surf&donuts
BRONZE
Surf Cup schedule on website for olders says “on hold for updates” is the Jan 1-4 tournament still happening?
Surf Cup Is Happening! Schedule is up!
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Scott m Shurson
SILVER ELITE
Oh, I'll be at Surf. We'll be enjoying the great weather, outdoor athletics and do our best to prevent the spread... even though it's going to continue to happen like wildfire no matter what we do on soccer fields in Arizona.
Nobody is "serious" about the results of soccer. What we're serious about is doing something that is positive for a bunch of kids that work their asses off and shouldn't have taken from them. Covid, just like alcoholism and the sacred oath of marriage, is fake news. Just ask the leader of California.
There really should be no issue with hotels. I have changed ours three times due to shifting fields from Reach 11 to Scottsdale to Mesa/Maricopa and have had no problem finding another one. Surf should not be enforcing "Stay and Play" requirements with all the field changes. Just sayin!
notintheface
GOLD
That's great, I hope you have fun. Please understand that you have been sold an experience by an organization that is only being driven by the money, knowing that your olders "needed new game footage" is really going to be crap and college coaches are going to think twice about a player from a family who is doing this in the middle of the worst pandemic in 100+ years. That is the absolute 100% truth no matter how much it stings. Maybe that's more negative bullshit, I don't know, but doing something extremely sketchy for kids that "shouldn't have taken from them" is pretty positive bullshit too.
We 100% believe in covid, have stayed home and adjusted our lives. We cancelled trips, not eaten out etc etc etc.
and we are going to surf olders. Our kid has worked years and years to be recruited. Needs film to send to coaches. Dream to play in college. It’s not the end all be all to go but we feel we can do it as safe as possible. Soccer in itself isn’t dangerous for the spread. I’ll skip the hotel gym, get food to go and stay in our room or take a drive to kill time. My friend whose kid is at surf says the same. No pressure to go except from internally. And risk mitigation: can we do this as safely as possible and is the risk worth the return? He said surf has no word of cancelled hotels or fields. But he knows he doesn’t know the nitty gritty.
surf needs the money. No shame on that. Arizona needs the money. No shame. If the powers that be in Arizona don’t lead and allow it to happen I don’t fault surf or the cities for hosting or the teams for going. If Arizona calls it all off tomorrow i won’t fault them at all and we will stay home. For the families not going I don’t fault them at all. I 100% wouldn’t go with a kid younger than 10th grade. Risk not worth it. But that’s me
the real kicker is that anyone who got together with family on thursday or Friday for Christmas would just now be showing symptoms. Is the parent who woke up with a headache today or a cough tomorrow going to call the coach and tell them “we aren’t coming?” Or does that family still go?
and we are going to surf olders. Our kid has worked years and years to be recruited. Needs film to send to coaches. Dream to play in college. It’s not the end all be all to go but we feel we can do it as safe as possible. Soccer in itself isn’t dangerous for the spread. I’ll skip the hotel gym, get food to go and stay in our room or take a drive to kill time. My friend whose kid is at surf says the same. No pressure to go except from internally. And risk mitigation: can we do this as safely as possible and is the risk worth the return? He said surf has no word of cancelled hotels or fields. But he knows he doesn’t know the nitty gritty.
surf needs the money. No shame on that. Arizona needs the money. No shame. If the powers that be in Arizona don’t lead and allow it to happen I don’t fault surf or the cities for hosting or the teams for going. If Arizona calls it all off tomorrow i won’t fault them at all and we will stay home. For the families not going I don’t fault them at all. I 100% wouldn’t go with a kid younger than 10th grade. Risk not worth it. But that’s me
the real kicker is that anyone who got together with family on thursday or Friday for Christmas would just now be showing symptoms. Is the parent who woke up with a headache today or a cough tomorrow going to call the coach and tell them “we aren’t coming?” Or does that family still go?
I'll be there too. Girls U19
I don’t think any of that. I don’t feel like my kids have had anything robbed or stolen from them. That’s such melodrama. I’m bummed they’ve missed normal life but I’m more bummed at the hundreds of thousands dead and sick. High school and junior high stuff is fun for sure. But my kids will be ok.
and Surf isn’t selling me anything. They are providing a service to showcase games for my kid. That’s it.
no college coaches are judging kids on getting film. That’s a joke to suggest. You may want to frame it that way but the coaches talking to the kids on our team are actively asking for film. This spans d1 to D 3 coaches. So much so that we are filming practice and setting up scrimmages to get film for kids to send.
The kids need to play. Face now thinks if you put "Surf Cup AZ" on highlight reel you could be hurting your kids chances. I would just not tag it. I'm 100% glad my dd went to AZ last month. It helped so much. Again, follow protocol 90 and all will be good. I would add that my dd really good bestie mom has Rona and she has her test today. Her other friends dad got it and now I'm being told for the first time that the boy has Rona now. My head hurts now and I'm going to rest. Oh oh, here comes another run with the Rona. I prepared by body for this fight. If I feel like sh*t and can;t breath, I'm heading to ER and grab the cure. Where do you get a FREE test in South OC?
I was cocky last year saying this year would be my dd last year of club. She had some plans to rest but she is resting now. How do you like the U19 age?
Can you take your covid denialism over to off topic 2?
Thanks. Hope your kid has some good games.
It would be great if everyone traveling was as responsible and took such precautions. Sadly from the pictures I'm seeing posted on social media from families that have been at Surf Youngers that is not the case.
And..........what are you doing to show me you still love this game and will stay in shape and do what one can to play. Do what's best for family. Family comes first
EVERY organization is in business to make money.
There won't be any college that says oh gezz this is a great defender and i need a great defender but they went to surf cup 2 years ago. Nice scare tactic but it doesnt work on everyone.
And from your earlier post i think you do secretly hope people get covid from going to surf cup
Remember that social media is a biased sample. Families playing Roblox in the hotel room probably post less social media than the families eating out in the hotel restaurant.
do you know the people in the pictures? did they already have covid ? maybe they took a mask off for a second to take a pic? you are using a snap shot in time to defame a group of people that you are mad at for doing what is best for their family.
notintheface
GOLD
There is absolutely no way a coach is going to ask you for game footage from 2020. Zero chance. Zero. Practice? Great. Maybe even an intra-club scrimmage. Great. Zero game footage from during the pandemic and a coach who demands that is going to be in front of their AD having to beg for their job sooner rather than later.
My kid has played up 2 years for the 2 prior seasons so she is used to competing against bigger stronger faster players. She is 16. I actually think playing against higher level players has really built confidence in her and greatly contributed to her development.
Wrong again facial. Every coach that has responded to my kids emails this year has asked for video. Every college recruiting form that my daughter fills out has a space for game footage, you tube video, etc...
Or the coach says do you have any game footage i can see...."no sorry it was 2020"...."ok well let me know when you do I have to move on"
Yes. I know these people in the pictures. How else would I see their social media pictures? I'm not defaming them (dramatic much?). It is obvious from their pictures their families are not just going from their rooms to their games and back and keeping to themselves. It's not the playing of soccer that is the risk. It's all the other behavior outside of soccer that is the risk. That's been the point all along. That is all.
Then EVERYONE beside fire, police and ER folks should be home. I was at store just now and it's packed. The beach is crowded with tourist and kids are at the park. I saw a 5 on 5 hoops game with adults. That's my cents about all this.