LadiesMan217
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Thank You!
Silver Lakes College Showcase, Surf College Showcase, November Nights
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MakeAPlay
DA
With all due respect Cali are you really trying to compare an article that is clearly a marketing piece and which only quotes a car salesman (the Mercedes GM) to one that quotes Anson Dorrance (let's just call him the godfather of women's soccer in the US) and gives his opinion? I expect better efforts from you sir. Are you still nursing the Thanksgiving hangover? Even the Legion of Legend's Homers (let's call them the LLH going forward) won't try to defend that one!
CaliKlines
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When Coach Dorrance made that statement, had he ever been to a Silverlakes College Showcase? No? Then how could he compare the two? Also, the link you posted is nothing more than a carefully crafted marketing piece that doesn't address Surf's inconvenient location or the years of $10 parking fees from thousands of family vehicles that has done nothing to improve their parking situation. Where will Coach Dorrance go next year when all of the elite teams and players decide to play in a less expensive and more convenient location? By your own argument, they will go where the players go. As a parent, I know where I want my player to go. It is no contest. I prefer being able to sleep in my own bed during the Thanksgiving Holiday, and being able to visit with family and out of town guests, and save my hard earned $ for the Christmas holiday (which usually follows pretty close behind Turkey Day).
O-side gives you "occasional ocean breezes", but more frequent "questionable breezes" since it is built on top of rotting, decaying garbage. The Silverlakes College Showcase has NEVER been rained out. Can Surf say the same thing? And I love your obsession with the Mercedes golf carts...don't forget to also mention the sushi bar, cigar rolling station, and live bands introduced by the progressive staff of the Silverlakes College Showcase. Remember, those college coaches are going to go where the greatest concentration of the elite players/teams go....and which area has the greater concentration of top teams/players? San Diego County or LA/Orange/Riverside counties? Just give it up...there is no comparison when you really sit down and think about it.
"THE MONEY WE HAVE SAVED THEIR PARENTS — IT HAS TO BE OVER $100,000,000,000,” SAYS CONNERELY." And I've never heard anyone from Silverlakes taking credit for the hard work of the players.
MakeAPlay
DA
I agree with you 100% that coaches will go wherever the elite players that they are interested are playing at.
SpeedK1llz
GOLD
This is my new favorite thread...
Coach_JimmyZ
SILVER
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNVHaJOhIal/?taken-by=silverlakespark
Jurgen was at Silverlakes. I wonder if he'll be involved with a club program?
Jurgen was at Silverlakes. I wonder if he'll be involved with a club program?
It would be nice for him to work with players who have potential for once!
If he takes another job too soon will he lose his severance package?
NoGoal
DA
Cali, few responses.
1. Dorrance has already attended a centrally located college showcase where elite players participate in. You may have heard of it, it's called ECNL showcases. I've seen him there a few times.
2. Um, next year Silverlakes won't have the elite players, because girls DA clubs can't participate.
3. Worrying about $10 a day or $25 for 3 days of parking does suck, but is peanutes compared to club travel cost.
4. Oceanside may have a stench, but so does Silverlakes. When the breeze blows west to east....you get that great that fresh cow shit stench.
5. I have bought a car at Fletcher Jones and a few at Rusnak. Rusnak cuts better deals and has superior customer service.
MakeAPlay
DA
What I like about you Cali is you are tenaciously persistent and you at least try to back up what you say.
First, regarding AD never attending Silverlakes. you are correct he probably did not visit is nor likely will until somebody he really wants to see is playing there. Surf tends to get more high profile out of area teams in addition to top local teams so he is not likely to go just to "check it out."
Second, regarding the $10 parking. Are we really making decision based on parking? Buy the weekend pass it is like $24 and the college coaches write it off anyway.
Next, I think that the elite teams are going to want to play the elite competition. Teams come to SoCal to play Surf and Blues. You cannot deny that. Surf and Blues will continue to be at the Surf Cup which leads top teams, top players and top colleges to attend. Pretty simple concept with no marketing really needed.
