offered a spot on the ECNL team come summer.

I would appreciate knowing the rules and ramifications because we would like to tryout in a year from now but if timing is going to be an issue that could affect which type of team to join this year.
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What age group are you talking about? Current DA/ECNL age group (04) or about-to-become DA/ECNL age group (05)?
 
Fact said:
Almost every ECNL team has a roster of 20+ players. So if this offer is being made to a few, no big deal. But what are they telling the current ECNL players?
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Parents could be lying. It seems like very bad business to offer someone an ECNL spot when their are known DA girls wanting to come down and you have six months left in a DA season. Lots of unknowns. Why would you add or take away from a team with one to two girls when you haven't even seen the full hand to play with?
That's why I always had respect for a certain coach who shall remain nameless. He never chose teams based on numbers he chose based on what he needed at what spot.
 
Striker17 said:
Parents could be lying. It seems like very bad business to offer someone an ECNL spot when their are known DA girls wanting to come down and you have six months left in a DA season. Lots of unknowns. Why would you add or take away from a team with one to two girls when you haven't even seen the full hand to play with?
That's why I always had respect for a certain coach who shall remain nameless. He never chose teams based on numbers he chose based on what he needed at what spot.
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If you have respect for him, why not name him?
 
Striker17 said:
People need to be careful.
DA doesn't have open "tryouts" and season doesn't end until July.
ECNL doesn't end until May.
I don't know why I am hearing about 04 telling people they made a DA or ECNL team.
Also the good old "you can practice with the DA team (lie) or the ECNL team( gasp)"
No it's called the c team
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Not so fast my friend. Surf had several non-surf girls on the 2004 DA field yesterday. Whether they get offered a spot obviously remains to be seen, but if I'm a betting l will definitely be girls from outside the club who get pulled in on the ECNL team from what I saw.
chargerfan said:
How can surf offer spots right now to this many girls on an ecnl team with a full roster? I hope all the parents in this situation are smart enough to have a Plan B.
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I'm not sure why people think DA or ECNL is any different than any other team/league? In fact, DA playing time makes it abundantly clear on most teams who 1-11 are and who is on the outside. Any kid who's starting the minimum number of games and only getting 20 minutes a week will need to take the hint.
 
Clarify please I have no idea what you are talking about? There was a DA field lol?
And I assume since none of the ECNL girls or current DA girls were there you were basically looking at current C team at Surf with outside of the club girls so you may want to temper your "predictions"
Most of us haven't been to a "tryout" in about two years.
As an aside I know many people are already well aware of where they are going for next year at oi age group anyway.
 
Striker17 said:
Clarify please I have no idea what you are talking about? There was a DA field lol?
And I assume since none of the ECNL girls or current DA girls were there you were basically looking at current C team at Surf with outside of the club girls so you may want to temper your "predictions"
Most of us haven't been to a "tryout" in about two years.
As an aside I know many people are already well aware of where they are going for next year at oi age group anyway.
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I agree that if your daughter has been to practices, and they are serious about putting her on either DA or ECNL team, there would not be a need to go to the tryout this week. Just heard serious offers were already made and girls told not to go to tryout.
 
Striker17 said:
Clarify please I have no idea what you are talking about? There was a DA field lol?
And I assume since none of the ECNL girls or current DA girls were there you were basically looking at current C team at Surf with outside of the club girls so you may want to temper your "predictions"
Most of us haven't been to a "tryout" in about two years.
As an aside I know many people are already well aware of where they are going for next year at oi age group anyway.
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Based on seeing 1 04 Surf DA girl at the tryouts last night I would assume that there were additional 04 DA girls there as well. I just don’t know the full roster. And the girl I saw isn’t a girl on the bubble.
 
Striker17 said:
Clarify please I have no idea what you are talking about? There was a DA field lol?
And I assume since none of the ECNL girls or current DA girls were there you were basically looking at current C team at Surf with outside of the club girls so you may want to temper your "predictions"
Most of us haven't been to a "tryout" in about two years.
As an aside I know many people are already well aware of where they are going for next year at oi age group anyway.
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There was absolutely a DA field at Surf 04 last night, complete with the current 04 DA team players.
 
Wow! Surf made their current 04 try out? That's surprising and the only club I have heard of doing that!
Are we sure it wasn't their practice? That's odd.
 
broshark said:
There was absolutely a DA field at Surf 04 last night, complete with the current 04 DA team players.
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This is not a try out, as DA try outs are not allowed under US Soccer DA rules. My guess is it was a practice that they let some girls join to make their parents happy and think they are being considered for DA. Nobody wants to go to a try out for a C team.
 
chargerfan said:
This is not a try out, as DA try outs are not allowed under US Soccer DA rules. My guess is it was a practice that they let some girls join to make their parents happy and think they are being considered for DA. Nobody wants to go to a try out for a C team.
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I wouldn't be surprise that at the end they would say you made the DA team...on paper its the DA II or congrats you made the ECNL "Reserve" team that's what we meant to say. Seen this happen to a few client and I told to make sure it was the real team and not "Reserve", "II", "Pre", "EGSL" etc
 
Deadpoolscores! said:
I wouldn't be surprise that at the end they would say you made the DA team...on paper its the DA II or congrats you made the ECNL "Reserve" team that's what we meant to say. Seen this happen to a few client and I told to make sure it was the real team and not "Reserve", "II", "Pre", "EGSL" etc
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Surf is not part of the DA 2 bs and are are upfront about calling it EGSL.

They will let them "practice" or "join" the DA or ECNL team until tryouts later this year. Then it will be "sorry your dd is not performing like expected and it is best to move to the EGSL team where they will get lots of playing time. And of course if they do privates with the coach that will help."
 
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