Now let's talk YOUR personal preference since this is what this is really about. YOUR homer preference. For some of us it is just as far or farther to go to Norco. Not to mention it is YOUR preference to stay in a hotel when your team played at Surf Cup (or any other SoCal tournament/showcase) instead of simply driving home at the end of the day. Personally outside of once or twice during National Cup when the morning schedule was not favorable or when the tournament/showcase was out of state or in NorCal I almost always would drive home at the end of the day.
Next let's talk Oceanside vs. Norco. Umm the smell of cow crap versus the occasional smell of garbage (which I have never smelled and I have been to the facility numerous times). The opportunity to go to breweries and the beach or the 909 and whatever it is your guys do out there. By the way I never mentioned the Mercedes golf carts. I don't really care and personally I would never eat sushi from a soccer tournament (GROSS!!). I agree that their is really no comparison when you look at what showcase has the highest concentration of elite players and teams. No matter how hard you want it to be otherwise, any statement to the contrary just isn't true and you know it.
Lambchop
GOLD
We have never smelled "cow crap" but have smelled the garbage at Surf cup to the point I was nauseated. Bottom line though, I go where my daughter gets the best exposure, smell or no smell doesn't matter.
Lambchop
GOLD
DA girls won't be at Surf or Silverlakes!Cali, few responses.
1. Dorrance has already attended a centrally located college showcase where elite players participate in. You may have heard of it, it's called ECNL showcases. I've seen him there a few times.
2. Um, next year Silverlakes won't have the elite players, because girls DA clubs can't participate.
3. Worrying about $10 a day or $25 for 3 days of parking does suck, but is peanutes compared to club travel cost.
4. Oceanside may have a stench, but so does Silverlakes. When the breeze blows west to east....you get that great that fresh cow shit stench.
5. I have bought a car at Fletcher Jones and a few at Rusnak. Rusnak cuts better deals and has superior customer service.
NoGoal
DA
Got to love the naive U14 mom, but Surf College Cup is a renown college showcase already. DUH!
MakeAPlay
DA
Then you have never been there when the wind is blowing from the east. Mine is a U19 so I have been in this for over 10 years watching the evolution from CSL vs. Presidio to ECNL vs. DA. You will see with time.
NoGoal
DA
OMG, ROFLMAO eating sushi at a soccer facility while smelling cow shit. Love it!
CaliKlines
Well-Known Member
I've been lucky to attend a number of events at Silverlakes, and I have never smelled any foul odor. Only been at O-side twice, and I got hit with the famous O-side odor both times. And I guess your idea of a good meal at the field is eating a hot dog on a heap of rotting garbage? To each his own, I guess.
Lambchop
GOLD
Actually she is my youngest already have one playing D1, my middle one is in another sport! Next year DA girls will not be there!
MakeAPlay
DA
No mine is going to the BJ's in Carlsbad and running into the YNT technical director there and having a conversation with her. She was at Surf looking at her players there and scouting for additional ones. Or running into Jill Ellis at another restaurant. The great part about Oceanside (or Del Mar) is that you aren't in the middle of nowhere and having to eat at the field. I can honestly say I haven't eaten food purchased at the field other than snow cones since U13 national Cup quarterfinals.
A few years back, the land on both sides of I-15 just north of the Santa Ana River bridge was cattle feed lots and horse ranches. My wife and kids already knew to shut down the vents and windows at the first whiff. I grew up in dairy-farming towns, so the smell didn't bother me that much. I thought all that was gone years ago, replaced by housing developments and shopping malls.
MakeAPlay
DA
So if you have one playing D1 then perhaps you had one play at Surf Cup and perhaps you are just a LLH stirring the pot? If you have one playing D1 you KNOW that there is no comparison. Although I guess the level of D1 would matter. A player playing at North Dakota St. is a little less likely to have played at Surf Cup than one playing at Stanford.
MakeAPlay
DA
Cali you have been to Norco. The whole town smells like cow crap. I roll up my windows once I hit the 91/15 junction due to the smell.
"You ain't got to lie Craig!"